The Class Divide

[monk222]

The top 1 percent of American earners took in 23.5 percent of the nation’s pretax income in 2007 — up from less than 9 percent in 1976.

-- Frank Rich for The New York Times

I thought the figure would be higher than that. Then again, that is a 2007 figure, taken before the big economic crash. I bet that chasm is spreading faster now.

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LJer1: "Oh, there's a class war going on ... and the rich are winning."

LJer2: "The war is over. We lost. This is the occupation."

-- PolitiCartoons

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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

America really is so last century, and Western Europe too.