In his speech on inequality earlier this month, President Obama
proclaimed that the government could not be a bystander in the effort to
reduce inequality, which he described as the defining moral issue of
our time. This left millions convinced that Obama would do nothing to
lessen inequality.
The problem is that President Obama wants the public to believe that
inequality is something that just happened. It turns out that the forces
of technology, globalization, and whatever else simply made some people
very rich and left others working for low wages or out of work
altogether. The president and other like-minded people feel a moral
compulsion to reverse the resulting inequality. This story is 180
degrees at odds with the reality. Inequality did not just happen, it was
deliberately engineered through a whole range of policies intended to
redistribute income upward.
http://www.alternet.org/massive-inequality-didnt-just-happen-it-was-engineered-conservative-government-policies
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