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Ted, what Mona said. And in my opinion if you do not think that the majority of politicians are bought and paid for then one of us is smoking the wrong thing (and it ain't me).
haha, that is great --- Washington was pretty redistributive for the day (slave-freeing, sort of, the only one of the FF), and Paine moreso, at least on paper. The wacko BO angle is just a sign of how effective years of reactionary lying have been.
Felix Salmon, a smart guy, has some slightly interesting qualifications of the granularity of the Oxfam report:
But it doesn't matter au fond. The undeserving rich, and the increasingly deserving poor (not much undeserving anymore), well, that gap is as unsustainable and catastrophe-oriented as aggregate temperature change.
Anyone who isn't a reactionary right-winger and who has dared to appear on public television is by definition a communist. I thought that everyone knew that...
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Regards,
Ted
What in your opinion makes him communist?
Mona
REegards,
Ted
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/richest-1-is-about-to-own-more-than-everyone-else-put-together-oxfam-2015-01-19-910384/print
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_need
According to a survey conducted by the Museum of the American Revolution, "more than 50 percent of Americans wrongly attributed the quote 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” to either George Washington, Thomas Paine, or Barack Obama.'[16]
[16] The American Revolution – Who Cares? http://amrevmuseum.org/sites/default/files/attachment/ARCv27_web.pdf
Felix Salmon, a smart guy, has some slightly interesting qualifications of the granularity of the Oxfam report:
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding-up-the-wealth-of-the-poor/
But it doesn't matter au fond. The undeserving rich, and the increasingly deserving poor (not much undeserving anymore), well, that gap is as unsustainable and catastrophe-oriented as aggregate temperature change.