Off-The-Charts Income Gains For Super-Rich

[Hannah Bell]

'In recent years, we've been hit with a barrage of statistics, charts, and even full-length books, documenting how inequality is on the rise in America.

'But very few of them capture what's happened over the last 30 years or so as well as this image:




'One can argue about why this is happening. Some say it's the result of a decline in workers' bargaining power as labor unions have weakened, while others blame the rise of offshoring and outsourcing. But despite the best efforts of some commentators, there's really no serious debate about the overall realignment of income in our age: The already super-rich have vastly increased their share of the pie — at the expense of everyone else.'

http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2173§ion=Article

[leftstreet]

1. K&R - When does that start trickling down?

[Monk06]

2. It won't trickle down it will blow up. n/t

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r

[Octafish]

4. Trickle down works.

Just not for We the People.

[indepat]

5. The cumulative $ amount of governmental entitlements inuring to the wealthy

staggers even the wildest imagination but in no way matches the depravity in granting this unearned largess. :patriot: