This Means War: Class Warfare According to the Numbers

We are occupying Wall Street, they are calling for austerity measures and an end to social welfare programs. It would be a mistake to think that we are not in the midst of direct class warfare. The numbers tell the tale:
1) One-fifth of Union activists are fired when trying to organize their workplace.
2) 75% of companies hire professional Union busters to coerce organizing employees.
3) The gap between the rich and the poor is the biggest it has ever been in the United States
4) The richest 1% of Americans had 18% of all wealth in the age of the robber barons, circa 1915. The richest 1% of Americans have 24% of all wealth today.
5) 15% of Americans “run short on food,” what the government calls having “low food security”
6) 1 in 7 Americans is on food stamps.
7) The Wealthy have launched a successful campaign to take away funding from OSHA, the Federal Agency in charge of maintaining workplace safety.
8) 2/3 of military recruits come from households where the income is below the national median
9) All of the Army's top 20 recruiting counties have lower-than-national median incomes
10) All GOP presidential candidates want to abolish the Department of Education or “or seriously diminish its function.” Abolishing the Department of Education has aorically be part of the GOP platform.
11) 16.7% of Americans do not have health insurance, a record high.
12) 15% of Americans live in poverty.
13) 22% of American children live in poverty.
14) Through 2010 and 2011, corporate profits have been at record highs.
15) For the first time in US history, the percentage of national income devoted to wages and salaries fell below 50%- Corporation(and their stockholders) now make more than their workers
16) The Median wage worker pays 8% more of their income in taxes than the top 1%
17) Corporations pay 12% of their profits to taxes.
18) The US has the highest child poverty rate in the industrial world.