Government Seeks Ultimate Nudge

While this has been in the works for quite some time, The Daily Caller reported Tuesday that President Obama has signed yet another executive order,operating outside the peoples representatives, "which authorizes federal agencies to conduct behavioral experiments on U.S. citizens in order to advance government initiatives."

President Barack Obama/Photo The Daily Caller

Under the direction of Cass Sunstein, author of "Nudge", the program, as noted by The Daily Caller as titled "Strengthening Federal Capacity for Behavioral Insights", reports "The federal government is currently creating a new team that will help build federal capacity to experiment with these approaches, and to scale behavioral interventions that have been rigorously evaluated, using, where possible, randomized controlled trials."

Stretching far beyond behavioral economics, the government intervention and experimentation of the citizenry is most Orwellian in nature and a violation of our tenants of freedom and liberty.

What else is new with Obama and his anti-American intellectual arrogance?

The program, although presented as a mechanism to benefit the citizenry (aren't they always), was accurately described in the article in The Daily Caller. "The desired choices almost always advance the goals of the federal government, though they are often couched as ways to cut overall program spending."

As you may suspect, “Ultimately, nudging…assumes a small group of people in government know better about choices than the individuals making them.”  Sunstein's Obama directed small group is the "little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital" Ronald Reagan referred to in his "A Time for Choosing" speech in 1964.

That time is now.