Some Obama detractors – and there are deservedly many – speculate that when he declared the private economy to be doing “fine” as opposed to those poor downtrodden government workers, the permanent underclass, he was sincere, but not confused. He is executing his game plan, stripping the private economy of its vigor and burdening it with a permanent bureaucracy to support.

Mr. Obama’s fans, and sadly there are more than a few, wax indignant at such a suggestion.

But, ask yourself:  One of the “popular” statutory mandates Mr. Obama points to as a major accomplishment in his health care act is the state ordered provision that all insurance policies must cover (at no cost to the insureds) “children” until age 26!  Aside from the obvious question of who pays for all of the free services ordered by government and paid for by others – that’s called socialism – why would Mr. Obama offer this benefit?

Obviously Mr. Obama knew that his economy would under-perform, recent college graduates would be burdened with enormous debt and unable to find work, and they wouldn’t be able to purchase health insurance voluntarily. Voilà, he anticipated a need he created.

It’s true. Democrats love to create problems that don’t exist, propose solutions that don’t address the un-problem, complain that the problem isn’t resolved and create a new bureaucracy to manage the bureaucracy.