Pick Your Villain

Barack Hussein Obama continued his effort to demonize capitalism last night with calumny launched at banks, insurance companies, and pediatricians. In Obama world, only government, N.G.O. activists like ACORN, and labor unions can do right with righteous motives. Banks are thieves in the night without regard to what government regulation forced them to do to avoid charges of "redlining". Insurance companies become care rationing bloodsuckers-they could never want to preserve their customers' lives and welfare to keep premium payments coming in-no insurers must be impugned. And doctors, well, doctors have no interest in patient health, they are too busy violating the Hippocratic oath by performing unnecessary organ removal on defenseless children for mercenary gain to concern themselves with sustaining life. All this while Obama wants to create a "ghoul squad" to counsel elderly on end of life decisions at least once every five years and infirm elders more often to let them know that they have outlived their usefulness and are a burden on society, their children, and their grandchildren (and the so-called non-partisan AARP arm of the Democratic party is advocating for Obama care which will ration care and kill off seniors, against the interests of its own membership). To the left, investors termed speculators, SUV owners, and even Walmart are culprits; let it be no surprise that such an opponent of the free market as Obama expands the target list. So demonize the private sector, elevate government to a panacea for all ills which it can never be and taxpayers can not come close to paying for, and you have Obama's Utopia where jobs disappear, small business is pounded out of existence, and America is left as a pale shadow of what the Founding Fathers intended and what we were for more than two centuries.