The 99% need a raise:

[wbcoleman]

Just maybe it's you people who don't get it. kentay

Kentay, this thread that you started seems to be about income disparity. I asked you a couple times to provide specific and meaningful ways in which you propose the gap be closed.  Instead you post flowery words that either restate the problem or are so generalized that they are meaningless.

This last post you cut and pasted an article from a left wing website that quotes an anonymous woman who attended a Koch fundraiser yesterday.  How this is pertinent to the conversation at hand I just don't know.  This is another reason I left the democrat party.  It's against my nature to answer a direct question with unrelated nonsense which the left seems to constantly be doing.

I don't even see the problem.  The problem is the absolute level of the bottom of the distribution, not the gap between top and bottom.

[Ted S]

Then you should be able to figure out why people "went nuts" over it. It's obvious.

Not so obvious, but then I'm not a leftist anymore.  Does it mean:

Since you guys got rich by providing good and services to others, we therefore should tax-the-pants-off-of-you?

[Ted S]

I don't even see the problem.  The problem is the absolute level of the bottom of the distribution, not the gap between top and bottom.

I don't see the problem either.  I certainly can't justify the enormous dollars that some executives get but I also don't see how the government can close the gap without eroding liberty and creating a host of unintentional problems.

I was hoping to get Mr. Kentay to propose something so that we could explore not only the intended benefit but also the side-effects.  Sadly, getting Mr. Kentay to stay focused is a lot like herding cats.

[wbcoleman]

I don't even see the problem.  The problem is the absolute level of the bottom of the distribution, not the gap between top and bottom.

I don't see the problem either.  I certainly can't justify the enormous dollars that some executives get but I also don't see how the government can close the gap without eroding liberty and creating a host of unintentional problems.

I was hoping to get Mr. Kentay to propose something so that we could explore not only the intended benefit but also the side-effects.  Sadly, getting Mr. Kentay to stay focused is a lot like herding cats.

Oh, kentay is very, VERY focused, just not on addressing our points.  Nonetheless, I'm very glad he's here.  clara badly needs reinforcements!

[Ted S]

Oh, kentay is very, VERY focused, just not on addressing our points.  Nonetheless, I'm very glad he's here.  clara badly needs reinforcements!

HA!  I actually chuckled out loud on that one.  Yes, we do need more lefties here for sure!