Barak Obama has his hands on the throat of the American free enterprise system and the choking is well underway. The President’s plan is to go and keep on going until and unless he is somehow stopped. The plan has been well designed by the White House to pick the low-hanging fruit first and hope the other fruit ripens in the mean time.

The lowest hanging fruit was the “stimulus” package. Packed full of pork for Obama’s willing accomplices in the Congress, it was relatively easy to pass the largest budget busting bill in American history. Of course, all of this has been helped along by the persistent recession. Rahm Emanuel gave us a clear understanding of the way these people think when he said “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

The second step in the choking and central planning movement is the so called “cap and trade” bill. This bill will cripple key energy related industries, keep unemployment high, hurt America’s ability to compete in the world and generally worsen the financial crisis we are already in.

The third step in Obama’s plan is national health care. In this step the government takes over another 20% of the economy that they don’t already control. Quality and quantity of health care goes down and the size of government goes up. The government now has total control over what we do with our bodies.

As you will notice, the possibility for success goes down with each additional step, but that doesn’t mean that Obama will not be successful.

The fourth step in Mr. Obama’s plan is immigration reform. In this step, we welcome from twelve to twenty million new citizens into our country. And with this we are now legally (in Obama’s world) responsible for the health care, education and any other needs of the new citizens as the “messiah government” now has total control of our lives.