A Country of, by. and for the 1%

[packman]

"Virtually all U.S. senators, and most of the representatives in the House, are members of the top 1 percent when they arrive, are kept in office by money from the top 1 percent, and know that if they serve the top 1 percent well they will be rewarded by the top 1 percent when they leave office."

A rather dismal assessment of the inequality of the system. Author compares America today to the oligarchs of old Russia and Iran. Concludes at the end:

"The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late."



http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105

[atreides1]

1. At the rate we're going

The 1 percent are going to learn a bitter lesson, at the very end of their lives!

[ladjf]

2. Just another reason for the Senate to be abolished. nt

[pansypoo53219]

3. of corporations, by corporations, FOR corporations.