The Wealth Trajectory

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Level -> The Wealth Trajectory (4/21/2008 6:53:23 PM)
quote: If there is one thing about the United States economy in recent years that is beyond dispute, it is this: It's a great time to be rich. Yes, I know, being rich has never exactly been a downer. But today it is all the more sweet. You see it in the daily headlines. The financial pages tell us that Lloyd C. Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, took home $68.5 million last year. The political pages tell us that during the last eight years, Bill and Hillary Clinton raked in $109 million. These stories are not mere aberrations. According to the economists who crunch the numbers, they reflect a long-term trend of increasing economic inequality. http://aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.27837/pub_detail.asp

Marc2b -> RE: The Wealth Trajectory (4/21/2008 7:52:33 PM)
Yeah, well... a million dollars ain't what it used to be.

MzMia -> RE: The Wealth Trajectory (4/21/2008 8:24:29 PM)
Humm, must be nice to be one of the "wealthy". In my area gas prices are heading towards $4.00 a gallon! Soon, maybe only the wealthy will be driving.

shahla00 -> RE: The Wealth Trajectory (4/21/2008 8:27:33 PM)
A mill may not be what it use to be but do you know how to invest it to make it into more...

MissSCD -> RE: The Wealth Trajectory (4/21/2008 8:31:49 PM)
*If I had their money, I would not want it other than to change what they do with it like helping others and developing alternative measures for these high gas prices which are killing us.* I have never been rich. I was comfortable. I have always thought that my generation will see a time when we have nothing. We will not have any electricity, gas, food, and other basic necessities. Where did I come up with that? It is just something I have always felt by watching money and resourches windle away by people mentioned in the OP. *Regards, MissSCD*

Vendaval -> RE: The Wealth Trajectory (4/22/2008 12:56:44 AM)
All too true, Level. There is a quote that goes, "Nowadays people can be divided into 3 groups, the haves, the have nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have." (I cannot remember the source.) But as we see with the mortgage crises, not paying for what you have will eventually come back in the end. [sm=2cents.gif] quote: ORIGINAL: Level According to the economists who crunch the numbers, they reflect a long-term trend of increasing economic inequality. http://aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.27837/pub_detail.asp

meatcleaver -> RE: The Wealth Trajectory (4/22/2008 1:19:43 AM)
Its always a great time to be rich because the government is always on your side. Hell, the government will even piss on the poor for you and not only that, they'll lick the mess up too so you won't have to walk through it.

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