The headline on Drudge says it all “Obama redistribution Victory: Private Pay Plummets, Government Handouts Soar.” From the USA Today story:

Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds.

At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.

Since the Obama regime has taken power, private wages have decreased from 44.6% of the United States’ personal income to 41.9%. At the same time, 8 million Americans have lost their jobs and become wards of the state. This is the Obama plan – to destroy the United States’ free market system and replace it with a European style welfare state – like Greece. Through programs like the stimulus package, Obama is enlarging the dependency class, people who are “paid for being rather than for producing,” as the Hoover Institute’s David Henderson said. These dependents have no incentive to go out and work. They can stay home and rely on government largess, funded by the shrinking percentage of Americans that still work. The dependency class is a permanent Democratic voting block, because the Democrats promise ever expanding benefits to dependents. This cycle of dependency and resulting unsustainable government spending is what brought down Greece, what is destroying Europe, and what is bankrupting the United States. Chairman O is waging an all-out war on the private sector, threatening to “keep his boot on the neck” of private companies. In reality, that boot is on the neck of the entire free market system, and is suffocating the republic.