Obama’s intended lesson was meant to be, “See how awful life is without your Federal Family?” But the lesson learned–I hope–is, “See how awful your Federal Family can make your life if you tick it off?” We’re not seeing the absence of government; we’re seeing an excess of bad government.
What we have seen during this “Slimdown / Shutdown” is “Big Government as its own Special Interest group – and it has decided that which should be accrued to all of us really belongs to It. And when It is pissed, it retaliates. As Howie states well, Government is supposed to serve us, not us to It. But the message that is being sent by Obama is otherwise.
And that IS a fundamental transformation of America.
(H/T: Instapundit)
