America's Most Wealthy Believe The Poors Have It Easy
By John Amato January 8, 2015 4:30 pm -
"The truth would require them to have an ounce of empathy.
A new Pew Poll has given us some more conclusive evidence that the very wealthy in this country have no clue what goes on in most of America households and are completely influenced by fictitious right wing talking points. It's a very sad statement to see made visible since many of the very wealthy are fairly well educated.
Most of Americas rich think the poor have it easy
There is little empathy at the top.
Most of America's richest think poor people have it easy in this country,according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center. The center surveyed a nationally representative group of people this past fall, and found that the majority of the country's most financially secure citizens (54 percent at the very top, and 57 percent just below) believe the "poor have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return." America's least financially secure, meanwhile, vehemently disagree nearly 70 percent say the poor have hard lives because the benefits "don't go far enough." Nationally, the population is almost evenly split."
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http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/americas-most-wealthy-believe-poors-have
Please go to link to read the brief final paragraph and graph
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Day to day needs. I think there are many more who would love to earn the necessary money to properly support their families basic needs. I think those on minimum wage jobs wish this was all the money they need to provide the basics. I would suggest to those who thinks the working poor wants to remain the working poor to spend one month in the shoes of the working poor, go and work in the jobs our working poor are doing and then come back and answer the questions. I don't ask to be rich, I just ask to be comfortable knowing when the electric bill comes in there is enough money to pay it.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)I wish I had saved the copy since it was in paper format at the time, but it basically grilled the trust funders in school who walked around in thrift store clothing bumming for food, cigarettes and joints from students who were taking out large sums of debt to try and keep up a little. The whole irony was that they new who to go to for handouts, but it wasn't their parents who were CEO's of major companies or grandparents that had multimillions of dollars from accumulated stocks. At the same time they perceived themselves in their self deprecating ways as being able to feel the pain and have the ability to push through. It taught me a lot of how many of the wealthy class view the world. Narcissistic and compassionate-less children with the ability to bullshit their way out of anything.
Judi Lynn
(160,598 posts)How much do any of them actually "do anything in return" for their excessive privilege and total financial invulnerability?
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Get bent.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)if they have no sense of justice and morality for the rest of their fellow human beings, the earth and all its inhabitants from plants to animals to fish and environment.
It's the "AGE OF THE SELFIE" and Kim Kardashian's "rear end" making news while "Endless War" wages in the background of our Global Lives.
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