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The 1% will own more than the 99% by 2016, report says

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What do you think? The middle class is disappearing. At one time increases in productivity equated to wage increases.
https://fortune.com/2015/01/19/the-1-will-own-more-than-the-99-by-2016-report-says/
The richest 1% of the population will own more than half of the world’s wealth by next year as inequality continues its relentless rise across the globe, a new report out Monday says.

The report, by the U.K.-based charity Oxfam, shows that the top 1% have grown their share of global wealth constantly since 2010. After dipping at 44% in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it rose to 48% by the end of last year and is poised to top 50% by the end of next year.
 
What do you think? The middle class is disappearing. At one time increases in productivity equated to wage increases.
https://fortune.com/2015/01/19/the-1-will-own-more-than-the-99-by-2016-report-says/
The richest 1% of the population will own more than half of the world’s wealth by next year as inequality continues its relentless rise across the globe, a new report out Monday says.

The report, by the U.K.-based charity Oxfam, shows that the top 1% have grown their share of global wealth constantly since 2010. After dipping at 44% in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it rose to 48% by the end of last year and is poised to top 50% by the end of next year.

Measuring it is the easy part.
 
Progressive policies ALWAYS lead to more disparity.

Its not surprising
 
Who hits the reset button first? The 1% or the 99%?
 
Progressive policies ALWAYS lead to more disparity.

Its not surprising

Yep. You notice they don't say that this disparity has grown worse than ever under Obama. They won't make the connection

Now, if Bush were in office, they would be all, Bush, Bush , Bush

But they can't wrap their heads around the truth of what you just said.

Facts make Liberals' heads explode, like this:


 
Yep. You notice they don't say that this disparity has grown worse than ever under Obama. They won't make the connection

Now, if Bush were in office, they would be all, Bush, Bush , Bush

But they can't wrap their heads around the truth of what you just said.

Facts make Liberals' heads explode, like this:






or MAYBE it's that Obama is not a progressive (in the real economic sense) but is simply another in the long line of authoritarian pro-corporate politicians who simply has a progressive social agenda.
 
What do you think? The middle class is disappearing. At one time increases in productivity equated to wage increases.
https://fortune.com/2015/01/19/the-1-will-own-more-than-the-99-by-2016-report-says/
The richest 1% of the population will own more than half of the world’s wealth by next year as inequality continues its relentless rise across the globe, a new report out Monday says.

The report, by the U.K.-based charity Oxfam, shows that the top 1% have grown their share of global wealth constantly since 2010. After dipping at 44% in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it rose to 48% by the end of last year and is poised to top 50% by the end of next year.

So what?
 
If we think this is anything anywhere near new, you would be mistaken.

Welcome to the human condition everyone.
 
I personally don't care about the dynamics of wealthy distribution, as long as all citizens get their basic needs taken care of.

If it wasn't for our hyper-consumerist, greedy, hyper-materialistic society, folks would be much more content with what they had and wouldn't give a **** what rich people possess.
 
Divide it all up and give everybody an equal share.....
In 2 or 3 generations, the situation will be as tho it never happened.
 
Yep. You notice they don't say that this disparity has grown worse than ever under Obama. They won't make the connection

Now, if Bush were in office, they would be all, Bush, Bush , Bush

But they can't wrap their heads around the truth of what you just said.

Facts make Liberals' heads explode, like this:




This began decades ago. Before Bush-Obama -
 
or MAYBE it's that Obama is not a progressive (in the real economic sense) but is simply another in the long line of authoritarian pro-corporate politicians who simply has a progressive social agenda.

Lol...

No he's a Progressive all right

His State of the Union claptrap where he unveils his plans to raise taxes on the " Rich " is just one example.
 
Divide it all up and give everybody an equal share.....
In 2 or 3 generations, the situation will be as tho it never happened.

Thank you !
 
Lol...

No he's a Progressive all right

His State of the Union claptrap where he unveils his plans to raise taxes on the " Rich " is just one example.

He can influence every rich person in the world with one speech? Maybe he is the messiah after all.
 
