Here’s an interesting statistic about the growing tension between rich and poor:
With the Occupy Wall Street movement continuing to make news, the proportion of Americans who see “very strong conflicts” between rich and poor has doubled to 30% since 2009, according to the Pew Research Center. The share of whites holding this view rose 22 percentage points to 65% over that period, while the proportion of blacks and Hispanics sharing this judgment grew by 8 and 6 points to 74% and 61%, respectively.
It begs the question: Who are the rich? And where are they?
I can tell you the answer to that question. The rich are the politicians getting elected to Congress, holding positions as Senators and Representatives. They are in Washington, D.C.
Get this: There were 261 millionaires in the last Congress out of a total of 535 members. A quick calculation reveals that 49% of Congress are millionaires.
How does that stack up to the rate of millionaires in other areas?
Just 1% of ordinary Americans are millionaires.
Worse still, a study by the Heritage Foundation revealed that “federal workers earn 30 to 40 percent more money on average than their counterparts in the private sector.”
So it’s not just elected officials who are swimming in cash — it’s also the federal “servants” who are sucking on the giant tits of Lady Liberty.
And guess what?
You get to pay for it!
But let’s get back to the original point of this article. The growing conflict between rich and poor could easily be equated to the conflict between the federal government and the common people.
In other words, it is the same conflict.
This may help to explain why, in a recent poll, the following facts were discovered:
- 30% of Americans approved of pornography.
- 11% of Americans approved of polygamy.
- But only 9% of Americans approved of Congress.
Barack Obama was right: It is time for change.
That’s why I’m voting for Dr. Ron Paul, a Congressman who returns whatever money his office does not use back to the U.S. Treasury. Last year, he returned $140,000 back to the Treasury, even though he could have kept that money for himself.
Paul doesn’t just talk a good game; he lives it.
