...poor people are poor because he is rich.

Wrong. This is not a zero sum game we're playing. Wealth is being created. The economic pie keeps getting bigger.

by Twba on 02/20/2008 09:15:49 AM EST

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but only to an extent. At some point it's entirely possible for a select few to hoarde the pie.

This is amazingly described in irrefutable terms by the fact that the bottom 90% of Americans have not really benefitted much at all from the large economic growth from 1980 to 2005.

by Tom Hanc on 02/20/2008 11:03:30 AM EST

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