felicity, I think you may have misread one of the graphs.

Here’s what’s what regarding the Top 10%

—Top 10% have incomes of $145,000 or more
—Top 10% pays 70% of all income taxes
—Top 10% controls 67% of US Wealth (down from 74% in 2007 due to decline in real estate)
—Top 10% earns 50% of all US income
—Top 10% accounts for 40% of all consumer spending.

Notes:  This may be the only time you’ll see all these stats together in one place.
Most journalists & columnists cherry-pick from these and other wealth/income figures according to what point of view they’re promoting.

Also: it’s also important to note there is high correlation (overlap) between groups. 
But they’re not identical.  The wealthiest 10% are not all the same people top 10% income-earners, for example.

Raylan - this one got me right in the gut. Of the total
combined income of all of us, 400 of us have half of
it.

RayLan, thanks for sharing the wealth distribution blogspot link.  Toward the bottom of the page, there is a graph that’s very telling.

It’s one showing Share of Federal Tax Revenue.  As it shows, we’ve been steadily overtaxing labor (payroll taxes) since the ‘50’s.  No wonder we have high unemployment.

Time now to eliminate payroll taxes altogether.
Fund Social Security and Medicare with a non-regressive national sales tax.

Spooky-43, in your twin turbo, whisper-prop activities at three thousand feet.  If you have had contact with Chip Tatum types, or are a colleague of his, my guess is, that you will appreciate his chronicles.  It is wise to record these videos, as they are systematically “disappearing” from you tube, and the internet. BestRegards, doc b. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_6dOsAZfZI

Thank you, drbhelth. And you know,  we are the ones who will take grave
chances later when it comes time to hide these people and move them out of
harms way. Right now it takes courage to try and get people to look at a mess
that Americans and Israelis have been building for decades.

When I was a teenager in a general store out in the country I heard someone
saying ugly things about Jews, and it was a surprise, because that kind of a
thing was not something I had heard very often, especially in public. The old
man behind the counter said: “Son, there is no need to run your mouth off
about the Jews. Give the Jews enough rope and they will hang themselves.” 

I remember thinking at the time. “If that is true, and it surely squares with what
little I know of history, then the real challenge is going to be to find a way to
keep Jewish American out of harms way, even if they deserve it, because when
they go down everyone suffers. The problem is what on earth will rein them in.”
The following year Rachael Israel stood up in a Student Council meeting and
announced that if we ever tried to hold a Christmas Dance again her father’s
lawyers would put a stop to it. Within a few years I saw Palestinians in Israel
treated with contempt, racist hatred, and an arrogance of domination far more
intense than anything of that kind that I ever saw growing up in the South. I
was told with a sneer that the stupid American Christians would keep backing
Israel no matter what anyone said until Israel had the whole land and more.

GULAM, whoever you are, thank you.

The motto of the MOSSAD, ” by way of deception, thou shalt do war,” is not limited to the israeli spy system. The israeli brain-washing propaganda has worked well, especially in the western world. As Gary Mont suggested, Americans missed and continue to miss the wake-up call. While too many naïve, non-israeli folk conscientiously spread Israeli propaganda, which is not Jewish.

Unfortunately this is not a joke. It could very well get an awful lot of people killed.
It did so once not long ago.

Raylan says,
“America is owned and run by mostly white Christian-self-identified rich 10% corporate moguls who control 2/3 of the wealth”

And Gulam says,
“(the) Jews in Europe (Germany) during the 19th century, and they came in and took over the finance, the media, and academia in much the same way they have done again in the USA in the 20th”

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So let me get this straight.  The White Christian rich guys own 2/3rds of America, and the Jews own the other 2/3rds.  And Oprah and Tiger Woods own a couple of thirds each. 

The White Christians vote conservative, and the Jews vote liberal with Oprah and Tiger.  The 4/3rds liberal vote swung the last presidential election for Obama, whom the Jews and the rich Christians both hate - the Jews because he is a Muslim sympathizer and the rich guys because he is not a member of skull and bones.

And bhelthi is touting a book that “clarifies the interaction among western world spy agencies and the MOSSAD, in certain historical events. The French secret service, and the U.S. N.S.A., for example, in the contrived auto accident of princess Diana”

These above facts prove absolutely that there is a God.  For no small, perpetually hated population such as the Jews could possibly control virtually all the worlds money, universities, spy agencies, Nobel prizes in physics, rich Christian white guys, media and most Dunkin Donuts stores without a very powerful God looking out for them.

