Corporate America's Finest Hour

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The liberals hero....
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Sounds to me like he was a bible thumping Republican:

“My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a
fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded
by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and
summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest
not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian
and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord
at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the
Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight
against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with
deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact
that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As
a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have
the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is
anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is
the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty
to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and
work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only
for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning
and see these men standing in their queues and look into their
pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very
devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two
thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people
are plundered and exposed.”

~Adolf Hitler~ (excerpt from a speech in Munich on April 12, 1922)

Trying to change the OP?

Again your hero:

Hitler was a meth addict.

 

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We've had this conversation before. Your Mother Jones chart very deliberately stops at 2007. That left wing outlet carefully framed their propaganda.

If you extended it out to 2009, the top 1 percent's wealth is not so impressive, which is probably why the person who made that graphic stopped at 2007.

Extending the chart shows the 1 percenters' income reverts back to the trend line:

The top 1 percent own half of the country's stocks. So when the stock market crashes, they suffer the most. When the stock market climbs, they profit the most.

If you look at the graphic, the top one percent earned $232,581 in 1986.

If you plug that figure into an inflation calculator, that income is equal to $462,734 in 2009 dollars. And yet they only earned $343,927 in 2009, way below the inflation rate.

Clearly, even the top one percent have not kept up with inflation.

So the problem is not the rich. The problem is no one is keeping up with inflation, and that is because of the massive public and private debt.

In other words, too much spending. Spending more than we earn. Our economy is being strangled by debt