Letter: Occupy Wall Street Plans To Visit Weston    • Comments
(3)   To the editor,  Most Americans believe there is something
wrong with our country’s direction.  They’re right.  Inequality
of Americans’ income and wealth between the bottom (the 99
percent), and the top (the 1 percent), is greater now than since
the Great Depression of the 1930’s. One family in the United
States (the Waltons) has a wealth of 69.7 billion , more than
the bottom 30 percent of all in the U.S.  Warren Buffet, a
billionaire, said ”There has been class warfare going on in the
United States for the past 20 years, and my side has won.”
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize winning economist at Columbia
University, said “We are a government of the 1 percent, by the 1
percent, and for the 1 percent.”  Our people still believe in
the American Dream. They accept that some rise to the top. But
when the game is stacked against them, they feel that is unfair.
They saw the bankers bailed out, and their taxpayer dollars
going to them as million-doll