Yay! Another political quiz!

[giblets]

To a country where 90 percent of the wealth is owned by 10 percent of the people.

I think in the US the top 10% own ~70% of the wealth.

[ColdWizard]

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesam...er/wealth.html

[Al B. Sure!]

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesam...er/wealth.html

Holy **** at median household net worth (including home value)

[MikeH]

Solid Liberal, the best educated group apparently.

[MikeH]

What doesn't it have to do with the American dream? Here you can make it if you try, whereas in most countries there's little hope of moving up

It's a nice myth but in reality social mobility in the US is very limited. Worse even than in Europe.

[giblets]

Yeah, there's a reason we don't get millions of immigrants from Europe anymore. It isn't any easier to move up here than in other developed countries.

[C0ckney]

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesam...er/wealth.html

wow, that's pretty nuts. a lot of things i didn't know there. i'm going to look for some comparable studies of other countries.

[SlowwHand]

Yeah, there's a reason we don't get millions of immigrants from Europe anymore. It isn't any easier to move up here than in other developed countries.

Years Immigrants
1820-1829 128,502
1830-1839 538,381
1840-1849 1,427,337
1850-1859 2,814,554
1860-1869 2,081,261
1870-1879 2,742,287
1880-1889 5,248,568
1890-1899 3,694,294
1900-1909 8,202,388
1910-1919 6,347,380
1920-1929 4,295,510
1930-1939 699,375
1940-1949 856,608
1950-1959 2,499,268
1960-1969 3,213,749

[giblets]

Years Immigrants
1820-1829 128,502
1830-1839 538,381
1840-1849 1,427,337
1850-1859 2,814,554
1860-1869 2,081,261
1870-1879 2,742,287
1880-1889 5,248,568
1890-1899 3,694,294
1900-1909 8,202,388
1910-1919 6,347,380
1920-1929 4,295,510
1930-1939 699,375
1940-1949 856,608
1950-1959 2,499,268
1960-1969 3,213,749

How does that prove we are getting millions of immigrants from Europe in the present?

[Lorizael]

I think it still is. We've always had our downers and doubters, we just happen to have one as president right now.

[Imran Siddiqui]

New Coalition Democrats
10% of the public

What They Believe
•Strongly pro-government
•Upbeat about the country's ability to solve problems and an individual's ability to get ahead through hard work
•Approve of regulation and environmental protection
•More positive about business than other Democratic-oriented groups
•Generally liberal on racial issues
•Hospitable to immigrants: 78% believe they strengthen society
•Very religious and socially conservative

Who They Are
•56% are Democrats
•Majority-minority group: 34% white, 30% black and 26% Latino
•About three-in-ten are first or second generation Americans
•55% have only a high school education or less
•23% are not registered to vote
•Only 34% read a daily newspaper
•Half are regular volunteers for charity or non-profit groups

[Docfeelgood]

Bull****.

and horse****

[MrFun]

If you wonder how such a large gap could develop, the proximate, or most immediate, factor involves the way in which CEOs now are able to rig things so that the board of directors, which they help select -- and which includes some fellow CEOs on whose boards they sit -- gives them the pay they want. The trick is in hiring outside experts, called "compensation consultants," who give the process a thin veneer of economic respectability.

Summary: CEO income raises are not based on merit or economic sensibility.

[SpencerH]

So what? The only people who's business it is what the CEO makes are the people who own the company i.e. the shareholders!

[Al B. Sure!]

but yeah, al & bk the libertarian crew.

What is this supposed to mean? I'm not a libertarian but don't group me with Ben's kind.