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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs

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To: RMF who wrote (41453)2/26/2010 4:44:31 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Don't know if you have come across this yet.

But, (IMO), this is a rolling avalanche of economic disaster and failure that is looming over us.

Without a strong and expanding Middle Class America is not the America we grew up with... it becomes more like the kind of run-of-the-mill Third World Plutarchy we have despised for so long:


Wealth Disparities in U.S. Approaching 1920s Levels

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by: The Housing Time Bomb
February 21, 2010
about: IYF / KBE / TLT / TBT
seekingalpha.com

This graph was an eye opener for me (not that I should be surprised)....



(NOTE: chart data only goes as far as 2007. When the 2008 and 2009 data, encompassing the financial crash is added in, it's a safe bet that we are now in uncharted waters, with proportional wealth gains going to the top 1% at a HIGHER rate then even occurred during that 1920s period.)
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