{"id":3877,"date":"2011-02-24T18:44:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2011-02-24T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T02:44:33","slug":"income-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/24\/income-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Income Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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American Shame<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If only Steve Stoute wrote about this.<\/p>\n

America is number 31 out of 33.\u00c2\u00a0 At the wrong end of the scale.\u00c2\u00a0 The bottom.\u00c2\u00a0 With only Hong Kong and Singapore having greater income inequality.<\/p>\n

In other words, that American Dream you’ve been dreaming about?\u00c2\u00a0 Odds are it’s not gonna work out.\u00c2\u00a0 You’re gonna remain poor.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re lucky, you’ll remain middle class.<\/p>\n

I’m not anti-American, I just want a better America.\u00c2\u00a0 Where we exist in one homogeneous society. Where a whole segment of super-rich don’t fly in the sardine cans the rest of us do and live behind locked gates.<\/p>\n

When I was growing up, anybody could do anything.\u00c2\u00a0 Save enough and you too could stay in the best hotel in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 If only for a weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Now there’s a whole spectrum of life that’s been closed off to most Americans.<\/p>\n

And sure, Steve Jobs earned his money, he made America better.<\/p>\n

But tell me what those bankers did for us again?<\/p>\n

There’s no change in Washington, D.C. because money owns Congress, and the rank and file have far less than the corporations, than the rich.<\/p>\n

In other words, Congressmen are just like Beyonce and the rest of those hollow entertainers who will do anything for a buck, even play for the son of a dictator.<\/p>\n

In other words, morality is for pussies.<\/p>\n

It comes down to us.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve got to institute change.\u00c2\u00a0 Because the rich like things the way they are. And if you think you’re gonna be rich, you’re dreaming.<\/p>\n

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American Shame If only Steve Stoute wrote about this. America is number 31 out of 33.\u00c2\u00a0 At the wrong end of the scale.\u00c2\u00a0 The bottom.\u00c2\u00a0 With only Hong Kong and Singapore having greater income inequality. In other words, that American Dream you’ve been dreaming about?\u00c2\u00a0 Odds are it’s not gonna work out.\u00c2\u00a0 You’re gonna remain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-10x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}