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Old 10-30-2007
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Re: NAFTA: Terrorism against the People

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Originally Posted by Johan vom Meer View Post
History and books. There's a magical place down south called Mexico. This is what happened to it. However, there have been disagreements about exact percentages, but they all show that most of the money, roughly 90% of it is in the hands of less than 10% of the people.
Not too far off the US where 70% of the wealth is held by 10% of the people, but Mexico has always been in that economic circumstance. What Americans should be concerned with is growing US economic inequity.

Here's a good read on that issue:

What's a Fair Distribution of Wealth?
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