NSA spying and inequality are deeply, inextricably linked.

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It is deeply disingenuous to try to argue that they aren't related, or that people focusing on one are ignoring the other.

They are deeply, intimately connected.

Why do plutocrats put a sweeping, Constitution-assaulting, spying infrastructure into place? To increase their own power and control, to facilitate their corporate predatory agenda, and to prevent investigation of their abuses by a free press and dissent by the citizens they are systematically exploiting, stripping of their rights, and impoverishing.

Caring about poverty REQUIRES that we take a powerful stand against this government spying. This sort of government abuse enables every corporate outrage that is the CAUSE of the poverty we are talking about. Targeting our outrage here is not an either-or proposition.

...mumbo jumbo. You could end the NSA tomorrow, but if you don't address poverty, nothing would change.

Citizens United, those corporate ads following you around on the Internet, greed, low wages....corporations are responsible for rising inequality, not primarily the government. It's corporate influence in government that leads to inequality, not the other way around.