YSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending.
The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election (Published 2015)
Whenever I see the 1% or 99% numbers when discussing wealth inequality, this fact is the first thing that comes to mind. We need to use decimal points to get to the real ones in power. 1% contains a lot of people who have money, but are still out of the loop as the rest of us, or as Carlin said, "not in the Club". They are millionaires, but like they say, the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion.
And that's US - many Americans are in the 1% in worldwide numbers, with rough income numbers being around half a million income. Again, they may or may not be comfortable depending on their expenses, but having money doesn't mean you have power. It's the .1 that is the beginning of that, and the .01 is moving the pieces for everyone.
(The numbers are just estimates, there's gray areas everywhere, the point is the top people want us to be yelling at the top middle and ignore what they do.)
Bingo. My entire circle is 1-5%ers, we are privileged and comfortable and not saying we're not part of the problem. But we're powerless. Start by eating the richest, by the time you get to me I'm going to guess there won't be a problem any more...
“Powerless”, but how many sets of guns/armor can your circle buy? 1000? 10,000? They’re still astonishingly poor and closer to homelessness or kidnapping to El Salvador than being rich. Better to pick a side in the class war, and doing nothing is picking oppression. Eating the rich also includes non-rich wealthy class-traitors.
Care to help payoff some of my medical debt?
Should figure out where they live and protest on their street instead of burning down the local 7/11.
The only access to them is media in the backroom or private event held by rich asking what do you think of protests on main street because you can't get close to their property and if you can they are probably in another house
The rich aren't accessible, but their property sure is awfully flammable.
Citizens United was the final straw in the downfall of America democracy.
It's been inevitable since.
Unless it's overturned it's over, and I don't think they can overturn it.
Citizens United
Corporations have been 'people' since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
Yet somehow, unlike most people, they've escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I'd call that an unfair advantage.
I'll believe a corporation is a "person" when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them
THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 2015 A DECADE AGO IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE SINCE THEN
An oligarchy is what America has been for over a decade now officially. Every politician is bought and sold, told to vote on every bill by the companies lobbyists that line their pockets. Every vote is controlled by mass propaganda on every network and every corporate social media.
But we're a democracy, right?
And they all have addresses.
If my math is correct 158 families would be around .00005%. They have no clue what life is like for the average person yet they have so much influence. Gross.
158 families isn't much to feed 300 million starving people. We need rules on who gets to eat the 0.01%
Golf is such a perfect rich person sport. It wastes a ton of space, destroys local wilflife, the hardest part is done by the caddy (i.e. not the rich person), and at the end you feel like you accomplished something, but you've done absolutely fuck all other than show off your expensive shit.
Plus it gives you a nice excuse to get drunk and ride around in a tiny car like a little boy
And they have to have complete silence! It's not a sport at all, it's just showing off your clothes/clubs. Such weak ass players can't be heckled at all like any other real sport. LMAO.
In the end, when Trump is certified as the modern day hitler, these families need to be held accountable…. Like the soldiers of the concentration camps.
Fuck scotus. John Roberts is the most damaging traitor in American history.
We should eat them all
Gotten worse since 2015.
Tax them bitches
And this article is 10 years old. It has gotten so much worse.