“We have three people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America,” Sanders said.
The statement, [WaPo fact checker] Kessler said, is factually true—but he rejected Sanders’s suggestion that the inequality evidenced by the fact means that a major correction to the U.S. economy is required...
Critics denounced Kessler’s suggestion that the notion of 50 percent of the population of the world’s richest country carrying so much debt that any wealth they own is canceled out, could hold no meaning about the state of the nation’s economic system.
The column, wrote Sanders’s speechwriter, David Sirota, should be filed under “things you can’t make up.”
Read the rest of the story HERE:
At www.alternet.org
At www.alternet.org
