America, the Crab Bucket - Michelle Malkin - Townhall Conservative

America, the Crab Bucket - Michelle Malkin - Townhall Conservative: "Our Founding Fathers had quite a different view of 'the American way,' of course. In 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote: 'To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.'"