Sunday, March 6, 2011

CNN: Income Inequality Just A Fact Of Life

Via Crooks and Liars, I saw this segment on CNN the other day, and like most things on CNN, it was vapid, lazy, and an otherwise pathetic excuse for what they try to pass as journalism.



It's just the way things work! The rich have lots of money, and you have to do risky stuff and things to make more money! And the rich getting richer as a result of the financial crisis - well there's not a lot you can do about that either. It has nothing to do with the fact that our national economic policies have been heavily tilted towards the very wealthy for the last 30 years, or that we would LITERALLY rather let people die than raise taxes on anything, ever, and that we're constantly asking demanding the lower 90% of the population 'tighten their belts' and sacrifice its well-being and upward mobility as a central tenet of any modern fiscal policy.

But oh oops - out of time. We're gonna have to leave it there.


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