[Cringing Negativism Network]

Are those the qualities which formed our nation?

Or was defiance, more important to how things turned out?

[OldDeckHand]

"Are those the qualities which formed our nation?"

Intellectual excellence and entrepreneurial achievement? Yep, those are PRECISELY the qualities that helped form our nation.

Madison, Jefferson, Mason, Washington, etc, etc - all BRILLIANT men who had one thing in common - private enterprise. They, to a man, were all entrepreneurs.

You went to public school, didn't you?