While I have not looked into the facts of this- your premise is flawed in this part. In any area, the population of the rich is much smaller then the poor, yet all votes are equal in value. ie, one homeless guy's vote "trumps" Donald Trump's.

A quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson is as follows;

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

No known handwritten account of this is known, but the following is:
Jefferson's comment in a prospectus for his translation of Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy: "To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, ˜the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, & the fruits acquired by it.'"

The brilliance and genius of the founding fathers always amazes me, that's why I am a conservative- in fact, I think that a return to how they intended the checks and balances to work is in order. Term limits on congress for one would return regular people, who want nothing more than to set things right, back into the mix.

Gonna take a wholesale change of Congress and the House as well as the executive branch to fix this. And all you liberals out there, that is what the first and second amendments were written for and in that precise order. As one will not exist without the other.

have no problem whatsoever with respecting others as people and their right to believe whatever they like. But - four points. One, that doesn't mean I have to show any respect for the beliefs themselves, some of which are plain bonkers. Two, a belief or set of beliefs doesn't deserve more respect simply because it is labelled 'religious' - in fact, to the extent that they reflect a reliance on 'faith' or conviction in the face of evidence, they may deserve less. Three, those who believe in 'young earth' and/or the literal truth of the bible, with its fairy stories about magical trees, talking snakes, people who live hundreds of years and magic floating zoos (to say nothing of the horror stories about war, persecution and genocide) really ARE rather delusional and it's hard for a rational person to be always respectful. Four, once someone starts quoting that "the fool saith in his heart" bollocks, the gloves come off!