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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-16-10 11:48 AM
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A tale of two headlines
Edited on Sat Jan-16-10 11:49 AM by KansDem
I stopped in for breakfast this morning on the way to work and saw these two headlines in side-by-side newspaper bins:

Wall Street Journal (Friday): Banks Set for Record Pay
Kansas City Star (Saturday): Budget Proposal Has Big Cuts for KC

Anyone see a disconnect here?

edited for plural form...
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-16-10 11:52 AM
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1. The divergence in wealth has become so great that it skews the averages.
Americans just won't see that they have been rendered irrelevant, in the global order.


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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-16-10 12:38 PM
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2. "Americans just won't see that they have been rendered irrelevant, in the global order."
A little off-topic but as I ate my breakfast, I looked around the room and wondered how many of my fellow customers had found Limbaugh's or Robertson's comments about Haiti obscene, or who even cared...
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