{"id":13414,"date":"2008-12-23T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/12\/23\/yeah-tell-me-again-who-are-the-socialists-here.html"},"modified":"2008-12-23T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:34:36","slug":"yeah_tell_me_again_who_ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/yeah_tell_me_again_who_ar.html","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, tell me again who are the &#8220;socialists&#8221; here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From each according to his means, to each according to his needs.<\/em> Pretty basic socialist\/communist dogma, right? And when you get folks like Obama talking about &#8220;redistribution of wealth,&#8221; it sends all those cold socialist chills down the spines of all right-thinking red-state Republicans, right?<\/p>\n<p>Which, of course, explains why the current redistribution of wealth is flowing almost entirely from blue states to red states, right? I mean, <em>huh?<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Red State Socialism\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/redstatesocialism.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Based on 2005 tax data and 2004 presidential party data, the&nbsp;money is pretty much going to GOP states from Democratic states.<\/p>\n<p>So, are those &#8220;reds&#8221; ready to cut their freeloading citizens off from the &#8220;public trough&#8221; and end all that evil anti-capitalist &#8220;redistribution of wealth&#8221;?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I didn&#8217;t think so. Talk, unlike income redistribution, is cheap.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via George and <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/EnTequilaEsVerdad\/~3\/493121387\/spreading-wealth.html\" target=\"_blank\">ITeV<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From each according to his means, to each according to his needs. Pretty basic socialist\/communist dogma, right? And when you get folks like Obama talking about &#8220;redistribution of wealth,&#8221; it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18007,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/unblogged-bits-sat-31-jul-10-1400.html","url_meta":{"origin":13414,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 31-Jul-10 1400)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 31-Jul-10 12:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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