O-S: Covering the "Spread"

I'm listening to the Spud McConnell show -- "Talk Gumbo" -- on WWL radio. He's doing a "smack" show -- listeners call in to say who they'd just like to smack across the face (it's a family show, so he can't say "bitch slap!"). Some of the calls have been pretty funny.

One guy called in to say he'd like to smack the young president because of his insistence that salaries for upper-level management in financial institutions that received a bailout be capped at $400,000. His rationale? This proposal is just an extension of the young president's desire to "spread the wealth" -- only the salary cap is "spreading the poverty!" Makes sense to me -- the YP is doing an end-run!