As news emerges that the firing of the Inspector General by the Obama administration was motivated by the desire to protect at least two major supporters of Barack Obama  who appeared to have engaged in unethical or/and  incompetent behavior, it behooves us to compare how the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration would have responded to news that recipients of tax dollars were wasting them. Would he have fired the official who tried to halt the practice and enforce the law? Would FDR have used the power of his office to protect supportersd and harm the career of an official dedicated to protecting taxpayers? Would he use his power for political gain?Why compare Obama to FDR? Well, the media trumpeted the comparison during and after Obama's campaign. Recall Time Magazine cover that transformed the image of Obama into the image of FDR so as to evoke the era of big government spending to help the needy? I just happen to be reading "American-Made: the Enduring...(Read Full Post)