Obama and Romney: Interchangeable Corporate Socialists

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

 

September 19, 2012

 

In secretly recorded remarks to campaign donors that were leaked to the media, Republican presidential aspirant Mitt Romney observed that roughly 47 percent of the electorate is dependent on government and will thus support the incumbent, Barack Obama, ?no matter what.?

 

Ironically, in a closed-door fundraiser held during the 2002Massachusettsgovernor?s race, Romney boasted of the way he used political connections to wrangle millions of taxpayer dollars from the federal government to subsidize the Winter Olympics.  ?I am big believer in getting money where the money is,? Romney explained. ?The money is inWashington.?

 

The Obama administration cultivated outrage over Romney?s recent remarks about government dependency. The media showed little interest in a recently unearthed recording of a 1998 lecture in which Mr. Obama, at the time a college instructor, spoke candidly about his enthusiasm for redistribution of wealth.

 

The public is being fed a narrative in which Romney is a plutocratic capitalist, and Obama is his ideological opposite. In fact, both of those candidates support corporatism ? the conjoining of interventionist government with politically favored corporate interests. In substantive terms, there simply isn?t that much separating those two candidates. But then, this is nothing new in presidential politics.

 

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

 

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