"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."

So said Warren Buffett (then the world's wealthiest man) interviewed in 2006 by the New York Times.

The Aristocracy have never really gone away, the ancient ruling families are still around like the Duke of Westminster who owns a sizeable part of the country. The Landed gentry are still around taking the rents of the tenants.
Things won't change until the Monarchy itself is removed. The French did it in 1789 nd established the First Republic. They are now on their Fifth. When the PS get in we'll have the Sixth.
When the Revolution comes here we'll all be able to have servants, just like them.

Buckskins, you seem to be rather missing the point, which is that the neoliberal economic system has rewarded a very few winners grotesquely, at the expense of the rest of the population. That the rest of the population should not be happy about this is hardly unreasonable. And nor is it 'just like anyplace'; there are plenty of countries in the world which function perfectly well with very
much more proportionate levels of inequality.

And, of course, that kind of thing does not happen in Britain! The queen and her family have it as tough as everyone else.
I've lived and worked in the US and--true--they do love making money. But you can't impress them with what your father does because they'll ask you what YOU can do. And whoever you are, and wherever you come from, they will admire you if you've worked to achieve wealth. They won't be impressed if you've inherited your pile. Any idiot can get money that way (provided they have rich providers).

You sound very histerica, Flashbuck.

I reckon it is time to tax the rich so we can get our money back. In fact, the rich need bringing under control before they destroy our world. And the power should be brought back to the rest of us, the majority, which is democracy. If the majority wish to tax the rich more then that is our demacratic right and fascists/ anarchists like you will just have to lump it.

Flasbuck gets let out of the asylum once or twice a week to make a post and then they take him away again.

It used to be Kings that took everything as it was their right (in their eyes, obviously). Now it is politicians and the mega-wealthy. It was the tax payers money that saved RBS and Lloyds, but the mega-wealthy seem to think that it is "their's" when it will be sold off (given away!). Likwise the NHS was bought and paid for by the majority, for the majority. Smacks of socialism so we (the government) will sell off the money making bits to their mates. The NHS is mine, bought and paid for by me and mine; not the government's. The Tory slogan - we never forget it's not our money - is damn right. Their mantra should go on to "but we'll do our best to get it!"

I do not want to rule the world, I do not want to have all the money, I want to be able to live and work for a fair day's pay, pay my taxes, in a decent society for all. I do not want to overthrow capitalism, I just believe that if the megawealthy want to continue living here, perhaps they may like to divvy up their share. They make use of the roads, police and defense just like the rest of us.

The sequestration of 24% of US wealth by the greedy 1% of Americans has deadly consequences, noting that the US with 4.5% of the World's population consumes about 25% of the World's resources.

Thus it can be estimated from UN Population Division data that currently 18 million people die avoidably from derivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease each year on Space Ship Earth with the 1% in charge of the flight deck (the figure was 16 million in 2003; see "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950": http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ).

Within the US, it is estimated that about 1 million Americans (overwhelmingly from the 99%) die from preventable causes each year due to the greed of the 1%. Thus about 1 million Americans die preventably each year from poverty, deprivation or violence (e.g. 30,000 Americans are killed by guns each year; 44 million Americans live in poverty and the difference between infant mortality rates between Singapore and the world's richest country, the US, indicates that about 20,000 US infants die avoidably each year; about 20,000 Americans die annually from lack of medical insurance; and about 1 million Americans die preventably each year from these causes and related lifestyle choices such as drinking, smoking and obesity-linked problems) (see: http://mwcnews.net/focus/editorial/14040-us-afghan-war.html ).

And then there is the morbidity (illness) and sheer misery of the 99% in America. Thus 1.2 million Americans are HIV-1 positive (see: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=145112), 5 million Americans are at least 2 months behind in their repayments months and over 1 million Americans are expected t lose their homes in 20011 (see: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Over-1-million-Americans-seen-apf-19378625... ).

Warmonger, war maker and war criminal Barack "Mr 1%" Obama runs the US and much of the World for the American 1%. The Bush-Obama War on Terror, based on 9-11 (3,000 dead in an atrocity almost certainly due to the US Government; see "Experts: US did 9-11": https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/home ), has so far killed 200,000 Americans (plus 0.9 million people globally, including 12,000 British and 3,000 Australians) who have died opiate drug-related deaths due to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry (see UN ODC World Drug Report).