Link worked fine Baylor, and it's a great article. Punish the producers and the producers stop producing and...............then what? I don't expect the progressives to admit their folly, so we just have to beat them, or else continue our fall.

I'm of the opinion that the sycophants who support the economic actions of the present administration don't realize that capitalist economic failure is exactly what the socialist/progressives really aspire to. Then when the nation is at it's height of despair and depression, the government can step in and confiscate all remaining resources and business activity and regulate and distribute them in a "fair and just manner".

Chavez didn't have to wait for complete social breakdown in Venezuela because he wasn't "saddled" with our Constitution which restricts the "liberty" of government (Obama's definition). So, we have to fall quite a bit further than that country for Obama to fulfill his dream of wholesale national conversion to full socialist compliance.