tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post3544278197828399144..comments2024-02-12T02:21:59.971-08:00Comments on Critter's Crap: Income Inequality -- So What?Jerry Critterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-70214102797450761192013-02-06T04:57:51.593-08:002013-02-06T04:57:51.593-08:00Your portal is a fascinating resource to get educa...Your portal is a fascinating resource to get educative data! Will you be mind if I make a trackback of a couple of of your entries on my personal portal?CravingForKnowledgehttp://cravingforknowledge.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-42681187527986304642011-11-14T08:41:38.164-08:002011-11-14T08:41:38.164-08:00First of all, I think this was a great article! Ho...First of all, I think this was a great article! However, Jack's comment was completely ignorant. <br /><br />I always say I have never met a liberal who wanted a redistribution of wealth and that the American Dream is compatible with capitalism and people should be able to aspire to wealth. <br /><br />I cannot say that anymore. Now I have to say, except for Jack Jodell, I have never heard of a liberal who ...<br /><br />Damn it, Jack! I can always count on you.John Mystehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16263634313238599515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-47006674040198886812011-11-13T11:58:10.992-08:002011-11-13T11:58:10.992-08:00Those are all good reasons for a massive forced re...Those are all good reasons for a massive forced redistribution of wealth!Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465017098355576489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-57905710549291778342011-11-12T16:01:24.015-08:002011-11-12T16:01:24.015-08:00Great post.Great post.Ms Hen'shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04844440761689489376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-65192367733513742682011-11-12T10:37:01.276-08:002011-11-12T10:37:01.276-08:00Except for Germany, Denmark and Sweden, forcibly b...Except for Germany, Denmark and Sweden, forcibly being Robbing Hood and taking from the rich to give to the poor and taking a big cut for government, does not work. <br /><br />I saw this quote on another site and thought it summarizes the failures of extreme socialism . "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others " . Of course that is from the classic, Animal Farm .witlessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-32949248572240631232011-11-10T22:52:25.127-08:002011-11-10T22:52:25.127-08:00Where in my post or its references does it talk ab...Where in my post or its references does it talk about cures? <br /> <br />Improvements? Yes!Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-55298761458567307262011-11-10T18:18:16.991-08:002011-11-10T18:18:16.991-08:00Is there nothing that income equality can't do...Is there nothing that income equality can't do ?<br /><br />Cures Obesity.<br />Cures Baldness.<br />Cures Body Odor.<br />Cures Global Warming .<br />Cures Bad Breath.<br />Cures Teenage Pregnancy.witlessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-59130897902581715522011-11-10T17:16:27.143-08:002011-11-10T17:16:27.143-08:00Duh, the source of that graph is ... (ahem) ... Bl...Duh, the source of that graph is ... (ahem) ... Bloomberg. Shall we thank him or drive a stake through his heart?(O)CT(O)PUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589336822561030860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-21160102828718676832011-11-10T13:41:11.644-08:002011-11-10T13:41:11.644-08:00Great post. Very convincing for us 99-percenters....Great post. Very convincing for us 99-percenters.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the 1-percenters -- and their inbred sycophants -- would look at the same information and go "so what's your point?"Tom Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05610417770240609022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205062574335758725.post-57664507443890413412011-11-10T05:15:21.640-08:002011-11-10T05:15:21.640-08:00All valid observations, and valuable for debating ...All valid observations, and valuable for debating the right since they're verifiable by objective data. I think there's a subtler point too, though.<br /><br />As GNP has grown over the last few decades, incomes have stagnated for the bottom 90% or so of the population while skyrocketing for the top 1% (which is how things became so unequal). That is, most of the growth in output has gone to a tiny, wealthy fraction of society. They didn't produce it, though. I don't begrudge the wealth of someone like Bill Gates who really did produce things of that much value, but the financial elite doesn't produce anything; it just manipulates and rearranges money to generate income for itself. Yet they're the ones who skimmed off the lion's share of the increase in production over the last couple of decades -- an increase made possible by the other 99% working harder or more efficiently.<br /><br />The ultra-wealthy financial elite didn't even get that way by making huge contributions to society -- they're a parasite class that merely figured out how to game the system.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.com