Also I am basically for equality. We have CEOs and shit being paid literally hundreds of millions of dollars and for what? So they can have luxury yachts and burn up our limited petroleum flying around to a different city every night? In the mean time we have billions of people living in abject poverty (note: almost none of them live in the United States). I read stuff like "an aircraft carrier could supply clean water to some huge number of people" and wince.
What you fail to understand, however, is that equality comes at the cost of liberty. Because the world isn't fair. If you are going to try and make it fair, it must come at the cost of taking from Peter to pay Paul. Now in and of itself thats not a knockout, but then we have the second problem: using the government to "fix" equality simply doesn't work. Big government is simply too corrupt and too inefficient.
Also WTF is up with you using some random dude writing a book in 1931 to supersede the Declaration of Independence as the definition of the American Dream? That's just weird.
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