[Lulubelle]

OK, that was funny...but...in talking about "redistribution of wealth" as you call it, we are not talking about a GPA for goodness sake, we are talking about giving people the ability to feed their children, put a roof over their families head, getting proper healthcare for their families, etc. I grew up in Republican household myself. 12 years of being face to face with people in need have shown me that most people in unfortunate circumstances do NOT do it to themselves. Life happens. They have a sick family member, lose their house and business as a result, etc. Or maybe they didn't have the chance for a good education and are slogging it away in a low paying career. We aren't talking about people who are on Medicaid and having lots of babies. We are talking about people who are working, who get no assistance of any kind, who don't have health care, and who make more than the 980 dollars a month gross that an individual has to make less than to qualify for medicaid but not enough to afford health insurance, or a decent home, or good food for the kids etc. I'm not sure when people on this earth decided that they had no obligation to anyone other than themselves, but we all live together, and in my book, if I am fortunate I have a moral duty to try to improve the lot of others who are less so.

For the record, I didn't become a committed Moderate Democrat until later in life, and I am one of the financially fortunate who will be in the bucket of being taxed more under our Democratic Congress.