These days, there has been a lot of talk about “equality” from millions of people from and near the “99 percent” participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement — from berating the corporate world for doing their jobs and accumulating as much wealth as possible for themselves and their clients, to the President parading Warren Buffett’s secretary as a symbol of the downtrodden masses. He loves to point out how she is paying more in taxes than her boss, who has much more than he needs and should give more to President Over-Spend so he can divide it up the way he thinks it should be.

While a debate on inequality in this nation is an understandable one, there’s a huge difference between equal rights and liberties and equal results. The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal. By stating this, it’s saying that all human beings in the United States, regardless of religion, sex, origin or skin color, possess the same rights and have a fair shake at everything in this country.

However, the left wants you to see that any in discrepancies between people, such as income, level of education, or amount of success one has gained, is a sign of injustice and inequality. But this is just reality, because we live in a free society.

Whether it’s because of luck, skill or sheer willpower, some will always succeed beyond the rest of us. It’s that principle that made us a great country. If you work hard and keep putting yourself in good positions and have a little luck in your corner, you will eventually succeed.

By the same token, some will fail. As long as they fail on their own merit and not because of their rights being denied, there is no injustice. These are the people that need to be helped by the government, the people who want to succeed but don’t have the tools to do so. But, you’re not helping them by giving them unemployment benefits for almost two years, which includes a cell phone plan in many states.

You help by making it easier for companies to come in with jobs and making people strive for the things they want and need. By just handing people everything, how can we become self-reliant? If we don’t become self-reliant, we’re on the path to becoming a Europeanized nanny state.