Bill Gates is suffering from unearned guilt at being successful in my opinion.

Stupidity?

It was a sarcastic response against those who would have the view that individual rights are nothing more than access to entitlements. It was not aimed at you. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Sarcasm? Please re-read our Declaration of Independence and compare it to the Universal Declaration of Rights written in 1948 at <a href="https://www.un.org/rights/50/decla.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.un.org/rights/50/decla.htm</a> and tell me which one you would prefer to live under. <br /><br />I'm not sure where you are coming from. Just because the Marxists have systematically employed and twisted the General Welfare clause in the Constitution to destroy the Constitution does not mean that Individual Rights are somehow meaningless.

Individual rights? Oh, well, those just guarantee your entitlement to welfare, food stamps, health care, WIC, and casual abortions. **End sarcasm**

Exactly! You beat me to it!!

Point for you. The schools are deliberately teaching ignorance. Their motto - dumb down the kids, take over the world!

None of us knew just how the plan would work, but every one of us thought that the next fellow knew it. And if anybody had doubts, he felt guilty and kept his mouth shut—because they made it sound like anyone who'd oppose the plan was a child killer at heart and less than a human being. They told us that this plan would achieve a noble ideal. Well, how were we to know otherwise? Hadn't we heard it all our lives—from our parents and our schoolteachers and our ministers, and in every newspaper we ever read and every movie and every public speech? Hadn't we always been told that this was righteous and just? <br /><br />"And we weren't so innocent either, when we voted for that plan at the first meeting. We didn't do it just because we believed that the drippy old guff they spewed was good. We had another reason, but the guff helped us to hide it from our neighbors and from ourselves. The guff gave us a chance to pass off as virtue something that we'd be ashamed to admit otherwise. There wasn't a man voting for it who didn't think that under a setup of this kind he'd muscle in on the profits of the men abler than himself. There wasn't a man rich and smart enough but that he didn't think that somebody was richer and smarter, and this plan would give him a share of his better's wealth and brain." <br /><br />- Jeff Allen, 20th Century Motor Company, "Atlas Shrugged"

Moochers don't care about the cost to their fellow citizens.

Remember that when the same collection of morons goes to vote for the next Presidential candidate... <br /><br />They elected Obama twice. Do you really think they couldn't/wouldn't elect Hillary?!

While Obama does occupy a position of world leadership I still question if he is a leader in any sense of the word.