A reader: “Scrooge McDuck was one of the most brilliant conservastive

creations ever. He was created by a a cartoonist-writer named Carl Barks,

who died,

well into his 90s, within the last few years. Barks was a better observer of

human nature than everyone at the University of Texas sociology department

combined. (Yes, I know). The Allende government in Chile banned Donald Duck

comics when they assumed power and those Marxistas knew what they were

doing. It was because of Scrooge. The point to be made about Scrooge is

that he was unabashedly, unapologetically a capitalist and the thrust of the

stories was clearly that, while he was certainly cheap and to some extent

greedy, WE WERE ENCOURAGED TO BE ON HIS SIDE!”