Wealth Distribution Gifts

Economic theory office with two boxes on desk - 'the rich get richer' and 'the poor get poorer'.

"You have nothing to complain about....your side is growing too!"

'I try to help when I can.'

'All hail, our economic Overlords!'

"Don't worry, we'll never negotiate with the enemy."

"Sir - it appears you and a few others have 98% of all the money that presently exists in America...nobody has the money to buy anything."

Fat Cat Balloon

"No, of course there isn't, 'one law for the rich and another for the poor'... There's no law for the poor."

"Comparing our salaries with the workers' salaries makes me cry...with laughter!"

"What's wrong, girl? Trouble? Rachel can't decide which private school to attend?" "Upper West Side Lassie"

'The rich get richer, but what do the poor get?'

"...and the asparagus this evening is delightful. It's been simmering all day in the tears of the poor."

"I have my pants put on one leg at a time."

"Life isn't fair, and that's what makes it fun."

People, please listen. I'm talkin 'bout the income gap. The top one percent of Americans get one third of the nation's income, over double what they got in 1980. One-third. The income for the top 0.01% is 196 times the bottom 90%. Your wages have stagnated and the super-duper rich have gotten super-duper richer! How can you possibly swallow your coffee? Because you're making me do math before noon!

"I worry that we're headed for a future where you won't be able to earn three hundred times the salary of your lowest paid worker."

Surveys and economic interests

The rich, the poor and the terrorist...

'We're all wearing them - they were a gift from Warren Buffett.'

"It's my birthday. Churn out some hype."

"We'll discuss the ethics of the matter if you're sure you want to open that can of worms."

"Let's face it, Tom. A society that's paying its Frank Sinatras and Johnny Carsons more than its yous and mes is out of whack."

'My teacher says that your tax cut favors the rich.'

Campus. Professor Frump is the most respected faculty member here. All the other professors want to be noticed by him. This semester he's teaching three classes. But for some unknown reason lots of students are dropping the second one. He asked why this is happening. Hoping to impress him, sociology and economics scholars rushed to present him with their theories. I guess he should have been more specific when he questioned with the middle class is disappearing.

"Who would have thought, us in Hawaii, still we'd better get used to mixin' with the jet set. . ."

The Distribution of Wealth in the United States Expressed as Peanut Butter in a Sandwich.

"Henceforth, we steal from the rich and provide incentives to help the poor steal for themselves."

"Here's the thing. . . if we give poor people too much, rich people will long longer run the country."

The unacceptable face of capitalism

"Social distancing? That's avoiding the poor people isn't it?"

"And to my wife who hated my bellyaching,I leave my ulcer..."

Newly Non-Mega-Rich

"We steal gold from the rich and sell it to a metals broker. They make a prfit on their buy and sell spread and share a portion of that with us. Then, after the skimming and the rebates, we give to the poor."

Underestimated danger: radical capitalists!

OFREG/OFRIP