Have we become a communist nation?

Ten planks of the Communist Manifesto

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (in progress, federal government owns 35% of all land and the foreclosures that are coming will wipe out private ownership)

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (done, but can be more extreme)

3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. (inheritance tax)

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (RICO-drugs, enemy combatants and those against Iraq war can lose their property)

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. (Fed)

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. (FCC, DOT)

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (in progress, state is buying shares in corporations)

8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (Obamas plan for public service)

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. (done)

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production (done)