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To: Road Walker who wrote (301945)	9/1/2006 9:30:20 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575624

"The important question now, however, is whether we’re finally going to try to do something about the big disconnect. " Probably not. There are too many people like Tim who view the present situation as a good thing.

To: Road Walker who wrote (301945)	9/1/2006 11:11:13 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575624

"every other advanced country manages to provide everyone with health insurance, while spending less on health care than we do." What every other country DOESN'T do with it's money is spend as much as the rest of the world COMBINED on it's military. Only WE do that. The "axis of evil" doesn't. China and Russia don't. WE are the only country on earth that blows so much cake for such a poor return. globalsecurity.org What are we afraid of? OUR land neighbors are Canada and Mexico!

To: Road Walker who wrote (301945)	9/1/2006 5:10:29 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575624

Message 22771630 "The income share of the top quintile rose to 50.4% from 50.1% in 2001 while the bottom two quintiles lost 0.1% each and the third and fourth quintiles were unchanged (discrepancy due to rounding). And only the 0.1% change for the lowest quintile is statistically significant (i.e. non-zero) at conventional confidence levels. Meanwhile, the Gini index has been bouncing up and down between .46 and .47 since 2000 after rising steadily throughout the Clinton years from .43 in 1992 (it was .42 in the mid-1980s). In short, income equality took a big hit in the 1990s and has been essentially unchanged since Bush took office. Oh, and the mean incomes of households in each quintile all rose in 2005, so any gains for the top quintile came at the expense of no one." Message 22767344