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A shrinking middle class. Rising dead-end poverty. The splurges of a new super rich. These have also become the markers of our time. Is it all the Beatles' fault? Did the lads from Liverpool pave the way for the "Reagan Revolution" and the rise of the 1 percent?
No country in the world today stands as a fully Socialist state, but rather, some of the most successful economies combine elements of Capitalism with Socialism to create greater degrees of equity and lesser disparities between the rich, the poor, and those on the continuum in between.
Kind of. It didn't really make sense.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Now that Bernie Sanders is rapidly climbing in the polls and attracting huge audiences to his campaign events, his opponents are starting to attack him for being too radical. After all, Sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist.
Yes, by all means, let's talk about inequality of opportunity for our kids because that's where it all starts. But let's also remember that those kids grow up, and when they do, it doesn't get easier. The scars of childhood last a lifetime.
The theme is legal tax-evasion -- by this country's very rich -- enabled and encouraged by both sides of the political aisle on Capitol Hill.
The ancient promise of a just society is a command that should ache in our hearts as we gaze upon the effects of our own political indifference. Turning away is the very worst kind of redistribution: a callous misallocation of the human capacity to do the right thing.
The pension crisis still has no solution, and as each day passes, the Illinois taxpayers are the ones who pay the piper -- literally. It's cost taxpayers $21 billion since 2000, and it's only getting worse.
