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yes. dems are responable for this mess. what i would like to know is why voters dont care?

It's not just that votes don't care. It's also that they don't understand.

While there are those bound and determined to install full-blown socialism as our economic system, there are those who, if they actually understood the who-what-where-and-why of the current crisis, might actually start caring and start voting against those that actually created the crisis.

But, as an example, who amongst the ignorant and uneducated, would actually sit down for 5 minutes or less to try to understand what is written in the article above? And if they did, would they actually understand any of it, and would they question the facts or lack thereof, within the article?

Most people want things simple. Joe the Plumber presented a very simple question to Obama and Obama answered with a very simple answer. We here understand the implications of "redistributing the wealth", so to us, the message from Obama was simple and straightforward and dangerous. But, to many simple-minded folks out there, redistributing the wealth sounds like a great idea. They would like to get more of the American dream, and besides, the rich folks already have more than they know what to do with it.

But, those simple-minded folks cannot think long term and they don't think about repercussions, and they don't understand that if the government takes from the rich and the corporations and the small businesses and small business owners, that jobs will be lost and companies will close and that the original wealth that there might have been is getting reduced and thus, there will be less to "redistribute".

We keep talking in the abstract when we talk about the evils of "wealth redistribution". To many clueless and ignorant and less educated people out there, it sounds like a great idea. What is needed is clearer messages and we need to accompany those messages with the dire consequences, in very clear terms, of "wealth redistribution".