Thursday, January 8, 2015

John Amato — America's Most Wealthy Believe The Poors Have It Easy


Ideology aka confirmation bias. Just deserts and all that.
A new Pew Poll has given us some more conclusive evidence that the very wealthy in this country have no clue what goes on in most of America households and are completely influenced by fictitious right wing talking points. It's a very sad statement to see made visible since many of the very wealthy are fairly well educated.
Most of America’s rich think the poor have it easy

There is little empathy at the top. 
Most of America's richest think poor people have it easy in this country,according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center. The center surveyed a nationally representative group of people this past fall, and found that the majority of the country's most financially secure citizens (54 percent at the very top, and 57 percent just below) believe the "poor have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return." America's least financially secure, meanwhile, vehemently disagree — nearly 70 percent say the poor have hard lives because the benefits "don't go far enough." Nationally, the population is almost evenly split.
Actually it is worse. Many of the "job creators" think that workers should get down on the knees and thanks them that they don't have to poke sticks in the ground to grow beans.

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