“Israel was founded as a socialist system. Ever been to a kibbutz?”

The Kibbutz are indeed one of the very few instances in which a socialist community thrived for [b]some time[/b], but consider the fact that people lived in a Kibbutz through their own will, and were by no means forced to settle there and acknowledge the policies.

I will agree that some policies are very appealing, including a few you mentioned, like socialized medicine for example. I find Obama slightly too radical for my taste though.Punishing the succesful? No thanks.

2.) Obama’s “economic justice” is agreed to be just another socialist policy, or as Ted Belman says, “Stealth Socialism.” I believe many of the points I already revealed give insight into Obama’s socialist policies:

“Obama also talks about “restoring fairness to the economy”

“He assumes the economy is a fixed pie, whereby the successful only get rich at the expense of the poor.”

“punishing the successful and redistributing their wealth by government fiat.”

Obama has in many instances shown his plans to regulate the economy at a closer level, including employees wages, sick days, etc. If you take a look at Israpundits article regarding Obama, you will find that Obama has had close ties to many stated socialists (which is the reason he established connections with Wright), including his father:

“As a Nairobi bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Harvard-educated economist, grew to challenge the ruling pro-Western government for not being socialist enough. In an eight-page scholarly paper published in 1965, he argued for eliminating private farming and nationalizing businesses “owned by Asians and Europeans.”

By now we know how much Obama has been influenced by his connections.

I tried my best to answer your questions, if there is something that you disagree with, please ask me again. I can always change my mind. In fact, I won’t even incriminate Obama for suggesting Universal Health Care, considering that many countries, including Israel, also have UHC.

Israel was founded as a socialist system. Ever been to a kibbutz?

2.) Socialism, by definition, includes the “socialization” of industry, i.e. the taking over important industries by the government. Is Obama endorsing the socialization of, say, utilities or communications?