Will Obama Spread The Wealth?
by Big Dog on Oct 20, 2008 at 20:26 Political
When Barack Obama was speaking to the now famous Joe the Plumber he told Joe that when you spread the wealth around it is better for everyone. Obama’s entire philosophy is that government should provide and he likes to tell people how government will give them something. Whether it is health care or stimulus checks, Obama is of a mind that government is giving something.
He is incorrect because government does not have anything to give. Government is the middleman in a redistribution scheme. In order for the government to give something it has to take something. It is our money, not theirs.
Obama’s cavalier remark to Joe says a lot about the candidate. It shows us, that inside, Barack Obama believes that government should decide how much of your money you get to keep and that government can confiscate however much of it it wants and it can do what it wants with it. If government needs more money then it can just take more from you and you have no say in the matter.
You also have no say in how the money is used. Nearly 80% of Americans did not want money spent to bail out Wall Street but government spent it anyway. A vast majority of people want an end to earmarks but that has not stopped Obama from spending a million dollars a day in earmarks. There are countless programs that waste money that people do not want and see no need for (or are duplicated by other agencies) and yet government ignores what the people want. Government just takes the money and does what it wants.
Barack Obama has raised millions of dollars from people who willingly sent it to him (some even legally). That was their choice and Obama appreciates it. He did not have to earn the money and he spends it as if it grows on trees. His convention had to incur the extra expense of renting a football stadium and erecting some fancy background for him to accept the nomination. He is paying a million dollars to air a half hour ad and he spent over 800 thousand dollars for ACORN to commit fraud (and he committed fraud by reporting it as something else). He is spending money without a care because it is not his and he can always get more by sending out a plea to his supporters.
When it comes to his programs and how much he will spend, it will be only slightly different. Instead of people willingly giving money, Obama will confiscate more of it than the government already takes and he will spend it recklessly. He will spend it like it comes from an endless supply because to government, it does. That endless supply is the taxpayer who will get soaked for every spending scheme Obama enacts.
Obama will be the modern day Robbing Hood and he will take money from those who make it and give it to those who do not. This is, as he stated, spreading the wealth and contrary to what he says, it does not work out better for everyone. You get less of what you tax and more of what you subsidize. If he raises taxes he will get fewer people working or at least more of them will look for ways to shelter their income just like Obama and the rest of the politicians do. If he gives money to people who pay no taxes then more people will find ways to put their hands out.
This cannot go on for long before the entire system is bankrupt, and we are not far from that now. Look at what happened in Hawaii. Their free health care cost too much so they had to end it. Why did it cost too much? People took their children off their policies and put them on the rolls of health care paid for by someone else. If people are not forced to bear some of the burden for their own standard of living then they will abuse the system because it costs them nothing. In the case of Hawaii, free health care turned out to cost a lot.
Obama’s Freudian slip opened a telling door to his inner soul. It gave a us a clear view of his intentions and how he views the role of government as well as how he views the distribution of wealth in our country.
This country was not founded on the idea that government would take money from those who have it and give it to those who do not. We were founded on the idea that we had the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Notice that there is no right to the property of others and that would include their wealth.
When Barack Obama told Joe the Plumber that he wanted to spread the wealth around he told Americans who were paying attention that they had no right to their property unless government deemed them to. He also told them that he would take what is rightfully theirs and give it to those who have no claim to it in order to make their lives better.
This is not what America is about and it smacks of socialism.
But I want to know this. Obama took in 150 million dollars in September. John McCain did not take in anything because he, unlike Obama, kept his word and took public financing. How would Obama feel if the FEC stepped in and told him he had to give half of the money he raised to John McCain? How would he like it if the FEC said that it would be better if the campaign with the least amount of money got money from the campaign that had the most? How would he like it if he were told that they did not want to punish his fund raising efforts but that the FEC believes campaigns do better when the FEC spreads the wealth?
I am willing to bet that Obama would go nuts and his supporters would be spilling their double chocolate, caramel, cinnamon, whipped cream, butterscotch lattes on their designer pants while chanting in unison about how unfair it all is (and probably blaming it on George Bush). After all, Obama worked hard for that money and it just is not fair that they would take it away and give it to another campaign to use just because that campaign accepted public funds and was not as good at fund raising. It just isn’t fair because they did not earn the money. It is not right to take it from Obama and give it to McCain just to make things fair. How is John McCain entitled to Barack Obama’s prosperity?
