Americans duped by Barack Obama

The American people were duped in 2008, listening to a silver-tongued orator whose catch-word "change" was borrowed directly from Karl Marx - the father of communism.

Americans were also duped in 1931, in the throes of the Depression. Tass, the Russian news agency, beckoned to unemployed Americans whose homes were foreclosed and who were filled with despair. Russia's appeal drew thousands of Americans to Russia's socialist utopia. Only too late did they realize they were caught in the web of a totally government-controlled life. Resistance resulted in a knock at the door in the dead of night. Those "called" were never heard from again.

The Feb. 3 issue of Investors Business Daily contains warnings from two people who say "Wake up, America!" Lech Walesa, the father of Polish democracy, sees Obama's quest for redistribution of income as no different from the Marxist credo "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

Svetlana Kunin, who lived in the Soviet Union until 1980, wrote, "Democratic leaders speak ... of limiting profits and regulating salaries. It brings back another Soviet line: You pretend you are paying us salaries and we pretend to be productive. This is the quickest way to kill a dynamic economy. Today, the American educational machine teaches exactly the same points as the Soviets taught."

If enough Americans wake up to reality before November, President Barack Obama's communist pursuit can be stopped.

LES DE JONG, Yuma