SPREAD THE WEALTH (STW)

The very idea of STW enrages Sen. Mc Same! Ac-
tually, he likes to spread it upward by subsidizing
corporations and the rich via lower taxes, even the
fantastically profitable oil companies.

What is the alternative to STW? Hoarding it? Money
is like manure: for it to do any good, you have to spread
it around.

Reagan believed in STW. He thought it should trickle
down to the masses. The rich toss their table scraps
to the poor. "A rising tide lifts all boats." Except of
course, folks with leaky boats or no boats at all, will
drown, as many are doing now.

Spread the wealth already sounds better when you
call it what it really is: sharing the wealth. Ethicists
deal with it as "distributive justice." STW is mainly
what governments actually do. The building of the
interstate highway system STW in dozens of ways,
not just jobs. So did the G. I. Bill, following WW II.
In fact those projects created wealth, as well as
spread it around.

Failure to STW concentrates it ever more tightly in
the hands of the super rich. That is happening as we
speak. That always results in revolution unless it
can be corrected politically. It brought violent, cata-
strophic revolutions in China, Russia, Cuba and other
countries in the past century. If we can't alleviate
the suffering here by peaceful means, we will confront
increasing lawlessness and rebellion.

According to our Constitution, government, in addition
to providing for our common defense, must "establish
justice" (including distributive justice), and "promote
the general welfare." It can't do either of these without
STW. So let's stop the nonsense and get on with the
job cheerfully and intelligently. That's what Obama is
about.