Obama's Rules Are Unfair

Through eloquent delivery, Obama disguised a message of control as a one of equal opportunity and fairness. "No bailouts, no handouts and no copouts," he declared. Just an even playing field.

Post-speech scrutiny reveals it as one long contradiction and deception.

In the same speech that Obama said no bailouts and handouts, he also said this: "General Motors is back on top as the world's No. 1 automaker."

General Motors cranks out subsidized products developed with money given by Obama. General Motors CEO Daniel Akerson receives an annual compensation worth $6.39 million, heading a company that could not exist on merit yet lives on corporate welfare to compete with Ford.

"We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of Americans barely get by, or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules."

The same rules. Like Ford and GM. Here's what else he said:

— "If you're a high-tech manufacturer, we should double the tax deduction you get for making your products here."

That means high-tech manufactures won't play by the same rules as makers of shoes, or anything else that isn't glitzy and high-tech. Producers of common goods will play by a set of rules that has them subsidizing the likes of Apple, IBM and Microsoft, which will use the subsidies to compete with their subsidizers for employees. He will double-bonus companies that are owned and operated by billionaires, while talking like a champion of equality.

— In disguised fashion, President Obama spoke of destroying competition among career-training programs.

"I want to cut through the maze of confusing training programs, so that from now on ... one website, and one place to go for all the information and help they need." Obama will choose one winner in the marketplace of training programs, and others be damned. The same rules means his rules.

— "Let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can't stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down." Colleges charge higher tuition by offering degrees of greater value. Harvard charges higher prices than schools with lesser prestige. Yet Obama wants to punish high-end schools and lavish aid on lesser institutions. That's not a level playing field. It's everyone playing by Obama's rules, which reward mediocrity and punish excellence.

— "I will sign an executive order clearing away the red tape that slows down too many construction projects. But you need to fund these projects." Fund Obama's projects, while he sabotages the greatest public works project of the decade: The privately funded Keystone XL Pipeline.

— " ... Asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense." He wants to raise taxes on the rich, pretending they pay lower taxes than the poor, when the richest 1 percent already pay 29.5 percent of their income in combined federal taxes. The bottom 20 percent pay 4.7 percent. Obama wants an even less fair playing field.

"That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more," Obama said, paraphrasing Lincoln. Yet most of his speech, cloaked as a plan for fairness, involved plans for Obama to choose winners and losers. The rules he wants will dismiss merit in favor of Obama's friends and favorite causes.

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