What makes you think he doesn't get it?

We have just witnessed a seamless transition of power from Bush to Obama, and it was so smooth it's hard to discern that any change occurred at all.

What makes you think he doesn't get it?

We have just witnessed a seamless transition of power from Bush to Obama, and it was so smooth it's hard to discern that any change occurred at all.

I believe it to be middle-class private wealth –> Goverment –> elite private wealth. It's just a wealth transfer upward, the government is mearly the clearing house.

Let us not forget that the government provides the shears to cut the fleece, and the ties that hold the sheep down.

It is important to acknowledge that the predator is powerless over us sheep without government's assistance. In fact, lacking the tools of coercion provided by the government, the predator is driven to serve the demands of us sheep in order to fulfill its lust for profit. The predator will go to extraordinary lengths to satisfy us sheep for access to our sheep-dollars.

We should we condemn the predator for doing the only thing he knows how to do? His sole purpose is the accumulation of wealth. The morality of his purpose is another subject entirely.

If we sheep assign blame, it should first fall on our elected government. Government is sworn to protect the interests of sheepkind, but instead government ignored the danger to its flock and became seduced by the treasures and charms of the predator. And so those sworn to protect us sheep tied our hands and delivered us to the predator as only government could.

Do we blame the predator for wanting our fleece? Or do we blame our shepherd, the government, for delivering us sheep into the predators foul clutches?