Share the What?

I keep hearing the phrase Spread the Wealth this past year. Kinda makes ya think.

The very poor may think it sounds great, because they envision fantastic riches they've never before experienced. And, hey, it'll cost them nothing, not work, not education, not effort, not time. Just a sort of magic where everything they've ever wanted simply drops into their laps.

Does it work that way? Nope.

Think about this - the people preaching Share The Wealth are usually very rich politicians. Do they want to share their wealth? No. If they did, they'd be giving their millions away. Do they? No, they want you to share your limited wealth, but keep their hot little fists tightly clenched around their excessive wealth. No, their wealth isn't for sharing. Uh uh.

No, Sharing the Wealth will not apply to them or their rich friends. So what wealth are we sharing? The very limited wealth of the beleagered middle and the moderately well-off classes. Beleagered? Yes, they are already sharing their wealth through a miriad of programs requiring huge percentages of their earnings, sharing to the point of near-bankruptcy.

So, Sharing the Wealth would not affect the really wealthy, but would bring down the middle class without appreciably bringing up the lower class. It'd create mostly poverty in America. Povery with no chance to climb out because anything earned would be "shared."

America would be left with two classes - the peons and the elite. Guess who wins? Guess who rules? And yes, I use rules instead of governs deliberately.

So the most honest way to express ths idea is not Share the Wealth.

It is Share the Poverty.

A Hand Up sounds a whole lot better to me, but that's common sense and common sense is out of favor these days.

OofDah!