When I started talking to them, I learned that for all their supposed power, they are now too afraid to stand up for themselves.
"Why are you and your fellow 1%-ers a boon to society?"
"It’s not just that we admire the 1%. We need them."
1%
Time INC.
Bill Melinda Gates Foundation
“I wouldn’t touch that topic with a10-foot pole made out of $100 bills I made from Suddenly Susan Season 2.”
Stanford
Facebook
"No one has ever woken up early to gather around a TV to watch a wedding of two 99 percenters."
“I think there are financial engineers that add no value and fit the Occupy Wall Street stereotypes. They are the 1% of the 1% that mess it up for everyone.”
*Broken Down*
BANKER-
"I get that we need someone to blame."
$15,000
$10
MONOPOLY
These days the 1% don’t live that differently than the middle class does."
Middle Class
"Everyone loves the banker when they’re borrowing and hates him when they have to pay him back."
Wikipedia
*Broken Down*
"I do not believe that the worldwide recession was caused by financial derivatives created by the1% who tricked the innocent 99%. I believe it was created by the great wide middle class who took out loans to live out the techno-bling dream we deified in rap songs and reality TV."
$250,000
Rich
$1,000
Wikipedia
"Invite Mark Zuckerberg to join you on FarmVille."
"Until people calm down and realize that, we should do something nice for the besieged 1 percenters."
"We are not going to dig out of our nation’s debt just by jacking up taxes on the 1%. Raising their tax rate won’t change the overall debt that much."
*Raising Taxes*
"At least until they get through this hard time."
"We are all going to have to pay more and take less."