I turn 65 in a few months. This period of my life is supposed to be my “Golden Years.” But the way things are going, I might get the years but the Republicans will be taking all the gold. Their systematic attempt to be “Robin Hood in reverse” – to rob from the poor to give to the rich – has got to be stopped. They defend and protect rich people as if rich people had some innate or God-given right to be wealthy, as if because they are wealthy they are innately superior to everybody else. But this is the mind-set of feudalism – it's as if we all are still laboring for the feudal lords who rule over us and live off the wealth that we create. There’s an old Wobbly song that goes: “Dump the bosses of your backs.” That’s kind of what we have to do. We have been carrying these wealthy people too long. They have every right to wealth but not to the sort of social and legal advantages that enable them to accumulate wealth at the expense of poor people. The Republicans argue that anyone who is against rich people is against capitalism and the market economy. But this is a lie. Capitalism is not intended as a mechanism for the creation of wealthy people. Capitalism is intended to use wealth to create more wealth – not to keep wealth bottled up.