Maths is a liberal plot to take away your freedom. Addition is just a theory, and subtraction is a sin. Now, multiplication ...

...is biblical.

Religion tells man to multiply without doing the math.

and divide is to conquer

And money is the square root of all evil!

I think who ever started the Occupy movement was very clever in picking 99% vs. 1%. If it was 90% vs. 10% they wouldn't have nearly the support that they do.

like 9x less?

I think it comes out to 9% less.

:facepalm:

9.0909090909 percent

according to Colbert, the 99% are at least half of all Americans.

I think that there's a large segment at the bottom who are unaffected by it all (say 33%), a middle segment that is doing all the work (33% to 66%) and the top third is mostly just moral support.

How do you figure the lower 33% is unaffected by it all and the middle 33 - 66% is "doing all the work"? The US has plenty of people who fall into the category of the working poor. Living where I do, we have lots of working poor around here.

Among other things, we will most certainly be impacted by the decisions of oil and gas and coal company execs (and uranium), since they are major employers out here. If the government cuts things like food and housing assistance, its not going to be pretty in western Colorado, and, I suspect, the rest of the country.

I was talking about this with two friends - a retired coal miner and a Native American from Montana. We figure we could raise enough interest here in the 4-Corners to have an occupy "Cortez protest" in front of the town's largest bank.

The Native Americans around here are pretty upset as their second class citizen status continues over the centuries. Native children are still removed from their homes on the flimsiest of pretexts and given to white foster families. Next door in Utah, the Mormons continue to illegally adopt Navajo kids and raise them in the Mormon faith without ever exposing them to their true heritage.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says:

Both AIM and the unions have joined hands with Occupy Denver and Occupy Wall Street among others.

These are just a few examples. Oh, the lower 33% is impacted alright.

@ Classicman - What's the matter? Got a headache? :p:

Sam, I realize what you are discussing is not a laughing matter, but...
ever since New Hampshire started it's state lottery I've thought the
greatest irony of gambling in the US are the Native American casinos.

They should add a line to their logo:
"500 years of indigenous resistance"
.."50 years of ingenious resistance"

Well, if you can't have a sense of humor, you might as well go off and die somewhere. ;)

We have several casino's near here, too. What interests me is that about half the people you see gambling are native. Sort of misses the point, doesn't it?