[Aspenhuskerette]

Some delicious puns and a compelling metaphor for what ills our state of the union.

[I want the USA back]

The media obsessed on a little air, and a lot of wind. (The “Blizzard of 2015”)

It was to take peoples’ minds off the shaft they just got in taxes, jihadis killing normal people, IS expanding rapidly, plans to confiscate money in savings plans, stupid proposals about college tuition, etc, etc.

[circlecity]

"Seahawk Richard Sherman questioned the close relationship between NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Patriots owner Robert Kraft, calling it a “conflict of interest.”

When I first heard about this it caused me to change my attitude toward Sherman, and the Seahawks, entirely. I used to hate the Hawks now I'm rooting for them big time.

[Colofornian]

From the Aspen Times:

With workforce participation at 40-year lows, “America’s wealth gap between middle-income and upper-income families is the widest on record,” Pew Research recently reported.

I'm sorry, Aspenhuskerette...this is no personal reflection upon you, but I can't help but notice the utter irony of the above line coming from the ASPEN Times.

"The historic character of the city has been challenged in recent decades by skyrocketing property values and the proliferation of second homes, increasingly shutting low- and middle-income workers out of the city and creating a large pool of commuters from nearby bedroom communities such as Snowmass, Basalt, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs....Aspen is the most expensive place to buy real estate in the US.[8] Aspen is a mixture of high-end luxury estates and condos intermixed with single-family homes and mobile home parks. As of March 2011, the lowest-priced single-family home on the market was a trailer for $559,000.[9] The median listing price for homes or condos for sale in Aspen is $4,570,633 according to Trulia.[10] It is not uncommon to see listing prices reaching the mid-eight figures.[10]
Source: Aspen, Colorado

An "average" small home in Aspen can sell for $6 million easy these days!

[Menehune56]

Good article, hard to believe you are based in Aspen!

BTW I think there’s a typo in the Aspen Times website for the article:

Melanie Sturm
Thing Again
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[dsc]

It is known that the countries with the highest taxes have the largest gaps between rich and poor

[WayneS]

The web-site won’t let me read the entire article without answering some personal questions.

So I won’t be reading the entire article.

[griswold3]

it’s articles like this that give me hope for the future.

As far as the ‘gap’ between rich and poor, 1099 all the gov. benefits and the poor will be in the middle class, IMHO.