[No.6]

Well TECHNICALLY if the poorest’s income (say 10,000) rises 35% (to 13,500) and the richest guy’s income (say 1,000,000) rises 50% (to 1,500,000) then the gap between their incomes is rising (both in absolute terms and %age-wise).

However in non-crazy land the important thing is that the poor’s income rose 35% and that fewer of them are on welfare. This is just good news!

The whole socialist ideology relies on envy. It’s not that the poor have two TVs and one car, it’s that some other person has 5 HDTVs and three sports cars. How dare they! Of course the elite socialists who would like everyone equally poor allocate to themselves 2 jet aircraft and 6,000 square foot homes, but they’re the anointed.

[grundle]

You're right. Here's another article, which focuses on the income gap. The article briefly mentions that all groups are richer. But most of the article, and the article's headline, focos on the income gap. This is proof that liberals think that rising income for all groups is bad:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11060191/