Most In Developed Nations Say Wealth Gap Is Serious

I have posted about the serious problem the huge and still growing wealth gap between the rich and the rest of America poses -- and it looks like I am far from the only person who believes that. And it isn't just in the United States that the wealth gap is posing a serious problem. People in other advanced nations are seeing the same thing.

The charts (both above and below) were made with information from the Pew Research Center. They surveyed at least 1,000 adults in each country (with a margin of error of about 3.8 points). Note that in only two countries (Germany and Japan) is the wealth gap not seen as a serious problem by a huge proportion of the population (including the United States and the United Kingdom, where nearly half of the population considers it a serious problem). All other nations show a significant majority considering it a serious problem.

And they believe this (in addition to some other factors like high unemployment and a faltering economy) will affect the next generation. In every advanced nation (except Israel and South Korea), a definite majority of the population says today's children will be worse off than their parents when they become adults.

Those are some pretty pessimistic numbers, and yet, the conservatives (the Republicans in the U.S.) still want to pursue the same "trickle-down" economic plan that got us in this mess in the first place. That makes no sense at all to me -- and is a very good reason to vote them out of office as soon as possible.