Reply #20: Excellent observation -- Sharing the wealth, like sharing the burden, is American.

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Call it socialism or call it the American Way, We the People have long cared about one another and our common future, despite the efforts of a few to state otherwise.

F'r instance, the efforts of the elite's toadies to socialize the risk and privatize the profit -- The Real AIG Scandal: How the Game is Rigged at Wall Street’s Casino