[TheRealThing]

You only thoroughly read your own posts. That's clear. Nowhere do I blame greedy corporations for income stratification. I do point out that things like mountain top removal were not designed and implemented in the overall best interests of the totality of mountain culture and community.
I would point out that massive income inequality and stratification are perhaps a better historical indicator of declining social structures than many of the "culture war" issues you rave about. In my post, I state that no society can continue indefinitely when those who are able but refuse to contribute leech resources they do nothing to help create. I cited the working poor and the low end of the middle class, if the middle class is viewed in three layer cake strata.
Again, you are simply wrong if you hold that trickle down economics lifted the working poor and the lowest strata of the middle class, and have fashioned your own fantasy land in illusory warm fuzzies for Reagan's economy. Right and left, in my view, have to leave old rhetoric and old scars behind. Hard decisions have to be made going forward, including entitlement reform, tax code reform, campaign finance reform. Both sides are going to have to bite the bullet on some past bulwarks. In this, I think, TRT, we agree: this nation cannot remain on its present course and remain solvent and strong for the next hundred years. Sacred cows may have to be slaughtered. For instance, much more emphasis on preventative care, and focus on catastrophic care coverages, with less coverage at lower ends of illness (some of the ideas of the former CBO Director). I personally think we are about to enter a time of social change, and it will be painful, and medicare, social security, and defense have to be on the table.

Out of one side of your mouth you admitted there is no economy that guarantees everybody will become winners. Then out the other side without even catching a breath, you speak of income inequality.

I haven't forgotten your loose Biblical interpretation where your first conflated Scripture and Socialism, in which you claim that the Lord will in the last days, level the financial playing field. As if He agrees with your view on the unfairness of income inequality. So don't dodge what you've argued on here from the first day of your emergence as Sombrero.

YOUR WORDS?

"The poor you will always have among you" is high authority suggesting playing field is not level. Blessed are the poor...but woe unto you rich" is high authority the playing field will flip. Early in the Book of Acts, when the believers held all in common, a long distant relative of posters here represented wrote a papyrus note to Peter, suggesting they weren't being good capitalists.