TYT: Class Warfare - Top 10% Vs You (w/ Bonus Article Under Video)

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 06:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTiJxalIVUA   Posted on YouTube: September 08, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 307   Posted on DU: September 08, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 2659

 
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Summary: Article - http://www.slate.com/id/2266025/entry/2266026|The United States of Inequality>.

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[happygoluckytoyou]

1. FINALLY ! ! ! thank you lord ! ! ! SHOUTING FOR YEARS----> always has been only about CLASS WARFARE

[lumpy]

2. Excellent. Cenk nailed it. Wish all lower income people would

wake up and realize this is how it has been for too damn long.

[indy legend]

11. The poor Foxbots, Becktards, Limpbaugh worshipers will NEVER wake

up to this fact. The three biggest threats to our nation are idiots who don't know, idiots who don't know they don't know and conservative idiots who know but refuse to accept the facts no matter how clearly you present them and beat them over the fucking head with them. So here we go again proving once more that those who refuse to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

[Crowman1979]

3. The elites in this country are the bullies who cry to the teacher after finally getting punched.

They do this "I'm the victim!" routine all the damn time. I'm glad someone like Cenk is calling them out on this BS.

[another saigon]

4. Excellent Article!

:applause:

-snip-

Uygur said winning more time on TV matters because "I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin."

He scoffs at the suggestion that MSNBC can't catch up with cable-leader Fox News. "They don't mind throwing bombs and picking fights," Uygur said. "But if anyone on the other side has the temerity, they will have a great success or even greater success than Fox, because there are more progressives out there."

[JDPriestly]

8. Cenk is also right about how to get that share of the public to watch MSNBC>

It will take time, but we will get an intelligent debate going in this country about our national direction. Keep up the good work Cenk -- and everyone on MSNBC.

[Jim_Shorts]

5. Political equality is meaningless

in the face of economic inequality - F.D.R.

http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3305

[sulphurdunn]

17. Bingo!

[blackbart99]

19. absolutely dead on friend...nt

[PA Democrat]

6. The concentration of wealth along with the obscene amount of money

in politics is destroying our democracy. It is heartbreaking to see how easily so many Americans can be duped into voting against their own self interests.

[JDPriestly]

7. Best program yet, Cenk. Fantastic.

This I happily K&R. K&R. K&R. K&R. The numbers do not lie.

[Turborama]

9. K&R & Thanks for the links n/t

[20score]

10. I'm saving this one. Wish more people would listen to these facts. We have so many people

in the middle class fighting this class war - and they're fighting for the rich.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ihavenobias.

[urgk]

13. I can't wait until Cenk has his own show.

He's been filling in a lot lately. Sort of like Rachel Maddow used to do before she got her much-deserved show.

[MikeMc]

14. Grandpa Lumpy Knows Class Warfare...

He just doesn't know how many mansions he owns.

[civilisation]

15. There can be no democracy with ECONOMIC inequality. . ,

Equal participation in some form of government is only half the picture,. a just and fair distribution of resources is essential for fair and just society. If 1 percent own 90 percent of the wealth, and claim ownership over all the good land, and physical resources voting is meaningless,. . the vast majority of people are mealy wage slaves beholden to the wealthy who in fact rule.

Why is glen beck afraid of churches that speak of "Social and Economic Justice"?

[TheKentuckian]

16. Must see for one and all and that's just part of the story

Dig into what sliver of the pie the masses of us in steerage have to claw for and it will make you sick to your soul.

The bottom 60% of us must divide about 11% of income much of that going to the middle 20% since the bottom 40% get a meagre 3.5% of the haul to split among themselves. The bottom 20% doesn't even get a full percentage point, I don't believe.

That's class genocide there y'all. At some point enough, its not punishing success to allow millions and tens of million at least the scraps. That's hardly even a stray crumb for "the small people".

[ooglymoogly]

18. Excellent. This is the crux of what has so drastically gone wrong

with this country. If we do not fix it, we are finished as a middle class and anything but a banana republic.

[indimuse]

20. KNR!!

KNR!!

[sulphurdunn]

21. Believe me.

Making $150,000 a year puts you in the wealthiest 10% of Americans, and that's gross income. Serious class warfare is waged by people with eight, nine and ten digit incomes, about 0.1% of Americans or less.

[carnie_sf]

22. As Warren Buffet famously said

If there is class warfare in the US, my class is clearly winning.