Obama's Rhetoric

This is why I read every article by Dr. Sowell, he usually hits the nail on the head every time. The salient problem with Obama's comment is that it assumes that "the government" exists without the people and that "the government" has its own wealth without taxation. Neither proposition is true unless you want to go back to the divine right of kings or believe in the collective over the individual as a fact of nature. Founders understood that neither of these approaches were true or even desirable as each leads to tyranny by the few. Sowell is right, we really need to get back to teaching kids real history that proves that power corrupts and ablsolute power corrupts absolutely even with the best of us.