[Ludi]

Someone probably already posted this, but if not, take a look - it's pretty interesting:

Depiction of income distribution in the United States:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woIkIph5xcU

[Ibon]

Nothing like graphics like that to visualize the inequity. And we just got that news today on the 25 billion paid out to the small number of hedge fund managers for 2009. Who didn't really do anything did they?

The heads of the aristocracy did role during the French Revolution.

History will repeat itself.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'S')omeone probably already posted this, but if not, take a look - it's pretty interesting:

Depiction of income distribution in the United States:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woIkIph5xcU

[efarmer]

I remember the good old days when they pulled a gun on you and tied you up
instead of loaning you money and letting you act like a rich fool while they were
robbing you blind.

On the hopeful side, they are probably done making our money worthless for awhile
since they sucked so much of it up for themselves the last few years.

It was a sad day when I realized I are Joe Six Pack with the Type O money.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('efarmer', 'O')n the hopeful side, they are probably done making our money worthless for awhile
since they sucked so much of it up for themselves the last few years.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('efarmer', 'I') remember the good old days when they pulled a gun on you and tied you up
instead of loaning you money and letting you act like a rich fool while they were
robbing you blind.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', 'S')o, keep blaming the most productive members of society who pay virtually all the income tax - yeah, that'll work, just like it has since the war on poverty began.

[efarmer]

The illusion of fair markets in the nation is necessary to promote the illusion of significant
amounts of outsiders getting wealthy by participating. I believe our boys in New York and
Washington cleared up that illusion quite handily.

They say that Washington and Wall Street are broken, but I believe they are instead
fixed.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')The super-rich are doing immense good for folks in places like Bangalore, where one outsourced American job can support 16 Indians.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'S')orry, man, it takes two to tango.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Mos, voters have no say about the credit policy put forth by the Federal Reserve.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'Y')ou aren't directly addressing my claim, that people are TOO CHEAP to pay for goods put together by americans for a living wage.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Well, a lot of folks are TOO BROKE to pay higher prices. It's a vicious cycle, give a man a McJob and all he'll be able to afford is McDonald's.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Well, a lot of folks are TOO BROKE to pay higher prices.

[Cloud9]

Gasoline showed us what happens to prices when demand drops. The reason prices are up is that the government is doing everything humanly possible to keep market forces from playing out. The banks would be cutting borrowers deals had it not been for the billions flushed into their coffers by the feds. They don’t need to renegotiate loans. They don’t need people to save; they have an unending supply of free money from the fed. Unions don’t need to cut deals because GM is too big to fail. Labor does not need to renegotiate wages because unemployment is infinite. Ironically, the socialist were heavily influenced by Darwinism. That influence causes them to exert every effort to prevent the forces of natural selection from playing out. As a result of their efforts, licentiousness prevails.

[bromius]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')The super-rich are doing immense good for folks in places like Bangalore, where one outsourced American job can support 16 Indians.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '
')But instead I see doomers and the tea partiers kind of ideologically drift closer and closer together.

[VMarcHart]

I will sound like a total dick, but for the record, I am very concerned with the wealth distribution in our country.

If the poor didn't try to live like the rich, and invested in themselves instead of in products and services dispensed by the rich, the inequity would be less pronounced. For example, instead of a 56-in TV with premium cable, buy a 28-in TV with basic cable and use the rest towards an education. Instead of a Cadillac Escalade, buy a Chevy S10. Instead of pets and kids, take on jogging and reading. Replace TV, cars and pets with your own example.

I was born and raised in the left side of that football field, so I speak from experience. I was talking to grandpa this morning about how many relatives are still in the same predicament of 25 years ago when I left the house. In those 25 years, nearly all relatives could've improved their lives, but their choices of life styles got in the way.

So it is a little bit of the poor's fault for this massive inequity.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('efarmer', 'I') remember the good old days when they pulled a gun on you and tied you up
instead of loaning you money and letting you act like a rich fool while they were
robbing you blind.