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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: RMF who wrote (41512)3/1/2010 1:31:42 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Total "wealth" is one thing, and "income" is another.

But since total wealth is often a very difficult thing to measure, income often becomes a proxy for it.

And the share of the nation's GAINS in income that are going to the top 1% of income earners in our society now (vs. the amounts going to the other 99% of society) just now EXCEED the previous high water mark recorded in the nineteen twenties just before the Great Depression....

(And are - if no change - heading into distinctly 'un-American' territory. Territory more like what we have traditionally associated with the wealth disparities in "Banana Republics" and such....)
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