I wholeheartedly agree with VS's comment on the graph: "I can find common ground with people who recognize that plutocracy and democracy don't mix."
15 January 2011
Looking for common ground
Vagabond Scholar has a clever series of charts examining the differences between Democrats and Republicans. As always, the chart comparing wealth in the U.S. is shocking:
I wholeheartedly agree with VS's comment on the graph: "I can find common ground with people who recognize that plutocracy and democracy don't mix."
I wholeheartedly agree with VS's comment on the graph: "I can find common ground with people who recognize that plutocracy and democracy don't mix."
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Check Krugman's blog this past week. He's had some interesting things to say about morality and wealth.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
Bottom line: there is no common ground with regressives. They literally populate a different universe, with no only different natural laws, but a different concept of what is ethical.
And they have guns.
JzB
I bet the foreclosures and the recession have made wealth even more skewed now than they were in 2007.
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