Dr. Stephen Finger, an
Otolaryngologist practicing medicine in Brooklyn ,
says that in these modern times, the rich won’t make you poor. In a recent
article published on December 30, 2013 entitled The Rich Won’t Make You Poor...Really,
Dr. Finger wrote the following:
“Why all the fuss about 'income
inequality? Is that really the 'biggest problem we're facing today'? Is it, in
fact, really a 'problem' at all?
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, speaking of
'income inequality, suppose they had never come along and created
all their stuff, would one poor person, or even one not-so-poor person,
be the slightest bit more prosperous and happy? We got some good
stuff and they got really rich. So? It's only 'fair' if we got the stuff and
their money too? Where did that come from?
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, the Wright brothers…same thing. Would the
'poor' have been better off without electric lights and cars and railroads
and steel and airplanes? Pre-industrial America
This is not agrarian Europe
in the 1700's where you got rich by getting a bunch of peasants to
work your land and then taking as much of the crop as you could get
away with, until they decided to chop your head off. In an industrial
society, you don't divide the pie. You grow it.
Don't get snookered by the progressive,
social justice, 'we love you more than we love ourselves' bunch. Inequality is
not the problem even though it sort of sounds like it should be. And taking
from the rich is not an 'economic plan'.
You can't raise the floor by lowering the
ceiling. It's an illusion. The only thing you get that way is a country full of
people who've forgotten how to stand up straight.”
Dr. Stephen Finger ran for Congress in 2006 on the
Libertarian and Republican Party lines. You can visit his blog at:
www.ThePointingFinger.blogspot.com
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