{"id":25704,"date":"2012-01-24T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/the-one-percent-of-the-one-percent.html"},"modified":"2012-01-25T18:51:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:51:32","slug":"the-one-percent-of-the-one-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/the-one-percent-of-the-one-percent.html","title":{"rendered":"The One Percent of the One Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 0.01% of the population who &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; contributed a quarter of all the money spent in the 2010 elections. <br \/>&#8230; contributed to the 2010 elections on average more than the average American citizen makes in an entire year.<br \/>&#8230; contribute 80% of the money raised by the political parties.<br \/>&#8230; are becoming increasingly important to all politicians, and without whose backing it&#39;s difficult for a candidate to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#39;t sound like democracy.   #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fassets.sunlightfoundation.com%2Fsite%2Fimg%2FonePercent%2FonePercent.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/sunlightfoundation.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/the-political-one-percent-of-the-one-percent\/'>The Political One Percent of the One Percent<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis piece was prepared in collaboration with Ethan Phelps-Goodman. If you think wealth is concentrated in the United States, just wait till you look at the data on campaign spending. In the 2010 elec&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 0.01% of the population who &#8230; &#8230; contributed a quarter of all the money spent in the 2010 elections. &#8230; contributed to the 2010 elections on average more than the average American citizen makes in an entire year.&#8230; contribute 80% of the money raised by the political parties.&#8230; are becoming increasingly important to all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/the-one-percent-of-the-one-percent.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The One Percent of the One Percent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,81,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2010","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25305,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/class-warfare.html","url_meta":{"origin":25704,"position":0},"title":"Class warfare","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jan-12 9:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a phrase I hate, both for what it suggests, and for how it is abuseable. 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