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What if everyone knew...
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Truths that are more shocking than fiction.

What if everyone knew…

 --that the bottom 50 percent of all U.S. tax filers have an average income of $15,292.
--that this same group has no net worth at all (assets minus debts)
--that the top 20 percent has $11.5 trillion of income, and $53 trillion of net worth.
--that the richest country in history also has the most unequal sharing of wealth in history.
--that rich and poor have equal talents, equal intelligence, equal love of country, and
   equal love of God.
--that most wealth is inherited, directly or indirectly.
--that excessive wealth is the #1 cause of poverty.
--that if the rich shared just $1 trillion of their wealth (3 months of interest income on their wealth), the bottom 50 percent’s income would double for the year. All 70 million of them.
 
Would these truths make a difference in how we see each other, in how we treat each other, and in how we share in our good fortune? I’m just asking…

 


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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on November 9, 2012
In China, practicing capitalism to the limit, and beating the United States mightily in trade, 9% of the population have all the wealth. Those that have the wealth are not the entrepreneurs and captains of industry, but the Communist Party.

Your facts make a lot of sense.

Ron

Reviewed on November 9, 2012
They should make a difference but often ignorance and fear perpetuate a class warfare and power struggle. Well said.

Reviewed by Chip Bergeron
Reviewed on November 8, 2012
The problem is that some people kniw, and they don't give a damn, beyond their own balance sheets...,

Peace,

Chip Bergeron

Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater
Reviewed on November 8, 2012
This is a poem that figures. All the figures are here...and we're friends, Edward...

"Would these truths make a difference in how we see each other?" Yes, I think so. Thanks for asking. I see you to be an unbiased thinking man. Blessed Be.

Sage


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