Firing a tile craftsman last week helped me to make sense of the undeniable divide between America’s “makers” and “takers” described in Mitt Romney’s sloppy “47” percent misstatement.

Although Romney’s message was lost in the chorus of complaints coming from media and the Obama Campaign, the fact still remains: success is not a dirty word. When America’s citizens are successful, everyone wins — with the exception of those politicians who are chronically dependent upon the votes of government’s cradle-to-casket dependents.