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From 1993 to 2008, income growth among the bottom 99% of earners was 0.5 points slower than the economy's overall growth rate.

Incomes of Top 1% Increased 275% Between 1979-2007

Three-fifths of all income growth from 1979-2007 went to the top 1%.

According the CBO most of the gains in income of the 1% have come from employment and business income, not dividends, interest, and capital gains.

Technology has made highly educated and talented people more valuable, by creating jobs that demand their talents and allow them to manage larger, more-complex activities, while
it has made less-skilled people less valuable.

What happen if you place one TSA employees in each public school?

There are 58,401 employees of the TSA.

There are 23,200  public schools in the nation.

 The estimated total number of guns held by  civilians in the United States is 270,000,000

In the first seven months of the year, TSA agents seized 821 guns, rifles and pistols, which were discovered
in carry-on luggage.

What happen if you place one TSA employee in each public school?

The disappearance of the middle class in the developed countries

According to the intelligence assessmen of the National Intelligence Council, one  of the most important trends over the coming  two decades will be the growth of the middle class, which “will become the most important social and economic sector in the vast majority of countries  around the world”.

According to my intelligence assessment one of the most important trends over the coming two decades will be the disappearance of the middle class in the developed countries which shall be substituted by an unknown new "sophisticated" welfare-society class under the umbrella  of a big bureaucratic government
in which success, creation and  talent will be punished.

What is success?

Success is keeping your independence forever.

Per capita money income in cities with shootings

Per capita money income in the past 12 months  (2011 dollars) , 2007-2011 :

U.S.: $27,915

Newtown, Connecticut:    $48,922     
Portland, Oregon :  $30,631
Oak Creek, Wisconsin:  $30,235
Aurora, Colorado :   $24,257
Oakland, California : $31,675
Binghamton, New York: $20,951
Fort Hood , Texas : $15,203       
Blacksburg, Virginia : $17,899   
Brookfield, Wisconsin: $45,317   
Atlanta,Georgia : $35,884
Columbine,Colorado :  $38,203
   


Source: United States Census Bureau

The killer who killed 20 children

The suspected gunman’s parents divorced in 2009 when he was 17 years old.

His former grandmother said she remembered Adam  as a young child but didn’t know him as a teenager.

His parents had separated “years” before they divorced, she said.

The suspected gunman was a “socially awkward” teenager, a neighbor said.

The suspected gunman was kind of a loner and shy, a neighbor said.

His former grandmother ex-husband, who died in 2010, was a widower when she met him, with children and grandchildren of his own.

They married  in the 1990s and divorced in 2001, she said.

Our politicians have a hard time to figure out how it's working.

Start ups have a loss making initial development without any access to bank loans, they have many founders vs one owner, have many shareholders (founders, friends & family, angels, VCs…) vs a few. Our politicians, who are mainly civil servants or doctors and lawyers, are far away from the startup scene and have a hard time to figure out how it's working.