Reply #38: your post says it all...

[marions ghost]

I see it all around me.

The "haves" do not get the "have-nots." They can't imagine the situation of barely getting by & the stress it causes and they don't care whatsoever. In fact, I submit that it makes some of them feel good--so entitled and fortunate. "There but for fortune..."

The wealthy in this country have either not earned it (like execs being paid huge bonuses) or they have not come by it honestly and shelter their income without paying taxes.

There are very very few who you can say have truly earned it, without benefiting from corruption or ill-gotten gains.

What the rich REALLY don't get is how much this situation is killing this country and how much better THEIR lives could be if they understood the principle of investing in PEOPLE.