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From the NY Times: Income Gap Is Widening, Data Shows

"Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 percent of Americans - those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 - receiving their largest share of national income since 1928, analysis of newly released tax data shows.

The top 10 percent, roughly those earning more than $100,000, also reached a level of income share not seen since before the Depression.

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The gains went largely to the top 1 percent, whose incomes rose to an average of more than $1.1 million each, an increase of more than $139,000, or about 14 percent.

The new data also shows that the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans. Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980."

I'm sure that for those who knew all along that a government run by some of the richest, fat cats in America weren't at all interested in seeing anyone below them catch up... the numbers support you.

For those delusional bastards who felt that electing an "average joe like me" or "a family values representative", well I'm sure there are lots of excuses you can make to rationalize the fact that our President and his government never really had your interests in the first place. Enjoy.