Savage: America has been ‘hoodwinked’

Talk host warns of ‘Leninist’ president’s doomed path, offers ‘better idea’

Vladimir Lenin

As the U.S. Congress came to an agreement on a budget that purportedly would avoid the nation’s first-ever default, talk-radio host Michael Savage warned his audience not to listen to voices on the left declaring it a victory for the tea party.
“If the left is telling you it’s a victory for the tea party, then you know it’s a lie,” he said to his “Savage Nation” listeners.
Freshman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who was elected by the tea party movement, has pointed out that while the congressional deal touts a “cut” of $2.1 trillion, the best-case scenario would result in an additional $7 trillion in debt over the next 10 years.
“You’re being hoodwinked again,” Savage said.

He said today’s politicians need to learn lessons from history to understand what Obama is doing, asserting that the term “Leninist” better describes the president and his policies than “Marxist.”
“Lenin thought that a nation could only grow more prosperous when a nation is controlled by a vanguard and elite – a people who know better than you what to do with your property,” he explained. “The Leninist elite would lead people to a world free of pain and poverty. There would be no more haves and have-nots or private property. Just boundless prosperity. All a nation had to do was transfer its entire wealth to Lenin’s vanguard.”
But the Leninist vision had consequences, Savage noted, aside from the well-documented horrors of Soviet tyranny.
“America’s rich will be poorer, America’s poor will be poorer, America’s middle class will be wiped out,” Savage said. “But America’s government will be more powerful than ever, as will the elected officials and their corrupt bureaucrats.”