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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (320659)1/14/2007 5:27:54 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1577019
 
Income inequality is on the rise. The rich are getting better at passing their advantages on to their kids. Lifestyle and values gaps are widening between the educated and uneducated. So the big issue is: Will Americans demand new policies to reverse these trends — to redistribute wealth, to provide greater economic security? Are we about to see a mass populist movement in this country?

Have you followed the exchange I have been having with Tim? According to the Federal budget office, the wages of the wealthiest Americans increased 54% from the 1970s to 2000. The wages of the poorest Americans 8% in the same period of time. The wages of wealthy American grew nearly 7 times faster than the poorest Americans inspite of the fact that they were starting from a much larger base. That's extraordinary.

Then Tim and I moved over to the issue of schools. I keep pointing out that its absolutely imperative that we have enough computers for each kid or at least every two kids......and of course, he says that's bullcrap. Well you know which schools have a computer for every kid and which schools have one for every 10-30 kids. With circumstances as such, how can the poor not fall further behind. This is not like the old days where essentially the same curriculum was taught in both poor and rich schools so that the playing field was a little less unfair. In 21st America, you need not only to know computers well but to have several key applications under your belt as well. We are in real danger here of having the gulf between the rich and the poor gap larger very quickly.

Of course, Republicans don't even want to hear it.
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