by Carmen Alexe

Created on: October 13, 2009

Is it fair for George Soros to enjoy the riches of this country while others struggle with putting food on their table? Is it fair for George Clooney to spend long vacations in Italy while a young honor student dies during a Chicago high-school riot? Well, whenever I'd ask these kind of questions, a friend of mine used to always reply with "The fair is in Columbia, South Carolina".

I am here to set the record straight about the subject of Wealth Redistribution. I lived for many years in a communist country, where every citizen was supposed to own the wealth of Romania "collectively". The reality was that not only we had the right to own nothing individually but the president and his powerful elite enjoyed the benefits of collectivism. There are ramifications to the fact that we were all working for the "right to own collectively".

The simple answer to what were these ramifications lays in a question for you and that is "If you work hard for years and you really don't get to experience the fruit of your labor individually for yourself and your family, what is your incentive to keep on working so hard?"

The answer that you probably have should lead you to understand that communism is like in the land of Utopia. It exists in theory but in real life it's not feasible. Socialism is the last step before you reach communism. So, if communism does not exist in real life, what do all those countries that call themselves "communist" are?

They are dictatorships and totalitarian, where a small group - usually the president and the powerful elite behind closed curtains - control all the affairs of the country and the people.

When the Bolsheviks took over Eastern Europe and "fundamentally transformed" it in 1917, they did it with the powerful print media and the money of the powerful elite. Lots of money were invested by those with a powerful agenda into making the average people believe that the wealth of some would be taken away and redistributed "fairly" to all.

But it never happened the way the people thought it would. And if you are such an idealist to believe that one day you'll have a neighbor whose name is Warren Buffet or Bill Gates and you'll have him over for the Sunday football cook-out, keep on dreaming!

Unfortunately we are now seeing history repeating itself. Are the free people going to allow the same mistake to happen all under the ideal concept of "compassion"? The very wealthy ones have contributed exorbitant amounts of money for the president's campaign.

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