“Think it over: On one side of this city of Dallas people pay $69 for a margarita..the other side of town the homeless scrounge for scraps..What would be the civilized response to such a disparity?..: In 1960 the gap in wealth between the top 20 percent .. and the bottom 20 percent was 30 fold. Now it is 75 fold. Stock prices and productivity are up..CEO salaries are soaring, but ordinary workers aren’t sharing in the profits they helped generate. Their incomes aren’t keeping up with costs. More Americans live in poverty—37 million, including 12 million children. Twelve million children!..America’s last among the highly developed countries in each of seven measures of inequality. Our GDP outperforms every country..except Luxembourg..among industrialized nations we are at the bottom in functional literacy and dead last in combating poverty..regular Americans are working longer and harder than workers in any other industrial nation, but it’s harder and harder for them to figure out how to make ends meet..how to send the kids to college..how to hold on securely in their old age. If we’re all in this together, what’s a civilized response to these disparities?.America’s a broken promise. America needs fixing.†Bill Moyers
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Can you be a little more specific when you say "civilized"? There are many civilizations throughout history which had the answer for poverty...sell them into slavery, send them off to war, kill them as entertainment for the rich...you get the point. In a perfect world, those folks drinking the $69 dollar margaritas would be contributing to charities, employing the impoverished, working within their communities to redress the various inequalities...but this world isn't perfect. Charity is a moral concept, and attempts to legislate and enforce morality have always caused more problems than they have ever solved. What do I think? I think that, if the condition of the poor is a matter of concern to me, I can't lay the blame and responsibility at the feet of the rich. I may not be able to afford a $69 dollar beverage, but I can volunteer at a soup kitchen, donate time, goods, and foodstuffs to see that somebody has a warm coat and food in the belly. It may not be much, but if everyone with a conscience does 'a little" to help, that little adds up quickly.
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just like always,the working man gets f***ed without any kyjelly
