I’m talking adults. You’re talking households. So what? You’re beating this stupid thing to death and NOT proving your point.
How ‘bout this. The figures may have changed slightly since.
The top ten percent of the U.S. population owns 81.8 percent of the real estate, 81.2 percent of the stock, and 88 percent of the bonds. (Federal Reserve Bank data in Left Business Observer, No. 72, Apr. 3, 1996, p. 5)
http://www.endgame.org/primer-wealth.html
Bottom line, Bunny, there are way too many dependant, and not near as many doing well or saving as you’d like to say.
I’m sorry you have nothing better to do than pick at posters and still not prove anything. Done with ya.
MORE:
One percent of the U.S. population owns sixty percent of the stock and forty percent of the total wealth. (Hawken, Paul, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability. New York: HarperBusiness, 1993).
The top one percent of U.S. households owned 42 percent of all stock in 1997...
The top ten percent of households owned 82 percent of all stock-market wealth...
Only 27 percent of households held more than $10,000 in stock in 1997...
57 percent of Americans didn’t own any stock at all...
http://www.endgame.org/primer-wealth.html
So a husband and wife with 4 children must ALL invest?
I have proved my point.
So much for "diversification" of opinion in a forum opened for individual opinion.
That's why there are "them" and then there are "us" in regard to The Partaaaaaaaa's Over For Americans". I Partaaaa'd with some restraint during the Clinton Adminstration, and have learned from my mistakes.
Life is not a Party and economically speaking should not be given that title as the mast head shows.
The Party comes after, not before, that's what Aunt B, Andy, Opie or whomever doesn't get.
We need not waste our time.
Stats and Polls mean very little to me.
Respectfully
F_T_D