Wealth Redistribution

So many of us Americans become giddy at the prospect of getting something for nothing. This is why con-artist have it so easy these days. Take from the rich and give to the poor. Nothing wrong with that. We need more of it. If a student earns the grade of D and another earns an A is that fair? Hell no. They should be averaged so that both receive equal credit. Both should receive a C plus, ah what the hell a B minus. The person who got the A might have worked harder, or possibility the person with the D is just not as gifted. This is just not fair, but averaging the scores makes it fair.

A person has a neighbor who earns one million dollars a year. This person earns fifty thousand a year. He certainly is entitled to a portion of his neighbors labors, right? I think so. The total earnings should be divided up fifty-fifty. In days past, rich successful people were considered to be hard working, inventive, risk taking pioneers and economic roll models. These people with money were also the employers. This indeed is old fashioned archaic thinking. We know now they are simply winners in life's lotto.

America is no longer the land of opportunity. It has become the land of guaranteed outcomes. Anything short of that is, well it's just not fair. One of GOD's Commandments is " You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife; nor his male servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's." I guess we decided that GOD was wrong.

Today's new standard is " from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." These are the words of Karl Marx the father of modern communism. Unfortunately they also are the words of our current governmental leaders. We've come a long way baby.

A. C. Smithson

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.:- Winston Churchill