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Income inequality is a problem, but its not something that is terribly concerning to me. The third world and poor people keep adding to their numbers, non-stop, every day, exponentially.
The #1 weapon in the fight against income inequality is birth control and condoms.
A rising standard of living is the best population control policy. Birth rates plummet as societies rise from mass poverty to the global middle class.
When half your children don't live to adulthood, parents don't stop at two.
I am always amazed at how struggling middle class conservative republicans go to bat for the billionaires of the world.
I am not saying there is anything wrong with being rich, but we have come to a point where even the billionaires you guys defend have realized they simply have too much wealth.
And yet the little conservative guys who struggle from paycheck to paycheck vote republican because of xenophobia, homophobia, fear of agnostics. etc.
The only difference between you and "struggling middle class conservatives" is that you need a boogeyman (billionaires) to blame for your own shortcomings.
Btw, the top 1% that the article refers to contains very few billionaires.
I am always amazed at how struggling middle class conservative republicans go to bat for the billionaires of the world.
Here we see the problem I speak about with Bernie. The (D)'s refused to condemn one of the biggest welfare programs for the rich in the history of the country in Q.E. but then blame their guilt on the "billionaire's".
If the left had stood up to Obama the wealth discrepancy would not be as bad as it is today.
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I am not saying there is anything wrong with being rich, but we have come to a point where even the billionaires you guys defend have realized they simply have too much wealth.
You need to pull your head out of your butt if you think I defend this. I'm one of the few that condemned the welfare programs, the refusals to prosecute the bankers that did this to the country.
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And yet the little conservative guys who struggle from paycheck to paycheck vote republican because of xenophobia, homophobia, fear of agnostics. etc.
The only difference between you and "struggling middle class conservatives" is that you need a boogeyman (billionaires) to blame for your own shortcomings.
Btw, the top 1% that the article refers to contains very few billionaires.
Nice straw man!
I am in the top 1%. It does not take much to be there and I am well aware of the enormous tax burden we have to pay.
I do not blame billionaires, the more the better, I would love to see a 1,000 more Bill gates in america since that would improve the economy.
My beef with the struggling middle class republicans that defend the top brackets. One would think these folks should be voting democrat since they benefit a lot from social programs.
This new economic reality is a direct result of globalization. There is only one candidate running for president who has a real workable plan for reversing this trend in America and that candidate is not Bernie Sanders.
Who is this bernie sanders dude, never heard of him, is he family to the chicken resturant dude. He sound like hes a markis communist. No not a insult but from what i heard his philophy is
Income inequality is a problem, but its not something that is terribly concerning to me. The third world and poor people keep adding to their numbers, non-stop, every day, exponentially.
The #1 weapon in the fight against income inequality is birth control and condoms.
Uhmmmm...worldwide poverty has been improving non-stop, every day. Kind of the opposite of what you are implying.
I am always amazed at how struggling middle class conservative republicans go to bat for the billionaires of the world.
I am not saying there is anything wrong with being rich, but we have come to a point where even the billionaires you guys defend have realized they simply have too much wealth.
And yet the little conservative guys who struggle from paycheck to paycheck vote republican because of xenophobia, homophobia, fear of agnostics. etc.
Read the article..70% of the world's adults have less than $10K to their name.
The poor are multiplying quicker than those that can earn money.
We're feeding them and housing them but the poor are still multiplying in greater numbers.
Which is far better then historically. As a % worldwide the poor are fewer. Within the US we've seen inequality grow. Its a complex topic, but dont mistake the worldwide poor and worldwide poverty, for relative poverty within our country.
And try and understand that theres a difference between poverty, and inequality. Lets provide a example:
Lets say a country has a very low GINI index, and high poverty....the odds are most everyone is poor, and they're all working together to try and improve it. That covers some of the places with the worst poverty in the world. Historical data indicates that their situation will tend to improve.
Then a country with a LOT of wealth, and a extremely high GINI. Data indicates that this country has some issues. Growth is stalled-and has high risk of going negative, and unhappiness is high. They're at risk of falling behind.
then a country with lots of wealth and a low GINI. Growth is often stalled here as well, but the other side is that the happiness, lifespan, and more of the population will be much higher.
The poor arent "multiplying" here in the US so much that all the financial gains are going to the top, and we're pushing more people into being poor for the benefit of those at the very top. The "poor" aren't being poor by choice. They're working harder then ever for less and less. Meanwhile the richest are working less and less for more.
And worldwide theres less poverty now then there was 20 years ago.
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