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Poverty

Snarkoleptic

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1. And since consumer spending plus gov't spending on healthcare totals 70% of GDP,

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 07:52 AM

Oct 2014

this obscene inequality slows the overall economy.
Walmart has been struggling because the working poor are tapped out, but don't expect them to change. It's a frog and scorpion thing, IMHO.

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4 Reasons You Should Be Taking America's Inequality Very Personally [View all] unhappycamper Oct 2014 OP

And since consumer spending plus gov't spending on healthcare totals 70% of GDP, Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 #1

Please expand on the "frog/scorpion" thing. littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #2

Old fable antiquie Oct 2014 #3

The fundamentally vicious indeed do exist. littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #4