Breaking Down The 99 Percent: Where Do You Fit In?

By Zachary Roth | The Lookout | 2 hrs 39 mins ago

“The Occupy Wall Street protesters say they speak for the 99 percent of the population left out of the gains made in recent decades by the super rich.

"The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%," a website affiliated with the protests declares.

But that's a big group, encompassing a vast range of incomes. So where do you fit in? The Wall Street Journal has posted a nifty calculator that allows you to enter your household income and find out.

To land in the top 1 percent, you need to make over $506,000. And to be in the bottom 1 percent, you'd need to somehow survive on $2,500 a year. And if you take in $43,000, you're bang in the middle.

Of course, the calculator doesn't consider existing wealth. Nor does it account for differences in living costs in different parts of the country.

Still, it's a good general guide. Relative to other Americans, you may be doing better - or worse! - than you thought.”

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...145717114.html

reply 1:
“Wage Disparity???

Salary of retired US Presidents .............$180,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of House/Senate .........................$174, 000 FOR LIFE

Salary of Speaker of the House ............$223,500 FOR LIFE
Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders ...... $193,400 FOR LIFE
Average Salary of a teacher ....................... $40,065

Average Salary of Soldier DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN $38,000
I think we found where the cuts should be made!”

reply 2: “The 99% fits into the group NOT represented by government policies ... that's where we fit in.”

reply 3: “If all of us don,t care about everybody then no one will care about anyone”
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Even with a generalized version of where each of us fits in with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, the replies signify that the populace knows full well who is to blame, and what needs to be done. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are visibly showing Wall Street and Washington that greed and corruption will no longer be tolerated by the masses.

That a whole new concept of legislating that is devoid of greed, corruption, and Washington politicians being the tools of corporations has to be implemented so that America need never go thru this turmoil, and government breakdown again.

That this Occupy Wall Street is being copied worldwide tells us that a monumental movement to clean up world governments has arrived.