Why we are screwed:

[kpete]

[pkdu]

1. As if the 40% don't have it bad enough...

Do they have to be alloted BFE Texas? ;0)

[Thav]

3. The dot would actually be located in the dust bowl.

And it would be sold to us as "prime real-estate land, akin to beachfront property in California."

[pkdu]

4. On an adjustable rate mortgage with a balloon payment. Nt

[Thav]

5. Ya well, the bank just erroneously foreclosed and kicked us all out.

They're the bank, they can do whatever they want without having to take even a modicum of responsibility.

[L0oniX]

15. ...and in a yearly flood zone in tornado alley.

[RC]

6. To be accurate, that red dot should be in Florida.

[CrispyQ]

8. Yes. So that we have nothing when the coastal waters rise.

It's pretty depressing.

[bvar22]

20. I THOUGHT my little red dot was getting crowded.

Everybody BACK The F*** OFF.
I can barely BREATHE .
Go find your own little red dot!

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. K&R Right to the point. n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. something like 80% of the US population lives on 3% of the land as it is

that's probably a relatively accurate representation of land-ownership in the USA, actually, considering Federal, state, and local government land (roadways, easements, rights-of-way, state and national parks, military installations, etc), and then considering commercial landowners (railways, agriculture, mining, oil-drilling, logging, and so on).

[Swede Atlanta]

9. I haven't researched comparable situation in the age of the robber barons...

but we know that with the right kind of determination and public policy, the aggregation of wealth in a small number of hands can be remedied. It takes perseverance, commitment and focus.

The funny thing about today's Republicans that worship the 1%, hate the environment, etc. is that Teddy Roosevelt broke the trusts because he feared the political and economic effects of concentrated wealth. He saw the beauty of nature and took steps to begin to protect it.

The policies of modern-day Republicans are not consistent with some of their own party's history.

[Wednesdays]

11. Even in his day, TR was hated by the rank-and-file of his party

In large part because of his policies of protecting the environment and setting up national parks.

When McKinley was assassinated, his campaign manager Mark Hanna ranted: "I told William McKinley it was a mistake to nominate that wild man at Philadelphia…Now look, that damned cowboy is President of the United States!"

Roosevelt was persona non grata at the 1912 GOP convention, and so ran for president on the independent "Bull Moose" ticket that year.

[MotherPetrie]

10. K&R

[Just Saying]

12. Amazing graphic

Yep we are screwed.

[hfojvt]

13. nice graphic, but I have to wonder

Who owns Alaska?

[limpyhobbler]

14. that's a picture of a sick society

[southmost]

16. even this graphic gives us the shaft down here

[Hydra]

17. proud 40%er here n/t

[Nictuku]

18. Who gets Hawaii?

[Bunnahabhain]

19. Japan

[liberal_at_heart]

21. K&R

[Skittles]

22. f*** - I am still stuck in the south?