Agreed. And yet, in the midst of this economy of seemingly too few jobs, reminiscent of a game of musical chairs, while some may see the country's burgeoning debt crushing the middle class, others may say the "haves" are pulling up the ladder behind them, leaving the "have nots" without a way up.

We may have a chicken-or-egg situation: While some people call giftedness "elitist" and many suffer wrongly for that... some gifted people, when slighted, defensively refer to those who do not understand as "ignorant" and many suffer wrongly for that, as well.

Enmity creeps in.

Organizations cash in.