Basic Economics Will Unmask Obama's Reality

An oft-quoted adage is, “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” A corollary to this is that you can’t make your reality, and the laws of the universe won’t change because you want them to. What’s the point of me even writing such an obvious, even banal, truism? It’s the fact that various ideologues, reformers, revolutionaries, utopians, and other political fanatics persist in the belief that our social problems are the fault of a lack of will, and that if we just insist on something vehemently enough, nothing can prevent the desired improvements from coming to pass. This belief is a dangerous, and often destructive, delusion.