Posted: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:00 am
Read carefully:
1. Abolition of private property.
2. Heavy progressive income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Central bank.
6. Government control of communications and transportation.
7. Government ownership of factories and agriculture.
8. Government control of labor.
9. Corporate farms, regional planning.
10. Government control of education.
Does this sound like the plans of the United States government? This is the summary of the Communist Manifesto. If you analyze this list, at least seven of these are already in force in some form in our government. During the campaign season President Obama promised change, also promised transfer of wealth. He has kept his promise and is expanding on the above list.
For the first time in my memory the United States now has czars. These czars are appointed by the president and are not responsible to anyone but the president. The word czar is a Russian title meaning one who has great power or authority. The government under the Russian czars was autocratic, one person with unlimited power.
I don't think the title czar was chosen with little thought to the meaning. These persons chosen to be czars were hand picked by the president to do his bidding.
Words of Patrick Henry: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Think on these things as you celebrate this Independence Day, July 4, 2009.
Shirley Drum, Lebanon