By Les Dunaway

Well, we now have President Obama’s plan to “to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working”.  A long list of business leaders had little hope that the speech would contain anything substantive. They were proven right.  What we got was more of the same, both in terms of the programs offered and the tax increases to pay for them.

There’s no mystery about what needs to be done. Paul Ryan’s budget would have done it. The Heritage Foundation has published a plan. Art Laffer has a plan to address the hardest hit people and areas.

Why hasn’t Obama moved toward some combination of these plans? Please do not accept the idea that he wants to “destroy the country”.  He was very clear about his intent when he said at the University of Missouri on October 30th 5 days before the election “…we are 5 days from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” [video]. Does he believe that what has happened since then is good?

There are two scholarly looks by two very well know people at how the President thinks and why. On June 9, 2010 in the Wall Street Journal, Dorthy Rabinowitz wrote “The Alien in the White House“.  In the Forbes Magazine dated September 27, 2010, Dinesh D’Souza wrote “How Obama Thinks”.

How bad is the situation? “Working-age poor population highest since ’60s “. In the July 13, 2011 Wall Street Journal Daniel Henninger describes our possible future in “The Disappearing Recovery”

I think there’s a very real danger of Henninger’s forecast coming true, but only if people who love America and understand what has made America great fail to get involved.