You want numbers, we got numbers.
Number of Americans close to starvation, i.e. dependent on foodstamps: 45.8 million (1 out of 8).
Number of Americans underwater on their mortages (i.e. are debt-serfs): 14 million homeowners (2 out of 7 homeowners with mortgages).
Employment-to population ratio has fallen from 63% to: 58%, the worst since the early 1980s.
The Great Recession destroyed 8 million jobs, but since the end of the recession, new jobs created amount to only 2 million, resulting in: Worst. Employment. Recovery. Ever.
New home sales: Lowest. Number. Ever.
Local and state deficits: still bleeding $100 billion.
Total amount US Federal government will waste on military-industrial boondoggles, rather than bailing out the states: between $1 trillion to $1.4 trillion.
Back in 1986, the top 1 percent received 12% of all income and owned 33% of all wealth. Last year, the top 1 percent received: 25% of all income and 40% of all wealth.
Student loan debt: $1 trillion and counting.
Total Wall Street bailout: $7.77 trillion. That's not a typo - we're talking eight trillion fricking-sharks-with-laser-beams dollars.
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