Why I Still Stand With the 1 Percent
Fifteen years ago, during the political convulsion known as "Occupy Wall Street," I wrote a column for the Daily Inter Lake declaring: "Don't be afraid to say it: ‘We are the 1…
Written byFrank MieleSource: RealClearPolitics - Articles
Fifteen years ago, during the political convulsion known as "Occupy Wall Street," I wrote a column for the Daily Inter Lake declaring: "Don't be afraid to say it: ‘We are the 1 percent.'" Of course, I wasn't wealthy then, and I'm not wealthy now. I wrote at the time about driving a worn-out Ford Windstar, raising three children in a hundred-year-old house with faulty wiring, and wondering how we would ever afford retirement. But I also recognized something that many Americans