Because people took to the streets .....................!

[Lowellhturner]

Your comment "really don`t understand why anyone would support/ defend policies and agendas that are geared to work against their best interests" says alot. However, if one`s PRECEIVED "best interest" laid outside the "status quo" and COULD be implimented to their GREATER PERSONAL GAIN, over the lesser "collective good" AND was barely LEGAL and you simply was willing to simply tear financial flesh off the stock market and Gov`t and society like a starved velociraptor (but ONLY for your OWN personal GOOD ) which is "Better"? The PROBLEM is this; as soon as others of this kind see him enjoying a seemingly endless financial bloody flesh feast, then they TOO get an appatite and start in. If ONLY this financial soulless individual could CONVINCE them that as a financial TERROR HIS NEED is SO MUCH GREATER THAN THEIRS and that THEY should act in the "interest of the greater collective good"...especially for HIS "GOOD". Try and with a STRAIGHT face TELL ME (and us) that that`s just NOT exactly all too human nature. "3; eh, I mean 8 for me, 1 for you. 27 for me, 1 for you . 389 for me, none for you..." ARGUE "Wall Strret" ISN`T like that"...In the end it`s EXACTLY what this is ALL about ! I have never willingly invested 1 misereable cent in Wall Street and NEVER WILL; too many WALL STREETERS are either incompetent ("Oh I know it`s YOUR life`s savings, but it`s just my job-OOPS!") OR (barely) legal THIEVES. How many rotten apples does it take to ruin a bushel?

[RB2D2]

Top 1% are getting even richer


CBO study shows growing income disparity - Oct. 26, 2011


Hands Clapping

[deathb4disco]

Thank you deathb4disco for watching the entire video that must have been hard for you.

You have no idea. Fortunately, I watch Chris Matthews froth at the mouth about the Republicans every night, so I'm used to that sort of thing.

However, unless everyone on this board is super rich I really don't understand why they would support/defend policies and agendas that are geared to work against their best interests.

Such as?

I'm not rich (much less super rich), but I wouldn't vote for the Dems if you held a gun to my head and suspended my mother over a pit filled with pirahnas.

When the White House is owned by the Corporations the ballot box has very little power.

The Obama White House is owned by the unions. Former SEIU head Andy Stern practically had an office there. Trumpka (AFL-CIO) said he spoke to the White House every day.

And we are not a Democracy we're a Republic.

I know, but I didn't think it was necessary to actually type that.

Yeah, the Republicans want to focus on the debt but the real problem is JOBS!

Unemployment is still high because Obama's policies are a disaster. He promised his first stimulus (the one that "only" cost $787 billion) would keep unemployment to 8%. Oops. Then, he ignored the economy for a year and a half while he rammed through a health care bill that nobody wanted and we can't afford. Now, he wants to blow another $400 billion of other people's money. The only problem is he can't get all the Senate Dems to vote for it. Rofl Thank you Senators Tester, Lieberman and Nelson!

People did the right thing, saved their money, build up IRAs and 401K for their retirement and then saw most of it disappear right before their eyes through no fault of their own.

That's right. It was the fault of clueless politicians like Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd who can't get enough of the government meddling in the free market. They actually named the financial reform bill after those two clowns. Naming a financial reform bill after Dodd and Frank is like naming a hospital after Jack Kervorkian.

[fishingpox]

Do you honestly believe the hand full of people in this world that hold the money, and make policy throughout the world, invest that money, and some little pion man child and his clones...OWS hippies.... say pay your fair share, yeah right that is going to happen.

Has you mentioned earlier...I'm rich, I live in the USA.

[deathb4disco]

And then the Republicans want to kill Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, public education .... IN ADDITION to dismantling every government agency known to man.

This is just Democrat propaganda.

[deathb4disco]

Top 1% are getting even richer

You're right. This is just not fair:


Who are the 1 percent?

By Tami Luhby @CNNMoney October 20, 2011: 10:40 AM ET

Well, there were just under 1.4 million households that qualified for entry. They earned nearly 17% of the nation's income and paid roughly 37% of its income tax.

Occupy Wall Street: Who is the top 1% for income? - Oct. 20, 2011

[WhiteMeat]

Well I blame the current ineptitude of our government on the 2-party system. We're forced to either join the democrats and be a liberal or join the republicans and be a conservative, and if we don't our voice is never heard. The 2-party system has polarized our nation to the point that NOTHING good comes out of Washington anymore. All they do is bicker and point fingers and nothing gets done to solve our contry's mounting problems. When the country as a whole screams out for help, then the politicians rush through rediculous stop-gap solutions and push us further toward the brink of collapse.

Like them or not, at least the libertarian OWS movement and uber-conservative Tea Party movement are bringing new ideas and philosophies to a stagnating political arena. It won't be under Obama or because of Obama, but CHANGE is coming. I only pray it is for the betterment of society...

One more note on the OWS guys...I'll be surprised if their encampments can survive through next year's music festivals. The call of open pot smoking and jam bands will likely put a huge toll on their numbers...

[Cane Pole]

I barely made it thru the clip. A real maggot gagging story told by another maggot. Must be the Chris Matthews influence. I get a kick out of Matthews the zonkie.

[deathb4disco]

... the libertarian OWS movement ...

From what I've seen, there's nothing libertarian about the OWS people.

Socialist? Yes.

Marxist? Yes.

Communist? Yes.

[Cane Pole]

From what I've seen, there's nothing libertarian about the OWS people.

Socialist? Yes.

Marxist? Yes.

Communist? Yes.

Idiots? yes

Lazy azzes? yes

Teet babies? yes