by Josh Greenberger

Created on: October 17, 2008

(October 17, 2008) Barack Obama to Joe the Plumber on October 13: " ... I'm gonna cut taxes a little bit more for the folks who are most in need. And for the 5% of the folks who are doing very well - even though they've been working hard, and I appreciate that - I just want to make sure they're paying a little bit more in order to pay for those other tax cuts. Now, I respect the disagreement. I just want you to be clear, it's not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you - that they've got a chance at success too."

If this statement doesn't worry you, you haven't looked at it too closely. It's been proven over and over that taking from those who've earned and giving it those who haven't, doesn't help those who gave or those who received - it ruins everybody!

The mortgage crisis we're currently experiencing was about exactly that - giving "opportunities" to the less privileged, by taking (undeserved loans) from the banks. We all know how that turned out. It did not spread the wealth. It spread disaster.

Social promotion does not help underachievers, it only reduces overall achievement.

What Obama is proposing is another form of Affirmative Action. But, instead of giving a job that you qualify for to a less qualified person, he wants to give money that you've earned to someone who has not. This is absolutely outrages.

Institutionalized handouts do not make people do better; it only makes them expect more. Obama's plan would turn the entire U.S. into an "inner city." Can you think of a more counterproductive plan?

Why does Obama's plan for giving people a "chance at success" revolve around taking from others, to begin with? It does not produce more goods and services, it only (unethically) reshuffles what we have.

There are options that take from no one and give to everyone.

A reduction in fuel costs would put money in the pocket of every American by reducing the price of a long list of other goods and services - and we wouldn't have to take money from anyone. All we have to do is lift all oil drilling restrictions.

But Obama's answer to lifting oil drilling restrictions, as Senator McCain pointed out, is he'll "look at it?"

Let me see if I understand this correctly. To take money from one person and give it to another, that Obama doesn't have to "look at," he "knows" it'll work, despite the fact that other such programs have failed miserably. But lifting drilling restrictions, which has absolutely no drawbacks, no downside,

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