Income Gap Stupidity

One thing the President apparently said in his speech - and it's a huge bugaboo among lefties - is that the "income gap" is terrible.  At least, if news reports are to be believed, he said something to this effect.  Sad.

1. Concern about the "income gap" is nothing but pure jealousy.  That somebody else makes more than I do is not an indication of any unfairness, injustice, or anything else.  If it bothers me that somebody makes more, it is because I am envious, not because I am ill-used.

2. It is irrelevant.  If you're really poor - that is, unable to provide the basic necessities of food, clothing, and shelter - then what you need is food, clothing, and shelter.  You do not need the CEO of Wells Fargo to make less money.  In fact, the more money people like that make, the more likely somebody will come around to help you get food, clothing, and shelter.  If you are not poor, then you have what you need and you will not get a penny more if the Wells Fargo CEO makes less.  Rest assured, too, that Obama has no intention of making you rich, only of making a few others poorer.

3. It indicates a lack of faith.  The reason Warren Buffett has been entrusted by God with more money than I have is not because he's a better man or smarter or anything like that.  It's because Mr. Buffett is better at managing it than I am - he handles that responsibility better than most, as the string of broke lottery winners amply attests.  He has his gifts, I have mine, and both of us will answer to God for how we use them and to be perfectly honest, I don't want to have to answer to God for millions of dollars (don't let that discourage you from giving them to me, however, if you feel you must ).

4. It is unjust.  The President of the United States, or any government organization, has no business in a free country deciding that somebody makes "too much" (or "not enough", for that matter).  The scofflaws who cannot be bothered to work, instead thinking somebody else should pay for their leisurely stroll through a college campus, have no right to the money earned by somebody who has worked.  Taking money from those who work to give to those who do not only encourages more people to not work, which is a bass-ackwards way to run a country.

Jealousy, class-envy, faithlessness, injustice, misdirection - all hallmarks of Marxist-Leninism and the Obama presidency.