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Every think how lucky folks are to have the President and his party ready to point out the evil-doer, you know, the Wall Street baddies!
Maybe we should double check before we get the pitch-forks, and light the torches...
Who are the ‘Top 1%,” so reviled by the class warriors?
1. If the Occupy Wall Street protests are aiming to take down the "1 percent" of Americans who control the increasingly largest chunk of our nation's wealth, perhaps they need to redirect their efforts to somewhere other than Wall Street.
2. According to Nicole Lapin of CNN, financial services professionals make up just 14 percent of that top 1 percent of wage earners. Their average salary of $311,000 per year, while quite gaudy, falls just below the threshold needed to break into the highest-earning subset.
3. The biggest single group of professionals in the top one percent is actually doctors, who make up 16 percent of that subset.
4. Executives and managers outside of finance make up 31% of the total, but Lapin didn't break them down by industry.
5. David Carr of The New York Times would also like to offer up his bosses as targets for the mass uprising, pointing out in his column today that media executives are some of the worst offenders when it comes to CEOs who reap multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes by slashing budgets and laying off rank-and-file workers. Go ahead and add them to the list.
6. So those who want to direct their anger at the winners in the income inequality sweepstakes might want to look beyond the lower of half of Manhattan. There's plenty of other folks closer to home that you might want to have a word with. Where Does the Top 1% Really Work? - National - The Atlantic Wire
7. Lawyers make up 9 percent. The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters?But Lots of Them Are Bosses - Business - GOOD
8. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year….The “top 1%” of wage earners earn 17% of the nation’s income. Nicole Lapin, Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!
I'll bet the Leftist elites knew who they were...but also knew that the Lefties and the ones they control were too dumb to remember all those groups....so: "Occupy Wall Street!"
From "Demonic," by the brilliant Ann Coulter:
1. Gustave Le Bon, in his groundbreaking 1896 book, “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind,” was the first to identify the phenomenon of mass psychology. Both Hitler and Mussolini used his book to understand how to incite a mob.
2. "Many of liberals' peculiarities are understandable only when one realizes that they are a mob. For example, a crowd's ability to grasp only the simplest ideas is reflected in the interminable slogans.
3. As is usual in the evolution of a mob, vagrants, professional protesters, and thugs swelled the ranks. Firebombing and rock throwing assaults punctuated the speeches.(The Sixties. Here we go again.)
Every think how lucky folks are to have the President and his party ready to point out the evil-doer, you know, the Wall Street baddies!
Maybe we should double check before we get the pitch-forks, and light the torches...
Who are the Top 1%, so reviled by the class warriors?
1. If the Occupy Wall Street protests are aiming to take down the "1 percent" of Americans who control the increasingly largest chunk of our nation's wealth, perhaps they need to redirect their efforts to somewhere other than Wall Street.
2. According to Nicole Lapin of CNN, financial services professionals make up just 14 percent of that top 1 percent of wage earners. Their average salary of $311,000 per year, while quite gaudy, falls just below the threshold needed to break into the highest-earning subset.
3. The biggest single group of professionals in the top one percent is actually doctors, who make up 16 percent of that subset.
4. Executives and managers outside of finance make up 31% of the total, but Lapin didn't break them down by industry.
5. David Carr of The New York Times would also like to offer up his bosses as targets for the mass uprising, pointing out in his column today that media executives are some of the worst offenders when it comes to CEOs who reap multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes by slashing budgets and laying off rank-and-file workers. Go ahead and add them to the list.
6. So those who want to direct their anger at the winners in the income inequality sweepstakes might want to look beyond the lower of half of Manhattan. There's plenty of other folks closer to home that you might want to have a word with. Where Does the Top 1% Really Work? - National - The Atlantic Wire
7. Lawyers make up 9 percent. The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters?But Lots of Them Are Bosses - Business - GOOD
8. To get into the top 1% of Americans you dont need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year .The top 1% of wage earners earn 17% of the nations income. Nicole Lapin, Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!
I'll bet the Leftist elites knew who they were...but also knew that the Lefties and the ones they control were too dumb to remember all those groups....so: "Occupy Wall Street!"
From "Demonic," by the brilliant Ann Coulter:
1. Gustave Le Bon, in his groundbreaking 1896 book, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, was the first to identify the phenomenon of mass psychology. Both Hitler and Mussolini used his book to understand how to incite a mob.
2. "Many of liberals' peculiarities are understandable only when one realizes that they are a mob. For example, a crowd's ability to grasp only the simplest ideas is reflected in the interminable slogans.
