NPR reported this morning on Jamie Johnson, the Johnson & Johnson heir turned documentary filmmaker. Johnson's last project, "Born Rich," examined the lives, foibles, and insecurities of East Coast heirs and heiresses. His latest work, The One Percent, takes a decidedly more political turn, exploring "the great, gaping disparity in wealth that severs the American soul," according to the New York Times.

Steve Moore, meanwhile, reports that the largely Democratic-fueled talking points on the injustice of American income disparities have successfully taken hold among many young Americans. "What I favor is a radical redistribution of wealth in America," one young woman tells him after a college talk. Many other students, apparently, feel the same.

A friend of mine recently returned from a New York conference that was largely populated by foreign business leaders. His most interesting take away from the three-day affair? "Most of the young Europeans I talked to were stunned--stunned--that my family could afford two cars. I discovered that the car I drive costs the equivalent of nearly twice as much in the EU as it does here. The standard of living in, say, Holland, is still far behind that of the US."

You won't hear that from the two Democratic presidential candidates, however. Facts aside, in 2008 savage inequalities sell.