Posted on 01/11/2012 3:48:06 PM PST by americanophile
WASHINGTON -- Tensions between the rich and poor are increasing and at their most intense level in nearly a quarter-century, a new survey shows. Americans now see more social conflict over wealth inequality than over the hot-button topics of immigration, race relations and age.
The survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center highlights U.S. perceptions of the economic divide, an issue that has moved to the forefront in the 2012 presidential campaign amid stubbornly high unemployment, increasing poverty and protests by the Occupy movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
“Reporter says something like “they are part of the 1 percent living in a gated community”.”
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Unbelievable. The reporter should be fired for “editorializing” rather than reporting.
Idiot!
My friend just got a job as a ‘Jobs coach’. She helps unemployed folks prepare to search for a job.
By her account, we’re screwed.
The more the government takes the more everyone else fights over what remains... and the more the media cries for the government to take more.
I hate our disgusting media.
I haven’t been the type to do creative writing but will give it a try.
“The mobile home park was empty, as all of the residents were at the commissioners’ meeting to stop Joe Sixpack from building his barn on the cottontail migration route.”
No. That somehow doesn’t work. Let me try again.
“The homeless man was the politician’s most prized and influential constituent.”
Well, that doesn’t work either. I give up.
I guess Hope Yen (AP White House/DNC stenographer) will place the blame on the OWS crowd and Uh-Bama...riiiiight....
How about killing jobs and rewarding useless bureaucrats?
The Left never, ever understands economics...
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