Comments on: Rich/Poor Income Gap Widening To Chasm

Evidence Shows Impact On Those At Lower End Of Wage Scale Continues To Grow

[cyberus-2009]

Not really news .. when Warren Buffet said recently that there is something wrong with a system that allows him to pay a lower percentage on capital gains than a working man pays on income .. you know something is SERIOUSLY wrong.

[gaprddesc]

onlythereal
Onlythereal did you mistake on the title of this discussion?
This has nothing to with religion and political talking points; however, you are to be
commended for communicating your beliefs. And I applaud you. Let me see if I can recap the point you are trying to communicate: You are a Christian, against abortion, homosexual agenda, same *** marriage, against video games that corrupt, you think evil just started after 1960? Am I on the right track? And these beliefs have somehow caused the rift between the super rich and the people who are heavily over taxed and have the high interests rates and fees applied to them? Finally you feel the symptoms you described are somehow being shoved down your throat? How? Is it that you want government control over TV?, Church? People? Do you want the federal government to declare Christianity a national religion and condemn all others, the government to control your body since we have no ability to control ourselves and the evangelism Christians we are supposed to spread is not working? government to go into peoples bedrooms and stop the behavior and target a segment of the population? and the government to stop business from making offense toys? Did I miss anything?

[ontheleft]

Posted by onlythereal at 03:47 PM

The typical right wing way to deal with issues like abortion, homosexuality or violence is by outlawing them. That''s not a solution.

Preach to yourself for once.

[freemarket3]

The Wealth Gap piece-linking "small business" was timely and well done. With the work hours that I must keep I find it hard to take on civic/volunteer resposibilities let alone provide feed back like this. But..
I kept an article from 8/16/92 NY Times How Wealthy(Top 1% Households) the Wealthy-A History.
In the late 1970''s the super rich commanded the smallest slice since the 1830''s. Post Reagan the top 1% went from 20% to 36% in 1989. I don''t know what concentration of wealth the top 1% holds today, but in 1929 just before the crash, it reached over 42%.
Risk and rewards are not in balance. The market place is no longer free. Workers as consumers should reconsider patronizing quality small regional business even at modest price increases and become active despite long work hours, to make supplyside, trickle down and total "market based" solutions code words of the past. CBS, please continue an open dialog through coverage of this issue.

[tryhonesty]

Income Gap Widening to a Chasm...brought to you by the corrupt, sell America out, RepubliCons. Ah, the uneducated "wannebee" RepubliCons. These folks "join" the RepubliCon Party (Greedy OLD Party) thinking they joined the "in" crowd (wannebee rich through association, with very limited education, poor, RepubliCON losers). They (wannebees, who are used by the powerful truely rich) to put the idiot puppets in the White House. The White House idiots and their powerful "friends" then export America''s cash and jobs to the Saudi and Communist China interests (the selling out of America).
Donald Trump (not a wannebee, and educated) said it best "Bush should be FIRED".
Vote Democrat, vote real change and support our hard working American families. If the Democrats do not bring about change with a new voting majority, then next election, vote them out. Just do it.

[rudolph1952]

Government never gave me anything. Always had to take care of myself. Grew up in a poor white southern family. Suffered greatly from neglect and abuse of an alcoholic father. I was determine to get out of there and I did. I struggled through high school. Managed to get that college degree and even obtained a master''''s degree! But, my education did not work for me. The schools took my money and left me with nothing! SHAME ON THEM! No one would give me a break. I had to make my own with little success always landing in low wage jobs. NOW I KNOW HOW RUDOLPH FELT: "They (the privileged) would not let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games." But I didn''''t let that get me down.Always tried for better and I still do. I never give up. Never! Always believe there is hope up to my last breath!
Livng from "paycheck to paycheck" like many others.
Yes, I''''m voting for Hillary. Bill nor Hillary Clinton come from money. They too, like me, had to pull themselves up by the boot straps and they made it. Barack Obama doesn''''t know what it is to struggle. I would like to take Obama &some of these well to do blacks today,place them in a cotton field in Georgia for just one long hot sultry summer day picking cotton all day long. Maybe by day''''s end, Obama will start to understand what black slaves endured for him and well to blacks today.I''''m not a racist.Just telling the truth as I see. I''''m open to a black American president, but Obama ain''''t it.Still struggling in Tampa Florida, Rudolph 2008

[underdogus]

Grab your soup bowl...DEPRESSION A''''COMING!!!

