Epstein on Obama

Richard Epstein, a Hoover Institute fellow, has it just about right in this essay on Obama's Osawatomie, Kansas, speech last week.  The really scary aspect of Obama's presidency is his abject ignorance about job creation, the role of competition in free markets, and of course the role of government in its role as rule maker for free enterprise.  Never experiencing first hand what happens in the real economy, Obama simply relies on the academic left's failed ideas largely derived from Marx and Engels and their followers.  The fact that all of those ideas have been tried and found not to work doesn't bother socialists like Obama who are driven by a concept understood and known to true believer liberals as "social justice".  "Social Justice" has been the driving force behind the Civil Rights movement since the 1965 Civil Rights Act was passed and has given us the victim and grievance industry of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et. al.