Wealth Redistribution? White House Science Czar Says: ‘Have a nice day'

[sybarite]

When CNSNews.com started asking Holdren about the statement, he said, “I’m not talking to you. Bye bye. Have a nice day.”

John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said “have a nice day” and otherwise declined to comment on Tuesday when asked about a statement he made that worldwide redistribution of wealth is “absolutely essential” in order to provide all human beings with a decent life.

“Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being,” Holdren wrote along with Paul and Anne Ehrlich in the final chapter of Human Ecology, a book the three co-authored in 1973. Paul Ehrlich is also author of the famous 1968 bestseller, The Population Bomb. Holdren, President Obama’s top science adviser, advises the administration on issues that include health care and climate change.

CNSNews.com approached Holdren to ask him about his statement on redistributing wealth after he gave a speech on “Science, Technology, and Sustainable Economic Growth” at the Woodrow Wilson Center in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
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Don't you just love that socialism, whoops I mean hope and change the Obama administration is shoveling out?

[red states rule]

This should keep Obama's numbers heading south

How much lower can they go by Election Day?

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/var/plain/storage/images/media/obama_index_graphics/october_2010/obama_approval_index_october_1_2010/399922-1-eng-US/obama_approval_index_october_1_2010.jpg

[Little-Acorn]

Funny how often this has to be pointed out, when liberals are running around loose:

What do you mean by "wealth redistribution?

Sounds to me like you're implying that the wealth was somehow "distributed" by someone in the first place, and is now being "REdistributed", I guess in a different way.

But it was never "distributed" in the first place. A guy who wanted something you had, more than he wanted the money in his pocket, offered you a trade, and you agreed. You wound up with the money and he wound up with the thing (goods or your labor or whatever), and both of you are happy. And you made similar deals with other people, too.

But the money you got, wasn't "distributed" to you by somebody in charge of distributing, somebody who planned it all out. Many different people made transactions with you, and they were probably making other transactions with other people too at the same time, just as you were. And it all worked out, without having to be overseen by some all-knowing "distributor".

When somebody says he wants to "redistribute" it (or "spread the wealth around" as someone recently put it), it means he thinks all those transactions somehow "weren't good"... and that he thinks he can do better.

And that notion is completely ridiculous. There's no way he can make a fairer "distribution" of your money (and all those othe peoples') than you and they already have. What could be fairer that the "distribution" you and all the others have already happily agreed to?

When someone talks about "redistributing wealth", they are saying they think the money is theirs to take, and give to whom they want.

It's silly on several different planes. And arrogant wishful thinking, too.