Average Household Earnings - USA

Cinders The top one percent of Americans makes around two million dollars a year. The top twenty percent don't even make half a million a year. With the top one percent making more than three times more than the top twenty percent, how can we be quibbling over the wages and benefits of the bottom twenty, and blame them for the deficit? I mean... honestly, this is just disgusting. And Fox News, with their deep pockets and loud mouths, dares to call teachers "greedy."

DarkSarcasm That's just insane. (Love your keywords! XD)

Cinders I learn from the best.

DarkSarcasm *bows* =P

Roxas1314 Why does this remind me of 1984? Q_Q

Cinders [I know you meant Orwell, but] I WISH it was 1984 (the year). Back then, the top one percent were only making half a million, and the gap was significantly smaller. And yet, as they earn more, our economy gets worse. I've said it time and again, I'm no economist, I admit, I don't understand it and I never will, but there's something fishy about that correlation to me.