Democrats are hyperventilating about the wealthy. They have helped to gin up (maybe even organize) the Occupy Wall Street crowd. It seems every non-thinking person in the country wants to “spread the wealth” without thinking about what wealth is.

Is there a finite amount of wealth in the world? Can we just go gather it and hoard it? That notion is childish.

Wealth is created. Oil is a black, sticky goo underground. It has no value until someone drills it, ships it to a refiner, processes it into a usable fuel and then takes it to market to be sold.  If you sit down and think about it for a second, you would realize that the price of a gallon of gasoline is incredibly low.  If you take the taxes out of it, you might even wonder why someone would go to all the trouble to make such little money.

You may say the people own the oil, but crude oil deep under ground has no value.  Extracting crude oil and getting it to your local gas station is wealth creation. That kind of activity creates millions of jobs.

Those standing outside for weeks on end complaining about the wealthy create nothing (except a terrible smell).

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