Rich are beneficaries of socialism

The private sector tends to turn out a much better product than government. Private schools vs. government schools, for instance. To assume that government-run education would be the only choice is silly.

"The rich are simply the collection points of the millions of individual flows," sounds poetic and hippy-dippy, but it still takes someone at the top with the big ideas and taking risks to create something from which it all trickles down.

If the job of the 'rich' is so easy, why aren't more people doing it?

I'm not sure how easy it is to separate government schools from private schools. Private schools I guess would be like Harvard and MIT. I'm not sure if Cal Tech is private or government, do you know? But I bet Cal Tech gets plenty of government money for research. And what about people? Can't we expect to see people that were educated in a private school, some take jobs in government schools and vice versa? I imagine if either of us sat down singly or together - it's too early this morning for me - we could come up with lots of connections between government and private schools.

My point about the risk takers at the top is that they depend on funded structures or systems, funded in most cases probably by the billions of people who have come before them in the United States. Some of the heritage will come from public money and some will come from private efforts. But I still don't see how you can neatly separate the private sector from government. In reality they are intimately connected. Defense contractors are a great case in point. Started and run in the private sector they get their money from the public sector and the trickle down in the private sector all originated in the public sector. Corporate taxes is another example. Congress encourages certain private businesses by giving them tax breaks.

then you have the liberals pushing for a greater split in America not the conservatives. This seems to run counter to your claims that conservatives are the ones pushing the great divide in America.

The condemnation of educational institutes is merited if the product they are producing is not providing the proper education to the students. Instead of teaching English, Mathematics, Science, Geography, etc., the schools tend to teach a lot of useless propaganda which is a direct result of socialist policies. The more the government has been directly involved in education, the less the students are learning useful skills that would enable them to profit from their education instead of continually relying on government subsidies.