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Jimmy’s right.
While there is a strong emotional appeal to Occupy Wall Street protests they are not realistic. Granted there are some despicable people who would take everything not nailed down and give nothing back in return but hopefully the Democrats will be out of office soon. As communists and socialists have found to their dismay, you can’t change human nature and much to their horror capitalism works because it embraces human nature. People work harder if they see a reward and are free to pursue their goals. Yes, you do need some rules to the game to avoid abuse, but government works best when it either helps or gets out of the way of business. I am not wealthy but I am thankful everyday that the people I work for are smart enough, have enough resources, and aggressive enough to create my job. You can’t drive an economy by trying to average things out to the lowest common denominator. The railroad doesn’t run without engines pulling the cars.
I’m not familiar with other stories, but there are methodological problems with Gordon’s paper, see for example:
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Barney Franks attempt to address income inequality is what crashed the worlds economy.
The Gini coefficient for the US individual hasn’t changed much from about 0.5 since 1994. That is the measure of income inequality. Complete inequality (one person has all the money) is a Gini Coefficient of 1. A Gini Coefficient of 0.0 corresponds to everyone has the exact same amount of money.
What has happened is the inequality of families and households has increased. That occurs because people make decisions to form families and households in a way where people with similar incomes are together. When a slightly above average income man and woman marry, their household has income that is significantly above average. When a family that is below average gets a divorce, the two households created from one is significantly below average.
Socialist takeover is based on neither the majority’s desire nor truth.
It is simply lust for power, based on greed. Now you understand the New World Order ruling elite.
Bump.