Picking a president? Mind the income gap.

[Jimaz]

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Picking a president? Mind the income gap.

• Why elections matter, in one graph
• The United States of Inequality—Too Many Republicans
  

The ultimate con game: Why those who are paid so much and contribute so little complain so loudly about those who contribute so much and are paid so little. Why? Because they can afford to be that destructive at the expense of the common goals of U.S. citizens.

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I have said for a while that the people who were the loudest deniers of global climate change were also the ones who were making plans to survive the coming catastrophes by making piles of money and investing in things like real estate near one of the largest untapped aquifers in the world as the Bush family has done.