Shuffle the Deck, Dealer

UK's Brown is now talking about a "Global New Deal." I used to think that the "Deal," in FDR's "New Deal" meant "a bargain or arrangement for mutual advantage," or, "situation" -- as in "What's the deal?"

I realize now that it is meant literally as "a new deal of the cards". A new distribution: of wealth and favor, with the government being the dealer -- the source. This is the poison that the Left peddles -- the idea that the State is the source of wealth and our best interests lie in competing for those handouts. This is as opposed to the conservative view which knows that wealth is created by the self-interested efforts of individuals (AKA the Private Sector). What is the motivation for productivity when the more you produce the more you are punished (taxed), and the less you produce the more you are given?

"From each according to his ability -- to each according to his need." A recipe for failure -- tried, and tried again with always the same result. But surely, not THIS time...