On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The article highlights that the same issues causing the protests in > the Middle East is happening right in our backyards in the US and no > doubt elsewhere. > > "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 > nations incomean inequality even the wealthy will come to regret." > > > http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105?currentPage=a >
The US has a gigantic middle class who are living quite comfortably. It's one thing if you have a few wealthy, and everyone else is poor...it's quite another if you have a huge middle class, from which they see that even more wealth is attainable, and yet they are happy and sustained at their current level. Seriously, only a person who has never lived for an extended period of time in the United States would think to compare the living situation in this country, to those in the middle east who are experiencing revolts. Yeah, we middle class folks suffer a large part of the country's burden, and we may be just a few bad breaks away from being poor on occasion, but all in all, we've got it pretty good....i wouldn't trade my life, or my country, for anything....and the mere thought of revolting against a system that has brought such wealth and prosperity and the ability for me to lead such a life.....makes me sick. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336088 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
