This could be just-as-Big. Maybe terminal--for most of us.

http://www.theguardi...stice-lets-end-it

Inherited wealth is an injustice. Let's end it
Inheritance, which rewards the wealthy for doing nothing, is once again becoming a key route to riches Â just as it was in the Victorian era

James Butler
theguardian.com, Wednesday 26 March 2014 11.08 EDT

Inherited wealth is the great taboo of British politics. Nobody likes to talk about it, but it determines a huge number of outcomes: from participation in public life, to access to education, to the ability to save or purchase property. When David Cameron recently promised to raise the threshold for inheritance tax to £1m and praised "people who have worked hard and saved", he is singing from the hymn sheet of inherited inequality: it is, after all, easier to save if you inherit substantial sums to squirrel away, or if you can lock money in property that is virtually guaranteed to offer huge returns. Hard work has very little to do with it.

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Emphasis: yada.

The UK numbers (nor ΔUS) don't much matter--the Disparities Do.
And whatever REGULATIONS (US or UK) as could get through Plutocrat-'selected'/electees as actually Govern:
would. be. (sabotaged) pap. ... THINK, for just one: Single-Payer Med.

So long as Accumulated-$$Wealth Rules: 'We' Don't get a meaningful "vote". EVER, I aver.

(And the young/white Aynish arrogant-ones Like This Fine: because they're already on a fast-track to each's very-own Hedge Fund, etc. wash/rinse.)
Worship of $$ is obsession-with-Power (over those who are "One-down") --Alistair Sim's phrase, well over 50 years ago/great movie, that..
School for Scoundrels, pretty sure/in B&W--no cgi, 3-D or guitars.

The more the disparity in $/hr. the more sociopaths are created: rather than 'social'--ists.(Obvious-by-inspection?)
I may well be unutterably-dense, because someone has to e x p l a i n to me how it Can Be, that:
Working-within ... a system which has been co-opted/thus is corrupted/non-functional by-def'n:
Any Group could create Radical Change?? [Radical means: in fucking-Root concepts!]

Well...? I'm Listening.

Oh. And. Talk-not about patience.. about creeping-gradualism, aka: "over Generations.." and cha.cha.cha. like that.
(Unless I am also completely 'at-sea' re. those little 'planetary Problems' about which we have all heard. (Too.))

This is Simple: (I think)
If I am correct-er (than the peace-loving gradualists, ordinarily a Laudable bunch..)
Murica shall remain the stagnant cess-pool of Brave jingoistic Slogans and Cowardly (non-)Actions forever
==as it goes Down with whimpers, gnashing-of-teeth wailings ... and futile/occasional self-immolations.

So: what does that Leave? as regards 'Action'-soon enough to attend to planet-wide Problems?
Er.. IN TIME.

Sorry. It's late.. long day. Hadn't the time to make it Briefer: get off asses and Fight?
Nawww.. ya gots to then explain what 'fight' might mean: to all IQs + all-mindsets: in each's argot.
No Wonder! that Bertie damn near went-mad, tryin to put All of Math into a step-by-step ... progression of Boolean fucking-logic, eh?

Post #388,014 by Ashton 3/28/14 6:50:16 AM Reply	This could be just-as-Big. Maybe terminal--for most of us. http://www.theguardi...stice-lets-end-it Inherited wealth is an injustice. Let's end it Inheritance, which rewards the wealthy for doing nothing, is once again becoming a key route to riches Â just as it was in the Victorian era James Butler theguardian.com, Wednesday 26 March 2014 11.08 EDT Inherited wealth is the great taboo of British politics. Nobody likes to talk about it, but it determines a huge number of outcomes: from participation in public life, to access to education, to the ability to save or purchase property. When David Cameron recently promised to raise the threshold for inheritance tax to £1m and praised "people who have worked hard and saved", he is singing from the hymn sheet of inherited inequality: it is, after all, easier to save if you inherit substantial sums to squirrel away, or if you can lock money in property that is virtually guaranteed to offer huge returns. Hard work has very little to do with it. [. . .] Emphasis: yada. The UK numbers (nor ΔUS) don't much matter--the Disparities Do. And whatever REGULATIONS (US or UK) as could get through Plutocrat-'selected'/electees as actually Govern: would. be. (sabotaged) pap. ... THINK, for just one: Single-Payer Med. So long as Accumulated-$$Wealth Rules: 'We' Don't get a meaningful "vote". EVER, I aver. (And the young/white Aynish arrogant-ones Like This Fine: because they're already on a fast-track to each's very-own Hedge Fund, etc. wash/rinse.) Worship of $$ is obsession-with-Power (over those who are "One-down") --Alistair Sim's phrase, well over 50 years ago/great movie, that.. School for Scoundrels, pretty sure/in B&W--no cgi, 3-D or guitars. The more the disparity in $/hr. the more sociopaths are created: rather than 'social'--ists.(Obvious-by-inspection?) I may well be unutterably-dense, because someone has to e x p l a i n to me how it Can Be, that: Working-within ... a system which has been co-opted/thus is corrupted/non-functional by-def'n: Any Group could create Radical Change?? [Radical means: in fucking-Root concepts!] Well...? I'm Listening. Oh. And. Talk-not about patience.. about creeping-gradualism, aka: "over Generations.." and cha.cha.cha. like that. (Unless I am also completely 'at-sea' re. those little 'planetary Problems' about which we have all heard. (Too.)) This is Simple: (I think) If I am correct-er (than the peace-loving gradualists, ordinarily a Laudable bunch..) Murica shall remain the stagnant cess-pool of Brave jingoistic Slogans and Cowardly (non-)Actions forever ==as it goes Down with whimpers, gnashing-of-teeth wailings ... and futile/occasional self-immolations. So: what does that Leave? as regards 'Action'-soon enough to attend to planet-wide Problems? Er.. IN TIME. Sorry. It's late.. long day. Hadn't the time to make it Briefer: get off asses and Fight? Nawww.. ya gots to then explain what 'fight' might mean: to all IQs + all-mindsets: in each's argot. No Wonder! that Bertie damn near went-mad, tryin to put All of Math into a step-by-step ... progression of Boolean fucking-logic, eh? Law above fear, justice above law, mercy above justice, love above all.
Post #388,054 by boxley 3/30/14 11:31:08 AM Reply	so you own nothing, the government rents it to you no thx Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #388,066 by Ashton 3/30/14 3:55:15 PM Reply	Digital-think slogans can not be reasoned-with (or against.)
Post #388,086 by dmcarls 3/31/14 2:31:31 PM Reply	Well, you're right about that... >>> "The UK numbers (nor ÄUS) don't much matter--the Disparities Do. " From the comments: One sentence basically says it all: "The top 1 percent of Americans gained 93 percent of the additional income created in the country in 2010, as compared with 2009." Now think of that in terms of a party with 100 people and big pizza with 100 slices. Basically it means that one rich guy gobbles up 93 slices of pizza. The other 99 get to divvy up the other seven. http://www.amazon.co...ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t It's at my local library, probably yours too!

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