The word of the week is “immoral.”  As I pointed out yesterday, Joe Biden, James Clyburn and other liberal political elite have taken the time to grand stand against the Republican efforts in these budget talks.  The Republicans want to cut spending and not raise taxes.  This is what these liberals have deemed “immoral.”  But apparently we can add another Democrat to the ranks of those calling the Republican approach “immoral” …. Barack Obama apparently agrees that the Republicans are flirting with immorality, according to his chief dogwasher Jay Carney.

CHIP REID, CBS NEWS: "This weekend, when the Vice President was laying out all the things that you have to do and how much -- when he said you have to ask those who are struggling in this economy to bear the burden and let the most fortunate among us off the hook, he said that borders on being immoral. Does the President agree with that?"

JAY CARNEY, WH PRESS SEC: "Why, I think he does. Yes."

That leads me to this excellent column I read in the American Thinker: President Quixote's Legacy: Confused, Ill-Educated and Not Too Bright.  I want to highlight these few paragraphs in particular, which discuss Barack Obama and morality as it applies to economics.

Obama's ideology blinds him to relevant variables.  Incentives, institutional frameworks, profit and loss, individual initiative, saving and investment, hard work, etc. have no role in his simplistic world.  He is a political creation with no experience in relevant matters.  He does not understand markets, business, meeting a payroll, or managing an organization.  This vacuum in knowledge produces failed economic results because policies do not consider the relevant variables for economic success.

In Obama's world, success and failure are moral rather than economic outcomes.  Success is a marker for evil.  Failure is due to someone else's success rather than personal shortcomings.  Failure represents passivity, the choice to not exploit others.  Proper moral behavior produces failure.

For Obama, economics itself is inconsistent with morality.  Hence economics itself must be evil.  This view of the world is both simple and ignorant.  No, it is beyond that.  It is a sign of stupidity!  Recognition of this stupidity is the key to understanding Obama's behavior and policies.

Wow!  Couldn’t have said it better myself.  So I won’t bother trying.