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I think it's great to be rich--I admire people who've made it to the top, but they need to pay their fair share and play by the same rules as the rest of us. This should be an issue that BOTH parties support. I never thought I'd see the day when the Republican party pushed proposals that hurt small business and main street, but that seems to be the direction you nuts are going.
Their not Republicans, but their not Democrats either running this country.
They are Globalists Neo Conservatives with their interests focused globally, not nationally as they should be in our government. Fortunately they will fail and burn in hell.
It's not a free market. It's a market that's regulated and designed to benefit the powerful and the wealthy.
But that's because the wealthy and powerful naturally have more say in how the free market goes. Think about it as this way: it's easier for Walmart to expand and gobble up the competition than it is for a mom-and-pop shop to open up another store.
...As power and wealth in one group grows, the more their influence in the market grows.
...That is the natural order of things until you either get enough people to organize themselves and increase their power (unions) or until you get enough people to seize power by force (communism).
But that's because the wealthy and powerful naturally have more say in how the free market goes. Think about it as this way: it's easier for Walmart to expand and gobble up the competition than it is for a mom-and-pop shop to open up another store.
...As power and wealth in one group grows, the more their influence in the market grows.
...That is the natural order of things until you either get enough people to organize themselves and increase their power (unions) or until you get enough people to seize power by force (communism).
Replace "wealthy and powerful" with scientist and then tell us if you'd still be willing to accept that they're more likely to be right than those that don't follow science at all.
The wealthiest 1 percent of the global population now owns 39 percent of all the wealth on the planet.
So exactly who are the top one percent?
The global elite are absolutely obsessed with power and control and they have been working to implement their agenda for a very long time. In the end, they hope to unite the entire planet under a monolithic global system that they control.
They are actually quite open about this - it is just that most people do not want to believe it.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor is rapidly growing in the United States as well.
Sadly, this means that the middle class is steadily disappearing as the ranks of those that are living in poverty continues to increase.
But of course not everyone is doing badly in the U.S. right now. In fact, those that own stocks have had lots of reasons to celebrate in recent months.
So who owns stocks?
Well, the wealthy do of course. In fact, approximately 60 percent of all individually held stocks are owned by the top 5 percent of all Americans.
Hey Kramer, get a clue from the facts you posted. Join the 1%!
I'm only into the 3% or so for now, don't know if I'll make the 1%--got more wealth than I ever thought I'd have already, and more than enough income. But my efforts to be useful to the rest of society are very rewarding to me...if I live long enough, society will put me into the 1% for the value I render to it. Doesn't really mean anything to me, though. Apparently you are pretty hung up on it.
Don't forget that there has been times where the top 1% used force to get what they own.
Bill Gates used massive productivity improvement and wealth increases for the rest of the world to get what he owns. Waltons provided dramatic increases in purchasing power to everyday people in the US and other countries to get what they own. In our day, the most reliable method to gain entry to the 1% is to be of massive value to the rest of society. This might be easier now than ever before, since so many people spend their time whining and moaning and feeding the green monster of envy instead of competing to be of service to the rest of society.
Bill Gates used massive productivity improvement and wealth increases for the rest of the world to get what he owns. Waltons provided dramatic increases in purchasing power to everyday people in the US and other countries to get what they own. In our day, the most reliable method to gain entry to the 1% is to be of massive value to the rest of society. This might be easier now than ever before, since so many people spend their time whining and moaning and feeding the green monster of envy instead of competing to be of service to the rest of society.
Yes, in a free market no transaction takes place unless both parties to the transaction perceive a benefit to the transaction.
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