Income and wealth distribution are skewed to levels not seen in this country since the late 1800s, and the division of american society into completely false categories of lower, middle, and upper 'class' is a deliberate confusion used to keep the peasants fighting against each other as the kleptocracy raids the treasury and uses our republic as their safe haven.
Here, take a look at 'the L curve' for a clue about who is in the real 'upper class' and who is a peasant:
The US population is represented along the length of the football field, arranged in order of income.
Median US family income (the family at the 50 yard line) is ~$40,000 (a stack of $100 bills 1.6 inches high.)
--The family on the 95 yard line earns about $100,000 per year, a stack of $100 bills about 4 inches high.
--At the 99 yard line the income is about $300,000, a stack of $100 bills about a foot high.
--The curve reaches $1 million (a 40 inch high stack of $100 bills) one foot from the goal line.
--From there it keeps going up...it goes up 50 km (~30 miles) on this scale!
http://www.lcurve.org/First the basic chart:
![](http://www.lcurve.org/ZoomShots/Zoom5.gif)
The same chart zoomed out so that the real upper classes relative position to the rest of us can be seen:
![](http://www.lcurve.org/ZoomShots/Zoom11.gif)
Now stop it with this idiocy of 97,000 is 'upper class'. The members of the real upper class are laughing their asses off at us as we squabble over who has more crumbs.