This is for the folks who come to visit us from time to time...

[MrScorpio]

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. It shouldn't say "Check your wallet"....

It should say "Check to see if you have 'investable assets' exceeding 8 zeros to the left of the decimal point".

Billionaires aren't carrying much more cash than the next guy, really.

[Coyotl]

14. It should say, "Ask your investments manager which you are?" so that

a chorus of morans reply, "What if I don't have an investments manager?"

[libodem]

2. Spot on MrScorpio

Exactly.

[loudsue]

3. That is a great little graphic!

[Kali]

4. kick

good one

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. that is catchy. Very catchy!

[calimary]

6. LOVE it, MrScorpio!!!

You've got my favorite Mensa-member moran on there! He's always in style!

[Cha]

7. The Saddest thing in American Politics, Mr Scorpio..

[Fumesucker]

8. It's a bit odd, the stereotype is that poor whites are stupid and hence vote Republican

And wealthier whites are the ones who vote for Democrats.

While actually just the reverse is true, the less wealthy a white person is in America, the more likely they are to vote Democratic.

Go figure.


http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/03/23/voting-patterns-of-americas-whites-from-the-masses-to-the-elites/

Within any education category, richer people vote more Republican. In contrast, the pattern of education and voting is nonlinear. High school graduates are more Republican than non-HS grads, but after that, the groups with more education tend to vote more Democratic. At the very highest education level tabulated in the survey, voters with post-graduate degrees lean toward the Democrats. Except for the rich post-graduates; they are split 50-50 between the parties.

What does this say about America’s elites? If you define elites as high-income non-Hispanic whites, the elites vote strongly Republican. If you define elites as college-educated high-income whites, they vote moderately Republican.

There is no plausible way based on these data in which elites can be considered a Democratic voting bloc. To create a group of strongly Democratic-leaning elite whites using these graphs, you would need to consider only postgraduates (no simple college grads included, even if they have achieved social and financial success), and you have to go down to the below-$75,000 level of family income, which hardly seems like the American elites to me.

The patterns are consistent for all three of the past presidential elections. (The differences in the higher-income low-education category should not be taken seriously, as the estimates are based on small samples, as can be seen from the large standard errors for those subgroups.)

[napkinz]

9. voting against their own interests ...

[Berlum]

10. The brutal truth

k and r

[hfojvt]

11. after 2008

I sure feel like a sucker.

I thought Obama was gonna be on MY side. I thought he was gonna be less of a DLCer than Clinton.

Instead he made 85% of the Bush tax cuts permanent.

Billionaires? You mean, like Alice Walton, who now gets permanent tax cuts of $100,000,000 per year?

$1.3 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 5% and how many Democratic voters believe that Obama "raised taxes on the rich." What is a person called when they are told a lie and they believe it?

I understand there is one born every minute.

[Ohio Joe]

13. K&R - nt

[Quantess]

15. That sums it up!