The top one percent? TTOP!. So, the top one percent have most of the bucks. Well, that is why they are the top one percent. If they were the top 10 percent, they would even have more of the bucks.
Your basic premise, that the US is collapsing under their weight has no basis or foundation. It is simply not factual.
Look - the top 1% obviously will always have the most by the laws of math. But in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s they got 10% of everything. Their wealth has exploded since 1980 to 24% of all income and 43% of all financial ownership.
Do you think welfare is a burden on the nation? Welfare is tiny. It is unimportant economically. What is important is that somewhere around 35% of all money goes to the top 1% (35% of all profits, income, stock sales, business sales, etc.). Everything is made more expensive because we have this immense burden on us. Gasoline is $4/gallon because the owners earn (literally) $10 million/day. Healthcre is so expensive because the CEO earns literally $65,000 per hour. These expenses come out of our pockets, just like taxes. Everyone's saying "oh, a new 9% sales tax is going to kill us."
Wake up. The top 1%'s take increasing from 10% to 35% is the equivalent of a 25% tax on everything.
This is no joke and no socialism. You want to know what really killed the USSR? Wealth imbalance. After the USSR collapsed, Moscow had more billionaires than any city in the world (google it - oh hell, here it is: http://www.forbes.com/2011/05/17/cities-with-most-billionaires.html note that 3 of the top ten cities ranked by billionaires are in communist China)
We are seeing corporate communism. And we are being suckers. What passes for conservatism today is often closer to Chinese style communism than true American freedom. It is not freedom to surrender your economic wealth, your job, your pension, your security and your nation to a few Wall Street boys and businesses whose best friends and business partners are Chinese billionaires.