He can influence every rich person in the world with one speech? Maybe he is the messiah after all.

No, just another Progressive moron.

The World is filled with them for some reason. The increased disparity shows that pretty clearly.
 
Progressive policies ALWAYS lead to more disparity.

Its not surprising

LOL So what are the Conservative policies that do not lead to income maldistribution? That will be the topic for 2016 so you better get some ready. We certainly can rule out tax cuts for the upper brackets and all the other supply-side claptrap, those are what started it all. You and the GOP are going to need something different.

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Gotten much worse in the last 6 years.

Market crash hurts the poor more so than the upper incomes.

The 100% Economy: Why the U.S. Needs a Strong Middle Class to Thrive - The Atlantic

The disqualifying notion at the center of Hanauer's talk was that the innovators and businessmen are not, in fact, "job creators"--that the fate of the economy rests instead in the hands of the middle class. So Hanauer wants to tax rich guys like himself more, to pay for investments to nurture middle-class families.

"We've had it backward for the last 30 years," Hanauer said at the TED conference. "Rich businesspeople like me don't create jobs. Rather, they are a consequence of an ecosystemic feedback loop animated by middle-class consumers." When the middle class thrives, he said, "businesses grow and hire, and owners profit."
 
LOL So what are the Conservative policies that do not lead to income maldistribution? That will be the topic for 2016 so you better get some ready.


Dont elect Progressive morons to be your President to start.

Dont sign laws that increase cost on the Middle class , dont raise taxes on the " Rich " just to garner support from low information voters.
 
Market crash hurts the poor more so than the upper incomes.

The 100% Economy: Why the U.S. Needs a Strong Middle Class to Thrive - The Atlantic

The disqualifying notion at the center of Hanauer's talk was that the innovators and businessmen are not, in fact, "job creators"--that the fate of the economy rests instead in the hands of the middle class. So Hanauer wants to tax rich guys like himself more, to pay for investments to nurture middle-class families.

"We've had it backward for the last 30 years," Hanauer said at the TED conference. "Rich businesspeople like me don't create jobs. Rather, they are a consequence of an ecosystemic feedback loop animated by middle-class consumers." When the middle class thrives, he said, "businesses grow and hire, and owners profit."

Hanauer is a Leftist idiot.

Taxing the Rich only make ths Government richer, not the Midlle Class.
 
What do you think? The middle class is disappearing. At one time increases in productivity equated to wage increases.
https://fortune.com/2015/01/19/the-1-will-own-more-than-the-99-by-2016-report-says/
The richest 1% of the population will own more than half of the world’s wealth by next year as inequality continues its relentless rise across the globe, a new report out Monday says.

The report, by the U.K.-based charity Oxfam, shows that the top 1% have grown their share of global wealth constantly since 2010. After dipping at 44% in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it rose to 48% by the end of last year and is poised to top 50% by the end of next year.

So it would seem the Progressive Machine has got some soldiers pushing press releases.

Is the expectation people won't realize these studies are funded by the likes of George Soros' Open Society Institute, and thus have an extreme bias and agenda attached to them, or are they purely for the consumption of the Progressive Believers, and are talking points to fuel the propaganda effort?
 
Hanauer is a Leftist idiot.

Taxing the Rich only make ths Government richer, not the Midlle Class.
So lowering tax for middle class would make them poorer? Higher tax on the rich. That is what Obama was proposing?
 
Hanauer is a Leftist idiot.

Taxing the Rich only make ths Government richer, not the Midlle Class.

But thats what Leftsists want, an all powerful government. They are Socialists, just like their Great Leader the Kenyan
 
So it would seem the Progressive Machine has got some soldiers pushing press releases.

Is the expectation people won't realize these studies are funded by the likes of George Soros' Open Society Institute, and thus have an extreme bias and agenda attached to them, or are they purely for the consumption of the Progressive Believers, and are talking points to fuel the propaganda effort?

So all these studies are from leftists with an agenda? Is that what you believe?
 
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