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Sunday, January 02, 2011

Income Inequality: A Problem That Bothers Only Rich Elected Democrats

While the Democratic Establishment and their propaganda wing (aka, the mainstream news media) try to make an issue of income inequality, most Americans are unperturbed about how much money their neighbor makes. It's their own well-being that concerns them.
 Consider one conundrum in American politics. Income inequality has been increasing, according to standard statistics. Yet most Americans do not seem very perturbed by it.
Barack Obama may have been elected president after telling Joe the Plumber that he wanted to spread the wealth around. But large majorities in polls approved when Obama and congressional Democrats abandoned oft-repeated campaign promises to raise taxes on high earners in the lame duck session.

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