60th-80th Percentile=$100,700
40th-60th Percentile=$12,200
Bottom 40%=$14,800
What scares me is control of voting via computer programs.
In last election I voted a straight D but, on review, all came up R

Robert Reich of University of California put it simple and truthful in a brief outline:
“Suppose a small group of extremely wealth people sought to systematically destroy the U.S. Government by finding and bankrolling new candidates pledged to shrinking and dismembering it---
intimidating or bribing many current senators and representatives---to block all proposed legislation, prevent the appointment of presidential nominees, eliminate funds to implement and enforce laws
and---threaten to default on the nation's debt---taking over state governments in order to redistrict, gerrymander, require voter IDs, purge voter rolls and otherwise suppress the votes of the majority in federal elections---running a vast PR campaign designed to convince the American public of certain big lies, such as climate change is a hoax And---buying up the media so the public cannot know the truth---would you call this Treason or what?”
Who controls our voting machines and vote counters? Vote counter Diebold was sold to a Republican.

What a wonderful simple analysis on American politics today.

Hello Brad Friedman,

While the cartoonist hit one of the three pillars of Rethugs ability to stay in power he missed lying and stealing. The Rethug Holy Trinity is Lying, Cheating and Stealing (LCS)! Cheating is important but so are lying and stealing. These tools are used all the time whether in power or attempting to gain power.