Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Wall street has done nothing illegal and nothing to be ashamed of.
These protesters are just bitter losers who want to sit on their butts and be "taken care of" by the government. They are bitter because other people have become successful and have money.
Even though I am *not* rich, (and not a banker), I identify myself with the successful person rather than the wah wah loser.
The protesters don't realize that people are shaking their heads and laughing at them.
20yrsinBranson
This is what happened to the banks. Remember the bail-outs?
That's because we simply don't have enough money to matter to politicians. If they get $1 million from 100,000 different voters, they still won't care one whit about serving those 100,000 voters. But when a Big Business gives a politician $1 million, their representatives get to sit down for a personal meeting with the politician, outllining EXACTLY what government largess they want in return.
Which is why Political Action Committees exist. You can contribute to a candidate, if you wish, but each dollar you spend will go much further with a PAC than an individual contribution. PACs like the NRA, the ACLU, the AARP, the NASE, etc., etc. do have the clout to sit down with politicians and even help them construct legislation.
So you have two choices:
Contribute to an individual politician; and/or
Contribute to a PAC that supports your ideology.
Quote:
Originally Posted by NHartphotog
In short, our current system is a joke. The media easily gets the majority of voters to support whichever candidates the powers-that-be want elected, and since ALL the candidates are loyal servants of the powers-that-be, no matter what happens, nothing changes.
Our system is not a joke. You simply do not understand how it functions.
Quote:
Originally Posted by NHartphotog
Usually it takes 4 or 5 Presidential election cycles to learn the hard truth: even if the guy from your party DOES get elected, he'll do exactly the same thing as the guy from the other party would have.
That is because the vast majority of Americans vote "for the lesser of two evils" which only ensures that "evil" will be elected. Americans are not interested in voting for someone who will actually be good for the nation. They are only interested in winning. US politics has become a "sport," it is all about the competition and victory with voters, not about doing what they think is best for the nation.
Quote:
Originally Posted by NHartphotog
Seriously, those who voted for Obama: didn't you think Obama would do MOST things, if not all things, different from Bush? And do you now see that after campaigning as the exact OPPOSITE of Bush, Obama instantly turned 180 degrees, and followed through on EVERY SINGLE FAILED POLICY Bush had? From bankrupting multiple foreign wars; to continued dollar devaluation that robs the wages and savings and investments of EVERY American everyday; to continued borrowing and debts that NO nation could survive; to Bailouts of to the ultra-rich scum who caused economic collapse; to "stimulus" but only for the Big Businesses that already had trillions sitting in the bank and paid ZERO taxes; to Obamacare after Bush added Rx coverage to the already-bankrupt Medicare (and SS) systems?
Face it, if you choose ANY of the mainstream candidates, you are choosing the STATUS QUO--continued economic stagnation, culminating in total collapse. And look at which candidate is both ignore by media and uniformly slandered by BOTH sides of the political establishment: Ron Paul.
It seems obvious that the only threat to the corrupt powers-that-be is Ron Paul. Don't let media slander make you vote to lose everything you've ever worked for, as well as dooming the future of your children. Don't be a patsy for powers-that-be that brought down the American Middle Class, and the entire American economy, just in my short lifetime.
LOL! Ron Paul is one of those "establishment" career politicians you are railing against. To consider anyone who has spent 30+ years in Washington DC as somehow being outside of the "establishment" is as delusional as it gets.
voting out the incumbents won't accomplish anything, if the people you're replacing them with are incompetent and corrupt, too.
the protests bring awareness to the concerns people have that Wall Street "owns" Washington DC.
Someone said that the protesters should be going after the government
Is it wrong for the US Government to go after those that fund terrorist groups?
Why don't they just go after the terrorist groups only?
The reason is because, as long as you have people funding terrorist ambitions, you can kill as many as you want, but they still keep popping up.
As long as the big Wall Street Banks are able to fund presidential campaigns for their YES men, then nothing will change, so the source of funding first needs to be attacked which is Wall Street.
This will open up more peoples eyes to Wall Street and actually look into the crimes they have been committing against the American people.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