To which I would reply, welcome to the Republican Party.
Tags: Obama, socialism, spread wealth, taxes
There was a speech given by Robert Toombs to the Georgia Legislature on Nov 13, 1860. Let’s forget for the moment that the speech occurred for the consideration of secession and that slavery was one of many topics. His introductory few paragraphs are a brilliant explanation of how and why the United States of America was created. He explanation of why the various powers were given to the central government is exquisite. I will give a very brief excerpt. “These powers made armies, navies, and foreign agents necessary – these could only be maintained by a common treasury. Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.” You will notice he says “the great power of taxation.” Our forefathers realized and indeed still in 1860 realized that this power of taxation was not given lightly and was given for specific reasons. It should still be realized that it is a great power, intended to be used judiciously.
Great post Big Dog! And David your reply interesting. I can tell you my husband & I own a small jet aircraft maintenance facility in West Virginia. Because of the recent downturn in the economy, we just laid off 8 employees on Friday. The business jets we provide services for has been declining for months, first due to the exorbitant cost of Jet A fuel. Now with the decline in the stock market, housing & mortgage markets, fewer top executives are traveling and when they do, they take commercial flights.
Obama’s response to Joe the Plumber, who is considering the purchase of his employer’s plumbing contracting business, sent chills down our spines. Barack Obama is worried about the guys behind us, the ones who have nothing. They have nothing to offer, nothing to contribute, nothing to add and nothing in their wallets.
Barack Obama wants to confiscate the production of our business, via hardworking, dedicated employees who participate in our profits; take that money away from those employees who earned it, and give it to strangers who contributed nothing to the cause. These people don’t even work for our company, yet Obama thinks they are entitled to the proceeds.
Our employees went to trade schools & universities to earn their A & P licenses & degrees, qualified themselves for their chosen profession and are now working their butts off to put out a quality product. Why isn’t Barack Obama concerned about them? Why does Barack Obama think he has the right to steal the livelihoods of productive, taxpaying, contributing members of American society?
If Barack Obama is elected, the profits of companies like ours will be taxed out of existence, which will take money out of the pockets of blue collar workers who produce those profits. Obama’s claim that he will give 95% of Americans a tax cut is a bald-faced lie. He will be taking a fortune away from lower middle class workers who earn ANY income. The key word in that sentence is “EARN.” Our team works incredibly hard.
Our annual wages range from $26,000 to $72,000 per year, depending on their positions and expertise. If Obama gets in, every single one of our employees will get a 100% tax increase, in that Obama will destroy profits and our employees will get nothing. The truth needs to be told to all working Americans, their taxes are going to go up — way up, if Obama is elected. And many will lose their jobs.
Well said Patsy. I’m a West Virginia boy myself. Putnam County. Marshall undergrad and medical school at WVU, class of 83. Been in solo practice in a small town in Georgia for 22 years. I only have 5 employees but if Obama will leave us alone, we can do a lot more for them than the government can. As you know, with a small business, you get close to employees which are actually more like family. One more tax added to the onerous taxes we already pay will probably cost me an employee. You and I are unfortunately in the tax bracket he has set his sights on. The ones who are productive and produce jobs. Anyway, I can’t add much to your excellent reply.
Congratulations on your success, Dr. Kirk. We’re in Harrison County, located at the airport with Pratt & Whitney, Bombardier, Aurora Flight Sciences and FMW (the company that builds the composite resin space shuttle arm). We have 28 employees on 2 shifts after the layoff this past Friday. We disbanded our midnight shift due to a slow down in overnight aircraft maintenance. Our largest customer is a quartershare business jet ownership company. Their clients are mainly top executives in real estate, mortgage lenders, banking, brokerage houses and stock brokers. Obviously they’ve had a very bad month.
We go all over the world with mobile repair teams, repairing AOG’s (aircraft on ground). In the last 2 months, we’ve been to Caracas, Venezuela; Milan, Italy; Warsaw, Poland and Mexico City. We had been on an incredible growth spurt until the fuel prices shot through the stratosphere. Another market manipulation by nameless, faceless hedge fund traders that inflicted untold damage on our entire economy. How does our government allow these games?
We simply cannot handle any more of this crap. We must elect a President with the will to stop this massive, worldwide ripoff of hardworking Americans.
BTW, Doc, if Obama gets in, his policies will kill private aviation, among other industries. Which means we will be looking to start all over again, in our mid-fifties. This country cannot afford Barack Obama. God help us!