A Shot at What?

By Anthony J.Ciani

Over the last few weeks, the differences in social and economic policy between Governor Romney and President Obama have become clear. Romney has consistently promoted a more laissez-faire or freedom-driven society with reduced government control, while Obama has promoted a society based on a large government which redistributes resources on grounds of "justice", and "fairness." In hopes of differentiating his flavor of redistribution from garden-variety socialism, Obama claims he only wants just enough redistribution to "give everyone a fair shot." Obama has become infamous for using vague words without defining them (e.g. "hope", "change", "forward"), so we are left to wonder--who constitutes "everyone", what is "fair" and most importantly, under Obama's system, exactly what do we get a "shot" at? To properly understand redistribution, one should start at the most extreme of redistributing societies: communism. Karl Marx called communism by a much more familiar adjective, "feudal." There are only two classes under communism, the rulers and the ruled; all other distinctions are removed. Marx assumed that the rulers and the.... (Read Full Article)