Thomas Sowell wrote an article yesterday entitled, “Enough Money”, where he took issue with a statement made by the President to the effect that there is a point where people should feel they have “enough money”. Mr. Sowell chose to interpret this as the President proposing an official cap on income. I think reasonable people realize the President was talking about a psychological state of being rather than an economic circumstance. In my opinion Mr. Obama was drawing on a lesson learned from one of Aesop’s fables more so than Marxism 101. Mr. Sowell strained his considerable abilities trying to lay bricks in this particularly foolish conservative façade. He sought by rhetorical stealth, followed by shock and awe, to assault common sense with unrefined antinomies and inapt associations to the French Revolution; attempting to paint the President’s statement as an ultra vires call to class warfare rather than as the colloquialism it was. Mr. Sowell hadn’t always been prone to such Procrustean artifices. I suppose it is just another harbinger of the miasma of our ultra-partisan political environment.
(Mr. Sowell’s articles can be accessed from The Drudge Report, Town Hall, and other sites.)
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