The 25 Most Unequal Cities In America (Marxism Alert)

businessinsider.com ^ | Oct. 11, 2010, 12:41 PM | Gus Lubin

[facedodge]

America's third-world-esque income gap is wide and getting wider. But in some cities the disparity is especially bad, according to Census data. We picked out the 25 metro areas where the top quintile has the greatest share of the income. Many of these cities are liberal college towns in poor rural areas. Others are retirement hotspots in again, poor rural areas. Four of the top ten are in Texas, including George W. Bush's Midland.

[kittymyrib]

“...lay off Fresno, CA. It has an enormous, illegal population...”

Ditto for Brownsville and McAllen, Texas. You have the American growers and the Mexican pickers. The Mexican pickers are happy to be here because their children are being educated and fed by the U.S. taxpayers. It’s a great country, until it’s so broke that no one can pay the bills any more.

[carton253]

Cincinnati may be ranked #7 in poverty, but the poor need to cheer up. We’re getting a streetcar. Yeah, that’ll help.

[Reeses]

income gap does not automatically translate into bad unless one is a dirty pinko commie

Income is not linear relationship to quality of life. Both a poor man and rich man have only 24 hours in a day, have only one wife at a time, can drive only one car, use one cell phone, computer, TV, bathroom. Both use Crest toothpaste. A poor man can fly across the country on Southwest Airlines in about the same time as a rich man in his Gulfstream. A rich man is not interested in living in a poor man's house, making that house affordable to the poor man. A poor man would not get much bang for his buck blowing his paycheck on one night at the Ritz-Carlton. A doctor making $5 for every $1 an auto mechanic makes does not really have a life 5 times larger. If you redistribute 2 of those dollars from the doctor to the mechanic, the main thing it will accomplish is make the doctor quit. Leftists are okay with that result, a race to the bottom like Cuba. Americans are not okay with that.

[Savage Beast]

“In America, people look at the guy in the giant house on the hill and say to themselves ‘One day I’m going to live like that’.

In Ireland we look at the guy in the giant house on the hill and say ‘One day I’m gonna get that son of a bitch’.”

When I was a poor little kid, I looked around and saw all those rich people with luxurious houses, new cars, boats, expensive trips, and plenty of money to throw around, and I was thinking: "I'm going to be like that!"

I wanted to be like that. It never even occurred to me to want to take what they have (envy, covet) or resent their having it or get even with them for having it (vengeance). I was smart enough to know that somebody worked mighty hard to get all that and I could do it too.

I did.

I studied hard, worked hard, kept going-and here I am!

America has always been The Land of Opportunity. It will continue to be unless the American people destroy it--and all of its hope, promise, and opportunity.