Colombia Is Taking On Its Billionaires. Why Can't We?

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/58413/colombia-is-taking-on-its-billionaires-why-cant-we

Colombia Is Taking On Its Billionaires. Why Can't We?
Economic Equity
by Thom Hartmann | September 19, 2014 - 10:21am

America's billionaires are driving this nation's poverty epidemic. But it doesn't have to be that way.

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In 2013, over 45 million Americans were living in poverty, including one in five children, and today, around 4 percent of our population lives on $2 per day or less.

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There is no reason why one in five children should be struggling with poverty, or why 12.5 million Americans should be living on $2 per day.

Let's take a page out of Colombia's playbook, stand up to the wealthy elite, and finally eliminate poverty in America.

[newfie11]

1. because the people that can do it are all on the take by the billionaires

and so many Americans are stupid on politics and continue to vote the same crooks in year after bloody year!