Obama, you dullard. If all of us did “spectacularly well” then we would be doing spectacularly well. We’d just be doing average.
Edit: *wouldn’t be doing spectacularly
Quite right. This raises the fundamental flaw in the Robin Hood mentality: no matter how much wealth people have, there will always be a top and a bottom. Someone will always have the most and someone else will have the least. Taking from the top and giving to the bottom redistributes that wealth, but you have to constantly do that, because the wealth is still unequally distributed. So no matter how good we have it in the US, there will always be people whom we call “poor” because they simply have the least. Try comparing a “poor” family in Chicago or Detroit to a truly poor family in Bangladesh or Congo.