Anybody who think our country suffers from “extreme inequality” is ignorant and probably stupid. Not only are they are woefully ignorant about what life is like around the world, they are woefully ignorant about what life was like around more than 100 years ago.
Anybody who does genealogy can read the census data and see how many people lived in boarding houses, how many people rented rooms. Anyone lucky enough to have farm land and a couple of sons could rent out one of the sons to a neighbor. Life was tough then for most people. There was no help other than family or church, no welfare, no section 8 housing.
In my personal experience I once lived in a house in the Gatsby area. It was large, about 10,000 sq ft and one wing had 11 tiny rooms for live-in help. There were two tiny bathtubs, half the size of the tubs that were in each bedroom in the main house. There was no heat in the servants wing but every bedroom in the main house had a fireplace.
The people complaining about inequality in this country should be people paying 50% of their income in taxes not those who are collecting $50,000 a year in government handouts.
The people complaining about inequality in this country
Does that exist anywhere else?
We're paying Lois Lerner $102,600 every year to do nothing.