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The top 1% also have 33% of the total wealth in this country, and the top 10% around 75% of the total wealth. It looks a lot less unfair once you realize that.

The bottom 50% have something like 5% of the total wealth in the country. It’s hard to save when you’re living paycheck to paycheck.
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It’s not that hard to save if you really want to. But that’s not the American way. If immigrants can move themselves to the middle class and beyond in less than 20 years, even when they came to this country with nothing more than the clothes on their back. There should be no real excuse for those who are born here to do the same. The only valid excuse in my eyes is physical/mental disability.