We Are The 99% - A Primer

[maiforpeace]

99% v 1%: The Data Behind the Occupy Movement - An Animation (from the Guardian.UK)

It has been the rallying cry of the Occupy movement for the past two months - but is the US really split 99% v 1%? As poverty and inequality reach record levels, how much richer have the rich got? This animation explains what the key data says about the state of America today.

[Schneibster]

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12485

CBO finds that, between 1979 and 2007, income grew by:

275 percent for the top 1 percent of households,
65 percent for the next 19 percent,
Just under 40 percent for the next 60 percent, and
18 percent for the bottom 20 percent.

There's the hard data to back up the allegations. From the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

[Schneibster]

And in case anyone was wondering, they still don't get it.

[Audley Strange]

John Paulson any relation to Hank? Listening to Rich people whine offends my sensibilities whether it the obscenely rich in Wall Street or the peasants with their own sense of entitlement anywhere else is the cosseted West, so I never read the article.

[Schneibster]

It's all useless. Sit on your ass and do nothing.

[sandinista]

It's all useless. Sit on your ass and do nothing.

No, do something useful, vote with your wallet.