The Forgotten Man

Obama says "spread the wealth."
But what about the people who worked hard to actually produce the wealth? What about the concept of a man living by the sweat of his own brow (instead of living off of the sweat of another man's brow)?
The guy who is coerced out of his earnings by the government is truly the forgotten man. The so-called "deserving recipients" get the press and receive the sympathy, but who sympathizes with the guy that works to take care of his family?
“They are always under the dominion of the superstition of government, and forgetting that a government produces nothing at all, they leave out of sight the first fact to be remembered in all social discussion -- that the state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.”
These are the words of William Graham Sumner, brilliantly analyzed and applied to 21st century America by Amity Schlaes in her recent book, The Forgotten Man.
No economy was ever saved by taking assets from those who earned them and giving them to those who did not. Obama promises the ruin of our national economy to the point where he and the democratically controlled congress can take as much of your money as they wish for whatever purpose they deem fit.
A government produces nothing. It cannot give a dollar to anyone without taking it form someone else who actually produced the dollar.
Welfare money was money taken from earning taxpayers.
Charitable contributions in the name of the United State of America are made up of money taken from people who worked and paid taxes.
If I walk up to you, reach into your pocket, take money, and hand it to someone else that I believe "needs" it more than you, I have just committed theft, and therefore, I should be taken to jail.
If I reach into my own pocket and give money to someone else, I am committing real charity without injuring anyone else in the process.
A Congress lead by crazy people (Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid) cannot be allowed to run over the free market economy unchecked...and Obama will not keep them from continually reaching into your pocket for more and more of your earnings to support their inane programs.