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View Poll Results: Do you support the Wall St. protesters?
Yes 157 51.48%
No 148 48.52%
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Old 10-15-2011, 06:52 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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The protestors are representing the 99% that are not part of the 1%. The 1% control the politics and wealth in the U.S.

Like it or not if you are not part of 1% you are the 99%. We are in this together. My guess is that everyone who is posting on this board is part of the 99%.




US wealth distribution: 10% of US citizens own 70.9% of all US assets | Ron Paul 2012 | Sound Money, Peace and Liberty (http://www.dailypaul.com/111232/us-wealth-distribution-10-of-us-citizens-own-709-of-all-us-assets - broken link)

The top one percent own approximately 40% of ALL the wealth in our nation now....in 2011..... according to most sources like Ron Paul.

Wealth inequality in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/publications/markets/w07-1.pdf (broken link)

Inequality Is Most Extreme in Wealth, Not Income - NYTimes.com

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Old 10-15-2011, 06:55 PM
 
Location: NC
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US wealth distribution: 10% of US citizens own 70.9% of all US assets | Ron Paul 2012 | Sound Money, Peace and Liberty (http://www.dailypaul.com/111232/us-wealth-distribution-10-of-us-citizens-own-709-of-all-us-assets - broken link)

The top one percent own approximately 40% of ALL the wealth in of our nation....in 2012 according to most sources like Ron Paul.
Spot on

#Occupy
Ron Paul 2012
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Old 10-15-2011, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Land of debt and Corruption
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Old 10-15-2011, 08:25 PM
 
Location: The Land of Reason
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