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>?I'm willing to bet that, for the most part, this 1% consists of highly educated, hard-working, enterprising risk-takers. I don't thik that Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, or any other of those greedy bastards "grabbed" any "national wealth." (but they sure have created a lot).<
Oh, please. Are every single one of those "hard-working, enterprising risk-takers" the people who actually built mega-businesses? Or are a good many of them members of the "CEO class" who can't manage for shit; make insane amounts of money even if they are lousy at their jobs; and have no vested interest in anything but jumping from company to company and scoring billion-dollar buyouts. The latter and their economy-ruining antics are the reason why Republicans, free-marketers, and libertarians look like the ignorant fools they are when they bleat that Randian/executive-as-Galt crap. The only free-market the CEO crew believe in is the one that lets them hollow out companies to enrich themselves, so please spare us the "bow to your superior mega-corporate masters" garbage.
