[bruinbirdman]

The left has abandoned the term "poverty" as a rallying point. The new mantra is "middle class income disparity". There are now too many on the lower rung of the middle class ladder and the disparity between them and those with higher incomes is too great.

The left won the war on poverty through wealth transfers. They will continue to tout redistribution only with a different emphasis.

yitbos

[driftless2]

"wealth...disparity"

You are so right. The left used to squawk about hungry Americans. Now with the poorest third of Americans being the fattest they can't use that one. They still yammer about the homeless, but the facts are that only a tiny percentage of Americans don't sleep with a roof over their heads. And through the myriad of gov programs all "poor" get free med care. So now they are left with the so-called wealth gap. Which means some Americans have a lot of toys but do not have quite as many toys as some other Americans whose toys are a little more numerous and expensive. Boo hoo hoo. (smirk)