Reply To: A letter to Obama from Sorkin

http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/01/27/what_are_they_buying

This particular paragraph hits home:

“In the name of protecting the taxpayers’ investment, they are buying the power to tell General Motors how to make cars, banks how to bank and, before it is all over with, all sorts of other people how to do the work they specialize in, and for which members of Congress have no competence, much less expertise.”