Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 5, 2009

In Communist regimes, powerful positions are assigned entirely on the basis of political reliability rather than subject competence.
The case of 31-year-old Obama administration functionary Brian Deese suggests that America is perilously close to becoming a Soviet-style ?People?s Republic.?

Mr. Deese has never run a business of any kind. He has no specialized knowledge or understanding of the automobile industry. He?s barely held a job of any kind, let alone a non-governmental position in the productive sector. Yet, as the New York Times puts it, he is essentially in charge of ?remaking the American automobile industry.?

A campaign worker who was absorbed by the administration, Deese is now in charge of defining policy options for the Obama administration?s automobile task force. Tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars ? not to mention the fate of America?s signature industry -- hang on his every whim.

When callow commissars exercise that kind of power, the free market is dead.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.