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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

She makes an excellent point, We always hear about the gap between the rich and the poor becoming wider but the truth is that even though that might be true the poor are still better off than they were forty years ago.

Look at it this way. If the poor are at 3 and the rich are at 5, the gap is two. If the poor go to 6 and the rich go to ten, the gap is 4 but the poor have double their income exactly the same as the rich have. Even if the rich go to 20 and the poor go to eight, the poor are still better off then they had been. We are a country of equal opportunity, not guaranteed equal results or equal incomes.

Some would have you believe that because the gap is now 4 that the poor are somehow less well off.

It's like John F Kennedy said, "A rising tide lifts all boats."

Ted Sorenson, Kennedy's speech writer, discovered this phrase used as the slogan of The New England Council, a regional chamber of commerce. It did not originate with Kennedy.