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Originally Posted by abaya
Prosperous? It's not because of the Declaration of Independence... I can't really begin to start on that one. Read your history book. And if you asked the residents of New Orleans, or of any other disadvantaged group in America, I am pretty sure they would not say this is a "prosperous" land... at least, not equally prosperous. And what is the point of prosperity if it is not equally distributed?
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There is more than one type of "prosperity". One does not necessarily need to have a bulging wallet to be prosperous. Just a thought.
And I personally believe that the equal distribution of wealth is every bit as destructive to society as the disproportionate distribution that we have now.
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