The engine of production produces wealth. There is no wealth for redistribution without first having production.

Production starts with an idea. An idea from thinkers and producers and entrepreneurs that take risk for the opportunity to create and benefit from it. 

Producers combine capital through personal investment, loans and through selling stock to individual investors willing to share in the risk for the opportunity.

Investors invest not only in good ideas but in people that have a reputation for success. You don't invest your money in an idea that is managed by an idiot. You want the best chance for success and you want a business man that has a reputation for success. Guess what. That guy is usually a rich guy. He is rich because of his ability to manage, lead, organize and create wealth.

Wealth is created when through an idea and combined capital for funding is managed to a point of usefulness.

When with this idea we can feed 1000 people with the same labor hours as we could before feed 100 we have created wealth.

When we can transport 100 times more people or product in 1/4 of the time and 1/2 the cost we have created wealth.

When we can communicate for pennies and in seconds instead of dollars and days we have created wealth.

When we can produce enough food to feed the world in 1/4 of the time at 1/4 of the cost using 1/4 of the land we have created wealth.

Even those helpless in society benefit so much more from the availability of new products created at lower costs brought to market than they ever will from stifling the engine of production by taking the capital away from those who produce and handing it to those who do not.

The greatest wealth is not created through labor on the backs of the poor but though ideas and organized capital.

The egyptians built pyramids on the backs of the poor. The capitalist of America gave us electricity, medicine, flight, railroads, automobiles, television, telephone, radio, computers, internet, cell phones and so much more that has advanced the life of the little guy more than any redistribution could have ever benefitted him. 

If the rich were the only ones benefitting why are even the lowest income individuals using cars, medicine, electricity, cable TV, cell phones and internet.   

The Capitalists must create a product that serves the masses at a price that is affordable to the masses. 

Would the little guys all be better off without these items but with some extra cash in their pocket through wealth redistribution to spend on a mail currier instead of a phone call or e-mail. Or for a mule instead of a vehicle. Or candles instead of electricity. How far would that extra money go to better their lives.

Don't take the seed from the farmer and give it to the work hand who has no idea what to do with it. You will end up with a bowl of cereal instead of a crop.

Redistribution of wealth takes the seed from the farmer and lets the worker hand eat it for breakfast out of some sense of fairness. The workers are cutting their own throats and don't know what there doing to themselves.

They also never will because they won't know about the medicine that would have extended their life or the vehicle that would have brought product to market at 1/4 of the cost and before it rotted on the dock or the electricity that runs the machines that make life easier for them. They would never know you could communicate from anywhere in the world for pennies. They would just take the wealth redistribution and give it to the currier on horseback to hand deliver a message a week after it was sent.

Instead of E-mail or a Cell phone we would be cutting down trees to make paper to write on. Or hand delivering messages with a vehicle using fuel and polluting the atmosphere. 

All the while they will continue to say "It's unfair that the rich farmer should control the seed stock while the worker in the field supports him"

The government under the notion of fairness takes the capital away from those who know how to create and give it to those who need what would have been created. The politicians know this and thats why they do it. Because it makes the voter dependent on the government which keeps them in power.  There are far more people who need the creations than there are creators. Thats why class envy and redistribution of wealth work. The larger group votes the smaller group into submission out of ignorance of the system and class envy.

Capitalism is a system of free trade. Free to think, free to produce, free to create. Creators create because they are free not because they are forced. How far would Edison have gotten in a system of tyranny. There is a reason why all these great inventions were created here in America. 

It's Capitalism.  Henry Ford got nothing in comparison to what he gave the world.

As I spent a large amount of time following and debating and articulating view points in politics it became very apparent that these discussions went on endlessly with no real results or solutions as our own discussions did. This is why I gave up on politics and no longer affiliate myself with a political party but with a political philosophy.

Philosophy presupposes Political Theory as Biology presupposes health.

Right and Wrong do exist just as Nourishment and no nourishment determine life or death. Life equating to right and dealth equating to wrong.

The discussions and debates go on and on about what is healthy and what is not but at the root of it all nourishment is good and the lack of it is bad. 

Yes there is Right and Wrong Black and White. The farther you get from the fundamental principle the more the lines become blurred.

This is why political theory must be founded in some fundamental principle and all discussion of social ideas, laws, rights, and so forth should be soundly supported by these principles and why philosophy should be debated before political theory.

The basic principles of the founding fathers life, liberty and the persuit of happiness  are the philisophical fundamentals as nourishment is a fundamental of life.

Todays debate has strayed so far from the basic principles of right and wrong that we end up debating wrong and wronger.  Or destructive and less destructive like there is no Right and Wrong.

Each generation accepts the role of Government one step further down the path to Communism because of it's lack of understanding of the role of Government as the protector of Individual Rights.

We have lost site of the basic principles. We have lost site of right and wrong. And is the answer to my question. "Why Philosophy"?

Definition of Terms

Money = Products and Services

Money is only a means of measuring and trading products and services. What is money without what it can buy.

Wealth = Abundance of Products and Services above the necessities of life.

Wealth is not money because money is products and services and so wealth is only the ability to produce products and services in abundance

Wealthy = Producer

Wealth is production and so the producer is wealthy

Rich = Producer

Poor = Non Producer

Middle Class = Supporters of Producers

Freedom = Self Esteem = Success

Ability = The level of an individuals success

Some may not have the ability to support even their own existence others have the ability to support a whole countries.

