The Question of Equality

NPR's Robert Seigel discusses Obama's minimum wage initiative in this article with guests from two different perspectives. I find it interesting because it really touches more the subject of equality. What are the 3 main focuses of government? Freedom, Order and Equality, right? Equality was not always in the mix as far U.S. priorities and still isn't for many countries, most of them being third world. So the concept of it is, basically, that all us U.S. citizens are equal. That no person is above the rest. At least not in the legal sense. But how far do you take it? Does it only go as far as race and gender or do you go as far as making every person economically equal? For most, they don't enjoy seeing people suffer. Most see it as the duty of a decent person to lend a hand when someones in need. When it gets to government policy and using our collective funds to pull those up that are barely scraping by it becomes a little more complicated. It ruffles a few feathers. Why? I think it's because once you go down that road you begin to wonder how far you go. At what point do you say, "Hey, if this country is what it says it is, if everyone was given the same educational opportunities and the same resources. Then why is it me, the person took advantage of those opportunies, the one paying the price to lift those who chose not to?" I feel this a topic is personal for many but we should really ask why we have the opinion that we do.