Of The 1%, By The 1%, For The 1%
Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret. Full Story »
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Journalistic comments aside, I whole-heartedly agree with the author and am wondering myself why the American public hasn’t yet woken up from their slumber. It is hard to imagine that one can watch news coverage about northern Africa without being touched by the events and reflecting on the situation in our own country; a self-perpetuating hijacked political and financial system benefiting only a few on the backs of everyone else, with our misguided foreign policy effecting the rest of the world.