A friend sent me another great email that I just had to share. It’s from Glenn Beck’s radio program earlier today, where he spoke about precisely what “spreading the wealth around” means. But he did such a beautiful job of putting it in the context of today, Halloween. It’s a great read and does a brilliant job of explaining just how annoying and wrong the very idea is, when it’s finally seen in practice. Click “more” to check it out.

Because it’s Halloween, let me use the Halloween analogy. It’s Halloween. Your kids are going out trick-or-treating. My kids are going to be dressed after nap tonight. I mean, they are. 3:00 this afternoon, they are getting up and they are putting on their Halloween costumes. They are all excited. I’m going to have to wait as long as I possibly can before I take them out and we go trick-or-treating. I’m not going trick-or-treating on my street because there are 15 houses with for sale signs on it. I knock on their door, they’re like, food, did you bring me a can? Actually I along with other neighbors have actually delivered candy to people’s houses. Is anybody else doing this? We know that, you know, there’s this one section of town where everybody goes trick-or-treating and so we deliver candy to those houses so those people don’t have to have — you know, they don’t have to worry about the candy. So we’re going trick-or-treating tonight. Kids are dressed. We’ve already done all the preparation. We’ve done all the planning. They’re excited. They are going to go out. They are going to go door to door. They are going to fill up their bag.

Now, imagine some kid, some teenager who’s just, I’m dressed as a teenager. You know the kind. “What?” “I’m dressed as a teenager.” Just some bum who hasn’t done anything. He just wants free stuff. If he comes up to the door and he happens to be standing at the door of, let’s say Barack Obama and you got your kids, I got my kids and then the teenager standing out, “What? What? I can’t get candy? Trick or treat.” And Barack Obama answers the door and he sees your two children and your children have bags full of candy and the teenager, he doesn’t have anything in his bag. Barack Obama wants to take the candy, he will look at the teenager, say this isn’t fair. And he will take the candy from your children. Not all of it. Just a third of it. And he will give it to the teenager who hasn’t done anything, who’s not even dressed up in a costume. May be the first house he’s gone to.

Now, would you say that that’s fair? I wouldn’t. Even if it was just another kid that was struggling and having a hard time, would you say it’s fair if somebody opened up the door and that cute little kid that was struggling and didn’t have any candy and had gone to all of the houses and just couldn’t make it, would you say it’s fair for the person to open up the door, take the candy, one third out of your child, one third out of the child next to them and give it to that kid? Would you think that’s fair? Of course not. Would you think it’s fair if there were three kids, all of them did their best, all of them deserve to be there, all of them were out but one had worked a little extra harder and had been out a little bit longer and they had a little bit more candy than everybody else, but they had earned it. They weren’t going in to every single place, and they were just gouging themselves on candy. They just went longer and went to more houses, worked harder for it. Would you think it’s fair if somebody opened up the door and said, here, you’ve got too much candy; give me some of that; I’m going to give it to the other kids. As a parent standing there at the steps of the door, of the porch, you know you would say, “Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?” And you would never accept someone saying, “I’m just being fair.” “No, you’re not. You’re stealing that candy from my kid. My kid earned it. You don’t give it to the other kids. You want to give the other kids candy? You give it to them yourself. You don’t take it from my kid.” That’s what would happen.

Now, if it was a poor kid standing there and he really worked hard but he didn’t have any candy, as a parent what would you do? As a parent you’d get to the end of the street and you would look at your son or your daughter and say, “You know what? You have enough candy. I’m going to let you make the decision but don’t you think it would be good, don’t you think it would be nice? Imagine how good it will feel for you and for them if you went over and gave them some of your candy. They’ve worked really hard.” I wouldn’t do that at the end of the street with a teenager but I would for the cute little kid that really worked hard and didn’t have any, and I wouldn’t force my children to do it. I would strongly recommend it. I would do everything I could to convince them that that’s the right thing to do, but I would not force them to do it because that’s their candy. That is America. That’s the way it should be done. But somehow or another we’ve become this country where you expect somebody to open up the door and take your candy away and give it to somebody else. It doesn’t make any sense. That’s called communism. That’s called socialism.

Happy Halloween everybody! Here’s to hoping that next year, Barack won’t be stealin’ our candy.