Wealthgap What Wealthgap? The Don isn’t worried

[AnnaLivia]

The name of the article is “poor in manhatten earn 2 cents for each dollar of the rich “ at www.prorev.com<br><br>This is a must read, imo<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/nyregion/04income.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1125853220-elkQGfHcrMai/3GMvxwKwA">www.nytimes.com/2005/09/0.../3GMvxwKwA</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>but our fatal flaw is revealed toward the end by what this woman says:<br><br>“Sharon Hammond, who sells cosmetics, said she and other tenants wished their neighborhood were better and that she had a working stove instead of a temporary hotplate in her apartment, but added: "Everybody can't be rich." “<br><br>she is mistaken, and that mistaken idea is what must be got out of people’s heads.<br><br>The truth is that if no one had more than a million, no one would have less.<br> <p></p><i></i>

[AnnaLivia]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://prorev.com/wbprofits.htm">prorev.com/wbprofits.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>from the article by Sam Smith: (from his book "Why Bother")<br><br>Peter Jay once noted that introducing the mother of new capitalism, Margaret Thatcher, to monetarism was like showing Ghenghis Kahn a map of the world. Thatcher had a mean and narrow view of life; she didn't even accept the existence of community, declaring once that "there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families." Thatcher wrapped herself in economic slogans that justified greed not only to accomplish economic ends but also to deal with gays and abortions and everything else she didn't like. In her paradigm, the free market and Victorian tyranny formed a civil union. By the time Reagan, Bush, and Clinton were through with the concept, they had created a gaping corporate exemption from common morality and decency. The market not only offered adequate justification for any act, it had replaced God as the highest source of law.<br><br>Until the Reagan-Bush-Clinton era it would have been next to impossible to find a culture that survived for long believing that the unfettered, rapacious flow of money and goods was the core of human existence. Elsewhere, to be sure, commerce had looked to bottom lines, but these had included those established by church, community, government, and tradition.<br> <p></p><i></i>