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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (301776)	8/30/2006 8:31:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571963

I wonder how many of the top 1% lost their health insurance during the past five years? Involuntarily lost their insurance and didn't get new insurance? Probably a very small percentage, but that has no connection with the statement "the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor and middle classes!", even when combined with an increasing number of uninsured people overall. You have this habit of asserting one idea, and then "proving" it with arguments that support an entirely different idea. Arguably the new idea you present might be significant, but it isn't the same as the old idea. Its like asserting the US lost WWII, and then pointing out how bad we were on the short end of the stick at Pearl Harbor. There may be some distant connection between the two ideas, but they aren't the same thing, and despite taking it on the chin at Pearl Harbor we defeated Japan and helped defeat Germany in WWII. You made, and continue to repeat that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor, but you continue to fail to even make arguments for that idea, instead making arguments for the similar ideas that the gap in wealth is increasing, or that more people are uninsured, or even that by some measures income for those on the bottom has gone down marginally. None of those show anything about one change in income being at the expense of anyone else's change. If you stole $100 from me, while John made a $10000 profit from a stock trade, I would have gotten poorer, and John would have gotten richer, but his extra wealth was not obtained at my expense (unless you stole the money on his order and gave it to him afterwords).