The Occupy Wall Street movement is just one example of the sudden outbreak
of tension between America's super-rich and the "other 99 percent." Experts
now say the US has entered a second Gilded Age, but one in which hedge fund
managers have replaced oil barons -- and are killing the American dream.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is just one example of the sudden outbreak
of tension between America's super-rich and the "other 99 percent." Experts
now say the US has entered a second Gilded Age, but one in which hedge fund
managers have replaced oil barons -- and are killing the American dream.
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At first, the outraged members of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New
York were mainly met with ridicule. They didn't seem to stand a chance and
were judged incapable of going up against their adversaries, Wall Street's
bankers and financial managers, either intellectually or in terms of
economic knowledge.

"We are the 99 percent," is the continuing chant of the protestors, who are
now in their seventh week of marching through the streets of Manhattan.
And, surprisingly, they have hit upon the crux of America's problems with
precisely this sentence. Indeed, they have given shape to a development in
the country that has been growing more acute for decades, one that numerous
academics and experts have tried to analyze elsewhere in lengthy books and
essays. It's a development so profound and revolutionary that it has shaken
the world's most powerful nation to its core. (...)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,793896,00.html

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Socjalizm nigdy nie zapuścił w Ameryce korzeni bo biedni w tym kraju nie
uważają się za wyzyskiwany proletariat, tylko za milionerów w przejściowych
tarapatach. John Steinbeck