kutulu

I don't think you're being realistic about the system. Our economic system is a pyramid. The masses at the bottom work near slave wages so that the people at the top can stay up there. The people at the top would not be there if we didn't have the people at the bottom to do the manual labor at shit wages.

Go ahead and call them babymaking POS's but if they weren't making babies, who would be the base of our economic pyramid in the future?

It's obvious that there is a minimum amount of money needed to survive, its obvious that the top 1% are the owners of the corporations that are paying the slave wages to the bottom 50%, it's also obvious that 20k/yr is not enough money to pay rent, medical bills, car payments, car insurance, electricity and food. Unless the rich are going to pay the poor enough so that they will be able to support themselves fully, the rich are going to have to supplement the poor somehow. Otherwise, pyramid isn't going to stand without its base.

So the filthy masses get reduced cost housing, is it nice housing? Do they have a big house and a nice backyard or is it in crime-infested areas? They get food stamps, are they buying fillet and lobster with the food stamps or ramen noodles? Are they buying flat screen HDTVs with the tax credits and taking lavish vacations or are they still just barely scraping by?

Again, what percentage of the total income earned is made by the top 5%?