Alan Grayson: who are the 1 per cent?

One of the first creations of the Occupy Wall Street movement has been the phrase “We Are the 99%.”

This is, of course, a reference to the fact that the top 1% in America own 37% of all the wealth.

That the top 1% enjoy more than 20% of all the income.

That since 1979, the average income of the top 1% increased by $700,000, while the average income for the bottom 90% actually decreased by $900.

And that this has given America the fifth most unequal distribution of wealth in the entire world.

So – who made it this way? The nurses, fast-food workers, teachers, cashiers, police officers and secretaries? Or the 1 percent at the top?

And just who are the 1 percent?

Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films, the documentary makers, are conducting a novel crowd-sourcing effort to identify the 1 percent, and put a spotlight on them. This will be like their outstanding films Rethink Afghanistan, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Wal-Mart: The High Price of Low Cost and Iraq for Sale.

With one exception: you can be involved.and help to identify the 1 percent.  When Brave New Films is done, we’ll know who they are.  And they’ll know who we are.

So please go to this website: http://www.bravenewfoundation.org/whoarethe1percent/

Courage,

Alan Grayson

Is the one per cent is really the problem? It is a actually a portion of the one per cent who fund the GOP that is the problem. These are people like the Koch Brothers and Richard Mellon Scaife

Recently the Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength told a congressional hearing yesterday that the affluent should be taxed more.

The Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength said that any deal struck by the Super Committee on the budget deficit should not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The Super Committee should instead levy higher taxes on the wealthy and let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire.

There are affluent people who have done well in America and want to give back to the country. It is misleading to stereotype all affluent Americans as the problem.

There is a dangerous part of the one per cent that bankrolls the GOP and wants America to be an aggressive  Christo-fascist nation like Nazi Germany.  

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