Robin SmithIn his own words, President Barack Obama has used the soaring promise of “fundamentally transforming America” throughout his seven years as either presidential candidate or commander-in-chief.
Much of Obama’s “progressive” agenda comes from another president’s efforts to expand the role of government with disregard to the U.S. Constitution — Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In a 1932 speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco just before his election as president for 12 years (and before term limits were needed to prevent an American monarchy), FDR declared, “Government is a relation of give and take, a contract. Under such a contract, rulers were accorded power, and the people consented to that power on consideration that they be accorded certain rights. The task of statesmanship has always been the redefinition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order. New conditions impose new requirements upon government and those who conduct government.”
“Rulers were accorded power” to grant “certain rights” in “a changing and growing social order” in their “redefinition of these rights.”
What a great snapshot of progressive socialism that redistributes wealth and property of the rightful owners to ensure a desired outcome while picking winners and losers in commerce by providing subsidies for public entities that compete with the private, and supposedly free, market.