Let's spread it around.

We Americans have to start thinking in broader terms. Rather than allowing the power elite to dictate to us. Our policymakers have us trained. And duped. Into thinking that the proper American way is to allow a free rein economy. In which it's all right for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. Instead of spreading the wealth around. Seems to me that greed predominates. Lots of millionaires and billionaires. But even more poor people. People who live hand to mouth. Many in this world die of starvation and malnutrition. While many of us live like privileged gluttons. We are not serving the common good. But we don't see it. Or we don't care. It's an everybody-for-himself mentality. I like the idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Precisely what Barack Obama proposes. Higher taxes on the people and businesses making more than $250,000 a year. And lower taxes for people in the lower and middle classes. Of course, John McCain and his Republican cronies say that's unfair. That the rich are already overtaxed. I don't buy that. The rich can afford to pay more. Because the less affluent often pay more with their lives. Take the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, for instance. You don't find rich people in the armed forces. No, the poor and less educated young people generally go off to war. And pay with their lives. And who reaps the financial benefits of war? And who starts the wars? Yes, the rich and affluent and old politicians. They've got plenty of money to spare. Let's spread it around. --Jim Broede