The 2012 Election: While millions struggle to keep their homes, this wealthy couple tears down a $4 mil mansion that blocked their view!

If this isn't evidence of an arrogant 1%, that cares nothing but for themselves, I don't know what is:

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_20933269/marin-county-couple-pays-4-2-million-demolish?source=inthenews

Meanwhile, in another corner of the same state, a small city declares bankruptcy, the town's problems driven in large part by a housing crisis:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stockton-bankruptcy-20120627,0,2285815.story

If this contrast doesn't disturb you... then I guess you are either a contented member of the 1% ... or an ignoramus residing in a mythical America that never was.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6839035/The-Myth-of-Rugged-American-Individualism

http://acronymrequired.com/2009/03/rands-rugged-individualism.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Alger_myth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horatioalger3a36980u.jpg