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Longevity inequality now the reason to address income inequality
Posted by: Section_8_Sharon ()
Date: March 17, 2014 03:36PM

So the NY Slimes is using FFX county as the poster child for income inequality and laying the groundwork for the debate.

Fairfax County, Va., and McDowell County, W.Va., are separated by 350 miles, about a half-day’s drive. Traveling west from Fairfax County, the gated communities and bland architecture of military contractors give way to exurbs, then to farmland and eventually to McDowell’s coal mines and the forested slopes of the Appalachians. Perhaps the greatest distance between the two counties is this: Fairfax is a place of the haves, and McDowell of the have-nots. Just outside of Washington, fat government contracts and a growing technology sector buoy the median household income in Fairfax County up to $107,000, one of the highest in the nation. McDowell, with the decline of coal, has little in the way of industry. Unemployment is high. Drug abuse is rampant. Median household income is about one-fifth that of Fairfax.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/income-gap-meet-the-longevity-gap.html?src=me&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Most%20Emailed&pgtype=article


Of course, perhaps McDowell County would be doing better if it weren't for Democrat's War on Coal.

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Re: Longevity inequality now the reason to address income inequality
Posted by: Longevity gap? ()
Date: March 17, 2014 03:43PM

Longevity gap? I didn't read the whole article. Did it say that men in Fairfax County last longer than men in McDowell County? Or did it say that men in Fairfax County have longer penises than men in McDowell County?

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Re: Longevity inequality now the reason to address income inequality
Posted by: Longevity gap? ()
Date: March 17, 2014 03:43PM

Longevity gap? I didn't read the whole article. Did it say that men in Fairfax County last longer than men in McDowell County? Or did it say that men in Fairfax County have longer penises than men in McDowell County?

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Re: Longevity inequality now the reason to address income inequality
Posted by: Not Meade ()
Date: March 17, 2014 04:09PM

Longevity gap? Wrote:
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> Longevity gap? I didn't read the whole article.
> Did it say that men in Fairfax County last longer
> than men in McDowell County? Or did it say that
> men in Fairfax County have longer penises than men
> in McDowell County?


Last longer as they're not busy coughing up coal dust.

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