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So now you want to move the bar. Now the movement will be the 99.999999%ers?
Private citizens have no control over legislation and regulations - until some people in government allow themselves to be bought and influenced. This all starts at the government level.
The tea party went after the correct target. OWS is off the mark.
I disagree. Private citizens have major control over our gov't. It's called campaign donations, lobbying money, independent "issue" ads, etc
The tea party's start was great til it got co-opted by the billionaire Koch Bros and all their friends....
i mean seriously....do mom n pop tea party supporters really think their $5, 10, 100 or even $1000 really got "their" tea party candidate elected?
the wealthy are afraid of the poor and middle class. if ever once, they joined forces...well let's just say its happened hundreds of times and each time the gov't comes in, squashes it, and then enacts some reforms to appease the middle class so "we" can all get our hopes up of making it into the next economic class.
Didn't the banks just cause a massive recession that required the government to step in to stop them from destroying the economy and more importantly bringing down my stock portfolio?
The response to this will be for the for the right-wingnutjob cartel to organize their efforts (Faux News, all the talk-radiot show hosts, and the Tea Tards) and start repeating over and over and again and again to their brain-dead dittoheads that gov't workers and union workers and liberals make up the majority of the 1%ers.
I've never heard anyone say that....even dittoheads.
Funny no one is going to believe this right wing stunt but keep trying though.
Besides Michael Moore what other left leaners would you think could be in that 1%? Is George Soros or any of the Hollywood supporters of socialism in that group?
A strong middle class is ESSENTIAL to a healthy economy. Read the following article and you will realize that the elites cannot keep growing wealth at astronomical rates while the rest of the population continues to decline.
Henry Ford knew that his workers needed a pay high enough to afford his product. What we are going through is not sustainable and the comparisons to The Great Depression and how much wealth the top 10% owned then and now is very eerie.
Personally? I spend time studying how to invest myself rather than spending time whining about how other people have more money than I do.
There are two types of people: those who complain about how much other people have and those who work to better themselves. I have personally never been big on whining. You might be different, however.
Great attitude. I've always been puzzled by people who are stressed out over what other people have or make.
If I have an environment of opportunity, I don't care what George Soros has.
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