This is one of the saddest things that I have ever read. This short essay might
be used by historians in China for centuries to illustrate the crash of the West.
For a Jewish journalist to talk at length about the origins of America’s fear of
Islam and contempt for everything Muslim on a blog run by Jews in a country
where a clear majority and more of the major news organizations are in Jewish
hands, and not mention at all their role in this is, well, terrifying. The little-
educatged gentile herd has been brow beaten into submission; they long ago
learned in school never to even utter the word “Jew” at all, but no sane Jew
should allow this kind of dangerous pretence any longer. How could one
possibly write about this new tide of rising anti-Semitism without talking about
whether or not America’s other Semites are the driving force behind the tide,
since that is certainly what many people are thinking, if they are thinking?

On excavation sites in Israel in the late 60s and early 70s religious Jews would
talk late into the night about the coming American holocaust that many of them
saw as inevitable. They were saying: “We control the media and universities, and
we will never be able to resist driving America to war against the Arabs. There
is too much money to be made, so we will surely do this, and it will bring on
the next deluge.” That the Jews in America own the media is no wild anti-
Semitic accusation; it is a fact that anyone can confirm in just a few hours of
research. Many pro-Jewish web sites brag about this. Together with the similar
stranglehold over American academia and Congress, the big newspapers, TV
networks, and internet magnates have methodically and visibly taken the USA
down this path to destruction. No objective analysis could possibly deny heavy
Jewish involvement again and again in setting this course.

This is a tragedy of monumental proportions in the making and anyone who
truly loves and admires the Jewish community must of necessity be horrified.
Those who deeply care do not roll over and pretend that this is not happening.
Anybody with one shred of journalistic integrity could not pretend to write
about this rising tide of hatred against Islam and at least make some reference
to the fact that, in the eyes of many, Israel and the American Jewish community
are largely responsible, even if it is a few Southern conservatives who step up
and make asses of themselves once the situation is ripe. Whether Israelis and
Jewish Americans are largely responsible for this or not may be a complex and
difficult question,  but what matters almost as much is that this is the
perception of the silent majority, that great gentile herd, and not without
reason. When a third Jew was installed on the Supreme Court, replacing the last
Protestant, little was said, true, in the Jewish owned press.

Let’s not pretend that this is not a remarkably similar situation to that in
Germany a century ago, for Germany had been the most liberal and open place
for Jews in Europe during the 19th century, and they came in and took over the
finance, the media, and academia in much the same way they have done again
in the USA in the 20th. This is THE most important factor playing out in
American history right now, yet any suggestion that the Jews might have done
anything to have justified German anger has been so strictly banned that it has
been possible for that community to come to America and do the very same
thing all over again.

If there is hope at all must it not start with honest appraisal of the situation? Is
it not far far better to talk about it now here rather than wait for a Hitler to start
doing it in public? Hitler was not some super evil genius who created a bad
situation by himself; he was just a crackpot who gave voice to what millions of
people were already angry about but to liberal to speak of themselves.

Peter King—INRI

Perhaps, has last name is Kahane

I remember something a Senator said after Reagan was
elected but before he was sworn into office.  “If the
Soviet Union is ever going to attack us, it’ll do it
now before Reagan takes office, and if it doesn’t it
never will.”

The Soviets didn’t of course but it continued to be
the rationale for, the justification for, even
upping, arms production - remember Reagan’s extremely
expensive SDI pipe dream?  Face it, pretty hard to
justify spending the greater part of the
discretionary budget on the Pentagon without a
menacing enemy.

This is fiddling with the symptom and not the disease.
America is owned and run by mostly white Christian-self-identified rich 10% corporate moguls who control 2/3 of the wealth.
http://itoosing.blogspot.com/2011/02/wealth-distribution-in-america-2011.html
Every other group is villified in subtle and not so subtle ways. Any opportunity to set off a wildfire of racism and xenophobia is seized like a stock op.
The disease is so deep rooted in needs a fundamental re-vamping of the entire culture.

The motto of the israeli MOSSAD, ” By way of deception, thou shalt do war,” has been evidenced in the military and political actions of the USGov for at least forty years.  The political stance of Rep. Peter King amplifies this deception.

A more complete understanding of the MOSSAD is provided by the years of research presented in Gordon Thomas´s volume, “Gideon´s Spies The Secret History of the MOSSAD”. This volume also clarifies the interaction among western world spy agencies and the MOSSAD, in certain historical events. The French secret service, and the U.S. N.S.A., for example, in the contrived auto accident of princess Diana.

When the Mafia was investigated, the Italians complained that the investigator’s should not be able to use the word “Mafia”? I smell political correctness and it smells really bad

It seems that comparing Muslim terrorists with the IRA is ridiculous.  Islamist jihad
purports to kill every infidel in the world. Unfocused and unprincipled except in
their cultish religion.  The IRA was fighting against an occupied British army on
their soil. Hence when the British troops left, the IRA stopped bombing.  They are
not the same and does not place Rep King in a conundrum.

