Wage inequality continued its 35-year rise in 2015 | Economic Policy Institute

The video was just for fun. Lighten up, poindexter.

The question I offered you was real, though. Did you ever try to eat for a week in America without paying Warren Buffet?

I bet you more than 95% of Americans paid Warren Buffet last week. If he doesn't own your electric company he owns Geico Insurance, Dairy Queen, Helzberg Diamonds, Jordan's Furniture, Shaw Industries, Star Furniture, Charter Brokerage, Chippewa Boots, HH Brown Shoes, Justin, Nacoma, Tony Lama, Medpro Health Insurance, McLane (the guys who distribute all your beer and wine), The Pampered Chef, Fruit of the Loom (they even own your underwear), US Boat, Brooks, almost all the wire and copper tubing coming into the HVAC business, 71 major newspapers in all 50 states, Benjamin Moore Paints, Lubrizol (they make all your car's fluids and a good chunk of shampoos and stuff), Clayton Homes, RC Willey Home Furnishings...

And Buffet even smashed Kraft and Heinz together last year. Now Berkshire Hathaway not only is the largest shareholder in Coke, but they've got your Heinz ketchup, Kraft mac 'n cheese, A1 steak sauce, Athenos yoghurt, claussen pickels, cheez wiz, cool whip, capri sun, country time, crystal light, jell-o, cracker barrel cheese, gevalia coffee, kool-aid, jet-puffed marshmallows, kraft mayo, dressings, and cheese, lunchables, maxwell house coffee, miracle whip, oscar mayer hotdogs and meats, mio, philadelphia creme cheeses, planters nuts, polly-o, stove top stuffing, velveeta, tassimo, classico pasta sauces, lea & perrins steak sauce, bagel bites, TGI Fridays, delimex, watties, plasmon, and nurture baby foods, lunchables, weight watchers...etc...etc...

They even advertise 98% penetration into all North American households with the Kraft/Heinz merger alone.

I'd venture to guess that only the Amish, some native tribes, and the occasional super-rural family eats for a week in America without paying Warren Buffet in 2016.

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