Strong Conflict Between Rich And Poor - Pew Survey

"A new Pew Research Center survey of 2,048 adults finds that about two-thirds of the public (66%) believes there are "very strong" or "strong" conflicts between the rich and the poor—an increase of 19 percentage points since 2009...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/01/11/rising-share-of-americans-see-conflic­t-between-rich-and-poor/

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[SuppleGooch]

TAX THE RICH!

[tblsaci]

Giving Mitt Romney the keys to the White House is like give Gordon Gekko the keys to a bank vault.

[Houshalter]

@bodryn that's why corporations shouldn't exist in the first place. The very definition of a corporation is an entity that protects it's members from being liable for their actions. The other problem is the precedent set in the 19th century that infringements on property rights (especially in the case of pollution) should be tolerated for the sake of "progress".

[bodryn]

@Houshalter I find it interesting that conservatives always talk about personal responsibility, yet these unregulated corporations worldwide make terrible environmental messes that they leave for taxpayers to try and clean up, if they even can. The world is being dragged over an environmental cliff and there seems to be no way to stop it.

[Houshalter]

@bodryn I'll refuse to use them the second I don't have to pay for them.

[bodryn]

@Houshalter As do you. Unless you refuse to use public roads, public libraries, etc.

[Houshalter]

@bodryn you can't hide the fact you use government services.

[MonsieurJackAss]

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson

[bodryn]

@GermansMustDie You've been reading fairy tales again.

[bodryn]

@treysparker I'll debate economics with you. I know one thing people like you don't admit: how you love to capitalize the gains, but SOCIALIZE the losses!

[bodryn]

@treysparker It's not about "being rich is a bad thing", it's about the rest of us needing protection against these rich, who are getting rich by wrecking things for the rest of us. It's about the rich making other young people go to war for them; it's about trying to keep the rich from disasters like Fukushima, the BP oil gusher, Bhopal, etc etc. Protection against Monsanto forcing defective seeds onto the world. I.e., we have just this one world to live on. Can we?

[bodryn]

@SadisticSenpai61 Your take on things was routinely discussed on radio back in the 1940's and 1950's - no big secret then. Somehow the right wing took over the people's airwaves (since the Reagan admin took away the Fairness Doctrine) to the point that when Minot ND had a lethal toxic gas spill a few years ago, there was no way to notify the people: the radio stations were on autopilot and nobody was there! At least one person DIED!