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Jnew28

(931 posts)
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 06:57 PM Jul 2016

Billionaires – The 300 – Which Ones Are Hijacking Our Democracy!

Please read and share: http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2016/07/billionaires-300-hijacking-democracy.html

"I had also always gone by my own ‘guesstimated’ rule of thumb, being that only 50% of the 1% are really the public enemy. Now I have decided to dig a little deeper, not so much into the the top 1%, but more like the top .0001%. At the end of the day the real threat to democracy lies with the top 0.0001%—as there are just too many “losers” in the top 1%. The below graphic shows that just 158 families provided about 50% of the money spent to capture the White House in 2012. Yes, people like Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers really want to have a President as their personal valet. So let’s, for the sake of mathematical simplicity, say that these 158 families (usually dominated by one person) represent about 300 people. These 300 hundred people represent about 0.0001% of the US population."

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