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Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus. Describes my mother perfectly.

It is well known that wealth is shared out unfairly. “People on the whole have normally distributed attributes, talents and motivations, yet we finish up with wealth distributions that are much more unequal than that,” says Robin Marris, emeritus professor of economics at Birkbeck, University of London.
Do the same attributes, talents and motivations mean everyone is equally productive as well? Is it randomness or pure luck?
President Obama showed his hand this week when The New York Times wrote that he is considering converting the stock the government owns in our country’s banks from preferred stock, which it now holds, to common stock.
This seemingly insignificant change is momentous. It means that the federal government will control all of the major banks and financial institutions in the nation. It means socialism.