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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-10 08:06 AM
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The average household in the top 1 percent earned $1.3 million after taxes in 2007,
up $88,800 just from the prior year, while the income of the average middle-income household hovered around $55,300. While the nation's total income has grown sharply since 1979, according to the CBPP report, the wealthiest households have claimed an increasingly large share of the pie.


New data show that the gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest parts of the population in 2007 was the highest it's been in 80 years, while the share of income going to the middle one-fifth of Americans shrank to its lowest level ever.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/income-gap-between-rich-a_n_639984.html

While we discuss why their was no health care reform, jobs creation, and increases in SS. Keep this in mind when you are discussing these inequities.

Maybe in 20 years a President might sign a bill into law that prevents these financial inequities from being allowed.
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burnsei sensei Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-10 08:09 AM
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1. They earned it?
I'd like to see how.
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-10 08:25 AM
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3. Well being born is hard work for the rich, its the only way I can think of that they did work wise
even though they had nothing to do with the labor of their mothers, they just like to tell everyone how they did it all by their own boot straps.
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SunnySong Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-10 08:12 AM
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2. The rich get richer it's the law of the land...



Oh and fuck Mitch and Murry... Fuck them





An the Machine too?






FUCK THE MACHINE!!!!
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-09-10 08:41 AM
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4. Democracy can't survive this kind of capitalism. Money = power.
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