BiT obviously feels better when government "gives" to the well connected like Blackwater.BackInTex wrote: I'm unconcerned with the millionaires. I'm concerned with the government trying to be everyone's parents. I'm concerned with Obama's solution of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Many governament forms have tried that in the past and this country has historically tried to eliminate them.
All government spending is redirection of money from one group to another. The question is whether our country is better off when millions of our citizens whose labor has contributed to the well-off amassing their fortunes are not reduced to destitution in their old age. Or perhaps they merely become a burden on their own children reducing them to destitution as well.
No one is getting rich off social security. In the vast majority of cases, people receiving benefits have worked hard for thirty, forty, and in some cases fifty years.
The reason that prosperous societies like ours become prosperous is not the presence of a handful of very rich people. Third world countries have some extremely wealthy people. It's the presence of a growing and thriving middle class that doesn't spend all its time eking out an existence and scraping by on the shoddy bare essentials. It's a lot easier to sell cars one at a time to a lot of people rather than a hundred at a time to one very wealthy person.
The way our society works, those who have concentrated wealth in the form of capital have inherently more bargaining power than those whose "wealth" consists of their labor capacity. Workers have contributed to our country's wealth far out of proportion to the monetary rewards they have received for their efforts.
