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I find this very very interested in the editorial page
editor's blog Juliet lop what P does
is writing for the New York Times
the editorial page editor's blog
and she's
reporting on a new analysis have IRS figures these are not
you know I A some liberal think tank this is the Internal Revenue Service
analysis was done by economists at the at UC berkeley
the parish school economics and Oxford University hardly partisans
in what they found was that in 2012 in other words the election year when when
when the Barack Obama occasionally talked about
room you know helping out the middle class and written around he said Iran
gauge in class warfare you pick on me cuz I'm a rich guy
in that year last year election-year
the income above the top one percent of Americans
people making over roughly three hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year
the income of the top one percent of Americans rose
nearly 20 percent the one to the top one percent of Americans took home
nineteen percent up the entire nations paychecks
and the top 10 percent
Americans which would be people roughly everybody making over about a hundred
and forty thousand dollars a year
my recollection is correct took home a
40 8.2 percent about half
have all the income in the country was the top 10 percent
meanwhile the income above the not the bottom 99 percent
grew a measly one percent
mindboggling so what are the rich do well they fund a group like
they the the Heartland Institute to say oh wait in creationism in our school
books
we need to be backing up those the aircraft's most crazy people out there
who are saying yeah America you know the david barton's the world with the
their alternative histories America as thomas jefferson was actually a raving
Christian danger no
it was secret
so secretive name right down his diaries
or be dead but here's the quote I just made it up myself
right