[pwinnski]

> the bottom 80% have a very slow rising tide

This was true until the 1980s in the US. I remember a very popular national politician showing that it wasn't true that the poor were getting poorer, they were just getting richer at a much slower rate.

Then, in his eight years in office, he oversaw a shift so that now the poor are actually getting poorer, while the rich are getting richer at a far faster rate than they were.

Also, nobody mentioned communism but you. The subject under discussion was socialism.