Who Really Is The Selfish One?

A news story in the final days of the 2008 Presidential election, Obama called those who had the audacity to criticize his "spread the wealth" comment as "selfish."

I find Obama's comment to be absolutely ironic.

* Does he not know that America's capitalist economic system is based upon "enlightened self-interest?"

Enlightened self-interest is the gasoline that the U.S. economy runs on - without it the market would cease to exist.

With views like this, it is scary to think Obama will soon have control over the levers of intervention in the economy.

* Does he not know that Americans work awfully hard for their money, it is there's and they are free to use it as they see fit.

So President-Elect Obama the real selfishness, is the selfishness of you and fellow Democrats who expect Americans to constantly pay more and more in federal taxes to fund a ever-increasing big government.

Now Obama wants to "wait" to give taxpayers the tax cut he promised them on the campaign trail.

Sounds like more selfishness to me.