After Sanders points out poorest have zero or negative wealth, WaPo fact checker slammed for calling

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Published 33 mins ago
on July 1, 2019
By Common Dreams

Critics of massive wealth inequality in the United States defended a statistic frequently cited by 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday after Glenn Kessler, author of the Washington Post‘s “Fact Checker” column, claimed the fact that the bottom half of the country has zero or negative wealth was “not especially meaningful.”

The statistic in question was brought up most recently by Sanders during the Democratic primary debate last week:

“We have three people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America,” Sanders said.

The statement, Kessler said, is factually true—but he rejected Sanders’s suggestion that the inequality evidenced by the fact means that a major correction to the U.S. economy is required.

“This snappy talking point is based on numbers that add up, but it’s also a question of comparing apples to oranges,” Kessler wrote. “But people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth, as debts cancel out whatever assets they might have. So the comparison is not especially meaningful.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/after-sanders-points-out-poorest-have-zero-or-negative-wealth-wapo-fact-checker-slammed-for-calling-that-fact-not-especially-meaningful/

Said by a person who's owner paid zero in taxes and made millions in profit, to pay his salary...........................

[shanny]

1. Hello everybody: WaPo and NYT are not on our side. eom

[alwaysinasnit]

2. Very true but I would expand that to say all MSM is not on our side. How could they be, as they

are owned/controlled by the economic elite.

[JudyM]

3. Locking.

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