SirPwn4lot
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i see no poll.
No doubt about it - the rich are getting richer. Sad day for a sustainable society.
No doubt about it - the rich are getting richer. Sad day for a sustainable society.
tell us what would be going on if the rich were not getting richer--that would mean that investments in the USA were failing, corporations were all going bankrupt.
think about it.
That's primarily because they DO something to make money, rather than sitting on their asses waiting to be fed.
Upwards. The United States has more wealth inequality now, than at any point in the past 80 years.
Is that what was happening in the Fifties and Sixties when the middle class grew and income was expanded to the workers?
People want corporations to do well and for employers do to well also PROVIDING that they too share in the prosperity. And in a nutshell that is the problem of the last ten years. the prosperity has been only one way.
the longer a nation exists, the more the most skillful will accumulate. and I will note that welfare socialism is an opiate-the addiction to which saps the ability of many to try to achieve more
Where is your proof of this in nations other than the USA? I would love to see those facts from an objective authoritative source.
If you don't want to answer the question then don't respond to the question. That is complete evasion on your part. The rich were getting richer in the 1950s as well. look it up
I just returned from Brazil, a country that has struggled with huge levels of wealth disparity for virtually its entire history. Many parts of Sao Paulo are every bit as nice as New York City...but they are within walking distance of favelas where people eke out a living in grinding poverty.
Anyone who says that wealth disparity doesn't matter, or isn't the concern of the wealthy, is deluding themselves. Uneducated and unhealthy workforces will have an adverse impact on the economy, as will crime and other social ills associated with poverty. These problems affect everyone, directly or indirectly.
the longer a nation exists, the more the most skillful will accumulate. and I will note that welfare socialism is an opiate-the addiction to which saps the ability of many to try to achieve more
Where is your proof of this in nations other than the USA? I would love to see those facts from an objective authoritative source.
well we have wage a "war" on poverty where billions have been given to "the poor" and we still have lots of "poor"
Lets stick with the USA-I couldn't care less what happens in places Like GREECE or FRANCE that are paragons of self sufficiency and sound governmental budgets
Why would the most skillful tend to accumulate, the longer a nation exists? Every generation will have talented people and untalented people. I see no reason to think that a nation should by default gravitate toward greater inequality...it depends on our policies and society.
Boy do you miss the point. People are not angry that the rich get richer. The point is for EVERYONE to get richer. Got that? In the Fifties and Sixties the prosperity flowed through the middle class also. Unions were strong and the middle class was strong. Today, the rich get richer and everybody else is losing ground that took a generation or two to previously gain. Why do you ignore that fact?
They don't. Turtle cannot support this and when challenged cannot provide any independent evidence to support the claim.
you seem ignorant-again-of global economic reality and the fact is-those who aren't educated in the modern information systems etc aren't going to make good wages like they could 40 years ago by working on a factory line in Detroit.
the rich have always gotten richer. But lots of those in the middle class aren't keeping up with what it takes to remain in the middle class when a Guy in India can do the same job for 6 an hour that someone in an American Union demands 35 an hour to do
what is your solution?
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