Chumps: Michael Medved explains why Americans don't like Obama's policies

Conservative radio host Michael Medved hits the nail on the head in an AOL article explaining why Americans don't like President Obama's policies. It's because they reward bad behavior and punish good behavior. Americans who play by the rules--saving for a rainy day, paying their bills on time--look like chumps under Dear Leader. And no one wants to be a chump.

National anger at corruption and incompetence in Washington centers increasingly on a peculiar, profoundly maddening quirk of the Obama administration: its consistent, irrational impulse to reward bad behavior and to punish constructive conduct.

The now powerful tea party movement began with an on-air rant in February 2009 by Rick Santelli of CNBC, who complained of a costly new program to protect homeowners who had recklessly committed themselves to unaffordable mortgages; he suggested a "Chicago Tea Party" as a means of protest.

Despite the indignation Santelli ignited, various Obama programs continue to tax Americans who've never missed a mortgage payment and send the money to rescue or subsidize their neighbors who made risky, irresponsible decisions at the height of the housing bubble.

In a similar spirit, the Obamacare health care reforms will provide subsidized insurance or Medicaid benefits for millions of families who previously declined to insure themselves, while bringing higher taxes and rising premiums to those who previously sacrificed to pay for their own protection.

He then goes on to skewer Obama's reckless foreign policy of punishing our friends and rewarding our enemies. Our friends, such as Poland and the Czech Republic, don't want to be chumps either.

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