Kevin Gowen wrote:
> Ray Fischer wrote:

>>The US has a high and rapidly growing disparity between rich and poor.
> 
> Cites, if you please?

Try Seppongia's very own Congressional Budget Office. Paul Krugman's
"Betty and Jim" style explanations are amongst the more accessible
summaries for non-economists.

http://www.prospect.org/print/V3/11/krugman-p.html


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The ballerina stood on point, her toes curled like shrimp, not
deep-fried shrimp because, as brittle as they are, they would have
cracked under the pressure, but tender ebi-kind-of-shrimp, pink and
luscious as a Tokyo sunset, wondering if her lover was in the Ginza,
wooing the geisha with eyes reminiscent of roe, which she liked better
than ebi anyway - Brian Tacang

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