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05-05-2014, 10:44 AM
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Welcome to the 1%.
We ARE the 1%.
"Nearly half of the world's richest one per cent of people live in the U.S., according to a top economist.
But the threshold required to make it in to that elite group is lower than you might think - just $34,000 per person.
While the Occupy Wall Street movement has focussed on the top one per cent of earners in the U.S., Branko Milanovic, a World Bank economist, has suggested that anti-inequality protesters should be more concerned with wealth disparity across the globe."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz30rA39A1D
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05-05-2014, 11:00 AM
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Pbbbbbbbttttt.
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05-05-2014, 11:18 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piece-itpete
We ARE the 1%.
"Nearly half of the world's richest one per cent of people live in the U.S., according to a top economist.
But the threshold required to make it in to that elite group is lower than you might think - just $34,000 per person.
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Right, because the median income for a family of 4 in the US is $136,000 per year.
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05-05-2014, 11:22 AM
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BBBBuuuttt, Pete..............
I thought we were living under a tyrannical regime that has it's boot on our necks, intent on taxing us to death?
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05-05-2014, 11:30 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueStreak
BBBBuuuttt, Pete..............
I thought we were living under a tyrannical regime that has it's boot on our necks, intent on taxing us to death?
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This is just more bullshit from the 1% to try to convince the rest of us that we should be grateful for the ass raping we're getting from them.
I mean as long as the average Americans working schmuck has it better than some beggar in the streets of Calcutta, we're doing fine.
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05-05-2014, 12:27 PM
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It is simply information that I thought interesting. Knowledge is power and all that.
Pete
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05-05-2014, 12:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piece-itpete
We ARE the 1%.
"Nearly half of the world's richest one per cent of people live in the U.S., according to a top economist.
But the threshold required to make it in to that elite group is lower than you might think - just $34,000 per person.
While the Occupy Wall Street movement has focussed on the top one per cent of earners in the U.S., Branko Milanovic, a World Bank economist, has suggested that anti-inequality protesters should be more concerned with wealth disparity across the globe."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz30rA39A1D
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There is an expression I recall 'Physician heal thyself. Maybe just for a change we should correct the situation here at home and let other countries fix their own problems.
Maybe Mr. Milanovic should mind his own business.
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05-05-2014, 12:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piece-itpete
It is simply information that I thought interesting. Knowledge is power and all that.
Pete
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Then you should be voting Democrat instead of for people like Romney.
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05-05-2014, 12:34 PM
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Only if I toe the line
Rob I agree, but as the one worlders gain power expect to see more of a push with this.
Pete
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05-05-2014, 12:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piece-itpete
It is simply information that I thought interesting. Knowledge is power and all that.
Pete
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I can think of some other quotes that fit your post better.
The source you used, "The Daily Mail" is basically like Orwell's "Ministry of Truth".
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
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