DoubleDutchy

Sure. Heavy fogs on the Channel; continent cut off.

paul30

Far from favoring redistribution of wealth toward equality, the disparity of wealth has grown over the past twenty years.

And this came about directly as a result of governmental (mostly Republican) policy. Taxes on the wealthiest have been greatly reduced. Taxes on large business have been almost eliminated.

Bush, of course, in continuing this trend with a vengeance: tax breaks to the rich and corporations.

There has long been socialism in the country, but it is socialism for the rich. The rich benefit disproportionately from such wildly expensive things as the military and roads and the courts and justice system, as well as from publically financed education and health care (where else are they going to get their lowly paid drones and sheeplike customers?).