Even if you are lucky enough to live in a wealthy country, one of the biggest influences on your health and life expectancy will be your socioeconomic status.
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If wealth continues to concentrate at the top, no one will be able to contain the corrupting influence of big money on the American system and the anger it unleashes. As Justice Louis D Brandeis once said: “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”
On Labor Day, remember this: Trump’s America works only for the rich | Robert Reich | Opinion | The Guardian
The have’s ensure the have nots are either blocked or have to pay for the excessive indulgences of the haves (ODT)
It is the wealthiest Australians who enjoy the most support.
Although America’s right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country’s major problems – for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity, opioid addiction, poor schools, and deteriorating infrastructure – the solution is always the same: lower taxes and deregulation, to “incentivize” investors and “free up” the economy. President Donald Trump is counting on this package to make America great again.
Source: Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing | By Joseph Stiglitz | Common Dreams
The members of the investor class are programmed to destroy.
Source: Why the rich can’t be trusted with money – Al Jazeera English
Rich and large, rude and loud. If there were a Pacific neighbourhood watch group, Australia would be the neighbour the group had to watch.
Source: Australia is a bad neighbour and we should be better than this
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