Spreading the Wealth

A fallacy being perpet-uated by President Obama is that our nation’s wealth isn’t being spread around properly. (Remember his comment to “Joe the Plumber?”) Apparently the president thinks it is unfair that the people who are willing to work live more comfortably than those who are unwilling to work. Therefore, he believes the government should step in and even things out.

But the fact is, the nation’s wealth already is being spread around quite effectively. Each day working Americans earn a share of our country’s wealth, and each day they pass a portion of that wealth on to others. Not a day goes by that purchases aren’t made and services paid for. Even the rich, though despised and vilified by liberals, participate fully in this daily process. In fact, because they earn more, they generally spend more. Money is being briskly exchanged all the time in this country; it doesn’t just sit around idle.

So what is it that the president is objecting to? Quite simply, he is displeased about who controls the process. What displeases him is that the people who earn the wealth get to decide where it goes after they earn it. He doesn’t like that.

Here is what he would like to see happen instead. He wants all the nation’s wealth to flow unimpeded to the federal government so bureaucrats under his charge and control may distribute it as he sees fit. Why? Because he believes his judgment is superior to ours. Elitists, you see, always think they--and they alone--know what is right. And President Obama is an elitist, through and through.

But remember this: Our nation was founded on principles aimed at maximizing individual freedom while limiting the powers of government. What Barack Obama and others refer to as “spreading the wealth” is simply a ruse for taking power and control away from the people and consolidating it into the hands of government. This is contrary to our founding principles and therefore is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!

Think about it. Only the shiftless and indolent are dissatisfied with the manner in which wealth is spread in this country. They complain that the nation’s wealth isn’t reaching them; but if they refuse to place themselves along the path of that wealth as it is flowing by, how do they realistically expect to acquire a share of it? All the rest of us know and understand that we must get out of bed in the morning and drive to a place where money can be earned--and spend the entire day there. Sure it’s inconvenient, but we don’t expect to draw water from the river unless we’re willing to go down to the river’s edge everyday and get our shoes muddy.

When it comes to his position on “spreading the wealth,” the president is brashly displaying his true colors, and they are not red, white and blue. How could any real American, least of all the president, believe it is in the best interest of our country to be encouraging those who refuse to work to harbor resentment towards those who are willing to work. And certainly the president, the nation’s highest political leader, shouldn’t be encouraging those who won’t work to believe that our economic system, the free enterprise system, is fundamentally unfair. That system is NOT unfair! It only seems that way to people who aren’t enterprising.

Bottom line: The president is pitting the working class against the nonworking class, and is promoting and lending respectability to a lie, solely for the purpose of gaining power. Barack Obama is not content with being president, he wants to be an emperor, a ruler unencumbered by restraints.

We can no longer afford to be complacent. If we don’t act fast and assert our Constitutional rights as free men and women, the president, you can be sure, will get his promotion.