American Gothic - 2014

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85 Billionaires own 110 Trillion Dollars - 46% of the Planet's Wealth

Top 1% = 85 Billionaires have 110 Trillion dollars = 46% of all the planet's wealth. 

It's the Tax Codes Stupid!






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Cardinal Dolan's Prayer for the 1% GOP Convention

My fellow Angry White Males

Let us Pray 

For dear fellow One Percenter Mitt

And One Percenter Paul

Whom God has chosen to bless

With lots of PAC cash and

To lead us forward

Out of the darkness caused 

By you know who 

In the White House
(pause for boo-s, house noise)

Restore our Nation

Restore Religious Freedom

So savagely ripped from our 

Christian breasts by the 

Godless Pro-Choice crowd

And…(pause for applause)

(of) politics and fraud—

We’ve made a pretty mess at home,

Let’s make a mess abroad.

And let us ever humbly pray

The Lord of Hosts may deign

To stir our feeble memories

Lest we forget—the Maine.

Take up the White’s Man’s burden.

To you who thus succeed

In civilizing savage hordes,

They owe a debt, indeed;

Concessions, pensions, salaries,

And privilege and right

With outstretched hands you raised to bless

Grab everything in sight.

Take up the White Man’s burden

And if you write in verse,

Flatter your nation’s vices

And strive to make them worse.

Then learn that if with pious words

You ornament each phrase,

In a world of canting hypocrites (like me)

This kind of business pays.

A-men.

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