bruce b asked:

“Think it over: On one side of this city of Dallas people pay $69 for a margarita..the other side of town the homeless scrounge for scraps..What would be the civilized response to such a disparity?..: In 1960 the gap in wealth between the top 20 percent .. and the bottom 20 percent was 30 fold. Now it is 75 fold. Stock prices and productivity are up..CEO salaries are soaring, but ordinary workers aren’t sharing in the profits they helped generate. Their incomes aren’t keeping up with costs. More Americans live in poverty—37 million, including 12 million children. Twelve million children!..America’s last among the highly developed countries in each of seven measures of inequality. Our GDP outperforms every country..except Luxembourg..among industrialized nations we are at the bottom in functional literacy and dead last in combating poverty..regular Americans are working longer and harder than workers in any other industrial nation, but it’s harder and harder for them to figure out how to make ends meet..how to send the kids to college..how to hold on securely in their old age. If we’re all in this together, what’s a civilized response to these disparities?.America’s a broken promise. America needs fixing.” Bill Moyers