[mollydtt]

About 8 years ago, I read a letter to the editor in my local newspaper. The writer complained that poor people were poor, because they spent all their money each month. If they had saved some, invested it in the stock market, they''d have made money and gotten dividends from their stocks, etc. This was a legit letter, not some crank. It made me realize just how out of touch the haves are when thinking about the have-nots. If we aren''t in the top 10 percent, then we are all just one big health-care bill away from declaring bankruptcy.

[hypnotoad72]

Hey poor people.. Get off your butts get an education go to work and get rich. Simple solution.


Posted by Chatmandu002 at 12:16 PM : May 04, 2008
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If everybody had college degrees, everybody would have jobs.

So much for offshoring and how people with degrees and certifications are losing their jobs... In other words, stop being one-sided. There are MANY factors to the problems in our country today.

Indeed: If everybody saved, the media would blame the middle class for not spending.

[erichsh]

I''ve got the perfect theme song for the Democratic convention. The hit 1971 song "I''d Love To Change the World", by Ten Years After, identified the ideal solution. "Tax the rich, feed the poor, ''till there are no, rich no more".

[husein_pasha]

I`m from the urban middle class

[singingrick]

Modern conservatism is a morally and economically bankrupting philosophy that pushes the belief that the answer to all America''s problems is to take money from the working class and give it all to the super-wealthy.

[harrydoghiny]

Mission accomplished, Republicons!!

[actornaught]

Democrat matra..."Take from the rich and give to the deadbeats"...
Posted by Chatmandu002 at 12:27 PM : May 04, 2008

Sorry, you missed several boats, including the thrust of this very article.

But you''re close on one thing: the ''pub "mantra" is take from middle class and give to the deadbeat wealthy.

I''ll put money in the hands of the lower and middle class any time, they''ll just recirculate it throughout our consumer economy (tho'' it''s weakening, thanks to ''cons believing that the "trickle down" joke is serious).

Corporate Welfare means we''re all food...

[chatmandu002]

Democrat matra... "Take from the rich and give to the deadbeats" Hey I can be a right wing cynic if you can be left wing cynic. The more people sit around on their butts and demand more from the government. The more the rich will get richer. How many of our politicians are millionaires or have become millionaires while in office. All of them

[bgwinnett]

Hey poor people.. Get off your butts get an education go to work and get rich. Simple solution.

Posted by Chatmandu002 at 12:16 PM : May 04, 2008

Kathmandu are you Jamesm12341 under a different name?

[chatmandu002]

Hey poor people.. Get off your butts get an education go to work and get rich. Simple solution.

[omega39-2009]

''''Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . This is not a way of life at all in any sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.''''
Dwight D Eisenhower

[flagship-usa]

I remember listening to NPR about 4 years ago - A UN resolution asking all wealthy Nations to contribute 1% of GNP or GDP to help ease the pain on poverty stricken countries. All The wealthy nations agreed. Some come close, others fall behind. None match the 1%. America contributes (I believe it was) 0.3%.

[jon2012-2009]

...the original Framers feared the Welfare State which the United States of 2008 has become the original framers believed Self Reliance was the best motivator in a free society.
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hence we need to eliminate the Welfare State and burdensome taxing of the Working Class and prohibit the extremes of the White Collar Welfare Elite.

sincerely Fuzzy
Posted by FuzzyBear9 at 10:02 AM : May 04, 2008

I think I recall that as part of the social contract, the function of government is to serve the welfare of the greatest number of people in society. This means providing an array of services that includes maintaining an army against external attacks and police to maintain internal order, administering justice, safeguarding public health, providing for universal literacy, maintaining the infrastructure for commerce, and so on. Since the challenges we face as a nation are continually changing, the government may undertake new missions from time to time.

Self-reliance, however this is defined, does not absolve the government of its obligations and reason for being. Whether the Framers believed it is good thing is not relevant--we have more than 200 years of our own history plus that of other countries to evaluate the soundness of this idea.