Measurement of Self Esteem = Athletes stats

A producer measures his success in numbers just as an athlete does. Would great athletes strive to be their best if there were no recognition for there results or if the stats were all disbursed between the entire team.

Success = Achievement

Success is relative to the individual. Great success to a cripple would be to walk again but would just walking be a success to Lance Armstong? Would Tiger Woods feel successful if he strove to be just an average golfer. 

The great producers of the world need to measure their success as Tiger does.

Capital = Seed

Product = Crop

Producer = Organizer of seed (Farmer)

The producer is the seed of the crop. without the seed you have no crop.

Tax = Confiscation

Power = Control of wealth

Politician = Equalizer of Capital

Through the authority of the majority the politician confiscates the seed from the producer and offers it to the non producers as payment for his power of confiscation.

Majority = everyone but the producers

Greed = Wanting something for nothing (Wanting, Taking or receiving without deserving) 

Greed is not the producer keeping what he produced but the non producer confiscating it through gang rule.

Capitalism = The understanding that the poor benefit from the Crop not the Seed.

Charity = Ones Freedom to Help his fellow man.

This is what non producers deserve after their best achievement to support production.

Socialism = The transfer of the seed from the producers to the non producers.

Communism = Socialism gone too far.

When the need of the poor out weigh the ability of the rich to produce

Communism = A Society of equally poor

Dictator = Politician without Producers

After through the lack of seed the crop production can not support the non producers any longer the Politician now becomes a Dictator because he no longer can pay for his power through seed confiscation.

Elimination of the Rich = Communism

You can not fix the world through Government because money (products and services) is not created by government. Products and Services are created by the wealthy (producers) who create wealth (abundance of production) to support the lives of the poor (non producers). The poor after their greatest ability (individual success) to support production deserve (opposite of greed) charity (willingness to help) from the rich (producers) and the middle class (producers helpers) who's ability (individual success) is far greater than the poor (non producers)and continue their success (achievement) because of their need for freedom (Self Esteem) to achieve to their greatest ability and be able to measure it.

Through the accumulation of capital (seed) the producers (farmers) with the help of the middle class (producers helpers) grow the crop that feeds the world. The poor (non producers) and the middle class (producers helpers) with the help of the politician (equalizer of capital) organize to tax (confiscate) some of the capital (seed) from the rich (producers, farmers) to offer to the majority (everyone but the producers) payment for his position of power (control of wealth). This happens due to the majorities lack of knowledge of Capitalism (The understanding that the poor (non producers) benefit from the product (crop) not the capital (seed)), perpetuated by the politician (equalizer of capital) by his greed (wanting the undeserved) for power (control of wealth). For the politician to stay in power (controlling wealth) he creates a society of Socialism (the transferring of the seed) which is required for the politician (equalizer of the seed) to keep his position. As the capital (seed) is transferred the product (crop) produced becomes scarcer due to less capital (seed) to work with. As the capital (seed) goes the product (crop) goes. Each year the product (crop) is less and the middle class (producers helpers) always pay the price through the higher cost of the product (crop) and the additional effort it requires to produce it. The rich (producers) pay a proportionally smaller price because the costs are added to the product (crop) and passed on to those who need the production (crop), the middle class (producers helpers). The poor (non producers) are poor regardless and the politician (equalizer) keeps his power by being in higher demand than ever before to transfer the ever shrinking capital (seed). When the capital (seed) becomes scarce and the poor (non producers) needs out number the rich (producers)ability (level of success) to produce we have inched into Communism (Socialism gone to far) and the politician (equalizer) who can not pay for his power (control of wealth) through the transfer of capital (seed) now becomes a Dictator (politician without producers).

Read it again with definitions only:

You can not fix the world through Government because(products and services) are not created by government. Products and Services are created by the(producers) who create (abundance of production) to support the lives of the(non producers). The non producers after their greatest (individual success) to support production deserve (the willingness to help) from the (producers) and the (producers helpers) who's  (individual success) is far greater than the (non producers)and continue their (achievement) because of their need for (Self Esteem) to achieve to their greatest individual success and be able to measure it.

Through the accumulation of crop (seed) the producers with the (producers helpers) grow the crop that feed the world. The (non producers) and the (producers helpers) with the help of the (equalizer of capital) organize to (confiscate) some of the (seed) from the (producers) to offer to (everyone but the producers) as payment for his position of (controlling the wealth). This happens due to the majorities lack of knowledge of (understanding that the(non producers) benefit from the (crop) not the (seed)), perpetuated by the (equalizer of capital) by his (wanting the undeserved) for (control of wealth). For the politician to stay in (control of the wealth) he creates a society of (transferring the seed) which is required for the (equalizer of the seed) to keep his position. As the (seed) is transferred the (crop) produced becomes scarcer due to less (seed) to work with. As the(seed) goes the(crop) goes. Each year the (crop) is less and the (producers helpers) always pay the price through the higher cost of the (crop) and the additional effort it requires to produce it. The(producers) pay a proportionally smaller price because the costs are added to the (crop) and passed on to those who need the (crop), the(producers helpers). The (non producers) are poor regardless and the (seed equalizer) keeps his power by being in higher demand than ever before to transfer the ever shrinking (seed). When the (seed) becomes scarce and the (non producers) needs out number the (producers) (level of success) to produce we have inched into (Socialism gone to far) and the (seed equalizer) who can now not pay for his (control of wealth) through the transfer of (seed) now becomes a Dictator (politician without producers).