This is the Great Question?

Peggy Noonan:

The great long-term question about Mr. Obama's economic program, the great political question, is: Is this what the people want? There are economists who believe, and who make a reasonable case, that more money is needed to get the credit system, now frozen like icebergs, flowing in warm streams again. But in terms of leaps in the size of government, including a new health-care system, and higher deficits, and increased borrowing, and debt—in terms of the sheer scope and size of what is being planned—one simply wonders: Is this what the people want?

Really? That might be the question for the viability of Obama's presidency. But who cares about that? The question that should be asked is, "Is this right?" People, given the opportunity, will 'want' all sorts of the things. I recall a distraught German population 'wanting' a guy named Hitler to lead them. Democracies are great when they choose what is right but not so great when they choose otherwise. And so, Noonan, make a judgement here. I love ya, but this is not a question of popularity but of substance. Is it right to expand the government to levels never before seen? Is it right to create a society of dependence? Noonan is enraptured by contemporaneous politics when she should be concerned with America and what is best for her.