Divorce Agreement, Right vs Left, written by John J. Wall

Dear John: You don’t get to divide the landmass by wealth. It would be divided by population. As you can see from the chart below, 80% of the nation ‘s people only have 7% of the financial wealth of the nation, so the poorest 80% get 80% of the landmass. Financial Wealth Top 1 percent Next 19 percent Bottom 80 percent 1983 42.9% 48.4% 8.7% 1989 46.9% 46.5% 6.6% 1992 45.6% 46.7% 7.7% 1995 47.2% 45.9% 7.0% 1998 47.3% 43.6% 9.1% 2001 39.7% 51.5% 8.7% 2004 42.2% 50.3% 7.5% 2007 42.7% 50.3% 7.0% Next, if 21% of Americans consider themselves liberal as the graph below shows and if the distribution of wealth is the same among liberals, then you lose 4.2% more of the landmass. Your group is now entitled to only 15.8% of the landmass. Next let’s add 2% for all of the conservative people at NBC and in Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment industry (yes they exist) because you used a broad brush. That leaves you and the other wealthy, selfish, closed-minded folks with just 13.8% of the landmass. So what happens next. As we have a huge population advantage over you, we have decided that you get your 13.8% or 523,584 square miles in the following states: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Now that doesn’t bring us up to your total so we are throwing in Ohio. That brings you to 537,408 square miles (you can check my total here http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/area.shtml) but we are liberal so we are nothing if not generous. We will give the extra land as a parting gift. I am sorry for you wealthy folks who will have to give up your McMansions, ranches, vacation homes and other valuable property. You can try to sell before you leave but there is so much land and homes and so little wealth among the people you have abandoned that I am afraid the market will be quite depressed. Let’s see, you can probably get about $40,000 for that 8 bedroom, 6½ bath home overlooking Lake Tahoe. What happens next? We liberals, illegal aliens, poor and entertainment folks will have to find someone to work all of those businesses and industry. Well, we will already have a few people in place. Everyone who runs American industry is not Conservative. We also will have a nice unskilled and semi-skilled labor pool. We will be humming in no time and, guess what, most people will have a home to live in, unless you burn them down in a mean-spirited manner before you leave. What about life on your turf? Well, ditches will still need to be dug, toilets cleaned and buses driven so, John, I hope you have some work clothes among the Versace lawyer’s suits. Maybe you won’t do it because you won’t be in the lower strata of the United States of Wealth. But someone will now be in the lowest 20% and they, with all of their money, will become the new poor in this fledgling nation. Uh-oh, menial jobs will either pay very, very well or your currency will be devalued so that the 80% can be served by the 20% as they are now. Of course you could import labor at great expense from the Caribbean and Africa but they aren’t going to want to commute so you will have to house them. No problem, there are many tenements and housing projects in the United States of Wealth. They can live there. Uh oh, you now have poor people and they are multiplying rapidly. They want the right to vote and higher wages. They strive to live in a manner that gives them dignity. You gave up 86.2% of the United States and you are back where you started except for two things. You wiretapped each other without permission and paranoia is running rampant and every time you felt snubbed or slighted by a foreign nation you invaded and tried to, how did you put it, hammer them. You are under attack by those nations singly, in groups and the soldiers you took with you, who get paid very little, are starting to see that you are getting them into rich men’s wars that are poor men’s fights. They start to emigrate, weakening your defenses. Don’t look to us. Remember we are a bunch of peaceniks for whom you have nothing but contempt. One last thing John, you have some coal over there but virtually no oil so you will be totally dependent on foreign oil. Heck we might sell you some but it is not going to be cheap. Welcome to supply and demand. It’s OK, though you have all that money or do you. Your currency has plummeted versus the rest of the world due to you need to create a dependent class in order to get them to do menial jobs. Also you import most things as you did when you were running the good ole USA. John, I have to say, I think you have made a major blunder here. Thomas Broido 207 Pineridge Rd. Havertown, PA 19083 home: 610-853-1631 cell: 610-348-3297 tbroido@comcast.net Note: The graph image did not convert. It can be seen at this address: http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/conservatives-single-largest-ideological-group.aspx