Change We Don't Believe In

It’s probably best to take arguments about Obama’s “socialism” with a grain of salt, but at least they now have a better spokesperson than Joe the Plumber. In The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger writes that Obama and progressive Democrats are advocating a model where “business is allowed to create ‘wealth’ so long as its utility is not primarily to create new jobs or economic growth but to support a deep welfare system.” Obama’s universal health care proposal is “the sine qua non of planting a true, managed-market economy in the U.S.” and his tax-policies would move the United States “away from creation and toward protection.” “Are the American people,” he asks, “of a mind to throw in the towel on the system that got them here?”