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Originally Posted by Ustwo
As compared to you calling my thought process stupid in philosophy?
Please, spare me.
Edit: and I'll add its perfectly apt. host seems to think you can't win at life unless you were born into the right group. Its impossible to succeed without government help, someone needs to show you the way because you are just not capable. What would be a better word for it?
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My question, again....and here is the trend:
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If 70 percent of total wealth in the US in just ten percent of the hands is not only not a concern to you, but a "slur" provoking you to "shoot the messenger", is there a higher percentage that would concern you to the point that you might rethink your dismissal of "the problem", or would you simply ignore it until an American version of Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro emerges in reaction to the inequity?
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Am I alone in suspecting that the obscene status quo....70 percent of total US wealth in the control of just ten percent of the population, is quietly accepted as a "cost of doing business", because the folks who should be alarmed by it, are distracted supporting leaders like, Ron Paul, and that they are enamored by the "American Dream", described by UStwo?
Dosen't this "dream" seem, by the reality of the way wealth is distributed, more like what happens at a casino? There are a few winners and a bunch of people who end up with nothing. Why does everyone believe that he is going to be a winner, when so few actually are? Is it because it is easier to be distracted by the desire to win, than it is to confront and admit that the real problem is that "free markets", dependent on war, and prone to boom and bust cycles and the misallocation of resources as experienced in the current huge "crop" of empty new houses, and recent investments in fiber optics networks, still unlit seven years later, while 45 million Americans have no health insurance protection, but military contractors enjoy "no bid" excess profits....is the reason almost no one is outraged by wealth inequity?
I suspect a lot of you have been fooled into backing an economic status quo that is not in the best interest of the American majority.