re: #135 Decatur Deb

Total on-topic—the most phenomenal XKCD chart. It isn’t intended to be funny:

[Link: xkcd.com…]

The biggest takeaway for me was one of the observations made when he made the chart:

2. The US’s 400 richest people have a greater combined net worth than the poorest 50% of the country.

What this means is that a group of 400 people in the United States have more money than roughly 162,000,000 people. COMBINED.

Now guess which group of people have the ears and create policies implemented by the votes of the lawmakers in the US?