Bring it on! we are going to win on November 4th. America does not want Marxism!
“America does not want Marxism!”
The candidates to Joe the Plumber:
McCain: “It’s YOUR money; use it when YOU want it”
Obama: “It’s OUR pie; everyone behind you deserves a slice”
Obama should run for office in a country where citizens favor equality over liberty. America is a nation that long has favored equality of opportunity over equality of results. That idea underlies American exceptionalism: we are the land of opportunity.
There’s nothing stopping any American from making as much pie as Joe the Plumber. America’s “poor” already enjoy a standard of living many times greater than that of the average citizen in Third World countries; by many metrics, their standard of living rivals that of middle class families in Europe today as well as that of middle class families in the US from the 1950’s.
Thus, even families currently at the bottom of the income distribution should be grateful to be living in the land of liberty rather than enviously eyeing the fruits of those who achieve the American dream. In the words of one wise scholar, we did not get where we are by picking each other’s pockets.