Reply #18: Inequality by design [View All]

[Jcrowley]

How then are kids from poorly funded schools supposed to "compete" with kids from places like beverly hills? sure, some (the exceptions) will be able to compete, but many, perhaps most, won't. we, our society, places tremendous burdens on and has trememdous expectations of those at the bottom of the barrel. meanwhile people like bush barely pass at places like harvard and yale, and then are handed everything to them, including the office of president. and to add insult to injury, the irony of someone like him whining about "quotas" barely get a mention in our so-called press. there is something wrong with that, and there is no reason why we should continue to accept it as "the way it is."

The pace of inequality has grown steadily over three decades, under both Republican and Democratic administrations and Congresses. The Gini index, the global measure of inequality, grew as quickly under President Clinton as it has under President George W. Bush. Widening disparities in the U.S. are the result of three decades of bi-partisan public policies that have tilted the rules of the economy to the benefit of major corporations and large asset owners at the expense of people whose security comes from a paycheck.