How much richer did the 1% get?

Government is not representative of the American populace.  It only represents the ones with the most wealth.  America has now become the epitome of the elite and wealthy lords and nobles of medieval times.  Although, the super-rich do not bear the titles of royalty; they still expect that that situations will always be in their favor just as it was  and still is in countries which recognize monarchs.  We are inundated with reality TV and news reports which tout the wealth and status of these individuals.

We must rise up before it is too late!!

I guess this all depends upon one's outlook on life.  I work, have always worked, sometimes three jobs at a time.  For the better part of my life I lived pay check to pay check, struggled financially at times, never really comfortable until recently.  I have always paid taxes regardless of how modest my income may have been.  Now I learn that 47% of wage earners pay nothing in Federal income taxes.  Some actually get tax dollars from the IRS when they have paid nothing in, sounds like another form of welfare.  However, many seem to expect everything from the 53% that pay all the taxes.  Free tuition, free medical care, free housing, free free free!  Many of the "entitled" must be in those rag-tag groups idling away the hours in the "Occupy" protests.  They claim to be the "99%", which of course includes all of the 47% of non-payers.  The "1%" and most of the rest of us who actually work, don't have time to spend in protests after all.  If the protestors were engaged in productive work, they wouldn't have the time to be littering up someone else's neighborhood either. 

I have never focused on what others had.  I was raised to recognize that there will always be someone who has more money, is better looking, is better at sports etc. than I.  I was also taught that I should strive to make the most of the talents that I have and to diligently work to achieve a better life.  Maybe I should start a protest that urges these dead beats to go home, get a job, get a life and give me my neighborhood back!