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To be among the richest 10% of adults in the world required $61,000 in assets, and more
than $500,000 was needed to belong to the richest 1%
To be among the richest 50% of adults in the
world required $2,200in assets.
The 1% club has 37 million members. There were 13,568,229 millionaires in 2000 and 499 billionaires in 2000 The richest 2 % of adults own more than half the world’s wealth The richest 10 % of adults accounted for 85 % of assets. Half of the world's Adult population must make do with 1% of global wealth. According to Bilbe Jesus said: "It's easier for a camel to get throught the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven". This is repeated twice in the Bible by Mark: 10:24 and Matthew: 19:25. Very few things are repeted twice in the Bible. |
| "Money makes it possible for people to achieve their goals without having to ask friends or acquaintances for help. Therefore, Vohs and her colleagues theorized that even subtle reminders of money would inspire people to be self-reliant and to expect such behavior from others." |
| In 2004, the richest 1 percent of households - 719,910 of them, with an average annual income of $326,720 - had 19.8 percent of the entire nation's pretax income. That's up from 17.8 percent a year earlier, according to a study by University of California-Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez. |
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According to
Paul Krugman who writes for the New York Times:
"In the US economy manufacturing has loss 18% since 2002 to 14.2 million.
Meanwhile employment in the private health service industry
has risen 16% to 12.6 million. An additinal 1.3 million
are employed at goverment hospitals.
Between 200 and 2005 private health insurance coverage fell 1% Buat over the same period employment at helath insurance companies rose 32 percent. What are these new ensurance employees doing working harder than ever at indentifying people who really need medical care and ensuring that they don't get it." |
| "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." |