carbon and other pollutants is not to be alive. As for healthcare reform, besides gaining greater control over people's lives, the feds would get to "bail out" medicare and medicaid. Which is absolutely necessary. Just wait, after they get through tampering with jobs they are going to get around to "reforming" retirement funding. If they have enough leashes around the necks of the American people by then they'll be able to steal our retirement accounts to bail out social security. They'll say it's absolutely necessary. So this is the "pwogwessive agenda" to Welch: "the broad agenda of carbon price hikes, centralized health care, greater regulation, increased taxes, and government-mandated diversity in boardrooms." Wow - I had no idea pwogwessives are so down with Wall Street thievery that ending socialism for the rich and free mkt. competition for the poor isn't even on the agenda! Gosh, I sure am glad "boardroom diversity" matters so much! This essay is a joke. It's a laughing parody of a progressive agenda, while in fact nothing remotely progressive has been tried by the Obama Administration. Yet somehow, after one year of a Dem. Presidency, in the middle of the worst economic downturn since WW2, progressives have been proven to be totally wrong at best, delusional fools, blah blah blah. In case you actual fools haven't noticed, Rahm Emmanuel has prevented anything close to progressive from being even tried, and the same Wall Street thieves that have plundered our wealth for 30 years are still in