JimC wrote:It still remains disgraceful that such a wealthy and otherwise developed country as the US has such a disparity of wealth.
No it doesn't. Americans have one of the highest standards of living on earth, even for the poorest among us, and the "disparity of wealth" indicates nothing about our compassion for those in need, it indicates that anyone who has the ability and drive to succeed can do so here. In the last 40 years the economic condition of our poor and working class has gone nothing but up. The canard "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is just much socialist bilge and is absolutely and categorically untrue, because as our rich get richer, so do our poor. Our nation provides so much by way of support and benefits to the poor that hundreds of thousands of poor people illegally flood over our borders every year,
and for the most part we let them stay here and build better lives.
Our "disparity of wealth" is what drives the economic engine of the entire planet because that wealth serves everyone by being invested and recirculated to create more and more wealth, which raises the standard of living for everyone. Without that "disparity of wealth" there wouldn't be the sort of capital available that is required to take on enormous projects that benefit everyone. If you took every dime from the top 10 percent of earners in the US tomorrow it would not run the government for more than a few weeks. Economics requires that capital be circulated and recirculated with an input of fresh labor in order to increase wealth. Taking a billion dollars and redistributing it to a billion poor people give each one of them a dollar, which is a simple economic fact you socialist dunces can't seem to understand.
Taking a billion dollars and investing it in an industry or business that subsequently generates a TRILLION dollars over time is a much better use of that capital because it provides jobs and wages for the people who do the work and raises their, and everyone else's standard of living.
We have to build fences and walls to keep people OUT of our nation because of our opportunities for economic success, not to keep people IN like the Soviets did.
Our national charitable giving, both from our government and from private sources, is second to none in the gross amount we donate to the well-being of others, and for the most part those others aren't even Americans.
Nobody EVER starves to death in the US because they cannot find food. Ever. Very few people are involuntarily homeless for very long as our society finds places for them to live. Those who are chronically homeless are that way because that's how they choose to live, for many different reasons, and even they have plenty of options if they decide they don't want to sleep rough.
So fuck off and tend to your own knitting.
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