When Barack Obama talks about wealth redistribution, he really means it.
He doesn’t just want to spread it around himself, as he so famously told Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher.
He yearns also to change the Constitution so that the courts can divvy the loot, too.
No joke: He said as much in 2001.
On a radio show in 2001, Obama called it “a tragedy” that the ’60s civil-rights movement lost track of “community organizing and activities on the ground” – think ACORN – “through which you bring about redistributive change.”
The audio went on the Web yesterday.
“The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and . . . economic justice,” Obama says regretfully. But he sees a clear “rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts” – though such a route, he says, may be impractical.
“You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues,” he notes. The Democrat also complains that the Constitution “doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.”
If only he were president to do the “administering,” he must have thought . . .
Clearly, much is at stake Nov. 4.
Take Obama’s tax plan: Boiled down, it would allow him to take from those who earn what he feels are excessively large incomes – and give to those whom he feels aren’t earning enough.
Obama calls this income-transfer a “tax cut” – but, in fact, it’s the very redistribution he’s been talking about for years.
Let’s be frank: He truly intends to “spread the wealth” as he sees fit.
He’ll do that by:
* Guiding the necessary legislation through a like-minded, Democrat-controlled Congress.
* Directing his administration to interpret and carry out existing laws and policies in a redistributive manner.
* Naming liberal judges to the lower courts in the expectation that they’ll carry out his agenda.
And should a Supreme Court seat, or two or three, open up on his watch – well, time to reshape the body so it will be more likely to venture “into the issues of redistribution of wealth and . . . economic justice.”
His words.
Barack Obama, radical redistributionist?
So it would seem.