The greatest newspaper graphic of all time: America’s huddled rich
ABOVE is the graphic the Wall Street Times published to illustrate its story about rising taxes in the US.
The look on the face of that single parent getting by on £162,000 a year is heart-wrenching. That single woman with no kids pulling in £144,000 for 12 months hard graft should lift her chin and thank her lucky stars that no man left her destitute with two extra mouths to feed.
The elderly couple who can only afford rope to wear ropes as scarves could consider selling less-vital organs to heat their arching bones.
But the pick are the huddled masses, the family of six subsistence deskers on £407,000 a year. Someone get Bob Geldof on the phone.
We feel a song coming on:
“It’s bonus time, there’s a need to feel afraid…”
Posted: 18th, January 2013 | In: Key Posts, Money Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
January 23rd, 2013 at 9:25 am
Would someone please tell me what sort of investments these people are using? Seriously, I want a piece of that action.
January 20th, 2013 at 4:44 pm
Oh dear! One’s heart bleeds for these poor, poor people; how will they manage?
The World is in melt down and we concern ourselves with this? The effects of Climate Change are self evident and all around us yet we pay single cell footballers and idiot media ‘celebrities’ in gold bars; two thirds of the World live in near penury so the remaining third can live in outright sybaritic luxury.
As the old dictum says, ‘Who the Gods would destroy they first drive mad’.
January 19th, 2013 at 2:16 pm
In Hong Kong a bun can cost $95
January 18th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
It’s more like the Hong Kong Dollar that is being referred to
(£1.00 = HK$12.36)