For the record, this 58% number that Saws keeps throwing around is as bogus as a $3 bill...

If you read the poll you find that there is no way the 58% stands up as a percentage of folks who think the rich deserve their wealth... Might of fact there isn't enough information to put a number on it at all...

All we know is that

Strongly believe + somewhat believe (meaning somewhat don't believe) = 58%...

When you read the study there is no breakdown for the United States between those 2 categories... There is, however, a breakdown for all the countries taken collectively and what the pollsters found in that only about 15% strongly agree...

Logic 101 Summation: 85% somewhat believe, somewhat dis-believe or strongly dis-believe that the rich deserve their wealth...

Any Stats professor out there would back me on this one...

B~