Well, Sawz, I sho nuff ain't backin' away from the statement I made back then about the income disparity in the US... It is no secret that the divide has been increasing since 1982 and accelerated drastically over the last 8 years...

Yes, I can envision a situation where the super wealthy will be holed up in their compounds with private security companies like Balckwater protecting them... Actually, I hear that there is a company right now that provides these services for an annual fee that in the case of a catastrope will collect the wealthy and get them to safety and provide for them... Wealthy people are allready purchasing yearing plans for such a scenerio...

But down the road when Southern Man figures out just who's hand is in his pocket I'd be willing to bet that these companies will offer simialr services...

I mean, all one has to do is tudy history to see the cycles of revolution and they all boil down to resources... There will come a tipping point, Sawz, as there has every time that a small number of folks corral too much wealth... It has happened hundreds, maybe thousands, of times during the history of man... Right now, we have roughly 5% of the population controlling roughly 80% of the wealth... Another way of looking at that is that 95% od the people are having to live on about 20% of the wealth created... Hmmmmm?

So what the tipping point is, I don't know... What I do know is that those 95% are being squeezed harder than any time in my life time... This isn't just my opinion but a fact that we hear almost daily...

What this means is that unless the rich are willing to share then two things are going to happen. First, as I have allready mentioned, the rich will have to do what rich have historically done before revolutions and that is to protect themselves the best they can... In this phase they will move into compounds... We have allready seen this in many areas with gated communities and private security companies such as Blackwater...

Now if they continue to not want to share when things are starting to get uncomfortable and they feel like prisoners then there will occur a revolution... This isn't an opinion based on my imagination but one based on history...

Voltaire said, "Those who don't know history tend to repeat it"

So the ball is in your court Sawz... Are you willing to bet that this time will be different??? Well, if you are, I'd suggest taking a few history classes before making your wager...

B~