Two graphics that explain EVERYTHING: the Republican War on the 99%

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8. So true

When you hear on the Business Networks that the GDP is up, or the Dow is up, and all the crowing about the economy going up by so many points...or however they couch it, no one ever clarifies exactly WHO or HOW that is affecting the average worker, which is next to nothing.

Its sad to think of the America that could have been if it hadn't regressed into such a mean dog-eat-dog top down society after FDR. The slow but sure redistribution of wealth to the upper .01% during the last 50 years has meant a denial of many benefits to the American public. With that kind of wealth, the USA could have had by now free college education, a national highspeed rail line, universal healthcare where no child IS left behind, and a generous stable Social Security coffer. USA would truely be the land of opportunity and the greatest country in the world to live in.