Ah...Halloween. A wonderful time of ghosts and goblins. Children dressed up as their favorite mass-marketed television, movie and comic book characters. Trick or treating for as much candy as possible, and telling scary stories at night...

This is a story about three kids. Eight year old twins Billy and Katie, dressed up as Batman and a princess, respectively. Their older brother, sixteen year old Roger, is dressed up as...a teenager.

Billy and Katie are mapping out strategies to get as much candy as possible. Roger, on the other hand, simply wants to get some free candy. He's young enough to still want the spoils of Halloween treasure each year, but old enough for dressing up in a costume to be beneath him.

As the night progresses, Billy and Katie are reaping the rewards of trick or treating with bags close to overflowing and Roger has a paltry handful from his nonchallant attitude. Towards the end of the evening they arrive at nice Mr. Obama's house. Mr. Obama is very generous to the three children. At first, the kids are all happy. Then Mr. Obama notices the discrepancy in the children's bags.

Mr. Obama proceeds to remove candy from Billy's and Katie's bags and place the candy in Roger's bag. "There, now everyone's equal," exclaims, Mr. Obama. Roger is ecstatic. Billy and Katie...not so much.

The story is fiction, but the analogy is spot-on with the direction this country is most likely headed in. We're being pushed in a direction in which hard work is punished, and idleness is rewarded. This isn't the American Dream as was intended, but a twisted version of it. For all the discussion regarding socialism, the policies are very similar:

All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly.

In addition, the actions in this country are eeriely close to the predictions of the father of communism, Karl Marx:

...Socialism would be achieved via class struggle and a proletarian revolution which represents the transitional stage between capitalism and communism.

America deserves better in the coming years, although whether that happens is yet to be seen.