Didn't your parents teach you how to share?

-'John McCain believes in providing opportunity while Barack Obama believes in mandating sharing the wealth.
Obama believes in mandating shared wealth, why? Americans have a history of sharing their hard earned money with the underprivileged and there is equal opportunity for everyone in America.' --thelizardannex

Bleeding heart liberal is a phrase defined as a person who is considered excessively sympathetic toward those who are underprivileged or exploited, fuck yeah I am a bleeding heart liberal. But much like Peter being asked if he knew Jesus, it's something many people are afraid to admit after that phrase was connected with weakness and ignorance. Well ladies and gentlemen I offer you the new bleeding heart liberal phrase, socialist. I am not certain if it was the second or third of the presidential debates that Senator McCain used the term 'class warfare', but I heard it, sat up, and took notice. Having never really thought of Obama as a Marxist, I started to sift through peoples blogs with the three words Obama McCain and Socialist to understand how I could've missed it! Now I am sitting at the kitchen table enjoying my cup of coffee with the fine writings of my fellow Americans, like that quote above.

Remember when you were in grade school and someone would forget their lunch? Instinctively, as a human, you would offer that person half your sandwich and some of your chips. Why? Because your parents/parent taught you how to share and its just WHAT YOU DO AS A HUMAN BEING. You never looked at the kid and thought, fuckin lazy kid forgot to bring his lunch, fuck him that's his fault. You simply shared. So how old were we when we stopped sharing?

This person wrote 'There is a difference between charity/sharing and taxation. Sharing is an act one chooses to do, taxation is something that is forced. If I don’t share, I’m just an ass. If I don’t pay taxes I’m heading to jail.' My feelings are if people did share, we wouldn't be in the situation we are in now. And why not share, isn't that what Jesus did? However, where in the definition of capitalism does it say share? I was thinking about all the companies I support as a consumer and though some are more ethical than others none can honestly say they don't exploit their workers. By exploit I mean pay a honest wage, a wage that will allow someone to buy a home regardless of the geography in which they live. If the company is making a profit, someone is getting paid more than someone else. The majority of time when that happens in capitalism it's the stockholders/investors who make a profit, not the people actually working. You cannot argue that it takes money in a capitalistic society to make money. Much like Monopoly, the more money you start out with the greater the opportunity to make money. The fact is if everyone was offered equal opportunity to education, livable wages, and stable/safe/ affordable housing, on a level playing field at birth most people's odds would increase. This is not to say everyone is equal, I understand some people work harder than others and some people have a higher education than others, but when you start out at the bottom where is the drive to work harder.

This country was built on the notion that if you just work harder anything is possible, I don't know who would buy that phrase in 2008. I work my ass off, make more than a livable wage, have my graduate degree, yet I will never be able to afford a home Los Angeles and without a home I am at a disadvantage to others. I lack the retirement, investment, and security homeowners have. But I know I live in a very populated city, however understand there are many people who own multiple homes because they need them to make money, after all 56% of homes owned in Los Angeles are used as rentals and purchased as investments, not for the purchaser to live in. But wait there's more, the medium household income in Los Angeles is $44, 894 and to own a home in Los Angeles you need an income of at least $88,900 a year, 1/3 of your income is a safe mortgage payment. So people need to be told share, that's so unreasonable.