Shocking - Inequality Map - U.S. Ranks Near Bottom on Income Inequality

[kpete]

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/09/map-us-ranks-near-bottom-on-income-inequality/245315/

[MichiganVote]

1. K&R

[stillwaiting]

2. Geaux Sweden!!

The rich in Sweden have it SO very bad I'm sure.

Swedish CEO's are barely getting by...

[moondust]

3. The U.S. may have technically ended slavery,

but I'm not sure it will ever eradicate the slave owner mindset with its boundless arrogance and absurd sense of entitlement.

[Capitalocracy]

7. +1

[nashville_brook]

4. keeping pace with China -- yay.

[Capitalocracy]

8. And Mexico. And Argentina

I live in Argentina. It kind of sucks. But at least we have universal access to health care.

[Quantess]

15. The richest man in the world is a Mexican.

And note that US is the same color code as Mexico.
The advantage to living in a cardboard box in Mexico rather than the USA, is that the weather is warmer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. USA, USA, USA

:-)

You know it is coming from them usual quarters...

[malaise]

6. Thanks for this

Shakes head
Rec

[Liberal In Texas]

9. Russia is better. Geesh...

[Broderick]

10. End the tyranny of the United States

Look what it does to their own people, and they have no business concerning themselves in other countries.

[underpants]

11. Take THAT Zambia!!!

and Zimbabwe and Hong Kong and Niger and Peru!!!!

[Fool Count]

12. By "bottom" you mean "top", surely.

[sam11111]

13. is that trinidad in GREEN off of Venezeula?

Bahamas too?

Surprised costa rica not better.

How is chile these days? LW or RW?

Which guyana is doing so well?

US - the result of tax cuts. - milton friedman's "Little Shop of Horrors" at the University of Chicago.

Same true of Chile.

Thatcherism came from milton too?

[Capitalocracy]

14. Chile has a lot of leftover fascists from the dictatorship

And they currently have a RW prez who's so much of a disaster he managed to cock up the mine rescue and make himself look bad.