Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 23, 2011
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Transcript:
Voice: And for risking other people's money, the top 10 hedge fun managers were paid $18.8 billion! Boopsie: Holy cow. Voice: And as Christmas bonus season approaches, the street is again poised to distribute billions to a handful of individuals. B.D.: That does it! Boopsie: What does it? B.D.: It's game over - the rich won! Might as well just send them the rest of our money now! They're gonna get it all eventually anyway! Where's my damn checkbook? Zonker: So what's our play really? Pour into the streets? Boopsie; At Our age? With my knees? B.D.: Is "bloodsucking scum" One word or three?
The Left’s moral premises prevent them from ever asking where wealth comes from, because that could lead to realizing that the people who create wealth have a right to it. So instead the Left takes wealth as an unquestioned given, like the air and rocks, and they assume that anyone who has wealth must have taken it from someone else.
This is not to deny that wealth can be accumulated by theft. That was the basis for feudalism and every form of socialism. But again, wealth, to be redistributed, must first be created, and the small percent who CAN create wealth (MUCH more than 1%) deserve it no matter what some envious drum-beating mob says.