One fact that is always overlooked (it is too uncomfortable) is that many people immigrate here for economic reasons. They may make more money but the cost of living is higher and often end up worse off than before. Also, assimilating others is expensive. When one imports poor people why are we surprised when the poverty levels go up. We are not this hughly rich country that so many others make us out to being and, yes, the wealthy do bend things to go their way but too often we let them. The wealthy industralists want to bring in more poor outsiders that will work cheap and be more controlable. One major piece of legislation that would have precluded building a 'wall', called e-verify, was recently narrowly defeated. We say we want to help others but then, often at the same time, also say they will do the work we won't. It's called exploitation.

The US is top for inequality. Top for serial killers. Top for school mass shootings. Top for iatrogenisis (death caused by medical treatment).

And getting worse with republicans sucking the rich off

This has been happening for seventy years. We're just now watching it snowball faster than ever.

It takes a nation like that to elect an unpresident like trump.

And Nikki Haley called the report "ridiculous." The 1% are living in intentional denial.