Andrew Jackson: Tea Party President

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/10/07/andrew-jackson-tea-party-presi

Jackson made clear he harbored no impulse toward economic equality or societal leveling. "Distinctions in  society," he wrote, "will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law…" It is worth lingering over these words. Jackson was saying not only that government should not interfere with any  citizen's pursuit of wealth, but that it also has an affirmative obligation to protect the rich from elements of envy bent on taking their wealth from them.