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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Koligman who wrote (4851)	2/26/2008 1:26:14 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"The trend is clear. Take the top 5 percent, or 10 percent if you like. Wealth is getting more concentrated at the top." Actually the trend it opposite of that. You chose a sufficiently short time frame to be able to make a statement that while technically correct is contrary to the long term trend. Bill Gates has but a fraction of the relative wealth held by Vanderbilt, JP Morgan, Andrew Carnege... At the same time the standard of living of those at the bottom is much higher when using similar time frames.