Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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3 out of 300 million? That doesn't speak at all to my point.

There were also very wealthy people in Dickens' novels.

Hey listen... have you been in a grocery store lately? What do you do if you're just working for stagnant wages and even that's lucky, since everyone else's job is being done in China.

Here's another random thought. Before Social Security the primary causes of death among the elderly in America were exposure (freezing to death) in the winter, and starvation in the summer. I guess if those people had just had enough gumption to start a successful online search engine it wouldn't have been such a problem. Good point. You're probably one of those holes calling Obama "elitist."

For every guy who leaves the table with chips someone goes home without. For every guy who has a nice house on the ocean, a lot of others are hungry. Unless you're printing money that's how it works. Remove the leveling influence of taxes (what Adam Smith called "transfer payments" and which he also said were necessary) and you've got El Salvador... or Calcutta, or as I said Charles Dickens' England.