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Bjorn Against

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46. I did the math...

Tue Apr 17, 2012, 07:40 PM

Apr 2012

Four of the eleven wealthiest Americans are members of the Walton family. That puts them in the top .00000004%. If you thought the top .001% have it good the Waltons would make them look impoverished by comparision. What anyone could possibly do with that much money is beyond me, it should be a crime to be that rich as there are only so many resources to go around and the more these people horde the less the rest of society has to live with. The Waltons made their fortune off the backs of minimum wage employees, their employees live in poverty while they have enough money that they could nearly pay everyone's salary in their entire state. The GDP of Arkansas is about $105 Billion, just the four wealthiest members of the Walton family alone are worth about $85 Billion. Wrap your head around that, just four individuals are worth more than 80% of their entire state's GDP. It is obscene.

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