Dakota Beacon

October 14, 2008, Senator Barack Obama speaking to Joe the Plumber: "...I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody."

April 28, 2010, President Barack Obama speaking to an Illinois audience: "I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money."

Investor's Business Daily observes:

It takes a certain kind of person to think he or she has—or should have—the moral authority to cap other people's incomes. Especially when that person and his wife somehow made $5.5 million in the first year of his presidency, a job that pays $400,000 a year.

Obama is the worst of the worst: morally vacuous and economically illiterate. The socialist-minded messiah is allowed to gather all the wealth that he can wrap into his messiah-like arms, but we "capitalists" must be subject to messianic whims of fairness. It does not even occur to the messiah that limiting what an individual can earn limits the destinations to which the individual can disperse the earnings. Of course, the assumption at work in the messiah's mind is that government should take the "excess" earnings and distribute as government deems "fair."

Remarking on how Americans should be reacting to Obama's wealth redistribution agenda, Investors notes:

This is the land of liberty and opportunity, where state interference in private affairs is supposed to be intolerable.

Investors has captured what I believe to be the biggest problem in America today, and the problem isn't Obama. The problem is Americans' lack of outrage to Obama's fundamental transformation of the country. Do we have many people left in America who still feel that "state interference in private affairs" is "intolerable?" It seems more and more doubtful. Remember, 48% of Americans still approve of the job Obama is doing as President.

Where's the outrage?

© 2010 Chuck Rogér