Whether or not one favors or opposes Barack Obama there are things about the senator that are undeniable. Senator Obama makes very few mistakes on the campaign trail. He chooses his words very carefully, and he means what he says. So when Senator Obama tells a plumber in Ohio that "when we share the wealth everyone is better off" there is no doubt in my mind that he means what he says and believes in his heart that if we share the wealth we will all be better off. The problem with Mr. Obama's statement is that he refers to "the" wealth, as though wealth were a public asset, like federal parks, public waterways, and interstate highways. I guess this view of wealth as a public trust should not come as a surprise when one considers that Barack Obama has never worked in the private sector of our economy, the part that creates wealth. He has always worked in the part of the economy that relies on the wealth created by others. If Obama understood how wealth is created, he would have rephrased his comment to state "when we share your wealth everyone is better off". That would have been an accurate statement to Mr. Plumber from Ohio, but I am pretty sure that is something that Obama does not understand.
If I figured out a way to hack into Warren Buffet's account at Berkshire Hathaway and took $ 100M and gave them to the most destitute in the Richmond area, I would be a thief and should go to jail. However if Barack Obama and his tax and spend pals in congress decide to take 50% more of the money I earn on a monthly basis and give it the most destitute in Richmond, it is called "sharing the wealth". Maybe Obama and his Ivy League friends can explain the difference to me, because I can't see it. Obama meant what he said to that plumber, he just said it in an way that demonstrates his lack of understanding of free market capitalism. He is going to spread the wealth, yours, mine, and that plumber's. If Obama is going to pick my pocket, I wish he at least understood what it was he was really doing.
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