The One Percent Part 1/8

This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• one
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• top
• 1%
• rich
• elite
• capitalism
• free
• market
• wealth
• poor
• poverty
• inequality
• corporations
• corporcracy

[cstyle3435]

Theres one thing the rich dont realize,The poor outnumber the rich by vast amounts of numbers, it's only a matter of time before they realize how there being screwed by the rich. What do you think will happen then? Well just look over history and you can see.

[plundersomepink]

@DivinelyMochaDipped ha...he sounds as if he's part of that 1% trying to "calm" the masses...and if not, he's the perfect example of the perfect "drone".

[deletemycommentnow]

the rich better hope the masses dont wake up. zeitgeist addendum...

[deletemycommentnow]

taxes are killing the rich, oh the poor rich have it so bad, with all the heavy taxation..

[NoCigar1991]

Jamie: "It's a documentary about wealth and issues with social classes in America."

Lady: ih.. *ahem*

XD

[theravenflow]

You people are crazy. This is the first time I've ever seen a documentary that accurately shows you how the elite actually think. Its pretty scary when it comes right down to it and the fact that they want everything and assume a trickle down policy will help us is only an excuse to fuck us over even more. Every other video you will see on these people is speculation, this video shows you everything said from the horses mouth.

[Keeban3]

@DaKuteCate

You seem to have missed my entire point. I'm with you that cronyism is a disease that has to be gotten rid of. But there is a difference between people that got rich by government influence and those that got rich by creating what people demand (I think that even if they move overseas, but that isn't a discussion for a 500 char limit). It bothers me that this documentary or the young turks or liberals in general so rarely distinguish the two.

[DaKuteCate]

@Keeban3 the laziest kid on the team, only because his daddy owns the league, it's a fixed game and it's not fair; I'm drunk and stoned and making more sense than you, wake the fuck up, I'm not suggesting communism or socialism (some things would be nice that way) I'm suggesting a monitored market by honest politicians, capitalism is doomed to fail either way.

[DaKuteCate]

@Keeban3 for ridiculous legislation, pay their taxes fairly and stop using swiss bank accounts and Caribbean bank accounts to avoid paying taxes and sending jobs overseas to again avoid paying taxes and not paying an income tax when it's brought back from overseas, and invest their money correctly, not making bets against something they convinced someone else was good(europe), this is the best analogy i can come up with:On a sports team who won a championship, the mvp and trophy goes to

[DaKuteCate]

@Keeban3 again tarp funds were from the taxpayers so they robbed us, it wasn't made fairly; if they had invested it correctly, we wouldn't be up in arms over there bullshit, they pay the politicians to pass laws so they can pull this shit and get them to overlook it and pay the court trials to pay a small fee to make "amends" and claim they did nothing wrong. The 99% don't want them to be forced to pay us half of w.e they make just because, it's about them not paying politicians

[DaKuteCate]

@Keeban3 they knew it would happen and when they couldn't pay it they foreclosed the home resold it to freddie mac and fannie may and collected the fee's and unpaid balance, then when it looked like they were going under the govt. intervened and gave them tarp funds to help them to go to hiring new people and dig themselves out with the fraudulent loans, they gave themselves bonuses..and had insider info to bet against their own stalks to make more money from the tax payers.

[DaKuteCate]

@Keeban3 well yes it actually would mean that, it's not forced equal distribution it would be the banks not robbing people blind. this is what they did, they gave out loans they knew would fail when the economy crashed, to do this they purposely targeted people who spoke broken english and poor neighbor hoods that were not well educated, even then they convinced them by saying "oh you think you can't afford it? we will work with you so you can" the interest rate went from 2% to 15%