Poll on Wealth AND Poverty

[Ken Burch]

"Do you believe the United States has a class system?"

Corollary questions for thread discussion:

"If so, do you think this is a new development, or something we've always had?"

"If so, where would you place yourself within said system?"

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	Yes, the U.S. a class system.
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	Not sure if we have a class system.
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	No, the U.S. does not have a class system.
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[NYC_SKP]

1. Yes. Not new, but becoming more institutionalized and hardened.

Me, I'm a middle income intellectual who always chose happiness and service over accumulation of wealth.

We have always had classes, but we have never had such a complicit government, both parties, in maintaining protecting the wealthy class.

[MADem]

2. A lot of stinking rich people have absolutely no class at all....

And a lot of poor people have the dignity of royalty.

We have morons who can throw a ball or who inherited their money strutting around like they own the joint, and people with advanced university degrees barely making ends meet.

Not everyone who is poor is an ignorant, groveling, low class, forelock-tugging serf, and not everyone who is rich is a high-hat, high-horse "gentleman."

It's not a "class" system--it's something else entirely. It's a "First I Look At The Purse" system....or something.

[OutNow]

3. Of course we've always had classes

But unlike most countries we have no political party that represents the working class. In our political structure we have one party that believes that the ruling class should get whatever they want and one party that believes the future of the ruling class is more secure if they share a bit of their wealth with us.

The saying is that FDR's greatest achievement was that he saved capitalism.

Where do I place myself? I'm sticking to the union; till the day I die.