Who Are The 1%?  Followers of Occupy Wall Street and the larger
Occupy movement claim to represent 99% of the people, justifying
their claim with a false dichotomy between the richest 1% and
the poorest 99%.  One percent of 300 million give us 3 million
people. So somewhere, scattered throughout the US, there are 3
million people whose money and property the Occupiers want for
themselves.  But in America there is considerable mobility
between those groups.  We are not members of classes or groups,
but individuals who happen temporarily to share income levels.
Our “class interests” may coincide for a time, but it is
patently foolish to push for laws that take from the rich and
give to the poor while making mobility more difficult.  It is
exceedingly easy to become part of a group of 3 million that is
the 1% most of something. Let’s take a look.    • There are on
the order of 3 million farmers and people married to farmers in
the United States. I suppose it would be possible to
redistribute the land they curren