Obama Leading the Rally toward a Socialist Nation

1. Obama pledged massive foreign aid.
2. Foreign aid is socialism - taxing one group of people to benefit another.
3. Socialism and foreign aid are not authorized in the Constitution.
4. Ergo, President Obama was pledging to do something that the Constitution does not authorize him to do.

The fact that other Presidents have done the same does not minimize the issue. Each President has taken the oath, and each is responsible for his actions in relation thereto.
Redistribution of wealth is not a guarantee of the Constitution. Compulsory charity is not part of the Constitution.
Obama is going to make it mandatory (not that it isn’t already) to take care of people, instead of being charitable, it is not compulsory. Taxes were not set up to pay for other nations, taxes are for the sole purpose of this country (and even then for specific purposes).
He made a pledge to uphold, and defend it, he broke it by pledging our support (the taxpayer) for foreign nations, social programs, etc that are not part of the Constitution.

1. It’s socialism.
2. It requires force.
3. It destroys liberty
4. It’s not in the Constitution
5. Modern day prophets have spoken out repeatedly against it.

There is one and only one legitimate goal of United Stats foreign policy. It is a narrow goal, a nationalistic goal: the preservation of our national independence. Nothing in the Constitution grants that the president shall have the privilege of offering himself as a world leader. He is our executive; he is on our payroll; he is supposed to put our best interests in front of those of other nations. Nothing in the Constitution nor in logic grants to the president of the United States or Congress the power to influence the political life of other countries, to ‘uplift’ their cultures, to bolster their economies, to feed their people, or even defend them against their enemies. (Ezra Taft Benson)

The government has no authority to boost other nations and help their people; that responsibility lies with us as individuals. Prophets have encouraged the same, for charity requires agency—something that government destroys when it becomes required.

White House website foreign policy agenda states:
“Obama and Biden will embrace the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty and hunger around the world in half by 2015, and they will double our foreign assistance to achieve that goal. This will help the world’s weakest states build healthy and educated communities, reduce poverty, develop markets, and generate wealth.”

This sounds great until you get to thinking a far more efficient delivery system would be to let Americans choose where their money goes instead of it being coerced in taxes and eventually spent with all the losses and inefficiencies of the bureaucracy. What can we do? For example, one could (by choice) donate to the humanitarian fund of your church or support micro-loans through organizations such as Kiva or any number of charities. I believe this is a far more efficient means of delivery than government programs.

“Now I tell you it is time the people of the United States were waking up with the understanding that if they don’t save the Constitution from the dangers that threaten it, we will have a change in government.” Joseph Fielding Smith CR Apr. 1950.