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SleeplessinSoCal

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4. i heard Bernie Sanders on Seth Meyers sounding the alarm about obscene wealth.
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 11:00 AM
Sep 2022

But he stopped there. He didn't connects how that wealth is starving us and preventing a healthy economy. If he would eliminate thee percentages from his diatribe and cut to what that gap actually does, we could all benefit.

If that wealth were to actually "trickle down" there would be a modest improvement because there would be investments in the economy. Instead it just sits offshore in tax havens or used to buy back stocks so that shareholders get a piece that ought to go into creating more productive businesses. Invest in America. Not in themselves.

Hedges crams so much negativity into his opeds that it actually backfires, IMHO. Plus he only sees Europe as a disaster and says we're making it worse by helping Ukraine. I do hope that there are greedy Capitalists donating to the cause of defeating tyrants like Putin. Or do they actually have tyrant envy?

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