RemyBrown wrote:
@SideWalker
The top 1% owns 32.5% of the nations wealth.
That's doctors, lawyers, engineers, actuaries, etc; people that earned their wealth. Look, in a whole foods store with 500 people in it, 5 of them are in the top 1%.
I suppose you think that makes a point of some kind, but nevertheless, it’s a non-sequitur. I know what the top 1% is, what I don’t know is why you think making up numbers regarding Whole Foods has to do with anything.
The billionaires didn't need that trillion dollars, the people who lost their health Insurance and SNAP benefits needed it.
If you take issue with it, then have your state expand Medicaid funding on it's own. Butt none of them picked up the slack; they just want to blame Trump for stuff.
Or we can reject the authoritarian rule of the billionaire class and fight against it because it exploits the needy. I’m out there protesting, raising money, campaigning for Jon Ossof, and doing what I can to make a difference for this country, while you sit in your Mom’s basement eating Cheetos and typing racist nonsense all day. As long as you refuse to put down the Cheetos and leave your mom’s basement you just don’t matter Pumpkin.
What truly amazes me, is that it’s the neediest that are Trump’s most loyal base, and that’s who Trump shits on the most. How is it that the underbelly of US society sees this privileged prick who inherited all his money as one of them? Fact is Pumpkin, you need to pull yourself up and out of the trailer park, Trump isn’t going to do it for you, he’s just going to make it harder for you. Sure, you can still feel satisfied that he makes it even harder for black and brown people, but being a satisfied underbelly of society is nothing to be proud of.
I do get it though, the only people Trumps craps on worse than his base are of course black and brown people, and so it’s those on the bottom rungs of the social ladder that Trump’s overt racism appeals to most. So maybe you think it’s worth it to sit on the bottom rung of society in terms of education, income, and social standing and watch as he works against the minorities who have achieved so much more than you, but I think it’s kinda like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Of course, it’s that mentality that made you the underbelly of society in the first place, you just want to blame black people for your lack of success.
The bottom 50% (roughly 66 million families) hold only about 2.3% to 2.5% of the nation's wealth. 900 U.S. billionaires own significantly more wealth than half of the country combined. The top 1% (1.3 mm Households) owns fourteen times as much as the bottom 50% 66 million households)
This is irrelevant because GINI coefficients don't imply economic success; Norway's GINI coefficient is on par with Pakistan's. Pakistan is a shithole.
No shit Sherlock, I know what the Gini Index is, and I know it’s not about the country’s economy; it’s about income or wealth distribution within the country’s economy. The fact that you Googled the Gini Coefficient and then either didn’t read it, or didn’t comprehend it, doesn’t make the huge and growing wealth disparity in this country irrelevant, it just makes you irrelevant.
