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

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (4857)	2/24/2008 10:11:14 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If one percent owning more than 50% is not enough, do we wait until it reaches 80% or 90%? Where is the tipping point? The topic wasn't tipping points. The super rich are another matter. The topic was statistical disparity in America. Even in ice skating judging, you throw out the top and bottom scores simply because they are outliers. It doesn't tell you anything to work the numbers without doing that. We already know that there are super rich and super poor. We can deal with them separately The important story being lost or distorted is what's happening to the middle class. Unless your methodology is sound, you distort that important data.