In barely four months, Barack Obama has nudged the United States toward a future in which government will be bigger and more assertive -- where taxes will be higher and government unions more powerful -- where legal rights are less secure and contracts more uncertain.

In California, he is pushing a state toward the fiscal edge in order to favour a union ally. At Chrysler, he has put at risk the security of every contract in the country to please another union.

David Frum this morning. And now let's see what Obama does to 16,000 Chrysler retirees who aren't in the union. Not sure they'd all fit in Rattner's interrogation room.

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