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Originally Posted by billms
please elaborate - who is now receiving the wealth?
and why would anybody set "redistributing wealth", in the abstract, as a goal? i don't see the rational appeal - i've never met anybody who woke up and said "what we need to do to make things better is redistribute wealth".
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I can only speak for myself, but redistribution of wealth isn't *the goal*, it's the means by which many use to get to their specific ends. Nobody going on vacation gets up with the family in the morning and says "Great - now we get to drive in rush hour traffic and wait in the airport for 3 hours to take our 3 hour flight!!" They get up and say "We're going to DISNEYLAND!!!!". The transportation is their means. Disneyland is the end. Now if you make the means more appealing, say a limo ride and a private jet, the means now become just as fun as the end, to some.
The Democratic philosophy is truly becoming that of bigger government. We thought Bush was a spendaholic - but he's nothing compared to Obama and this Democratic Congress. I've never seen our wealth - defined as our tax dollars - spent more wildy and quickly as this bunch has - and they are nowhere near done. They are addicted to it. They have reversed the "Means and End" flow. They are like an addicted shopper - who stays up late at nighth watching "The Shopping Network". For that person, it's no longer about what they are buying or shopping for - it's just about spending the money. Perhaps that is what Edman is referring to. Obama and Congress's Democratic philosophy is to take the tax dollars, and you find more amongst the richer so tax them even more, and distribute it by spending it on those who don't have as much. Does the program matter? Not to these guys. Health Care is just the latest stop on the wealth redistribution merry go round for these guys.