This page may not appear properly. The Rich Are Getting Richer American capitalism is driven by personal incentive. Home ownership is a central contributor to socialital stability. Thus, capitalism benefits when wages produce more home owners and fewer renters. This stability can only be sustained by quality jobs that result from a strong, profitable manufacturing base and and high end information service based jobs.
Emphasis is provided by the following humorous anecdote.
A cafe waitress was watching the Nightly News while working tables. She heard the anchor parrot government statistics that boasted of 22 million new job in America. Visitors are shaken by venturing only three city blocks from the tourist paths before they are confronted by street side beggars, prostitutes, and drug dealers. Air travel also helps us see the poverty paradox. During night flights between cities, the homes and businesses below seem to sparkle like stars seen through a telescope.