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11/08/2011 18:12:03
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., Nouvelle Zélande
 
 
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Here you go: http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105 ... his figures are newer than the ones I quoted from 2007: share of income now almost 25% for the top 1%, share of total wealth now 40%. Incomes rising 18% for the top 1% while real incomes FELL for the middle classes. According to him, the US now lags behind any country in George Bush's "old, ossified Europe" and your closest counterparts are Russia with its oligarchs, and Iran. Is that where you want to be?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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