Intolerance may not promote progress but it can promote survival. An intolerant Islamic world may outlast the Western world that seems ready to tolerate anything, including the undermining of its own fundamental values and threats to its continued existence.
More depressing stories and statistics in the inbox today. Click on the Thomas Sowell link above to see today’s editorial.
Surprise, the spread between the rich and the poor is growing. The middle class is declining. What else is new. Check out the statistics (not really scientific) from the 28 Statistics. Of course it is from a site called, The Economic Collapse.
In any event, the 28 statistics below show the stark contrast between the "two Americas" that share this nation today. Many liberals will likely try to use these statistics as an example of why we should tax the rich. But handing more money to the government is not going to magically create more jobs for the poor. What the American people desperately need are good jobs, and many liberals don't seem to understand that. Many conservatives will likely try to use these statistics as evidence that "capitalism" is working. But the truth is that what we have in the United States today is not capitalism. Rather, it is more aptly described as "corporatism", because money and power is increasingly becoming concentrated in the hands of gigantic corporations that individuals and small businesses simply cannot compete with. The truth is that when wealth is concentrated at the very top it does not "trickle down" to the rest of us. In the old days the wealthy at least were forced to hire the rest of us to run their factories and their businesses, but with the advent of globalism that isn't even true anymore. Now they can just move their factories and businesses overseas to places where they can legally pay slave labor wages to their employees.
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A Few Good Men, written by Aaron Sorkin
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