"Eisboch" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:16:46 -0400, Eisboch wrote:



Fair taxes on that earned or created wealth is fine. But a
redistribution of wealth by government edict is not. To do so is
socialism or communism, plain and simple.

Eisboch

LOL, that would depend on which way the wealth is being redistributed,
wouldn't it?

http://www.sustainablemiddleclass.co...efficient.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient


That's bogus.

For one thing, a "perfect score" of 1 means that a single person .....
actually a group ..... has all the wealth, stated in terms of income.
A score of 0 means everybody is equally wealthy .... income wise.

Yet, as the score goes up over the years, the "middle class" is
disappearing. Where did they go?

Well, some slipped into poverty obviously and those need to be helped.
But the others didn't drop off the planet.
They moved upward.

Eisboch



You know, games can be played with numbers, making them add up to support
whatever POV or agenda one is promoting.
Taking a step backwards, though, as we sit here 8 weeks from the election,
my thinking is beginning to solidify.
As stated before, I am not a registered anything. I try, as best as I can,
to keep an open mind, evaluating candidates in terms of who would be best as
POTUS for the current set of conditions. To this end, I had an initial
level of interest in Obama, simply because I thought that at this period of
history and world events, he would likely be best to repair the damage done
to this country's reputation in the global scene. I still think that is
true.

However, this attribute is more than offset by another factor, being his
extreme left wing philosophies and demonstrated support for socialistic
programs .... even socialists politicians.

This election is historic in many ways. First African-American president
...... or first female Vice President. Neither of those factors mean
anything to me however.

What is far more historic and pivotal, IMO, is the critical choice of
marching towards socialism with vigor, or swallowing the lumps and keeping
our traditional form of a unique government with an attempt to improve it
even more. To that, I have no doubt in which way to cast my vote. I'd
like my children and grandchildren to continue to have some level of
personal freedom and opportunity. We don't need to become a European styled
Socialist Democracy.

Eisboch