Charles Krauthammer: "Deception at Core of Obama Plans."

Charles Krauthammer has a must read op ed today on the Obama sleight of hand budget game. Obama claims that his plan meets the problems that created the economic problems the country faces. He offers "universal, heavily nationalized health care; a cap-and-trade tax on energy; and a major federalization of education with universal access to college as the goal."

One may certainly agree as to the wisdom of that program. I suspect that he was peddling the programs before the meltdown occurred and would have been peddling them had it not occurred. The Democrats have been trying to sell them for some time, since Hillary Care for one.

However, they do not speak, topside or bottom, to the real problems underlying our present economic situation. Mr. Krauthammer expresses it well: "As a cure for rapidly growing joblessness, a massive destruction of wealth, a deepening worldwide recession, this is perhaps the greatest non-sequitur ever foisted upon the American people."

The source of the present economic situation lies in the financing sector. Universal health care, cap and trade and increased numbers of college graduates do not speak to the real problems whatsoever. Again Krauthammer, "Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis."

Instead of speaking to the real source of the crisis, Obama sells the country the same old Democratic snake oil. Little wonder that more and more people are experiencing "buyers' remorse" at their vote for Obama.

Is Naomi Klein in the White House?

Naomi Klein may not be in the White House, but Rahm Emanuel has clearly read her work - The Shock Doctrine. Charles Krauthammer quotes Emanuel as saying, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."

Klein accuses Milton Friedman as using the shock doctrine to impose free market solutions on various countries. Her book is utter nonsense, but Emanuel seems to be taking her approach as a guide to impose the usual Democratic big government answers on this country in the name of ending the economic crisis.