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Always To The Right on Friday, October 31, 2008 2:59:47 PM
Barack Obama gave John McCain another pre-Election Day gift this
morning in remarks made to a Sarasota, Florida audience. After telling
Joe the Plumber in Ohio that he wants government to “spread the
wealth,” Obama told Floridians that opposition to such policies
amounted to “selfishness”
"The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not
because I have anything against the rich," Obama said in Sarasota,
Florida, yesterday. "I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich.
Go for it. That’s the America dream, that’s the American way, that’s
terrific.
"The point is, though, that -- and it’s not just charity, it’s not
just that I want to help the middle class and working people who are
trying to get in the middle class -- it’s that when we actually make
sure that everybody’s got a shot – when young people can all go to
college, when everybody’s got decent health care, when everybody’s got
a little more money at the end of the month – then guess what?
Everybody starts spending that money, they decide maybe I can afford a
new car, maybe I can afford a computer for my child. They can buy the
products and services that businesses are selling and everybody is
better off. All boats rise. That’s what happened in the 1990s, that’s
what we need to restore. And that’s what I’m gonna do as president of
the United States of America.
"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama
continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted
to make a virtue out of selfishness."
This reveals the basic underlying philosophy of the Left - that one cannot possibly be charitable unless they use the government
to redirect their funds. Obama assumes that people who don’t want to
pay higher taxes are somehow “selfish”, but that’s only true if one
assumes that the so-called rich won’t do anything else with their money
except sit around like Scrooge McDuck, counting it constantly. Most
people today invest it, which creates jobs, or spend it, which creates
even more jobs, or donate it to charity — which works much more
effectively and with much less overhead than filtering it through
government bureaucracy.
Those who earn the money want to direct it in the manner they see fit, in the most efficient manner possible. That’s not selfish, it’s just common sense. Only someone in love with government power could see it as anything else.