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F6 - Benjamin Carson & Francis Collins vs. Richard Dawkins & Daniel Dennett - Science and Faith

.. grrr .. fixed visual .. lol, for me anyway less fun to watch .. this 9 min taster

was palatable just now .. ok .. Christopher Hitchens deserves to be here

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=85908877

Now .. Ben Carson as well as, for some inexplicable reason since he is "a gifted doctor", being a kooky, anti-science creationist guy, says a flat tax would be good for the country .. well, perhaps he just hasn't taken the time to look into that .. as well as not being simpler (that's one myth about it) there is the more serious problem of inequality and economic growth ..

The Problem With Flat-Tax Fever

Rising inequality exacts a toll not just on those with lower incomes, but also on those much higher up the income scale. In their 2009 book, “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger .. http://www.bloomsburypress.com/books/catalog/spirit_level_hc_362 ,” the British public health researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett document a range of social ills that are reliably associated with increased income inequality, both over time within nations and at any particular moment across a broad range of countries. Countries and times with lower inequality fare better on virtually every published index of health, well-being and quality of life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/business/flat-tax-doesnt-solve-inequality-problem.html?_r=0

For more on the fact that excess inequality is not good for either the
social fabric, the mental health or the health of the economy of any nation

What Thatcher Didn't Understand: Inequality Hurts the Rich and Poor Alike
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=86823944 ..

remembermost always more both sides of added links .. lol .. guess that about enough for now .. oh, this of yours ..

"and just another willing, opportunistic self-promoting house negro -- very aptly described by one observer ( http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/meet-dr-ben-carson-the-new-conservative-folk-hero/273240/ ) as Herman Cain without "anything like the personal skeletons in the closet that forced Cain to abandon his presidential run" -- and as such he is deserving of precisely zero respect/deference"

is worth repeating, too .. .. umm .. this .. Occupy London Tour Shows Bankers Profiting Amid Poverty .. excerpt ..

“There is a groundswell of increasing concern with the scale of inequality,” says Richard Wilkinson, coauthor with Kate Pickett of the book, “The Spirit Level.” They make the case that more-unequal societies have lower life expectancies and more mental illness, violence, teenage pregnancies and incarceration, resulting in less trust.

is about half-way down in your ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75469106

From the bottom link list in that one ..

1st .. America’s idiot rich
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75317829

3rd .. U.S. to run first surplus since 2008: CBO
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=75347198

only two in a Kate Pickett 2011 search

The Ecology of Growth .. 15 October 2010 .. morsel ..

In their inspirational book The Spirit Level, .. http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resource/the-spirit-level .. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett argue that “we have got close to the end of what economic growth can do for us” in terms of quality of life. Within the industrialised world, it is income inequality rather than absolute levels of GDP that explains differences in a range of health and social outcomes (such as trust, the status of women, mental health, drug use, educational attainment, murder rates, life expectancy and obesity). And inequality even constrains the time we have to ourselves: “People in more unequal societies do the equivalent of two to three months’ extra work a year. A loss of the equivalent of an extra eight or twelve weeks’ holiday is a high price to pay for inequality.” .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=69574113

and

There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored .. one bit ..

As Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett point out in The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, phenomena usually described as "social problems" (crime, ill-health, imprisonment rates, mental illness) are far more common in unequal societies than ones with better economic distribution and less gap between the richest and the poorest. Decades of individualism, competition and state-encouraged selfishness – combined with a systematic crushing of unions and the ever-increasing criminalisation of dissent – have made Britain one of the most unequal countries in the developed world. [ http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resource/the-spirit-level ]
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=66013466

Soooo .. seems possible, even likely, the NYT article above has not been posted
before .. and possible, even likely, Ben Carson would not be much more successful
in the political sphere than GOPers Herman Cain, Michael Steele or Allen West were.