On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm still not seeing it.. It increased from 1989 to 1998, but has been > falling since.
The wealth was redistributed to the poor during the '90's and has slowed since. > Everyone got wealthier in the years between 1989 and > 2001 - one of the most prosperous decades in the history of this > country. Because the poor all got to buy houses with no money? The internet bubble was a good few years but it was a bubble. > But we sure haven't seen any redistribution of wealth to the > middle and lower class since 2001, by any measure. The next 19%, which is probably $70K and up went way up. > The entire rhetoric that the government is taxing the rich and giving > it to the poor is simply not borne out by these statistics or any > other. It's nothing more than a scare tactic aimed at angry upper > class white men who are rapidly losing their power base. By taxing everyone for health care and giving it to everyone is redistribution. By allowing everyone to own a house even when they can't make payments is redistribution. By framing this a poor get a paycheck from the wealthy is dishonest. > I gag every > time I hear one of the ads saying "we have to take back our country". > This is not just "their country". It's my country too, and the country > of a beautiful blend of peoples of all stripes and colors. And we will allow you to stay. > The country they want to "take back" or actually "bring back" - the > white bread, June Cleaver, WASP only, back of the bus country only > exists in the imagination center of their reptilian brains - it sure > doesn't exist in the real world. Yes, even bigots like you are allowed in our country. Why do you hate white people and why do you think they feel the same way about you that you feel about them. Only two years of Obama's racial harmony and a cracker is telling us all whites are racists. Nice job democra ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328391 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
