Jet, you are still failing to perceive the difference between a task and a deed.

To put it differently, its the conceptual difference between utilizing a market, and managing a market. When the government manages a market, or over inserts itself - suddenly it is politics that determines pricing and who gets what. This is not good.

Most pressing example you might ask? Housing. The financial crash. But, you might say, " wasnt the fault of greedy capitalists?". The answer is not so simple.

The housing bubble was caused because the govt was underwriting hundreds of billions in bad loans via Freddia and Fannie, and HUD et al make it politically and regulatorily necessary to extend loans to bad borrowers. Gov't intervention made for many millions more buyers than there would have otherwise been, thus inflating housing prices. Govt backing of the bad loans let shady Wall St types repackage them as securities ( hey its a great investment, the gov't is backing it! ) and sell them.

For some reason , a lot of people do not like to look past the involvement of a few dirty capitalists. And yeah, in any society, even if the old Soviet Union, when gov't gave people a legal way to fleece people... there is ALWAYS someone willing to take up that task. Capitalism as a system is about competition and letting the free market set value.... which is what was NOT happening in regards to the housing market, hence its collapse. Look at Medicare and other gov't intervention, and you will see that Health care costs are absurdly high not because of enough govt involvement but because of too much.

Also, I can say that Life, Liberty and pursuit of happiness are rights. I do not count health care as a right.


Anyhow, I am more curious as to your thought about the person from Ohio writing in to the Atlantic a few posts back. If you want to talk about real effects of Obamaism on real people, that is a good place to start the conversation.

Especially since if this mood persists in Ohio, and Rick Perry gets the GOP nod... he WILL be the next president. If Perry carries Ohio he wins. Obama and his supporters ought to pay a little bit of attention to the plight of midwesterners if they truly want to keep govt from being dominated by right wing extremists, because that is where their policies are driving us.

The real ramification of the policies set by Pelosi and the Left over in Cali that let the Left feel good about themselves as they reduce carbon, give everyone free stuff, etc.... is extremely damaging to the lives and livelihoods of people in other parts of the country.

Got some news for you, most people here in Ohio actually believe in science. But we still hate Obama.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)