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Sam Seder Joins Ring of Fire Radio!
11:40 am
Mornin!
the difference in income is crippling.
12:13 pm
Morning, Jim!
I see Sammy’s dressed up. I just tuned in. Did he say where he’s appearing later? Dylan?
12:29 pm
He was supposed to be on CNN this morning but the segment was bumped due to the stock market.
12:32 pm
Thank you, Matt. At least I did not miss it.
12:26 pm
why is this freak Peter Thiel’s day and month of his birthday not available?
He is acting like the evil spawn of L. Ron Hubbard
12:31 pm
Will the Syrian situation evolve into big ass war in the Middle East?
11:25 am
Heh! I read “big ass-war.” Which might be better than the sixteen we got going now, but it’s hard to say…
12:42 pm
The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour piece was Tuesday by Paul Solman and the clip is on Yuse-Tub Utube Youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnQwTS-K6jI
12:44 pm
The Top quintile had 84% the bitton 2 quintiles had 0.4% of the wealth
That menas if there were 5 people. One guy has more than 80% Two guys have less than half a percent among themselves. The reamining two guys have about 15%
12:47 pm
The middle quintile, the one guy who has two guys poorer and two guys richer owns 4%.
This means the aggregate wealth of the majority 3/5 of the population own less than 5% together. They own 4.4%
The second richest guy owns 11%
12:44 pm
benpolitico Ben Smith
RT @mikeallen: Romney: “It has taken President Obama far too long to speak out forcefully against Assad and his vicious crackdown in Syria” [The GOP want another war is why]
1:06 pm
Someone was a little quick on the SammyCam button.
1:06 pm
Acts of the Apostles says that the early Christians held all property in common. They each contributed according to his own ability. Was Christ a laissez-faire devil take the hindmost? Not according to the Early Church not acc to the Bible
1:15 pm
Someone please give me a word that rhymes with brutal besides poodle or noodle!
1:21 pm
frugal
1:28 pm
thanks, that just might work…please don’t come after me for any royalties when tomorrow’s song becomes a smash hit.
1:36 pm
futile, feudal
1:36 pm
From the clean air of the Kush mountains to the vapors in diesel repair shops
friends help for no remuneration .
1:52 pm
you guys rock
1:30 pm
There are 34 countries in the OECD – USA, Japan, Mexico, France, Poland, Portugal, Israel, Italy, Ireland, Luxumberg, Slovakia, Sweden, Britain, Ungary, Iceland, Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Norway, Estonia, CzechLand, Finland, NorwayLand, Denmark, Chile, Austria & Australia, Siwsserland and Turkey.
According to Economist Jonathan Gruber’s recent textbook of tax policy and public finance, only Mexico has a more unequal income distribution than USA.
7:16 pm
Sad tears
http://www.truth-out.org/symptoms-bush-obama-presidency-saved-and-sacked/1313686142