Everybody is piling on the President’s remarks about entrepreneurs. You know, his “You didn’t build that.” remark. I think the Republicans are using that as a theme for one of their convention nights. Something along the lines of “We DID build it.”

I guess what concerns me more is an attitude that we hear all our lives. It is related to “You didn’t build that.” But it is more basic. It is that if somebody is rich, he took it from someone else. And because the rich guys take from others, the others end up poor.

We hear it on an international scale. The Arab countries are rich because they took wealth from other countries. By charging outrageous prices for their oil. Because the poor countries pay so much for oil, they become poorer.

The former mother countries are rich because they stole from the former colonies. And the former colonies are poor because the mother countries stole from them.

Socialists and communists often have such attitudes. Toward other countries. (Cuban communists reckon Cubans are poor because Americans are rich.) And toward their own people. (If he is rich he must have impoverished others to become so.)