People are getting aware of the differences between rich and the poor in America. People are of the view that increasing differences create increased conflicts between the two distinct groups. Wednesday by Pew Social & Demographic Trends found out through a comprehensive study that about 2/3rd of the people think that conflicts between the rich and poor are clear and sharp. This also makes 19% increase in what people had to say in 2009. 23% of the people thought that the conflict did exist but of mild value. As low as 7% people, neglected any presence of conflict in this context. This survey comprised of 2000 American respondents and it was carried out in December.
Pew Study reveals that this rising conflict is gaining significance. The extent of it can be understood by its comparativeness with the conflicts between locals and immigrants or Negroes and Americans. Pew study also revealed government policies that provoked this conflict. Moreover, people continue to have similar views on the issue in the past few years.
Pew Social & Demographic Trends
As much as the equal percentage of the respondents are of the opinion that people are not wealthy by default rather, their wealth is by virtue of hard-earned money through education, hard work and or may be by ambition. On the other side, around 4 out of 10 respondents opine that the reason why people are wealthy, chiefly because they are the off-shoots of the rich families.
“As the results of the survey exhibit the tendency that quite a notable change persists in the American lifestyle that calls for the class conflict in the public perception, however, their inclination or tendency does not indicate growing grievances toward wealthy people” as indicated in the report, irrespective of vacuum created between the high and low class is not really a hot issue in recent times.
The movement namely; The Occupy Wall Street turned out to be the evident sign of frustration for amongst the upper strata and the poor class which naturally prompted national attention in the length and breadth of country as a protest.
The income of middle class nation has gone down slightly due to the persistent effects of recession in the market, considering the fact that a huge amount of Americans have endeavored against the unemployment wave. Until 2009 officially, the vaccum between the American moneyed people and the poorest widened owing to the recession period.
Owing to the peculiar situation in the country, lawmakers made tax system as a focal point. Warren Buffett triggered a massive debate with lawmakers with a view to impose more tax on rich people – telling off “billionaire-friendly Congress” in order to overprotect himself and his rich friends. Gathering the data about the wealthy people, it was revealed last month by The New York Times that not only most of the elected people are wealthy, but also the 50% of the Congressmen are millionaires. Beside this, just in the last 6 years bulk of the Congress members have turned out to be the wealthier. Apart from this, in the primary electioneering activities, the sensitive or a focal point was the wealth of The Republican Presidential candidate. Another victim of wealthiest candidate was Mitt Romney who was seriously criticized for offering one of his friends Rick Perry an amount of a bet of $10,000. In due course of time, Romney took shots on the wealth of his rival whilst insinuating last month about another fellow Newt Gingrich; being out-of-touch who was known to be “a very wealthy man.”
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