Below some more numbers illustrating how the Rich and the Corporations have managed to CHEAP, ROB, STEAL from people like YOU, since 1980. As Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners have shown. the breadth and depth of this massive
ROBBERY now in all likely hood exceeds their previous peak of the 1865-1901 “Gilded Age.”
1]. From l948-73, American productivity increased 96.7%, wages for the bottom 80% increased 91/3%
in 1973-2013. ” ” ” 74.4%, ” ” “ “ “ ” 9.2%
[note: the 1973-2013 meager wage increase. of. 9.2% is. NOT. an error !!!!!!!!] – source: “The One Percent Solution”]
2] From 1979-2014, the bottom 60% of male workers’ real wages declined – 70 million men in 2014 were working fro. LESS. than their fathers and grandfathers. [Source; ”The One Percent Solution”]
3] A major American CEO makes in one year what it would take that company”s ”average’ worker 320 years to do !!!
[Source: ”The Man Who Broke Capitalism”; 2022]
4] A 2013 Associated Press study found 4of 5 American adults would “struggle with joblessness, near-poverty, or
reliance on welfare for at least parts of lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.”
[Source: ”People Get Ready’}
5] Between 1987 and 2013, the number of billionaires rose according to “Forbes” from 140 to 1,400; and their total wealth rose from 300 to 5,400 billion dollars. [Source: ”Capital in the Twenty First Century”]
6] Privatization waste – health and finance: $160-200 billion annually
Eliminating financial sector rents waste: $460-636 billion annually [2015]
Drug price comparison” hepatitis – USA cost. $84,000; India cost: $300-500 !!!!
{Source: ”Rigged”]
7] In 2005, UNICEF’s “Child Poverty in Rich Countries” found – USA was 2nd from bottom ‘worst;’ 22% of Americans under 18 were living in households with per capita income below 50% of the national average
[Source: $ervants of Wealth”]
8]. The USA standard of living between 1872 and 1988 increased only 8%, fourth of the average gain in West Germany, France, Italy, Britain, and Canada, and a seventh of Japan. [Source: “The War on the Labor and Left”]
9] University of Texas law professor Johnson and his colleagues “have shown how Congress, by closing loopholes could raise $1 trillion each year without any new taxes or rate increases.” [2012] [Source: “The Fine Print”]
10] he USA is #29 in Internet average speeds [2012]; the French get better Internet and phone service for 1/4 the American cost !!!!!!!!!!! [Source: “The Fine Print”]
Wake up, FOOLS, YOU. are being played and lied to, manipulated and massively. CHEATED – every. single. day!!
The rich and corporate oligarchy is. ROBBING. YOU. BLIND”. The “culture wars”. have succeeded in ”dividing and conquering” the bottom 90% The peak 1947 – 1973. middle class mass prosperity has literally been stolen from YOU. Research the UNSPUN. real. Census, IRS, GAO, CBO numbers.
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