Guy Incognito
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OWS committed a serious error when they termed the "1%" to be the problem. Most of the upper one percen of income earners are still middle class. Like you. The real problem is more like the upper .001%, and not in annual income but net worth.It hasn't made my life any better or worse. In fact, looking at my tax returns from the time my wife and I got married in 2004 to now, we have increased our earnings by over 400%. From 2004-2008 liberal democrats would tell you this is impossible, because of the policies of GWB. From 2009-present conservative republicans would tell you this is impossible because of Obama's desire to ruin our economy.
Somehow we have made it through the strife put forth by tea-partiers, and survived the "greed" of the 1% by doing nothing more than getting our degrees and working hard.
One percent makes a good chant but it isn't even close to accurate. What's really ironic is that middle class people like you endsidetracking the side of the super rich, even though you belong to the class that they are hurting the most (in terms of absolute dollars).
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