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The problem is that for individual citizens in the society to benefit from either of his utopian schemes:
1. There must be wealth created prior to spreading; and,
2. There must be prosperity existing in abundance, in order to be shared.
That is why Adam Smith, the moral philosopher, is such an important figure in America's history of freedom. It was his 1775 "An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," which fit into the philosophy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, and the great "transformation" of America from a wilderness into the most free, prosperous nation of opportunity which ever existed.
The Obamas (he who will "spread the wealth" of others' labor), the Edwardses (he of the 2 Americas and poverty solving propaganda), and all the so-called "progressives" are, in fact, regressive in their ideas, because they represent the same old tyrannical ideas of the Old World--ideas which rely on some imperfect people in places of power in government who will plan, order individuals around, allocate their productivity and resources, and not recognize that it is the individual choices made by citizens, as they pursue their own interests that creates and sustains "the wealth of nations."
When the ideas of America's Founders that it is God--not government--who grants rights to individuals was combined with the theories of Adam Smith about wealth creation, began to prevail in 1776 and 1787 in America, there occurred the greatest explosion of goods and services and opportunities for creativity the world ever knew.
Now, we're going back to enslavement by arrogant planner/masters who call it by new names?
We don't think so!!!
Exactly where ARE we in this DC Hold-Em game? The FLOP has been dealt, I presume. When will he deal the TURN and the RIVER?