Richest 1 Percent Account For Nearly All Of U.S. Recovery's Gains: Report
Source: Huffington Post
Technically, the economy has been in recovery for two years. But it turns out the rich have been doing most of the recovering.
In 2010 -- the first full year since the end of the Great Recession -- virtually all of the income growth in America took place among the country's very wealthiest people, says an economist at the University of California, Berkeley. The top 1 percent of earners took in a full 93 percent of all the income gains that year, leaving the other 7 percent of gains to be sprinkled among the vast majority of society.
Those numbers come courtesy of Emmanuel Saez, the Berkeley economist who co-created a resource known as the World Top Incomes Database. Saez and his colleagues crunched the data on income growth from 2010, the most recent year available, and found that it was shockingly lopsided.
While much of the country is simply treading water, with a growing number of people either edging toward poverty or already there, the richest of the rich seem to be coping nicely.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/1-percent-income-inequality_n_1321008.html
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Not gonna happen 
(eta, not that it would happen any other year, really, but especially not this one)
it will all trickle down!!!!!!!
...the loot. But did they listen? Nooooooo.
The Crimes and Cover Ups of the Reformer John McCain.
Phil Gramm is the Meyer Lansky of the War Party.
Which gives me pause to wonder.
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The old adage is true: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Oh, wait - I guess it did work.
