[Our man in washington]

Let's look at a set of individuals:

I knew this guy who lived with three other people in a boiling apartment while working on a loading dock making five bucks an hour.

I knew this guy who was unemployed and had so little to eat he lost 15 pounds of weight, and he wasn't overweight to begin with.

I knew this guy who put all his possessions in his friend's subcompact to drive to a new city to start a job making $19,500 a year.

I knew this guy who worked in an entry-level professional job, but money was tight, so he brought in his lunch every day while others could eat out every day.

I knew this guy who worked a journey-level professional job who could only afford a one room apartment, but had enough to do what he wanted, as long as he wasn't extravagent.

I knew this guy who worked a pretty decent professional job and has the resources to live in a good neighborhood and take vacations to Europe occasionally.

You can see these people have wildly unequal incomes. Does Barney Frank think it's a bad thing that all these people exist?

(One other minor fact: all those people are me, at different stages of my life.)

[Gabz]

WOW!!!!

What an excellent illustration of what these people just don't seem to get.

Kudos to you.

[CastleMan95]

And your great example points out the best way for individuals to close any so called income gap that may exist. Unfortunately its obvious that when Democrats talk about "closing the income gap", they usually don't mean someone working their way up to narrow the gap.