Is the Wealth Gap Widening Under Obama, Bernanke? Love that title! As if the “wealth gap”, the chasm separating the poor from the rich, is a thing to be measured, and therefore judged. Oh the evil of it! How can we, in good conscience, allow it to expand? How can we allow anyone to grow his wealth while so many others struggle to make ends meet? We must narrow the divide. We must expand government control. We must take more from the rich (as one Wisconsin high school senior exclaimed last week during his teachers