Kent Peterman notes:

The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that it's difficult to determine if they are true or not.
–Abraham Lincoln

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Richard Dalton writes:

While most everyone has heard that America's wealthiest have a disproportionate share of our wealth, this Pew research identifies another disparity–older households vs. the youngest and the gap which has grown substantially over the last 25 years. "Wealth" is defined as assets minus debts, a number directly affected by home ownership.

Disproportion, disparity and the increasing absence of wealth among younger household. Does a lot to explain the "99%" encampments. Also makes me feel a bit itchier about insisting that Medicare benefits are sacrosanct, even though they are a major portion of my own "wealth.".

Daniel Dern writes:

If I were at CES (or back at Comdex) and saw this, I'd immediately slot it for the "Dangdest thing I saw at the show" award (as coined by Jerry Pournelle): Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment

Dan Grobstein File

• Maybe We Could Hire People To Do Some Stuff
• Where's the part about how much the companies supplying the contract workers are getting paid to supply them? Add that to the $10 an hour these poor people are now making and I doubt if there is a tremendous savings. The rich aren't paying their fair share and our elected officials are afraid to offend the people who pay for their campaigns. We're spiraling downward. Less employed people = less tax revenue. Employed people at a lower rate = less tax revenue. and the article finally says quote:
  

  Recent data from Arizona shows that privately operated prisons often cost more to operate than state-run facilities. A study by the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit Washington group, found that in 33 of 35 occupations, using contractors cost the federal government billions of dollars more than using government employees. And some municipalities have brought outsourced services back into the public fold after determining they could perform the work as cost-effectively as private companies. 
  unquote.

  It's just another way to make people vulnerable so that they can't fight back.
  Hidden Toll as states shift to contract workers