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Don't Blame the 1% for America's Pay Gap

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Bob Levin4/25/2012 8:32:23 am PDT

re: #25 Flame Fin Tomini Tang

You’re making assertions as if they were geometric postulates, and they aren’t. You have to prove them.

‘Money Talks’ doesn’t prove anything. If you go back to the days of the Robber Barons, the original one percenters, you’ll note that their families are not as powerful as they used to be, and that new faces have taken over. When is the last time you heard the name Morgan in American politics? But you do see the name Paul Allen a lot. Morgan’s money doesn’t say much anymore, nor does the Rockefeller money. Buffet money says different things than Ford money. Gates and Jobs money says different things than Vanderbilt money.

So, I’m just asking—if money talks, what is it saying?