(Doug Miller) writes:


[...]

As long as growth rates were high enough so that there was much to
distribute. With growth run into it's limits the gap between rich and
poor will open ever farther.

You are proceeding from a mistaken assumption. You observe economic
stagnation in Europe, and assume that it is the result of economic
growth having encountered a natural limit of some kind, when in fact

Not really. I see economic growth all around me taking away all that
is nice in the world. The whines you hear about stagnation in Europe
are just from those that cannot get enough...

the stagnation is the direct, and entirely predictable, result of
socialism.

As the free market advocats make you believe, to your own
disadvantage.

Here in America, we do not share the belief that there are any
limits.

That is well known and bitterly grieved over by the rest of the world
which has to suffer the consequences.

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