Reuters: Top News: "A study of identical twins by researchers in Britain and the United States suggests family environment has little influence because nearly half of a person's propensity to be self-employed, or entrepreneurial, is due to genes.

This puts a serious damper on the Republican rhetoric that getting ahead is a matter of brains and hard work. But, then, their rhetoric about anyone can be wealthy in America was always over the top anyway. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.