October 30, 2011 01:55 AM
What if the US were divided by income?
What would the United States look like if it were divided according to wealth? The Congressional Budget Office confirms that the top one percent has tripled its income since 1979, while the upper middle class has increased its wealth much more modestly, and the rest of the country has seen only a small gain.
[Photo via Flickr]
Yes, that's the majority of us there in that little strip along the bottom of the map. And remember, there are a whole lot more of us in that little strip than there are in the top portions.
10% OWN 70% NET WEALTH 80% OWN 15%
10% OWN 70% FINANCIAL WEALTH 80% OWN 7%
10% TAKE 50% INDIVIDUAL INCOME 50% TAKE 13%
70/15 70/7 50/13 190/35 IS INEQUALITY UNDENIABLE
clarence swinney
clarenceswinney political historian lifeaholics of america
But I can see that the time is ripe to broaden the protests out to the local Congressional offices of all 435 Representatives and 100 Senators and occupy those offices/areas.
At this time, these are the individuals who "represent" the constituents and we need to make our cases directly to them. Let them ignore us at their own peril. Because it will be easy for those participating to get to know each other and vote on someone new to run against that "representative".
Bring Glass-Steagall back for starters.
And the only way to run against these so-called "representatives" is on a third party platform. For this way the candidate would be there for the primary and general election campaigns.
votecitizens.org
P.S. Anybody wanna go over to Janice Hahn's office and have a presence? Barbara Boxer? Diane Feinstein? They all have offices in SoCal.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
we have the northern states?
...I'm in the 9% because I DO NOT want to live in Florida or Mississippi.
WWFSMD?
..your map is wrong.
The map should be:
1% = would own all of continental United States.
99% = would own nothing but tiny area around Miami, Florida.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
We gotta be poor AND stuck in fla, la, tx, etc...?
Understand the Money Masters...
The Money Masters ~ documentary by Bill Still
The American Dream ~ 30 minute cartoon for adults
The Secret of Oz ~ documentary by Bill Still
Men Behind the Curtain ~ 47 minute primer on the Federal Reserve System
An Alternative to the Private Federal Reserve
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You forgot that they would also own the...
Election System.
Media.
Private Prisons.
Control of our Currency.
School Curriculum.
Investigations.
Politicians.
Judges.
Etc.
They own more than we like to realize.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You'd have to be brain-dead not to notice that the 1% own 100%.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
"All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." -- John Adams
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." -- Henry Ford
"It is absurd to say our country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the people." -- Thomas Edison
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." ~ President Woodrow Wilson 1913
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.” – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House.
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
— Thomas Jefferson - in a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The Jefferson quote shows that it was already too late then.
An Alternative to the Federal Reserve.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
if anything, it shows the dangers of taking anything on the internet too seriously/
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Why do we get the red states?
Lew
Fighting the Christian American Taliban daily.
For some reason it was pulled from this site.
Ed-words
...empty Western States that between Federal Lands and small populations that nobody wants to own anyways already.
"The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) – nearly 30% of its total territory."
http://bigthink.com/ideas/21343
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Janek
I hate the south. Can't we pick somewhere else?
"Better." It's what we should ask of ourselves and of our leaders.
I'm in the 9% and I already live in Wisconsin, so I'm pretty cool with this.
My brother's in the 1%, but he lives in Vermont, so he's all cognitively dissonant and shit.
My hick cousin is 99% but he's in Alabama, so no big wup.
Sure you are.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Tell us that there are 100 people in a room, and there are 100 sack lunches sitting on a table about to be handed out to the people.
Then tell us how many lunches get handed to the "1%" guy, and so on down the line. I think that paints the picture better than anything.
Of course, the 90% gets the crappy part of the country. But hey, we get Texas' declining oil fields. We can continue to pump sea water into them (oops, did I just give something away?!?) and try to extract what's left.
If Alaska were added to the mix, how would the graphic look then? Maybe the %90 percent could fit in there, then it could say that the %90 are "left in the cold".
Alaska is about 20% of the entire land area of the U.S....
...if you get pushed down to Louisiana, be sure to holla at me.
w00t!
Nice map. The percents of wealth could correspond to the percent of black. The 1% area would basically be white, the 9% area would be 9% black. Just a way to depict the density.
Even a Hillbilly or teabagger or Bircher or southern Evangelist would understand.
Check out this site. I think it proposes a better divide.
http://dividedstatesofamerica.webahar.com/ind...
We share an orb floating in the vastness of space. Buckminster Fuller called our planet Space Ship Earth. Bucky was an optimist. He believed in the power of human invention to make our Space Ship a wonderful place. He was fond of saying that we have the potential to all live as billionaires. Space Ship Earth has come to resemble more what I call Cruise Ship Earth. On Cruise Ship Earth a huge Casino occupies the upper portions. The Players occupy the deck and the cabins with windows. The gaming tables are surrounded with luxury restaurants and bars. There are some quite comfortable cabins for the cooks and stewards and courtesans. The maids and janitors have adequate, if small, lodgings. But the great bulk of humanity lives in steerage.
http://worldmeetworld.wordpress.com/2011/07/1...
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