American Dream

Here are some very powerful words from Hank Roth's NaBlog. There are some incredible links in this post also.

From 1979 through 2002 the income of the richest 1% in the United States TRIPLED, while the income of the rest of us stagnated and went down.
UN Human Development Report:

It is morally reprehensible that while the rich 1% in the United States got richer, not just the rest of America but the rest of the world suffers: 1.2 billion people in the world are barely able to live on their LESS than $1.00 a day and as many as ONE HALF are living on $2.00 a day or less.

Alan Maass in "The Case for Socialism" writes:

"The truth is that the American Dream existed only for the handful of people at the top who've become fantatically rich at our expense. For everyone else, the American Dream is dead."


"Meanwhile, the total wealth of the three richest families in the world is equal to the combined economic output of the world's forty-eight least developed countries."