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Published: Thursday, March 27, 2014, 8:55p.m. Updated 6 hours ago

In a March 23, 2014, New York Times editorial, Paul Krugman discusses a hot topic being pushed by progressives and Democrats in the media, on liberal blogs, at union halls, at political rallies and even on the floors of Congress. The topic? Income and wealth inequality.

I wasn't even aware that wealth and income inequality are two different things.

But I learned from Mr. Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, that income inequality is the salary gap between rich and poor. Wealth inequality, I'm paraphrasing here, is excessive income generated from investments and inheritances (non-salary income).

Liberals and progressives, such as Krugman, Nancy Pelosi and President Obama, love this issue. After all, inequality and class warfare go hand in hand. What better way to fire up the base ahead of an election season that looks rather dismal coming on the heels of ObamaCare failures and foreign policy embarrassments?

They portray income and wealth inequality as an issue of fairness. But, I ask, what is fairness?

Of course income inequality exists. Take my story as an example.

I am a reliability engineer by trade. My job is to find and fix problems with products to create happy customers and reduce warranty costs for my company.

The value of my services is probably worth more than those provided by a store clerk or a fast-food worker. But on the flip side, a brain surgeon provides much more value than I do especially to his ill patients.

Job value is, for the most part, directly proportional to salary. More value equals higher wages.

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The progressive community on Wednesday was celebrating the life, work, and activism of longtime writer and Yale University professor who passed away late Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn after a battle with cancer.

Author, educator, and activist Jonathan Schell (1943-2014) A journalist who reported on the Vietnam War as a staff writer for The New Yorker and whose book, The Fate of the Earth, is still regarded as one of the great books on the nuclear threat, Schell became a longtime member of The Nation magazine's community of writers and an activist who focused on nonviolent struggles, human rights, and ending the injustice associated with foreign wars abroad and assaults on liberty at home.

Schell was a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a lecturer at Yale University, where he taught courses on nonviolence and nuclear disarmament. Over the years, his work appeared in numerous print and online publications, including: The Nation, TomDispatch, Harper's, Foreign Affairs, and Common Dreams.

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In the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and in its aftermath, Schell was an outspoken critic of the Bush administration and put particular emphasis on the failure of a pliant media that asked too few hard questions both before and during the war.

In his last essay in a column series, titled 'Letter from Ground Zero,' based specifically on the aftermath of 9/11 and the misguided road to Iraq, Schell wrote movingly about how the flawed response to the attacks of September 11th, though clear for a time, at some point became hard to distinguish from deeper problemsboth new and old that he perceived were gripping the American republic.

"Until recently," he wrote in 2006, "it seemed possible to trace the main developments in the Bush administration's policies back to that horrible, fantastical day in September 2001, as if following an unbroken chain of causes and effects. Now it no longer does. The chain is too entangled with other chains, of newer and older origin."

Though many voiced the idea that "9/11 changed everything," Schell proved himself capable of more sophisticated analysis in which, despite the widespread damage and deep implications of those events and the Iraq War that followed, he concluded that "what remains most striking and most surprising is the degree of continuity of the systemic disorder in the face of radical, galloping change in almost every other area of political life."

And comparing the so-called 'War on Terror' to the Cold War that preceded it, Schell asked an essential question: "By looking at external foes, are we looking in the wrong place for the origins of [our society's] illness?"

In response to his death, Yale colleague Jim Sleeper offered a 'fond farewell,' calling Schell a "luminous, noble" individual who gave others a "powerful example of how to dissent" and concluded: "A much better societys future is dimmed a bit by the loss of Jonathan Schells insight, magnanimity, and love."

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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha, has urged the party to stop the culture of imposition of candidates to move ahead of the competition.

Okorocha said this in his remarks at the 1st Progressive Governors-Legislative-Civil Society Roundtable, with the theme: Improving Governance through transparent budgeting, accountability and effective public financial management, in Abuja, on Monday.

The Imo State governor, who said he was aligning himself to comments made by a previous speaker, said the 2015 general election was for the APC to win or lose.

According to him, the outcome of the recent opinion polls conducted by APCs foreign consultant was a true reflection of what was on ground.

He noted that for the APC to form government in 2015, it must do things differently.

Okorocha said, Our victory is in our hands it is left for us to make it or mar it, but I believe we can make it. I believe that this issue of imposition of candidates must stop in APC and that is the only way.

The masses know us better, when they say this is the candidate that can win the election he is the candidate let there be liberal democracy.

Turning to the theme of the gathering, he said, if we keep doing the same old things, the same old way, we will get the very same results.

According to him, most of the time, our budgetary system from conception to execution was faulty hence the need for change.

Earlier in his remarks, Senator Olusola Adeyeye, said when APC forms government at the federal level, it will reintroduce tolls along major highways to generate the required revenue to maintain the roads.

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