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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (51782)8/26/2013 7:16:34 PM
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We are 65th in the world in income inequality.

That's your other mantra, and its similarly irrelevant. You are of course always free to change the topic, but you should present it as a new topic. You follow that statement with "what you say is wrong" when it isn't, and when "65th in income inequality" has nothing to do with the issue.

Beyond irrelevant its also unimportant. The poor in the US are far better off than 65th in the world. Depending on how you define "poor" and what measures your looking at to measure it, they could even be top 10, almost certainly at least top 25. The inequality is by rich people in the US on the average being richer than rich people in other countries. This extra wealth and income is positive not negative.

T0he middle class has been decimated

No it hasn't. Overall the middle class is better off than it was in the past (unless your definition of past is rather short term and your just looking to the peak of a recent economic cycle, not over the decades and generations).

It is apparently a slightly smaller percentage of the people in the country, but that's more from people moving up out of the middle class then people moving down out of it. Another example of something you decry largely being a positive thing not a negative.
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