Income inequality cost us dearly

[real-human]

ya swindler does not like Daily Koz.... to bad... this content is spot on.

again the rich (1%) have gotten so much of the wealth since Reaganomics, voodoo economics of trickle down (as I call it piss on americans) and the middle class and poor have paid the price. Reagan attacking the middle class saying unions are bad. as we know we have dropped from number 1 in so many metrics from then, from education and so on. Developed nations/countries with the strongest unions have passed us up in almost all the metrics for middle class. I think we are now rated number 9 or so.

Here is a simple thing that is so pathetic in the USA, to penalize a child with poverty that they are so shamed because their own pride says they can not go to school because they are embarrassed by not having the basic clean cloths.

I tell ya this one makes me proud that someone recognized this and did something about it. Why can't critical things like this be addressed by the ultra wealthy vs donating to the chamber of commerce the largest giver of money for right wing politics. what is more important than our future generation getting educated.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/25/1563807/-St-Louis-school-sees-90-of-their-students-attendance-increase-because-of-washing-machines


St. Louis school sees 90% of their students' attendance increase because of washing machines

[isobars]

I won't read your post; the title alone is too ridiculous.

Whether Bill Gates has billions or trillions, the DIFFERENCE between his net worth and anyone else's has absolutely zero effect on their QOL (unless you consider envy a valid component of QOL). Please tell us how what Gates drives, lives in, or eats degrades YOUR QOL. In fact, Gates has ADDED to virtually everyone's QOL and net worth, thus earning his money.

This greed/envy/income disparity/wealth redistribution absolute BS is purely an invention of the far left, and forced wealth redistribution is just another guise for socialism, communism, and/or buying votes with other people's money.

One would think that anyone intelligent enough to type a coherent sentence when sober or to make enough money to retire early could understand that, but that assumption has been disproved by thousands of jocks, rock and movie stars, drug dealers, and jealous left wing extremists.

[techno900]

Baja posts this headline:

[isobars]

How does Dean justify his claimed wealth? On whom did and does he still crap by keeping it rather than giving it away? And how does the difference between his net worth and mine harm ME or some student? What nonsense!

I don't even know or care what the laundry reference is. WhatEVER it is, it cannot amount to the fourth decimal place in a student's college costs. I refuse to believe it costs a student more than a few bucks to wash and dry a week's worth of dirty laundry -- one big load -- at a laundromat, especially considering the casual -- PC for "grungy" -- crap kids wear these days (coeds at my university had to wear dresses/skirts on weekdays).

Now let's assume he was talking about secondary school kids. Let's not forget that even the poor in the US are richer than the middle class in much of Europe, let alone the third world. Just one source among many is
"Census: Americans in ‘Poverty’ Typically Have Cell Phones, Computers, TVs, VCRS, AC, Washers, Dryers and Microwaves " at http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-americans-poverty-typically-have-cell-phones-computers-tvs
and many of them had that crap -- especially microwave, color TV, cell phone -- before I did.

Am I sorry some folks are poor, or at least poorer than I? Sure. But what the HELL does the DIFFERENCE between my or Deans' or Gates' net worth and some student's have to do with that student's life? Does Dean think there's only a fixed amount of money to go around?

SERIOUSLY?

If so, who the hell's fault is that? I'll tell ya: The Left Wing Media, today's Democratic Party, and the resulting brainwashed millennials.

[isobars]