DBAD, Pete. ;)
The best grok of this I have heard is from Michael Prell. He said, in the _Underdogma_ book preview I read:
The Declaration also held that 'all men are created equal.' But it did not promise all men that they would live their entire lives equally, or achieve equal outcomes. Alexis de Tocqueville correctly called American equality the "equality of conditions" writing that, because our abilities are all different, "man cannot prevent their unequal distribution." Among the unalienable rights spelled out in our Declaration are the rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. If one man?s pursuit of happiness makes him wealthier than another man, it is the duty of the American government to secure that man?s wealth, not to disparage him for having earned it, or to confiscate it or, as Barack Obama said, to? spread the wealth around to underdogs.
-- You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.? -- Ronald Reagan