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And if you were not told that or taught that in school there being a prime example of desparity amongst those not receiving an education of value.
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Wealthy people cannot help but generate more economic activity than the poor but this does not justify the desparity between the wealthy and the poor.
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The desparity between America and the rest of the world cannot possibly endure for too much longer.
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If we could get crime out of our government, demand investigation, these other injustices, civil rights, economic desparity, lack of health care, the economy, the environment, could be remedied much more honestly and directly.
Clinton and Obama: The Worst and Best Thing to Happen to the Democratic Party in Years 2009
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If we could get crime out of our government, demand investigation, these other injustices, civil rights, economic desparity, lack of health care, the economy, the environment, could be remedied much more honestly and directly.
Clinton and Obama: The Worst and Best Thing to Happen to the Democratic Party in Years 2009
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But so is our national debt, global warming, health care costs, the growing desparity between rich and poor and the cluster we know as Iraq.
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Illegal immigrants must bare a good deal of the blame of the desparity (?) of wealth in our nation.
Think Progress » Specter Caves, Proposes Blanket Amnesty For Illegal Government Surveillance 2006
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Voting for Nader is a vote for McCain and if we want another perpetual war candidate and more economic desparity, then ignore the democrats and waste your vote on Nader, who stands even less a chance of getting elected then Kucinich. by
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Reply: Don't forget the cause/affect, the nearly total obliteration of the Bill of Rights along with economic desparity we haven't seen since the Great Depression. by
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I do think that people would need to know something in order for a good discussion to happen, but I think most people do know some things about the desparity, they just never think about it, especially in a way that might lead to empathy.
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