The gargantuan mountain of cash that separates the rich from everyone else. Below (center pic) is a diagram representing the different annual income levels of all Americans in stacks of cash. At the very top are the super-rich (see the tiny box?). At the bottom are the poor and the 'middle-class' (see the little box in the lower corner?). Everything in-between is inhabited by various ranks of millionaire. Notice the little pink block at bottom left in the left-hand image? If you're like me, you never had any idea there was this much legal tender in the entire world-- much less just in America alone. That enormous mountain of cash sitting under them is what allows an unwelcome handful of the rich to buy up our politicians and our news media.
Note that these income numbers are only for rich families/households: they do NOT include much of what giant corporations have in their own separate coffers too, with which to deceive and manipulate us. For supporting references, please see: The super-rich, the 'plain' rich, the 'poorest' rich ...and everyone else. How large is a [million, billion, trillion]? Why I Changed My Mind About Unions. The organized tactics of intimidation by the public employee unions in Wisconsin last week came as no surprise to me.
I'm from New York, one of the most union-friendly states in the country, and I've seen the negative effects of unions my entire life. I dislike unions. But I didn't always feel that way. My first job as a 16-year old grocery store shelf-stocker was a union job. The industrial economy of Western New York imploded in the 1980s with the closing of the Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, which had once employed over 20,000 people. I'd never heard word of criticism about unions in my life until I was in college and worked summers for a small, independent contractor with only two full-time employees. Right around the time I graduated, it happened that my Dad needed a ride from work. Then, some longhaired, leather-jacketed maggot with a scruffy goatee drove past on a forklift.
A few years later, studying for my Master's degree, I lived in a low-rent apartment. As Sen.
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