FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Income distribution and re-distribution and mal-distribution

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: August 12, 2010 11:38:21 AM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion Group Discussion Group <hidisc [at] 
> humanistinstitute.org>
> 
> Robert Reich's 8/11 blog sets out tersely and accurately what has been 
> happening to the middle class in the past decade or so. And he explores some 
> why's and how's and what-t0-do's. He takes for granted the fact that the 
> emergence of a middle class was (and still is, in the developing world) the 
> engine of progress.
> 
> Interesting that some of his commentators accuse him of wanting <equal> 
> distribution of wealth.
> 
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> http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion/82-82/2630-confessions-of-a-class-worrier
> 
> It would be hard to name an issue clser to the main root of our situation 
> today. If this makes you a <radical>,  raise high the banner!
> 
> Bob
>