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Finance: US Income Gini Coefficients Show US Worse than Iran

US Income GINI coefficient calculations show that there are more poor in relation to the rich in the United States than in Iran and Turkey. Does this mean we can start looking at these countries as an economic model for forecasting? If the US was to make a push for, say, a WMD the like of a Clean Neutron Bomb or a Rust Amplification Device, and whip up the fervor of our poor, perhaps we could negotiate a better position for ourselves in the Global Marketplace. We could hide development of our secret weaponry in military development complexes designed as ski resorts for the jet setter crowds and provide free child care, so when UN weapons inspectors showed up they would have to contend with angry wealthy playboys and girls and small, cute innocent looking children. Perhaps we could also have a baby seal marine rescue complex available for photo-ops. In the long run, we could use religious fervor and xenophobic, or rather religioxenophobic, intolerance to create a solid, unified market block. The downside is that our economy might end up as a mono-economy, relying too heavily on exports of saints finger bones, charms and amulets made in china, and gold crufix, endangering our diversity and allowing the US economy to be wiped out if the UN should, god forbid, elect an Aethist as Secretary General. Perhaps it could be tempered with a heavily taxed religion like Mormonism. Polygamy could then provide the cheap labor neccessary to once again take our place as a Superpower in the Global Market.