Do you worry or wonder that about the increasing gulf between the richest and poorest in your Country or State? ( Health warning - this diary is written by a Brit but it also applies to my country as well as the US). You should worry – not because you may politically like or dislike the spread of wealth but because the more unequal the society the worse it performs on many key measures.
A newly published study http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/ nails the relationship between key social indicators and inequality. In factors such as mental health, infant deaths (the USA is worse than Greece or Portugal), education, teenage births the most unequal societies perform worst. This study has been extended to a comparison of US states.
Conclusion – Obama and Brown have to go for some material narrowing of the inequality in their respective countries or they will not improve their societies. My first Diary so slag me off bad please.