Any time you spend money or resources of any kind, you redistribute wealth. The “R” has been misused over the last few weeks, redistribution does not necessarily imply socialism.
Obviously the intended significance of redistribution over the last few weeks by the candidates for president is the 2nd definition. They want to paint a picture of themselves or their opponents by using historically charged paint. On one end of the color spectrum, there is full blown state ownership and control of resources, and on the other end there is unrestricted, unregulated completely free markets.
When we are talking about economics, the above ends of the color spectrum are commonly referred to as liberal or conservative. Liberal means that the government is big– it has (is given, by voters) the power to spend money on (hopefully) what its people needs. Conservative means that government is small–it has(is given, by voters) less or no power to spend money, in hopes that the market and individuals will takes are of thier own needs. My suggestion is that you try and decide what you think about the issue before you worry about how you or others will apply this label to you.
Do we risk our, the people’s, resources in the hands of the government and fight continually for those resources to be spent in proper, good, just ways? Do we, the people, not allow government to control spending and therefore rely on ourselves to spend money in proper, good, and just ways?
If you really look at Barack Obama and John McCain, neither one is really that fiscally conservative nor liberal. Certainly Barack looks to be the bigger spender and therefore will require more money to accomplish that. Before you jump on or off that wagon, realize that McCain’s spending plan isn’t really that much less. The question, at least for me, is more about how these men are wanting to spend the people’s money. If you really want to keep your money, look to Ron Paul.
Here is my real point: Please, please, please spend your money in a way that brings justice to this time and place that we call today on planet Earth. Evaluate for yourselves the role and potential of government and vote/write letters accordingly. In your private or public life, look at all that you have and think of the good you, or we, can do with that.
May the Lord’s will be done,
CWillZ
Tags: Adam Smith, Barack Obama, conservative, economics, elections, John McCain, justice, liberal, Marx, politics, redistibution of wealth, Ron Paul
Wholehearted agreement. As a lifelong Republican, I grew weary of this neo-McCathyist tone, that Barack was going to be the Supreme Socialist. Any spending of any kind is “redistribution of wealth”, a point I have made several times to a lot of people. I have friends that voted red and friends who voted blue, and it’s all fine by me, as long as they aren’t just shouting the latest slogan without thinking about what they are saying.
Because demographics and birthrate is one of the main fundamentals of an economy’s health, I wonder if a lot of this ‘redistribution’ (through government debt, which I’ve seen many articles on here talking about debt as a sin. USA is in hauk to China because the Bible says we are slave to the lender) of future debt in 2010 is only necessary because the liberals made abortion legal for the last 40 years and we don’t have a large enough generation X and Y as a result?
Had we not killed off millions of babies over the years we wouldn’t need to go into hauk to China to ‘redistribution’ debt now to keep the economy afloat.
I wonder if it’s a coincidence that we don’t see China having neither demographic or economic issues?