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From: Bob Olsen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 03:47:58 -0400
Subject: Undeclared War (Book by James Laxer)

  May 17, 1998    The Toronto Star  By Dalton Camp


                   Surprise: Rich getting richer, poor poorer

 .... snip ........
                   In a new book coming soon to bookstores
                   near you, James Laxer writes about The War
                   (Penguin) being waged now
                   between the two remaining classes in
                   society - a dominant class and a dominated
                   one.

                   StatsCan published last year a study
                   showing that 1996 average incomes of the
                   poorest fifth of Canadian families fell by
                   more than 3 per cent, while the incomes of
                   the richest 5 per cent increased by almost
                   2 per cent.

                   Or put another way: The three wealthiest
                   Americans - Gates, Warren Buffett and John
                   Walton (and family) - have more combined
                   assets ($94 billion U.S.) than 50 million
                   of the poorest Americans. In purely
                   financial assets, the same three have a
                   combined wealth worth as much as that of
                   the poorest 100 million Americans.
                   ``Welcome to cyber capitalism,
                   American-style,'' Laxer writes.