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When I think of the idea of balancing wealth among classes "The Little Red Hen" comes to mind. You all remember the story. The Hen found some grains of wheat and with foresight realized that she would need to think about and provide for her future so she planted the wheat. She was aware that if she planted the wheat and took good care of it while it was growing it would provide flour enough for her to make some bread to eat later. The Little Red Hen knew that it would be a long and arduous task so she enlisted the help of her able bodies associates Dog, Cat and Pig. You might remember that their response was "Not I" to all of the labor that was associated with planting, weeding, harvesting, grinding, and baking. The Little Red Hen would always reply "I will then" and she would do whatever task was set before her in order to reap the reward she could see in the future. I would wonder if it might have been with frustration that she watched her lazy friends lounge in the sun while she was out working. But when the delicious bread was finished they all three were there with their hands out ready to enjoy the fruits of the labors of the Little Red Hen. The classic story explains that the Hen explained to the Cog, Cat and Pig that since they hadn't helped with the labor that the tasty loaf of bread required, they could not have any of the reward and she ate it all herself.

I have always been a little disgusted with the other animals that chose not to work for anything extra but they expected to take advantage of the work that the Hen did.

Can you imagine if our Socialist legislators in Washington were to step in and demand that the Hen give a fair share of the bread to those who didn't seem to want it when labor was required for it? Why would anyone want to labor for something extra if a portion were to be taken away for the effort?

I had the opportunity to spend time in Nicaragua in the latter end of the 1980"s and the beginning of the 1990"s. At that time it was common for the government of that country to step in and decide how much land was appropriate to own and how much wealth was acceptable. The people were discouraged. The poverty was great. No one benefited from the manipulations of the government. I didn't ever think that we would see similar actions in our great county. But here we are. We aren't as extreme as Nicaragua twenty years ago but ideas of Socialism are being planted by our leaders. I want our Nation to be one where I can work for wealth and obtain it.

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