Breaking: 3 Richest Americans Now Own More Wealth Than Bottom 50%

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  1. Eleuthera

    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    Here are some of the facts offered and analyzed by Klein in her book that is now 10 years old, meaning the data is also that old.

    In the US in 1980 the average CEO made about 43 times what the average worker made. By 2005 that had risen to 411 times what the average worker made.

    This partially explains how and why Occupy Wall Street played out.

    Klein's books and writings no doubt contain just a bit too much truth for some like you, but for others like me, it is greatly appreciated.

    When the status quo is even remotely threatened, there comes from the far right a weeping and gnashing of teeth.
     
  2. RP12

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    You completely ignored what i posted and then claimed i couldnt handle the "truth".. Then accuse me of being "far right"... Pathetic avoidance of information you dont like.

    Yes the wealth gap has increased. How did backing Chavez for example help that?
     
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    Anyone notice that these three particular super rich Americans publicly support liberal causes to get on liberal's good side yet use any method available to them to make themselves richer, playing the liberal's for suckers?
     
  4. Kode

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    How would all that change when we factor-in the Republican obstruction that they announced and then carried out on most of what Obama tried to do?

    Anyone who blames one party for a bad economy and praises the other party is a hopelessly biased partisan who is being played for a sucker by both parties.
     
  5. Kode

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    Bone up on the real median wage vs. productivity since 1970.
     
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    Okay, done.

    So the question remains: Who is suppressing anyone's opportunities for greater income and wealth? And how are they doing so?
     
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  7. Bear513

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    My whining, I am not going to read anything more of hers, she lost reality so bad it's not even funny .to the agw cult ahe is a revrand mother a fricking penguin



    https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7148090




    Naomi Klein’s Own Form of Climate Change Denial: Blame Capitalism

    "Meeting science-based [carbon] targets will mean forcing some of the most profitable companies on the planet to forfeit trillions of dollars of future earnings by leaving the vast majority of fossil fuel reserves in the ground. It will also require coming up with trillions more to pay for zero-carbon, disaster-ready societal transformations... if climate justice carries the day, the economic costs to our elites will be real."~ Naomi Klein
     
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  8. Kode

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    That is only a question to people who are hopelessly biased partisans and need to obscure what is obvious.
     
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    Yea he tried to fundamentally change America into **** hole Europe of course they were going to try to obstruct his most assnine policys



    I agree with that one.
     
  10. Kode

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    Wanna try rewriting that "sentence" with punctuation and structure that make it understandable? Thanks.


    Then I take it you also blame the Republicans for our deteriorating economy and nation as a whole. Right?
     
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    Hm, so I'm not sure of your position. Let's back up a bit. Are you asserting that people's opportunities for greater income and wealth are being suppressed or not?
     
  12. Bear513

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    Why how much are you going to pay me ? A 6 year old understands what I just said ..


    RINOS...
     
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    He is a pure socialist
     
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    Socialists are so cute.
     
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    The answers in my mind are:
    i) Balanced Budget Amendment to force the Federal government to live within the means we are willing to provide it.
    ii) We need to have the virtue to willingly pay our fair share.

    But in the meantime:

    “The Republican tax plan may be kind of dumb, but if it were three times as dumb as it is, it would only be half as dumb as the Washington Post’s analysis of it.”
     
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    I wish I was a liberal socialist again when up to the age of 15 years old, it was so fun and care free, then I got a job :(
     
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    Not by another person being wealthy.
     
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    They are being suppressed. That is obvious.
     
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    And yet by wealthy persons.
     
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    Why? I didn't make it a question of how much I'm going to pay you. So your question is not logical.

    See what I mean about "difficult to understand"?


    Neither what you just said nor what you said previously is close to being clear, and your comment here is a personal attack.
    Previously: "he tried to fundamentally change America into **** hole Europe of course they were..." as though a "**** hole Europe" is clear in its meaning.


    RINOS? Like McConnell, Trump, Ryan, Ron Paul, and Joni Ernst etc. etc. etc.?
     
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    Why won't you pay me , because your superior intellect can't figure **** out in lay man's terms? *******n I could figure out ghetto talk, vally girl, Japanese , Spanish , russian , polish with out a detail explanation..
    And even greek, i cant speak it fluently but i know exactly what they are trying to convey and all I am is just a little blue collar maintenance guy..
    No it's difficult for you to understand because you can't figure out how to retort with out insulting grammar and punctuation by a poster ..you can't stay on topic and show your true colors..

    What now you profess to be ignorant, how convient.


    You get a gold star for figuring that one out all by yourself...i am proud comrade :)
     
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    How are they being suppressed? Let's say I wanted to increase my income, who is preventing me from doing so?
     
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    You shouldn't use phrases whose meanings you don't grasp. It's dangerous.
     
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    I guess you are getting distracted by the elites because you like to hunt, fish, work on your classic car, take your wife or girlfriend out to a movie or something on your days off.
     
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