I've lost count of how often I've posted about economic inequality in the United States and its terrible consequences.

The most recent are here and here contain these excerpts: 

"For more than a quarter century, conservative, right wing GOP administrations have taken this country to hell....the hell of horrific economic inequality...the super wealthy top two percent and the struggling rest of us."

And: "economic inequality and unfairness justly angers regular struggling Americans, those working for stagnant wages and those tens of millions unemployed.

"reality is that spineless government leadership needs to catch up to and keep pace with, not ignore and diss, the strong, grassroots people of this country."

Now Paul Rosenberg at Open Left has succinctly and visually laid out the stark realities in a posting titled: "Even monkeys know that inequality is wrong, so why doesn't Versailles?"

"With folks like Christine O'Donnell and Glenn Beck on the scene, I've just gotta ask, "Who's the one who's stopped evolving here, anyway?" 

"From The Situationist blog, a brief but powerful clip from world-famous primatologist Frans de Waal talking about monkeys & equality... Link above at Situationist blog or here.

"A more general take-away from de Wall is just how important it is for those who wish to perpetuate inequality that they figure out some scam or system of scams that makes things seem like they're equal, even though they're not.

".....here's a chart from this week's edition of Too Much, an online weekly publication of the Institute for Policy Studies.  It turns out that over 90% of Americans would prefer to live in Sweden, rather than the US, so far as wealth distribution is concerned:"