From The Spokesman-Review:
Since the 1960s the proportion of the wealth that goes to the rich has risen steadily. The top 1 percent now captures 20 percent of our wealth, while the bottom 50 percent get a measly 13 percent.
It is a deplorable distribution of wealth and it is only getting worse. Is there any limit? We are turning into India in terms of rich and poor.
Republicans respond with tortured logic, that, after all, the rich pay most of the taxes. It is poor people’s own fault. They should have picked richer parents or not be so lazy.
A man who earns $55 million a year, or about $150,000 a day, is worth every dime, but his employee who earns $20,000 a year is a leech and is overpaid because his job can be shifted overseas for much less.
Some hundred years ago, Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol.” It pointed out the terrible inequities of the distribution of wealth of England in the 1800s. Its main character was Ebenezer Scrooge, and to this day the name is synonymous with cold-hearted misers.
Dickens died in 1870, but Scrooge is still alive and healthy, and he votes a straight Republican ticket.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/dec/18/a-dickens-of-a-system/
