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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	The Truth is
	Date:	2/28/2009 9:11:57 AM

Sadly, as much as I wish your prediction will not come true I tend to think you are right. While I recognize the incremental shift in this direction you have to recognize that historically there have been milestones and all have been led by Democrats. First FDR with the New Deal, then LBJ with the Great Society and now Obama with what I call the New Marxism. In between we have had mostly smaller movements in the wrong direction with periods of relief like Reagan and Clinton/Republican Congress.

So you might not want to blame Obama or a certain party but it is inarguably true that Democrat presidents are responsible for the vast majority of the movement to socialism. Obama understands two things: 1) we are still a basically right of center country; and 2) these periods of significant advancements in the size and scope of the federal government always revert back to a baseline significantly higher than before. He is going to move with incredible speed in the next two years while Dems control both houses of Congress.

Here's another prediction: by the end of his first term Republicans will control one or both houses of Congress. If he is reelected he will not get much if anything done to move this country closer to socialism in his second term but it won't matter. The damage to the country will be done and he will have his legacy.

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