IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON, READ VDH!

For my friends on the right and left, the link below takes you to an article that describes as clearly and concisely as possible what is being attempted by the current administration. You can agree with him or disagree with him, but he speaks the truth. You can pick your poison in 2010! It is more important than you can imagine!

Freedom versus Egalitarianism. It is not new. It is just repackaged. A key insight:



"Obama rather brilliantly counts on two great constituencies (other than the professional Ivy League technocracy whose responsibility is to figure out how to borrow and tax the money, lavish it on constituencies, and do rather well themselves as government overseers). One is the hyper-rich, the Kerrys, the Soroses, the Gateses, and their appendages in universities, government, foundations, and the media. These power players either make enough to be unconcerned with high taxation, or are so well connected politically (cf. the machinations of a Daschle, Dodd, Geithner, Rangel, ) that the coercive state rules simply do not apply.

Instead the hyper-wealthy receive a sort of psychic gratification in helping the ‘poor', and romanticizing the underprivileged, thereby alleviating the guilt of being blessed, and at relative small cost-and so they quite enthusiastically support the equality of result state.

Again, the poor present no challenge, offer no threat to the hyper-wealthy, but are thankful client recipients of ensured government largess. In contrast, the fellow elites have the necessary taste and education to satisfy the demands of aristocratic society."

A very important read. Enjoy and comment.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/03/the_same_old_equality_of_result_96320.html