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Class war coming to America

Friday, January 13, 2012

Class war coming to America


Never mind the budding war between America and Iran. A skirmish could be coming a lot closer to home and it might even be as centrally located as your own city. In only two years, tensions have grown greatly between the upper and lower classes.
The results from a recent survey out of the Pew Research Center reveal that 66 percent of the adults studied believe that there are either “very strong” or “strong” conflicts existing between America’s elite and impoverished, a statistic that has skyrocketed in recent years. Between 2009 and 20011, the proportion of those that sense conflicts exist as such between the class groups grew by 19 percentage points. While less than half of Americans fearing a fight brewing at the dawn of the Obama administration, today two-out-of-three Americans feel that there is a strong conflict between both extremes of society..... MORE

Source:  RT.com

URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/class-war-america-inequality-645/

1 comment

Jesusa Bernardo said...

ano kaya ang gawin ng 99% na mga amerikano? ipagpatuloy ang pagiging tupa o kaya ay estups o ipaglaban ang kanilang karapatan sa maginhawang buhay, not to mention the freedoms they used to have? malamangay sa hindi ay mag.bitak.bitak ang kalbong agila....

"The results from a recent survey out of the Pew Research Center reveal that 66 percent of the adults studied believe that there are either “very strong” or “strong” conflicts existing between America’s elite and impoverished, a statistic that has skyrocketed in recent years. Between 2009 and 20011, the proportion of those that sense conflicts exist as such between the class groups grew by 19 percentage points. While less than half of Americans fearing a fight brewing at the dawn of the Obama administration, today two-out-of-three Americans feel that there is a strong conflict between both extremes of society."

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