re: Nice opinion piece on income inequality from CNN

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Am I the only sane person on this board!?!?

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If you work hard, you too can someday be born as a Walton Heir.

Look, I work hard. I'm doing OK. It isn't about what some people have that I don't--it's about the POWER they have over you.

And part of that power is in conditioning these fools that 400 families having more than the rest of America combined isn't a problem.

Aristocracy is not good. And if we don't have it already, we're getting there.

I do not begrudge a Bill Gates or Warren Buffet their money--they seem like genuine humanitarians who built their empires from about nothing buy providing value.

It's not about envy. It's about the power and influence these few have over the rest of us. Money is power, and money rules politics and policy. Therefore, these 400 rule the rest of us.

And from the comments in this thread, most of us are happy to open our gaping maw and guzzle whatever it is they put in our mouths.