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To: TimF who wrote (323563)	1/30/2007 2:51:38 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573096

Tim, the straight facts say the gap is growing. Its only when some rightwing economist manipulates the facts that it doesn't look like the gap is growing. Its not improperly manipulated data, its different data (wages, total compensation, total income, consumption, counting or not counting government transfers etc.), and different elements that confound the data All put together to muddy up the obvious...the rich are getting richer faster and at the expense of the poor. What is about poor people that you don't like I have nothing against poor people. Then why are you unconcerned with the growing disparity between the rich and the poor in this country? 1 - There is no connection between being unconcerned about a growing disparity of income, and not liking poor people. This point is esp. strong when a broad spectrum of society has seen at least some real economic benefit (which is the case in the United States). Well something must motivate you to fall on the side of the rich when its the poor that are getting screwed. 2 - I am not entirely unconcerned about an increase in inequality isn't a major concern for me. That did not come out right which does not surprise me. I suspect it was a kind of freudian slip. The truth is you don't care because you see yourself on the rich side of the equation, not the poor side. Absolute poverty would be a far more important concern, as would any great increase in equality cause by a reduced level of income and wealth by those at the bottom (or more generally by the non rich). But absolute poverty isn't getting rich, and the poor are not broadly speaking getting poorer. The change is that the rich are getting richer. Finish the sentence...."at a much faster rate and the disparity between the two is growing significantly." Not being very upset about the fact that the wealthy are doing very well hardly equates with not caring about poor people, let alone with disliking them. Well, its certainly very hard to understand given the circumstances of each group.