| When listening to the news, or watching television | | | | set seems to have shifted to viewing wealth as |
| lately, I've noticed that there seems to be an on | | | | many nations always have. I believe it was our |
| going trend of people who don't seem to want to | | | | original mentality regarding wealth that made |
| create wealth. You hear the naysayers all the | | | | America of the entrepreneurial hub of business |
| time talking about how bad the rich are, and how | | | | growth throughout the last two centuries. As we |
| wealth should not be concentrated in the hands of | | | | abandon this mindset the people of America will |
| people who've worked hard to get it. The | | | | be lulled and to the false sense of security that |
| question I have to ask is: "When did capitalism get | | | | comes with the distribution of wealth. The sad |
| such a dirty name?" For as long as I've known | | | | fact is that you need people to create businesses, |
| that anything about economics I have known that | | | | and to create wealth to make any system |
| there are some simple truths that govern the | | | | function properly. |
| marketplace, and among these is the concept | | | | You can look to the East now to see some of |
| that people need to feel motivated to create | | | | the early American mind set in action. Places like |
| wealth. | | | | China and India, once backwaters of the economic |
| Americans are the first people to ever view | | | | world, are now thriving and overtaking America in |
| wealth as something that you create. People from | | | | many ways. In essence they are beating us at |
| many nations have viewed wealth as something | | | | our own game. If our country continues down the |
| that is blessed upon you, or something we just | | | | path of viewing wealth as unattainable, and |
| have to be lucky to get your hands on. The | | | | something that should be taken away from some |
| simple fact of the matter is that the American | | | | and given to others rather than created on our |
| mind set from its inception has been one that | | | | own, than we will find that America in the future |
| views wealth as attainable by all people. There are | | | | will be a far different place than we currently |
| innumerable instances of "rags to riches" stories | | | | recognize it as. It is imperative that we would |
| throughout the history of America. | | | | regain our former mind set and do all we can to |
| Sadly many people now the wealth as out of this | | | | create wealth through entrepreneurial business |
| scope of their possibilities, and the American mind | | | | action. |