On the campaign trail, John McCain continues to incessently promote the idea that Barack Obama, if elected, will want to take control our hard-earned money and redistribute money from wealthy people, a la Socialism. Barack Obama, meanwhile, has been reticent to own up to the fact that, indeed, he does intend to implement a more steeply graduated income tax than under the current system and thereby plans to spread the wealth around a bit more equitably. The Obama camp will tell you that they are not about income redistribution or spreading wealth around but about strengthening the middle class by giving them a tax break and raising taxes on the rich to the levels they were during the Clinton years. Do you want to redistribute wealth? No. Do you want to raise taxes on the wealthy and cut taxes on the poor? Yes. It reminds me of what one juvenile delinquent in my neck of the woods once famously said: "I'm not a drug dealer, I just get drugs from people who have them and sell them at a profit to people who want them." He may have a promising career as a politician, though he will probably have to deal with accusations of "spreading the drugs around."
So derogative is the notion of "spreading the wealth around" that Joe Biden even suggested in an interview that the only people to have "spread the wealth around" are George Bush and John McCain. Apparently they are redistributing the wealth up, according to Biden. Biden says that he and Obama just want to give the middle class a fighting chance, not redistribute wealth. Asked if he would respond to fears that Obama would try to turn America into a Socialist country like Sweden, Biden replied that that was a ridiculous notion that you would only hear from people on the far Right. Sweden might be a really nice country with a rock-solid democracy, great health-care coverage, long life-expectancies, and virtually no poverty, but it damn well isn't the greatest country in the world like our country is and only a lunatic would suggest that a legitimate presidential candidate might move us in that direction.
What we really need in this country, though (besides not becoming like Sweden), is to "spread the love around." I think that that is what Jesus was really all about and that's what Obama needs to be about as well. If you are rich in love, give a bit of it to someone who maybe doesn't have so much. Don't worry, Karl Marx didn't come up with this one, I did; and my name's Joe...Joe the Blogger. You can trust me. I believe that when we spread the love around it's good for everybody. Maybe John McCain just needs a little love because he's been down in the polls. I think it'd be good for the country if Barack just went a gave him a big hug. I know that some of you worked really hard to earn as much love as you have, but what good will it be if everyone else is love-poor? Think "magic penny." And, besides, you can still keep all of your regular pennies.
Imagine it, filthy rich people with seven houses, twelve cars and $150,000 of clothes on their back and dirt-poor bums with no health insurance exchanging mutual love. What a country we will have when the corporate executive with the 3-million dollar home sends a card saying "thinking of you" to the day laborer who just worked another 70-hour week trying to cover medical bills for his son's broken arm! I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it.
Spreading the wealth around is for Commies, Socialists, and (I think) terrorists. Spreading the drugs around is for our delinquent youth who grew up in poverty and didn't have access to social services when they were young and for far-left, tax and spend, liberals who think people should be able to afford their prescription medication. But spreading the love around is for everybody. We all sang the magic penny song didn't we? Granted we also all watched Robin Hood, but I'm sure we know better now.
America is the greatest country in the world and the greatest commandment is to love our neighbor as ourself. So please spread the word around: from each according to his ability to each according to his need, it's time to spread the love around!
Blessings in the name of Obama.
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i try to keep my magic pennies stowed away safely in my back pocket ...no, but seriously, nice post jos. i get pretty excited these days checking jordo's blog and by consequence, the latest on whether or not yours has been updated..good stuff..lij
ps: is debbie from sweden? no, switzerland..right? another one of those countries we probably don't want to be anything like...
I think it may have been a good political move for Obama to buy equal time for McCain to have a 30 minute infomercial. I think the choice would have been clear, what would he say for 30 minutes?
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