If Obama's plot to micromanage health care from on high doesn't move you, how about the abolition of welfare reform provisions imbedded in the bill? Never mind that welfare reform has been such a smashing success that even Bill Clinton tries to take credit for it despite his twice-frustrated efforts to block it. What's important is not whether it has worked, but whether it satisfies Obama's vision for expanding the welfare state.

But there's one outrage that trumps these and others: Obama's mind-blowingly socialistic proposal to donate $75 billion to delinquent mortgage debtors to reward their behavior and encourage more of the same type of decisions and practices that landed us in this mess in the first place.

But so what? All will be well because once again, Obama -- not the infinitely superior wisdom of the market -- will pick the financial winners and losers single-handedly.

This would be egregious enough if the federal government had at its disposal -- or could create out of thin air -- the astronomical number of dollars necessary to effectuate these abominable transfer payments. But the government is beyond broke.

This means that Obama has to get the money from the assets and income of Americans who have it or earn it and are blameless in having created this quagmire. This is outright larceny -- nothing less. And larceny wrapped in a package of false compassion is nonetheless larceny -- and monstrously immoral.

And you thought Obama only wanted to place a ceiling on the income of those evil corporate executives. Think again. He means to punish all achievers and redistribute this nation's assets in a manner that he, in his glorious beneficence, deems more equitable.

Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history by insisting on separating financial efforts from rewards and pretending this can bring prosperity.

Buckle up; they're just getting warmed up.