History Is Replete With Examples

Certainly There Are Worse Sins Than Doing Everything Possible To Make Your Presidency Matter.

Warren Buffett Pays Taxes On A Smaller Percentage Of His Billions In Income Than His Cleaning Lady.

Half The U.s. Population Owns Barely 2 Percent Of Its Wealth, Putting The United States Near Rwanda And Uganda And Below Such Nations As Pre-arab Spring Tunisia And Egypt When Measured By Degrees Of Income Inequality.

While History Never Repeats Itself, Political Patterns Do.

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