Comments on: Business Insider – “15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America” https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:14:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13688 Jody Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:55:49 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13688 My first thought about the disappearance of the middle class is outsourcing of jobs. Shit isn't something like 42,000 factories that have closed since 2000? ...and I'm not done Bowser...so you can save your energy and try to insult me in later posts. My first thought about the disappearance of the middle class is outsourcing of jobs.

Shit isn’t something like 42,000 factories that have closed since 2000?

…and I’m not done Bowser…so you can save your energy and try to insult me in later posts.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13686 Jody Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:26:56 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13686 Oh for cryin outloud Bowser...I will answer your Flame the way I see fit...when I have the time. It won't be what you want to hear...you will enjoy trying to insult me...you will do the tongue and cheek holier than thou routine...and I will throw darts at your likeness ...*sigh* Maybe I should just save you the trouble... Oh for cryin outloud Bowser…I will answer your Flame the way I see fit…when I have the time.

It won’t be what you want to hear…you will enjoy trying to insult me…you will do the tongue and cheek holier than thou routine…and I will throw darts at your likeness …*sigh*

Maybe I should just save you the trouble…

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13684 bowser Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:44:15 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13684 Always liked that song, and it just isn't done well by whites. Always liked that song, and it just isn’t done well by whites.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13682 ER Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:35:43 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13682 <p>You don't need to be religious, and you don't need to be black to love gospel music.</p> They say Elvis used to hang out around colored churches when he was growing up... You don’t need to be religious, and you don’t need to be black to love gospel music.

They say Elvis used to hang out around colored churches when he was growing up…

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13681 bowser Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:20:25 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13681 We really can't expect that. As I said, he supports the idea of a plutocracy, and I was asking if anyone saw a way that won't happen. TB points out how the wealthy aren't that wealthy, there isn't enough to go around anyway, the poor are the best off they've ever been, and it's because the wealthy are wealthy that can be. The wealthier the wealthy are, the better off the poor can consider themselves. Oh happy day! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIKmgggV1lY&feature=related We really can’t expect that. As I said, he supports the idea of a plutocracy, and I was asking if anyone saw a way that won’t happen.

TB points out how the wealthy aren’t that wealthy, there isn’t enough to go around anyway, the poor are the best off they’ve ever been, and it’s because the wealthy are wealthy that can be.

The wealthier the wealthy are, the better off the poor can consider themselves.

Oh happy day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIKmgggV1lY&feature=related

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13677 bowser Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:50:22 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13677 TB, this is about the point I made. You really aren't involved in this. You unabashedly advocate a plutocracy. I asked those Conservatives who didn't want to see that happen how it might be prevented. With no answer so far, by the way. (I don't believe a plutocracy would last in this country, and the wealthy would abandon it for refuges in, say, Paraguay, where George W. Bush purchased 100,000 acres while president.) Plutocracy 1. Government by the wealthy. 2. A wealthy class that controls a government. 3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule. TB, this is about the point I made. You really aren’t involved in this. You unabashedly advocate a plutocracy. I asked those Conservatives who didn’t want to see that happen how it might be prevented. With no answer so far, by the way.

(I don’t believe a plutocracy would last in this country, and the wealthy would abandon it for refuges in, say, Paraguay, where George W. Bush purchased 100,000 acres while president.)

Plutocracy

1. Government by the wealthy.
2. A wealthy class that controls a government.
3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13676 ER Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:48:40 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13676 I'll let Bowser argue his own case. My comment on his post is below. I’ll let Bowser argue his own case.
My comment on his post is below.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13675 TB Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:44:00 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13675 <p>After the past few days, you need yet another demonstration? There's <em>nobody home.</em></p> Shit, whatever. I don't have all day. Pick one graph. Your choice. We can do the dance again. After the past few days, you need yet another demonstration? There’s nobody home.

Shit, whatever. I don’t have all day. Pick one graph. Your choice. We can do the dance again.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13674 ER Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:37:26 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13674 Did you care to address any of Bowser's? Did you care to address any of Bowser’s?

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/13/business-insider-15-mind-blowing-facts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america/#comment-13673 TB Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:27:09 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=13061#comment-13673 Did you care to address any of the points I made? Did you care to address any of the points I made?

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