Obama speaks of change and if you examine his stump speech you discover that the change he favors is bigger government, much bigger government.
Here’s a checklist of new spending programs or new regulatory power he favors:
*universal health care
*higher fuel standards
*ending “tax giveaways to companies that ship out jobs overseas” (whatever that means)
*annual increase in the minimum wage
*federally-funded early childhood “education” (he means schooling)
*recruiting an “army of new teachers and paying them ‘better’” (better would be less in my view but that’s not what he means)
*a cap on carbon emissions (except from the mouths of politicians)
*corporate welfare for “renewable fuels”
He also promises to
