Just talkin’

While reading more and more editorials posted as journalism I came across something that actually sets the Presidential Candidates apart from each other.  Here’s what Barak Obama said to Joe the Plumber:

“It’s not that I want to punish your success, I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too.  My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Libertarians like myself have always suspected the left of modern-day Robin Hood dreams, but for the Presidential candidate of the major leftist party to come right out and say he plans to rob from the rich and give the money to the poor is appalling.

For the record, I don’t believe the major rightist party has a much of a leg up on this point, as the graduated income tax has been part of the Republican controlled government as well, and the Republican congress and Republican executive have the distinction of actually spending vast quantities more of taxpayers money in the last 50 years than the left.  Not only that, but the supposedly fiscal conservative party has done what every single person on this planet cannot do, either in practice or with a conscience, and that is borrow from our children’s future earning potential to pay for our decisions today.

What surprises me is that 1/2 of potential voters can hear this socialist agenda from Chicago’s most famos son and it doesn’t phase their interest in voting for Obama.  Where is the pride of making your own way?  Should I batten down the hatches, suspecting that 1/2 of my neighbors would willingly rob me blind just to get ahead?  Would you walk into your neighbors house and take his television, justifying yourself by noting that he has three and you only have one?  If you vote for Barak Obama, with his stated intention of “spreading the wealth,” then you are voting for outright theft.

This is an interesting YouTube: