How About The Redistribution of Poverty?

If I were Senators Obama and Biden, I'd be asking out loud whether the American people really prefer the current redistribution of wealth to continue enveloping people who once owned part of the American dream.

Do the American people want more of the same, until the only people left standing are the very rich?

Do the American people want to continue feeding what can only be called greedism, just to avoid any faint scent or whiff of dreaded "socialism"?

Instead, isn't it time to recognize greedism for the despicable, addictive, soul-destroying monster that it is? Shouldn't wealth without compassion be despised, not prized?

We've been living the redistribution of wealth to our country's detriment. Look what it has given us. And yet John McCain and Sarah Palin are trying to set one part of the country against the other -- those with money against those without.

They are crafting a fiction that generosity is bad for all of us because it might require that the wealthiest give up something they've long accused the poor of refusing to relinquish - entitlements.

Americans don't fear socialism because it isn't going to happen. They don't fear the redistribution of wealth but the permanent distribution of poverty at their doorsteps. They fear the demise of fairness.

What happened to all of us carrying some burden so that none of us is deprived? "True Americans" are not the people who wear the right hats, as Sarah Palin has implied. They are people who want for their children and other people's children a fair shake, a leg up when needed, and a shot at the dream.

Dr. Reardon also blogs at bardscove.