3. As is usual in the evolution of a mob, vagrants, professional protesters, and thugs swelled the ranks. Firebombing and rock throwing assaults punctuated the speeches.(The Sixties. Here we go again.)
the real 1 % hide there wealth in off shore accounts..you are simple repeating the talking points of the Marxist that organized and funded these events but it does not represent the reality of the boots on the ground. there are problems on wall street without question, the solutions are open to discussion
In Drag, experience playing peek-a-boo with a three year old taught me not to
engage in that sort of endless game.
In Drag, experience playing peek-a-boo with a three year old taught me not to
engage in that sort of endless game.
You still haven't answered, which means my point continues to go unrefuted. (Note that expat_panama at least tried. You haven't even done that.)
Nobody is saying that we should "hate" the 1%. (Except maybe eots, but he's weird.) Certainly that is not the point of Occupy. The point is that the government should not be favoring the 1% so that their income keeps increasing while everyone else stagnates.
Thus, personal descriptions of the 1% that might make it seem like they shouldn't be "hated" are completely pointless and irrelevant. You are addressing a straw man.
Your entire argument here, as on the other thread, is invalid.
I have no desire to communicate with you....is that clear enough?
If that were true then instead of 'OCCUPY WALL STREET" we'd be hearing from "OCCUPY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT".
We're not, so it isn't.
Wall Street and the federal government are not independent institutions. Wall Street pulls the strings, and the federal government passes laws and enacts policies at its behest. To protest the one is, therefore, to protest the other.
Wall street doesn't compose the 1%. To say the OWS people are protesting wall street is accurate, their claims about percentage are complete bullshit. They do not represent 99% of people, 1% of the highest wage earners do not have undue influence over the government. Unless you can provide me a list of the 3 million odd people that make up this 1%, with information about how they're influencing the government in an undue manner, the claims are bullshit.
Maybe the ones who use their financial clout to get things to go their way.
If you were to go back and read the Constitution, you would find that lobbying is covered by the 1st amendment, referred to in this way: "petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances."
@Politicalchic..(who is more likey some guy who like it up the ***) and works for Fox News. If you read the constitution you'll find threw the Sct case law that the framers had much to say about nothing which was later said to much by the imagination of the right wing fiscist radicals who would like the poor to go out into the middle of the ocean and drown themselves.
The masses and the poor are going nowhere but to overcome the eliteist way of life. The rid the world of facism and elitist way of life to make room for the masses who have shown the way, the truth, and the light..unlike u selfish materialistic person who thinks the elite rule while the working class is take all the they spoonfeed the rest of us.
@Politicalchic..(who is more likey some guy who like it up the ***) and works for Fox News. If you read the constitution you'll find threw the Sct case law that the framers had much to say about nothing which was later said to much by the imagination of the right wing fiscist radicals who would like the poor to go out into the middle of the ocean and drown themselves.
The masses and the poor are going nowhere but to overcome the eliteist way of life. The rid the world of facism and elitist way of life to make room for the masses who have shown the way, the truth, and the light..unlike u selfish materialistic person who thinks the elite rule while the working class is take all the they spoonfeed the rest of us.
Congratulations!
This is the most poorly written post of the day!
On the bright side, it is exactly matched with your thinking skills!
Base on both writing and thinking, you will never be addressed as anything but 'sonny.'
Now, be sure to come back once you can cross the street by yourself.
In just the last generation, the richest 1% almost quadrupled their incomes.
The average wealth of the 1% is 225 times bigger than the wealth of the typical household -- the highest it's ever been.
Three decades ago, CEOs made about 40 times as much as an average worker – now CEOs make almost 200 times as much as regular employees.
Last year, half of Americans earned less than $26,000 while CEOs at top 500 companies raked in an average of $11 million.
Over the past decade, earnings for middle-class Americans actually fell. In fact, working Americans' wages are now a lower percentage of our economy than they've ever been.
The divide between the richest and the poorest is worse in America than it is in nearly all of Europe and Asia and much of Africa. It's about as bad as in Rwanda and Serbia -- and it's bad for our economy.
The 1% is not an accident – it is the result of policies our government chose to pursue.
That doesn't match with the names chosen by the gatherings. The OCCUPY WALL STREET movement hates the rich Wall-Streeter money-makers and that's who the target is. If they hated government policy then they'd be OCCUPY GOVERNMENT....no "hates" the "1%". What they "hate" are the de-regulation and the tax cuts that have so poorly skewed the economy...When you want to end the PUPPET SHOW, you take out the PUPPETMASTERS, not the puppets, EX.
It's supposed to be that way....Wall Street pulls the strings, and the federal government passes laws and enacts policies at its behest...
