Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #5--Income Inequality

Income inequality in America is the worst since 1774.  A large part of last year's Occupy Movement was to make income inequality a part of the discussion about America's future. A recent piece by Chrystia Freeland in The New York Times stresses that contrary to what the 1% believe, their unlimited wealth is itself under siege because they are killing the golden goose--history has shown that the more people that beneifit from the economy, the wealthier those at the top become, and that the reverse is true (she cites 14th century Venice as a prime example, and I'll, uh, just take her word for it).

I don't believe that if President Obama wins re-election he is going to step behind the curtain, pull a few levers, and the 99% of us who aren't fabulously wealthy are suddenly going to become so.  I do know that the President is at least talking about letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy end.  I know that as the Occupy Movement was in full swing the President was willing to acknowledge that income inequality is a threat to the future of our nation.

Compare and contrast that to republicans, who instead of trying to argue on the merits threw out lame ass sixties rhetoric about dirty hippies and made totally unsubstantiated claims about women being raped by Movement participants and defecating wherever they please.  Compare and contrast that to republicans like Mitt Romney who just wave their hand at income inequality as if it is a non-starter, that those wealthy fuckers at the top are creating job after job (all evidence to the contrary) and we need to just leave them alone and let them be.  Besides, America is a dog eat dog country, and those that don't make it...well, it's nobody's fault but their own.

Not my America.  It's about a hand up, not about a handout.  It's about when more succeed, we all succeed.  It's about looking after the least of our brothers and sisters.  It's about understanding that the more egalitarian our wealth distribution is the more it benefits us all in healthier Americans, better educated Americans, and ultimately, happier Americans.

President Obama by far and away gives us the better chance for the best outcome.

Peace,
emaycee