Thursday, October 23, 2008

spread the wealth!!!...???

I'm stealing this from Stephanie, because I couldn't agree more. I'm so plagiarizing the hell outta this! Love you Stef!

From CNN:
Barack Obama: “It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance at success too,” Obama told the plumber. “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s going be good for everybody. If you’ve got a plumbing business, you’re gonna be better off if you’ve got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire you, and right now everybody’s so pinched that business is bad for everybody, and I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

So… to all my friends that make more money than I do… I’ll be looking for you to send me a check. Since you make more than me, you should help me out - and it will be good for us both.

Stef's website also has a quote from Abraham Lincoln, who is/was my favorite prez...which I'm also stealing. But is it really stealing if you're putting something someone ELSE said that another person has on their site? Yeah, I didn't think so either.

“That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”