If America weren’t so rich, it wouldn’t be so obscene that so many here are poor.

Mar 26, 2021 · 2:17 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Make America Poor Again!!! That’s what’s happening, a race to the bottom.
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So many emaciated, starving people wandering through Walmart!
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Imagine how few poor people there would be in America if we took care of our own instead of sending billions of dollars all around the world?
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I live in Marin County and the disparities couldn’t be more obvious. “Obscene” is the perfect word.
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Of course it would be. As political economist Mark Blyth reminds us, 10% of the adult workforce can produce a megasurplus of everything the world needs. Nearly all shortages are contrived by someone.
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Just get the government to give all of us 1 million dollars. That’ll fix it. Do the math on that.
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yet you want countless more poor to pour across the border every day.
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America is no richer than most countries; we have simply allowed 18,000,000 millionaires and billionaires to steal all the wealth
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The 50 wealthiest people in America today own more wealth than the bottom half of our people. Let me repeat that, because it is almost too absurd to believe: the 50 wealthiest people in this country own more wealth than some 165 MILLION Americans. That is a moral obscenity.