$240 billion amassed by 100 richest people enough to end extreme poverty four times over: Oxfam

[Honeycombe8]

1. I've heard that the U.S. is no longer the top country to better your financial situation....

it is no longer the country where you go to improve your situation from poor to middle class, or middle class to upper middle class. It is easier to do that in some other countries.

That is shocking and a testament to what has happened in our country.

Our country is being run by a group of corporations....an oligarchy, is it called?

The first step is to GET THE MONEY OUT OF CONGRESS...the extreme influence of lobbyists. The amount of $ needed by politicians to run for office.

But having said that, one politician who worked for that (McCain)...the people did not vote for him. So there you go. Not that I recommend voting for a Republican. But as I recall, this was his passion, and not even his opponents took up the torch on that (this was pre-Obama days).

I don't suggest taking all the money from the extremely wealthy and spreading it around to the extremely poor, because then that would kill the golden goose. Some (many?) would no longer work to gather the wealth, and that would end that. But the numbers do show that something has gone on in recent decades that must be corrected.

Productivity is at an all time high, while wages are not higher, and the wealthy got EXTREMELY wealthy during the recession.