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Gee. Once again Rep. Ryan is lyin'. What a shocker. He confuses up with down in his statement, "We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of income movement between groups". Evidence suggests that the vast majority of that movement is not upward. While up and down are both vertical, the similarity ends there. Kind of like the Orwellian "war is peace" schtick, now up really is down to these people. When the richest 400 people possess the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of the populace, something's amiss. One very large reason for Europe's higher level of upward mobility is that their constitutions guarantee their citizens' right to form and join unions. When America's union membership rate exceeded 30% we had the highest standard of living in the world and it drove the GOP crazy. They've not gotten any saner since.