"We all have to do more with less here?" Not "all" of us — not hardly.

The top 400 American families are not "doing more with less." The nation's wealth been redistributed upwards, with these richest 400 families now controling more wealth than the bottom 100 million familes combined — $1.27 trillion, or $3.175 billion per family among the 400, versus $1.22 trillion, or $12,200 per family at the bottom.

And why is it we can't afford disaster preparedness, yet we must "borrow money from the Japanese" and communist China so that we can afford to spend [PDF] over $100 billion on the war in Afghanistan.