Barack Obama Wants You Weak, Afraid and Dependent

During the 1988 presidential campaign, then Vice President George H.W. Bush once explained to former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, “Competence makes the trains run on time, but ideology tells us where they’re going.” Today, we’re seeing how wrong-headed governance can drive the American Dream over a cliff. Indeed, it seems that when candidate Obama spouted “Hope and Change” in 2008, he really meant, “Today you may have hope, but I’m going to change all that!”

Oh sure, we should give the president credit for ordering Osama Bin Laden killed (as Mr. Obama so frequently reminds us) but truly, didn’t he simply do the same thing to the terrorist leader that he’s been doing to our economy for the past two and a half years? After massive spending that’s saddled us with trillion dollar annual deficits as far as the eye can see, Mr. Obama is essentially firing bullets between eyes of our nation’s future. I ask, couldn’t we have found a less expensive way to drive unemployment up from 7.8 percent in 2008 to the 9.1% rate at which it now stands?

But is President Obama really incompetent? Or perhaps, unfortunately, he has been a bit too good at doing exactly what he intended. Yes, like most Democrats — and specially those acquainted with the Chicago Way — Mr. Obama readily throws opens the public purse to pay off his friends, just as he also unabashedly wields the power of government punish rivals. But Mr. Obama also gives us corrupt Chicago-style patronage with a purpose. If there exists a healthy, burgeoning economy and a vibrant private sector, the roadblocks to prosperity become few and far between, meaning the role of government becomes diminished in our lives. But for someone who is ideologically driven to see the power and authority of the state magnified; for one whose sense of ego and purpose is intrinsically tied to having dominion over his fellow citizens, self-sufficiency is an appalling proposition.

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, it devastated the poor people who most rely on government direction and support for their very survival. In the wake of that natural disaster, and with federal, state and city governments incapable of response, there was no aid for the hapless men, women and children who had been crippled and left stranded by a malignant dependency.

Witness Barack Obama’s vision for America.