In this latest episode in our ongoing series, “Holy crap, this could be our next First Lady?!”, we examine a statement Michelle Obama made during a stop in Charlotte yesterday.

Should she become first lady, she said she’d focus on family issues.

“If we don’t wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership…for how we want this country to work, then we won’t get universal health care,” she said.

“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”

I worked damn hard baking my entire pie and I’m not about to just give it away. Actually, I don’t mind voluntarily giving away a piece of my pie, but I do mind when the federal government is going to take it from me. Bake your own damn pie.

OK, enough with the pie metaphor.

Ed Morrissey calls Michelle Obama what she is: a statist. The whole illusion that she and her husband are moderate Democrats is bogus (which we already learned when he took the throne as Most Liberal U.S. Senator). He also analyzes exactly what bang we get for our buck:

Want an example? Look at the VA. For that matter, look at the education system Mrs. Obama wants to expand. We have increased federal spending on education by 58% since 2000 (after inflation), and no one in their right mind would argue that education has improved 5.8%, let alone 58%. We’ve increased VA spending by 59%, and few would argue that we have received our money’s worth from that.

In fact, American families will pay $4,000 more per household in taxes this year than in 2003, the highest level since the last year of the Clinton administration. We have already given more of the “pie” for government expansion. If that was the solution, then the Democrats should be arguing for a continuation of the Bush administration, which has expanded federal spending by 30% after inflation in just seven years.

Yet the Democrats are advocating even more government solutions, taking away even more of your pie (damn metaphor again)?