as with the steroids mess in baseball, I'm shocked, shocked! free marketeers forget this stuff completely.
On Dec 15, 2007 7:53 AM, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NY Times, December 15, 2007 > Report Says That the Rich Are Getting Richer Faster, Much Faster > By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON > > The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to > 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, > data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows. > > The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in > 2005, while just the increase in income for the top 1 percent came to > $524.8 billion, a figure 37 percent higher. -- Jim Devine / "The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
