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Originally Posted by Biesterfield
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% of budget spent on needs is pretty good
But we still need to define how we're calculating "people". For example, how much has that improved for the bottom 1% of families, bottom 10%, bottom 25%, etc etc.
There's no doubt that the overall mean level of prosperity is at an alltime, as it should be and will always be at any given time in history.
That shouldn't be the goal though. We could get there with moron Ben Carson as president, or anyone else for that matter. Humans will always progress no matter what. That's always going to be the case.
The goal should be to proportionately raise the quality of life per person in accordance with that overall rise in prosperity, and we are failing to do that that to a ridiculous degree.
Dont get me wrong, I don't think Bernie's ideas are "fair" whatsoever. But fairs got nothing to do with it. Common sense dictates that there is no reason to let such a tiny fraction of the population have so much of its wealth when there is overwhelming evidence that that wealth doesn't trickle down enough to contribute to a greater good .