Obama's Biggest Lie: 'I'm Fighting For The Middle Class'
In fact, Obama hates the American middle class and all it represents, according to "Spreading the Wealth" by Stanley Kurtz. The president is secretly scheming to destroy it where it lives: the suburbs.
Of course, we don't hear that from the campaign.
As part of his "Middle Class and the Economy" bus tour, Obama last week traveled to Iowa and visited with a middle-class family in Cedar Rapids. He sat down with the McLaughlins at their kitchen table in a one-story suburban home and exalted their "hard work" and "all the things that make up a middle-class life."
At the same time, his campaign released a TV ad championing middle-class values and casting himself as a "warrior" for the middle class.
"I believe that the way you grow the economy is from the middle out," Obama said, adding he will tax "millionaires and billionaires" to help out the struggling middle class. "I believe in fighting for the middle class."
Baloney, says Kurtz.
"Re-elect him and you'll see that he is after the pocketbooks of a whole lot more than just 1% of us," he warned in the book. "His real target is America's middle class, suburbanites in particular."
Added Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center: "Many suburban voters now planning to support him will find their incomes and their children's schools the targets of his redistributive schemes in a second term. The 1% slogan is a sham. If your income is in the top 50%, Obama is after you."
Citing recent White House policy meetings with radical community organizers, Kurtz warns that Obama is saving his most jarring initiatives for a second term, when he no longer has to court the middle class.
They'll see "concerted moves to force regional tax-base sharing on the states," he said, "and federal pressure to equalize urban and suburban school funding."
Kurtz, an expert on Obama's community-organizing days, says the president is following the playbook of his philosophical mentor, Saul Alinsky.
The socialist Alinsky wrote in "Rules for Radicals" that the best way to revolutionize society is to convince the middle class you are on its side. That requires talking and dressing like that group of Americans while issuing bland slogans about "hope" and "change."
"Tactics must begin with the experience of the middle class, accepting their aversion to rudeness, vulgarity and conflict," Alinsky said. This will anesthetize middle America "prior to the social surgery to come."
"Start them off easy," he said, "don't scare them off."
Alinsky and his disciples believe the suburbs create "structural racism" and "economic segregation."
The goal is to abolish them by pushing urban poor into the suburbs through a combination of discrimination lawsuits and regulations while redistributing suburban wealth to the cities through "regional equity" programs.
Alinsky's followers believe the middle class is racist and greedy. This notion, Kurtz notes, is what drew Obama to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church and its attacks on the "the pursuit of middleclassness."
Kurtz says Obama's stealth plan to abolish the suburbs includes:
• Forcing bedroom communities to build subsidized housing units under the threat of HUD lawsuits.
• Forcing regional tax-redistribution plans on the states by conditioning receipt of federal funding on such "regional equity plans," which are now being formulated under the administration's Sustainable Communities Initiative.
• Using the carrot of federal funds to usurp state and local control of schools.
• Forcing public schools to adopt politicized curricula and lower education standards, which are now being formulated under the administration's Common Core Initiative.
The president's talk about defending and helping the middle class is essentially a smoke screen. Behind the scenes, he and his Alinsky pals are scheming to redistribute the wealth of the suburban middle class.
http://news.investors.com/article/622730/201208171903/obama-secretly-plans-to-soak-middle-class.htm?p=full
Of course, we don't hear that from the campaign.
As part of his "Middle Class and the Economy" bus tour, Obama last week traveled to Iowa and visited with a middle-class family in Cedar Rapids. He sat down with the McLaughlins at their kitchen table in a one-story suburban home and exalted their "hard work" and "all the things that make up a middle-class life."
At the same time, his campaign released a TV ad championing middle-class values and casting himself as a "warrior" for the middle class.
"I believe that the way you grow the economy is from the middle out," Obama said, adding he will tax "millionaires and billionaires" to help out the struggling middle class. "I believe in fighting for the middle class."
Baloney, says Kurtz.
"Re-elect him and you'll see that he is after the pocketbooks of a whole lot more than just 1% of us," he warned in the book. "His real target is America's middle class, suburbanites in particular."
Added Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center: "Many suburban voters now planning to support him will find their incomes and their children's schools the targets of his redistributive schemes in a second term. The 1% slogan is a sham. If your income is in the top 50%, Obama is after you."
Citing recent White House policy meetings with radical community organizers, Kurtz warns that Obama is saving his most jarring initiatives for a second term, when he no longer has to court the middle class.
They'll see "concerted moves to force regional tax-base sharing on the states," he said, "and federal pressure to equalize urban and suburban school funding."
Kurtz, an expert on Obama's community-organizing days, says the president is following the playbook of his philosophical mentor, Saul Alinsky.
The socialist Alinsky wrote in "Rules for Radicals" that the best way to revolutionize society is to convince the middle class you are on its side. That requires talking and dressing like that group of Americans while issuing bland slogans about "hope" and "change."
"Tactics must begin with the experience of the middle class, accepting their aversion to rudeness, vulgarity and conflict," Alinsky said. This will anesthetize middle America "prior to the social surgery to come."
"Start them off easy," he said, "don't scare them off."
Alinsky and his disciples believe the suburbs create "structural racism" and "economic segregation."
The goal is to abolish them by pushing urban poor into the suburbs through a combination of discrimination lawsuits and regulations while redistributing suburban wealth to the cities through "regional equity" programs.
Alinsky's followers believe the middle class is racist and greedy. This notion, Kurtz notes, is what drew Obama to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church and its attacks on the "the pursuit of middleclassness."
Kurtz says Obama's stealth plan to abolish the suburbs includes:
• Forcing bedroom communities to build subsidized housing units under the threat of HUD lawsuits.
• Forcing regional tax-redistribution plans on the states by conditioning receipt of federal funding on such "regional equity plans," which are now being formulated under the administration's Sustainable Communities Initiative.
• Using the carrot of federal funds to usurp state and local control of schools.
• Forcing public schools to adopt politicized curricula and lower education standards, which are now being formulated under the administration's Common Core Initiative.
The president's talk about defending and helping the middle class is essentially a smoke screen. Behind the scenes, he and his Alinsky pals are scheming to redistribute the wealth of the suburban middle class.
http://news.investors.com/article/622730/201208171903/obama-secretly-plans-to-soak-middle-class.htm?p=full
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