Only socialists would label capitalists 'robber barons,' which implies, of course, that they stole their wealth either from workers or the planet. They clearly see the excesses, abuses, and other evils of capitalism. It is less clear that they can see--or want to see--the excesses, abuses, and other evils of an overarching government. In point of fact, men like Carnegie started literally with nothing. Through their ingenuity and hard work, however, they built empires that created thousands of jobs and supplied the means to create an infrastructure for a country founded on the principles of divinely inspired equality and inalienable rights. Along that vein, I repudiate any politician and any government that claims that it grants me the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Contrary to decades of statist propaganda--of which universities have been among the loudest propagators--these same rights have applied to every legal citizen of and immigrant to this country. If this were not so, would names like Benjamin Banneker and Booker T. Washington be known? These men refused to be victims and refused to permit anyone to deny what our Creator gave them. Blunders? Excesses? Lack of ethics? Obama, Reed, and Pelosi et al are busily destroying our collective heritage, this opportunity to be great in your own life. Through draconian measures, they are creating three somewhat different classes: rich, privileged statists--themselves; government apparatchiks, which include unions and their thuggery, Obama's private paramilitary force--with, I have no doubt--a stormtrooper mentality, and groups such as ACORN, which commit acts of questionable legality or illegality; and the rest of us. These heartless, mean-spirited, bigoted, hateful, tyrannical politicians, these statists, believe that once they've seized power, it will always be theirs. They and like-minded persons will likely remember the reality of clichés too late: that one reaps what one sows, that what goes around comes around, and, for a bit of a twist, that the evil that one does today, will be one's undoing tomorrow. By the way, what sort of ethical person would stay in a party whose membership includes those who associated or still associate with Nazi collaborators, the KKK, and other racists? There's egalitarianism for you, eh?