To the Editor:
I can see the sage of Birdland as Obama’s Rationing Czar. Share resources equally.
Ten gallons of gas per month – no one can have more until everyone can have 11. Nine hundred gallons of water per month – no more until everyone can have nine hundred and one. Electricity – 9 kw. per month. Businesses included.
No computer upgrades until everyone gets one. Tokens for three ounces of steak per month – to be traded by vegetarians at farmer’s markets. Two rolls of toilet paper per person per year – maybe a little slack for women, just a little, though.
Granted, his argument about overpaid execs, also athletes and showbiz people; these are a small minority. Limit their incomes to $100,000, I say. Or, Tome, works at KFC and makes $15,000 and Ron, an entrepreneur, makes $85,000 running his business that employs 20 people. Fair is fair. Each should have $50,000. That sounds very much like, “… each according to his need.” That’s been tried and failed. Striving for a better lifestyle is what drives prosperity.
Classes, lower, middle and upper, are fluid designations. Figures show much crossing from one to another over a generation. This is America’s greatness that the whole world recognizes.
– Bob Neubauer