As defined by Merriam Webster's: Socialist: an adherent to a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed.
  
    Barrack Obama is a Socialist. We need desperately, for that very reason, to put our conservative differences aside and rally around John McCain. 

    Tonight, Barack Obama impressively won all three of the primaries for his party. He swept Washington, Nebraska, and Louisiana with relative ease. In a victory speech given this evening in Richmond, Virginia, Obama spoke with great candor and passion of the goals he hopes to complete if he becomes president. As I watched the one-term senator from Illinois speak, I could not help but admire his incredible talent of oration.

    I find it ironic that he mentioned several times the fathers of this great country and their revolution; His policies are in total opposition to what thousands fought and died for. Furthermore, he is gaining more political steam each and every single day. His lead in the delegate count, excluding superdelegates, is continuously growing. He is raising more money, speaking in front of larger audiences, and gaining more momentum. Not until the actual convention are the nearly 800 superdelegates, made up mostly of politicians or powerful members of the party, forced to make a final decision for whom their vote is passed. Therefore, it is logical to assume that if Obama's momentum continues, superdelegates may go along with him. 

    What makes this so incredibly scary? Unlike Clinton, Obama has a great deal of appeal to the "independent voter". There is also a love affair between Barack and the media. These two vital pieces of information make Obama more likely to beat McCain than Clinton. So, let us look at what you will be getting if Barack Obama is made the President of the United States of America:

1. Universal Healthcare: Obama is going to provide government sponsored healthcare for every single American. Why is this bad? 1. The federal government cannot run ANYTHING except the military properly. Would you like the same people who handled the Hurricane Katrina disaster or work at your local DMV running your healthcare when you need heart surgery? 2. An increase in TAXES would be NEEDED to pay for a program like this. Yes, it is true that the richest Americans in the country would handle this burden, but it is also true that the richest Americans control American business and job growth. If they are over-taxed, the economy will go into a recession. 3. Why should taxpayers pay for other people being irresponsible? For instance, let us say that your neighbor down the street from you drinks a little too much one night and stumbles down the stairs of his house. He injures his knee, which requires surgery that you will pay for with YOUR taxes or possibly YOUR job. Then, your neighbor needs physical therapy to help properly heal his injury, which you will also pay for. What about a person who chooses to eat poorly their entirely lives and now has heart disease? Or a person who started smoking ten years ago, well aware of the risks involved, and now they need a new long because they have lung cancer. Should taxpayers have to pay for these people? Should there be no responsibility? 4. A universal healthcare system will destroy any competition, which will lower standards, quality, and potentially raise costs.

2. Raise taxes on wealthy Americans. Yes, wealthy Americans can afford to pay more than the middle class. However, it is important to note that if you raise taxes on business owners, job growth, economic growth, and consumer prices will suffer.

3. Tie the minimum wage to inflation. Essentially, Obama wants to raise the minimum wage when inflation goes up. Well, that sounds great! Except, inflation is, in part, already tied to the minimum wage. For instance, let's say you raise the minimum wage from 9 dollars to 10 dollars. What this means is not only will the person who was making 9 dollars an hour get a pay raise, but so too will the person making 10 dollars an hour, because they won't work for what is now the minimum wage after they had been working for 1 dollar over the minimum wage when it was 9 dollars. Wages go up, producers raise their prices because people have more money. This leads to an increase in the cost of living, which causes more salaries to go up. In addition to this, more currency will be in the marketplace. All of these factors will cause inflation more rapidly than it has been occurring already. Under Obama's plan, the minimum wage would continue to go up to counter the rising inflation, which would, in turn, cause inflation to go up again. A plan like this shows he is lacking in a fundamental understanding of economics.

4. Illegal Immigrants. The illegal immigrant problem will continue to become more and more of an issue for working Americans.

5. Foreign Policy. Barack Obama has no foreign policy experience, at all. Not only that, but Obama's plans for Iraq and battling terrorism are essentially to deal with it diplomatically. Good luck! Does anyone else realize how ridiculous it is to attempt to negotiate with terrorists?

The list goes on, and on, and on, and on....

In the end, would you not rather have John McCain as president or do you want to live with this kind of madness?

Maybe Barack Obama is not a full blown socialist...he does not want the government to control all of business outright (Just the billion dollar medical industry)...He, like all liberals, know it is easier to just take your money instead.

Justin Trask-Haskins
Author, Saving America:From Global Warming to Immigration