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View Poll Results: Do you support the Wall St. protesters?
Yes 157 51.48%
No 148 48.52%
Voters: 305. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-12-2011, 12:21 AM
 
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I wonder when the 99% will realize that compared to most of the rest of the world, they are the 1% ?
They'll figure that out when they actually get a real job and travel overseas.
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Old 10-12-2011, 01:17 AM
 
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Old 10-14-2011, 04:27 PM
 
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Guess what, even if that nice flag picture with numbers you put up - which according to my research is way way off - is anywhere near accurate.... the repub candidates were awarded dozens of times more $$$ and it keeps on coming. The entire political system is corrupt.
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Old 10-14-2011, 05:16 PM
 
Location: Northern CA
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Guess what, even if that nice flag picture with numbers you put up - which according to my research is way way off - is anywhere near accurate.... the repub candidates were awarded dozens of times more $$$ and it keeps on coming. The entire political system is corrupt.
prove it, let's see your research.
Obama is well on his way to amassing his claim of a billion dollars for his campaign. What Republican has raised that kind of money for a campaign, and please cite references.
By the way, George Kaiser is one of Obama's top donors - he's also the top investor in Solyndra. Coincidence?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...4wJ_story.html
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Old 10-15-2011, 07:12 AM
 
Location: Tampa Florida
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OWS global today ... will this effort spread and get much larger? Did it during the last Depression?

Wall Street sit-in goes global Saturday | Reuters
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Old 10-15-2011, 08:17 AM
 
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OWS global today ... will this effort spread and get much larger? Did it during the last Depression?

Wall Street sit-in goes global Saturday | Reuters
Well this is going to get ugly real quick. Your favorite OWS movement is about to be hijacked by people already burning things... I have a feeling the American OWS are going to be appaled at what their favorite foreign counterparts are capable of, or either be inspired by them, one or the other.
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Old 10-15-2011, 05:49 PM
 
Location: The Land of Reason
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I wonder when the 99% will realize that compared to most of the rest of the world, they are the 1% ?

This is true, but most Americans can care less what happens outside of their borders unless it affects them directly
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Old 10-15-2011, 05:56 PM
 
Location: Tampa Florida
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Well this is going to get ugly real quick. Your favorite OWS movement is about to be hijacked by people already burning things... I have a feeling the American OWS are going to be appaled at what their favorite foreign counterparts are capable of, or either be inspired by them, one or the other.
I don't know what it is about fear, that you guys so love to wallow in. Strange ...
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Old 10-15-2011, 06:40 PM
 
Location: Northern CA
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This is simply about collapsing the American economy, a longheld Soros dream come true. Collapsing the dollar, and reigning in a restructuring to a global financial system.


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When the anti-American Soros spent $50 million creating the New York City-based Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), he set in motion a major move against the dollar. The billionaire who once crushed the British pound through currency trading openly declared his plans to 'reform the currency system.' In the Machiavellian mind of Soros, the dollar needed to take a back seat and end its stint as the world reserve currency. 'The dollar no longer enjoys the trust and confidence that it once did, yet no other currency can take its place,' he wrote in late 2009.
In 2011, he was already pushing aside the dollar. 'The big question is whether the U.S. dollar should be the reserve currency; and, in fact, it no longer is,' Soros told Bloomberg. He's not the only one. Nobel Prize winning economist and Soros buddy Joseph Stiglitz said he is arguing for 'a global reserve currency.' Stiglitz, who also chairs the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, called for a new 'global system,' saying the current one is 'fundamentally unfair because it means that poor countries are lending to the U.S. at close to zero interest rates.'
In the short time following the Soros-funded Bretton Woods event, the move against the dollar has gained momentum rapidly. Soros wrote in 2009 that 'the rising powers must be present at the creation of this new system to ensure that they will be active supporters.' Here come those rising powers right now, singing the Soros tune. The five BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and new member South Africa - had their third summit meeting one week after Soros held his. Unsurprisingly, the themes were similar, with BRICS nations calling 'for a restructuring of the World War II-era global financial system and an eventual end to the long reign of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2708693/posts
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Old 10-15-2011, 07:47 PM
 
Location: NC
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The poll is a near even split & is IMO a pretty good representative of the country's views as a whole.

Make of it what you want. This originally peaceful movement is being hijacked and used in a number of ways, so be prepared to sift through the propaganda...
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