Last night while I was enjoying my wonderful meal of what was left of our live bait, cleaned and boiled, cocktail sauce and side veggies, my husband and I were watching Shrek. Yes, I know, but it was the only thing that was on the tube that was worth watching. In the movie there is a reference made about Robin Hood and how he robbed the rich and gave to the poor.
Quite frankly, it appalls me how so many people get the general concept of Robin Hood so confused. I’ve even heard the concept of the heroic Robin Hood who took from the rich and gave to the poor referred to in defense of a socialist agenda. Had Robin Hood simply been robbing the rich, I would call him a thief, not a hero.
What part of the rich person’s profits did I earn exactly? While they took the chance and invested or had a talent, or the ingenuity and entrepreneurship to build a multi-million dollar business and I did nothing, how is it that I earned a piece of that? I didn’t. Socialists will argue that it doesn’t matter, that it’s social justice, that for someone to become wealthy, they MUST have done something dishonest to obtain it.
The story of Robin Hood isn’t about taking from the rich to give to the poor; it’s about returning extorted tax dollars back to the people so that they can thrive on their own. Remember, in the story, the people are dirt poor and taxed so heavily that they are desperate. The people are enslaved by a greedy stand in King and a corrupt sheriff.
Robin was stealing tax dollars from the government and returning it to the hands of the people who earned it. In that scenario, the true scenario, Robin Hood is my kind of guy. In fact, we could use another Robin Hood in this day and age.
Until next time……….
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