A forward from HotAir.com

Michael Ramirez, who recently won a Reuben Award from his peers for his excellence in editorial cartooning, puts Barack Obama’s health-care plans in their most appropriate setting in today’s IBD Editorials:

That’s more than just a laugh.  People who pursue equality in outcomes rather than equality in opportunity inevitably become nihilistic.  They want to destroy wealth because not everyone is wealthy, and they justify that by confiscatory government practices in the name of fairness.  Everyone eventually becomes poor, and a client of the state; just ask the former Iron Curtain countries.  Well, everyone but the elites, and those choose early to join the party, or the Party, in order to ensure their place at or near the top of the food chain.