In the end they made George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to put the clock back 80 years and return to the social geography of America before the Great Depression. This is revealed by U.S. income in 2005 (the latest available): in that year, the richest 300,000 Americans have declared an income equal to that accumulated by the 150 million poorest Americans: namely, 0.1% (l ' one per thousand) at the top of the income scale earned as 50% which is below, in other words: on average each person in the lead group earned 440 times more than any member of the queue: a difference not seen since 1928, from the first note of the Great Depression. Such a concentration wealth is not seen perhaps since the days of ancient Egypt. At least from the point of view of income, the Republicans are so managed to cancel the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Other than Iraq! Here is the real "Mission Accomplished" Bush. Real Robin Hood in reverse, he snatched the needy and enriched the billionaires. This raid is part of the richest game in 1970, but has accelerated with Ronald Reagan in the 80s and has plummeted in the past six years: 1998 to 2005 0.1% richest 50% increased their share of the total. The beatings have taken not only the poor but also the mythical "middle class": in 2005 the total income of Americans rose by one amazing 9%, but that 90% (ie almost all) of Americans fell by 0.9%, and this in a year of extraordinarily fat cows, and even of obese cows! It means that all the growth (and the offsetting income lost by the majority) went to the remaining 10% which is only about half of the jelly cake (48.5%). It's a real social cannibalism: in 1970 the richest tenth of Americans only appropriate (sic) of one third of total income, not by half. The finest perversion of this mechanism is that not only digs a chasm between rich and poor, but opens up a chasm between the rich and super-rich: income growth of 1% richest was ten times higher than the 10% most wealthy. Today, the wealthiest 1% is put in your pocket more than a fifth of all income American (21.8%), 2% more than the year before and more than double in 1980. Even better is the richest one per thousand in 2005 the average annual income richest 1% was $ 5.6 million (+908,000), while the one per thousand was 25, $ 7 million (+ 4.4 million). These figures are so astronomical that it is difficult to grasp its meaning. So let's put it this way: the 30,000 richest Americans have an annual income that exceeds the GNP of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru combined (numbering more than 270 million people). And 30,000 people are contained in a small town like Orissa. The irony does not stop there: the Revenue Office admits that the income of the wealthier classes are understated, because while 98% of the income of employees vetted by the tax authorities, it is estimated that only 70% of the declared income from business and trade. In these nude figures is the full extent of the "reactionary revolution" carried out by the Republicans (very feebly opposed by the Democrats). If he were alive, the Marquis de Sade correct the incitement in his famous "George, one more effort,"
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