Barack Hussein Obama - Part 3

Obama carefully maintains what is known as "plausible deniability" of the fact that he is a socialist - pointing out that he did not nationalize the banking sector as many leftists wanted him to do. Obama and his supporters are correct in making the argument that his program is not socialism in the sense of government ownership of the means of production. It's actually worse; Obama's variety of socialism can be regarded as welfare statism on steroids, or maybe even fascism - state control of private resources. Obama proudly pointed out to Wall Street bankers in 2009 that "my administration is the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks" of angry people. This hasn't stopped Obama's political allies from exploiting the "Occupy Wall Street" movement to whip up support for tax increases. Obama's socialistic orientation can be seen in the bailout of General Motors, which involved abrogating debt contracts under threat of coercion, closing car dealerships based on political considerations and awarding equity in the company to the President's labor union allies that had done so much to make the company unprofitable. This is the erosion of the rule of law that is typical under socialism.
Obama's not so hidden agenda can be seen in his approach to his signature issue - universal health care. Speaking to a union audience in 2003, Obama said,
"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program....a single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that's what I'd like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House."
"Single-payer" universal health care is a euphemism for fully socialized, government run health care. During the 2008 campaign, Obama specifically repudiated single-payer, but what has become known as "Obamacare" is designed to facilitate an eventual governmental takeover of the entire health care sector. Just as Obama was a "stealth" candidate, concealing his true views, Obamacare is a "stealth" takeover of health care, designed to fail in ways that will require more government power to remedy.