Looting America

The Chicago Way takes America hostage, our rule of law, not rulers, is trashed and fraud hollows out any progress. George Will:

The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity -- the political allocation of wealth and opportunity -- is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

Daniel Henninger, Earmark Nation. WSJ: Unions vs. Taxpayers:

Call it a tale of two economies. Private-sector workers -- unionized and nonunion alike -- can largely see that without compromises they may be forced to join unemployment lines. Not so in the public sector.

Government unions used their influence this winter in Washington to ensure that a healthy chunk of the federal stimulus package was sent to states and cities to preserve public jobs. Now they are fighting tenacious and largely successful local battles to safeguard salaries and benefits. Their gains, of course, can only come at the expense of taxpayers, which is one reason why states and cities are approving tens of billions of dollars in tax increases.

It's not as if we haven't seen this coming. When the movement among public-sector workers to unionize began gathering momentum in the 1950s, some critics, including private-sector labor leaders such as George Meany, observed that government is a monopoly not subject to the discipline of the marketplace. Allowing these workers -- many already protected by civil-service law -- to organize and bargain collectively might ultimately give them the power to hold politicians and taxpayers hostage.

The Obama administration and its allies are looting the country. As Will points out, in California "For the first time, neither sales nor property nor income taxes are the largest source of money for state and local governments. The federal government is."

It took over 200 years to build America into the country we know and love today. It took 100 days to put it on a path to crushing debt and thuggery empowered.

Big Government is the leviathan, swallowing us up.

If America falls, freedom dies.