The rich are getting richer while the poor get poorer -- and all the while the corporate-owned U.S. government finds new ways to assure that this inhumane trend will continue indefinitely.

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BillMoyers.com / By Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers: We Are Living in the United States of Inequality

"A petty, narcissistic, pridefully ignorant politics has come to dominate and paralyze our government."

April 12, 2013 | From BIll Moyers.com:

The unprecedented level of economic inequality in America is undeniable. In an extended essay, Bill Moyers shares examples of the striking extremes of wealth and poverty across the country, including a video report on California’s Silicon Valley. There, Facebook, Google, and Apple are minting millionaires, while the area’s homeless — who’ve grown 20 percent in the last two years — are living in tent cities at their virtual doorsteps.

“A petty, narcissistic, pridefully ignorant politics has come to dominate and paralyze our government,” says Moyers, “while millions of people keep falling through the gaping hole that has turned us into the United States of Inequality.”

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