Obama's State of the Union speech will cover his plan of taxing the rich and redistributing the funds through Federal programs to the Middle Class. This is classic Marxism - there is a fixed pool of capital and the inequities of the world stem from an unequal distribution. Marx seriously screwed up on that - Capital is fungible. It can be created and it can be destroyed.
What brings me to my rant - there is no poverty in the USA. The number of truly poor people is at an absolute minimum. Most "poor" people get subsidized housing. They have a cell phone and a television. Their kitchen has a stove and a refrigerator. They most likely have a car.
To put things into perspective - a family of four people with a gross take-home pay of $36,000/year are members of the 1% when you take into account the rest of the world's population. Want to solve something? Solve that!
Brings this list to mind:
1. America is capitalist and greedy – yet almost half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized – yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims – yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government – yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer – yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about – yet politicians (mostly progressive socialists) claim they want America to become more like those other countries.