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Old 05-26-2008
TSGracchus TSGracchus is offline
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Re: Economic Poverty and Wealth

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Originally Posted by Steve View Post
Oh, I read it.

And it's bullshit.
You haven't answered my question. What I posted has absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to anything you objected to above. I am not suggesting that the government directly take money from one person (least of all you) and give it to others. I am suggesting that it stop facilitating the export of jobs overseas, and take other action to raise real wages across the board.

You know, most people in this country work. Most people have jobs. Changing the rules of the game (back to what they were when I was a boy) so that those jobs pay more than they currently do will do more to narrow wealth gaps than any amount of handouts. The fact that real wages have fallen is most of the reason why we have wealth gaps that have expanded, not because people can't get jobs at all or are living on the street.

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You want the government to fix it...
What I want the government to fix is the problem that the government caused in the first place, and has been causing since the Reagan administration. I don't think that's unreasonable.
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