It seems that comparing Muslim terrorists with the IRA is ridiculous.  Islamist jihad
purports to kill every infidel in the world. Unfocused and unprincipled except in
their cultish religion.  The IRA was fighting against an occupied British army on
their soil. Hence when the British troops left, the IRA stopped bombing.  They are
not the same and does place Rep King in a conundrum.

King’s congressional “klavern” articulates one that
we of a ‘non-white’/‘brownish’/‘mixed’ persuasion
have known viscerally well since our childhoods: if
the person on the street cannot accord you
“recognition” as a ‘White American’, then you are at
best ‘suspiciously’ American. The nature of this
‘recognition’ is a ‘mindless’ minding, as it were, an
‘unquestioned-because-unquestionable’ acceptance as
American by virtue of skin complexion. The racial
slurs that have targeted me throughout my childhood
are too numerous to recall.

Americans have to realize that their “racism” is not
some set of mental states, some matter of attitude
towards some certain ‘others,’ an aberration that
only requires a ‘change of mind’ or a dosage of
‘education’ for correction. (Indeed, when one
researches the HISTORY of the concept of ‘race,’
through its twists and contortions through biology,
anthropology, all the way back to its Grecian and
Roman expression in ‘humoral theory’, one discovers
its purely ‘artefactual’ nature, that it is a purely
human construct lacking reference to any natural
phenomenon whatsoever).

Rather, America’s racism is a disease infecting the
“Existenz” of those who identify themselves as “White
Americans,” , a slash in “Being-with” (“Mit-sein”)
that has been ‘scabbed’ over, a deformation of the
“With-world” (“Mit-welt”) that constitutes American
society.

Our society’s rectification, to immunize the “With-
world,” we must begin with our infants: in rearing
our children we accord no recognition value to the
superficial differences between us. (America’s
prejudice impacts the affective centers of our
children’s brains!) The comportment which expresses
our embrace of others is not allowed to warp or
distort. The Sartrean ‘look’ we cast and that is cast
upon us will not suffer a ‘glaucoma’ when that
‘other’ is ‘non-white’/‘brownish’/‘mixed’.

However, among whom could such an upbringing become
garden, a matter of course?

Without such a change in our society, prejudice and
discrimination will continue ‘continuing’ - the
PERVERSION that King displays will arise again,
again!

But don’t forget a lot of this comes back to 1 point: ‘Our oil is under their sand.’

If Mr. Peter King genuinely represents the folk in the district of NY, who allegedly elected him, I better understand why Mrs. Clinton was elected by NY voters.

One tends to conclude that the MOSSAD component of the Hitler Society must be rewarding its pimps well, behind the scenes. With CIA black-budget dollars.

While Peter King was a major organizer of U.S. Irish-Catholics in support of the IRA, another major IRA supporter was Moammar Khadafy, Libyas’s dictator, who provided terrorist training camps in Libya. Many IRA members were sent to those Libyan camps, funded by Peter King’s efforts, to learn how to terrorize and destroy their fellow Irish folks. Since King and Khadafy have so much in common, and such a history, perhaps Obama should send Peter to Libya as a special envoy to solve the ‘Arab Troubles’. At least that would have the benefit of removing him from the U.S.

Many beneficial and productive sources of work have been lost but we can always
count on the manufacture of fear and enemies….. up to a point though. Bear in
mind that many defense projects are contracted out under dubious deals with
businesses in obscure locations.

donna made a good point: you can’t talk about anti-Arab bigotry without mentioning Israel.

Well—he just did, but you shouldn’t.

Aren’t all US politicians in favour of terrorism that they like?

Reagan said the Taliban were like the founding fathers.  Clinton met with the leader of the IRA’s political wing.  US policy is to support terrorists all over the world.  The KLA for example in Kosovo, was endorsed by the Democrats and now I guess the Libyan “resistance” (aka terrorists too) are feted by the so-called left.  The right loves them some terrorist brutality if its aimed against leftist regimes such as the Contras in Nicaragua or a range of anti-Cuban terrorists living in Miami.

Supporting terrorism is practically a condition of being in US politics.

The real “enemies” of this nation are King and his ilk.

Well, David, part of the problem is that the “surveillance department” needs victims in order to stay in business, and if you can keep the focus on justifying victimization of a reliigious or ethnic minority at home, people will forget to notice that your “defense department” needs victims in the Middle East or Africa in order to stay in business. There’s a not-so-subtle reciprocation in the arrangement which American people generally are too stupid, or too scared to recognize.