Occupy Wall Street Rant (Ron Paul Supporter)

[Denny Crane]

The most telling thing about America from that chart is the cradle-to-the-grave poverty, over 20%, which mocks the notion of "The Land of Opportunity".

You have no idea. From 2000-2006, economic security (ability to stay out of poverty) dropped from 26% to 16% for the poor.

If you don't like what it is now, welcome to Obamanomics.

 

[MARIS61]

You have no idea. From 2000-2006, economic security (ability to stay out of poverty) dropped from 26% to 16% for the poor.

If you don't like what it is now, welcome to Obamanomics.

Obamanomics=Bushanomics.

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Mere puppets for the same puppeteer, Wall Street.

 

[Ed O]

ok, add:

basement dwelling, sock fucking internet hack0rz from 4chan.

oh, I guess you mean Scott Olsen, who was kicked out of the military and founded www.ihatethemarinecorps.com

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...t-olsen-is-founder-of-i-hate-the-marines-com/

ICP represent!

Ed O.

 

[Ed O]

"You can't pass a curfew mid-protest because you disagree with this group of protesters," said criminal defense attorney Patrick Frogge, who is representing some of those arrested.[/I]

I don't understand that logic at all. Laws can't be passed because people were previously doing what the law outlaws?

Either the law can be passed or it can't, it seems to me. I don't understand why it matter the crime is in the middle of happening or not.

Ed O.

 

[MARIS61]

I don't understand that logic at all. Laws can't be passed because people were previously doing what the law outlaws?

Either the law can be passed or it can't, it seems to me. I don't understand why it matter the crime is in the middle of happening or not.

Ed O.

It can't.

Nobody said they had good lawyers.

 

[Denny Crane]

If you don't like how america works, you can always leave for greener pastures. If you can find any.

http://www.fool.com/investing/gener...protestors-youre-probably-part-of-the-1-.aspx


Attention, Protestors: You're Probably Part of the 1%

About a year ago, The Wall Street Journal ran an article describing the plight of Americans struggling to rebuild after bankruptcy. The article highlighted Linda Frakes, who filed for bankruptcy after accumulating more than $300,000 in credit card debt.

"Ms. Frakes is now unemployed, living on $330 a week of unemployment benefits and odd jobs," the Journal wrote. Frakes "struggled to rent a home and buy a car after bankruptcy. A used-car dealer ultimately gave her financing on a Jaguar."

No one's hardship should be belittled. Becoming unemployed or losing a home aren't just financial problems. They're social and emotional problems that strike at people's sense of being.

But things always need to be kept in perspective. Only in America, I thought to myself after reading the article, can someone be driving a Jaguar and portrayed as living in an impoverished underclass. Context is crucial with these issues.

The recent Occupy Wall Street protests have aimed their message at the income disparity between the 1% richest Americans and the rest of the country. But what happens when you expand that and look at the 1% richest of the entire world? Some really interesting numbers emerge. If there were a global Occupy Wall Street protest, people as well off as Linda Frakes might actually be the target.

In America, the top 1% earn more than $380,000 per year. We are, however, among the richest nations on Earth. How much do you need to earn to be among the top 1% of the world?

$34,000.

That was the finding World Bank economist Branko Milanovic presented in his 2010 book The Haves and the Have-Nots. Going down the distribution ladder may be just as surprising. To be in the top half of the globe, you need to earn just $1,225 a year. For the top 20%, it's $5,000 per year. Enter the top 10% with $12,000 a year. To be included in the top 0.1% requires an annual income of $70,000.

 

[MARIS61]

If you don't like how america works, you can always leave for greener pastures. If you can find any.

http://www.fool.com/investing/gener...protestors-youre-probably-part-of-the-1-.aspx


Attention, Protestors: You're Probably Part of the 1%

About a year ago, The Wall Street Journal ran an article describing the plight of Americans struggling to rebuild after bankruptcy. The article highlighted Linda Frakes, who filed for bankruptcy after accumulating more than $300,000 in credit card debt.

"Ms. Frakes is now unemployed, living on $330 a week of unemployment benefits and odd jobs," the Journal wrote. Frakes "struggled to rent a home and buy a car after bankruptcy. A used-car dealer ultimately gave her financing on a Jaguar."

No one's hardship should be belittled. Becoming unemployed or losing a home aren't just financial problems. They're social and emotional problems that strike at people's sense of being.

But things always need to be kept in perspective. Only in America, I thought to myself after reading the article, can someone be driving a Jaguar and portrayed as living in an impoverished underclass. Context is crucial with these issues.

The recent Occupy Wall Street protests have aimed their message at the income disparity between the 1% richest Americans and the rest of the country. But what happens when you expand that and look at the 1% richest of the entire world? Some really interesting numbers emerge. If there were a global Occupy Wall Street protest, people as well off as Linda Frakes might actually be the target.

In America, the top 1% earn more than $380,000 per year. We are, however, among the richest nations on Earth. How much do you need to earn to be among the top 1% of the world?

$34,000.

That was the finding World Bank economist Branko Milanovic presented in his 2010 book The Haves and the Have-Nots. Going down the distribution ladder may be just as surprising. To be in the top half of the globe, you need to earn just $1,225 a year. For the top 20%, it's $5,000 per year. Enter the top 10% with $12,000 a year. To be included in the top 0.1% requires an annual income of $70,000.

Which only points out how truly inhumane the personal accumulation and hoarding of millions and billions of dollars really is.

They're not really the .01.

They're the .0001.

 

[Denny Crane]

How does it feel to be in the top .1%?

People all over the world who aren't should be protesting that you do so well.

 

[Denny Crane]

Speaking of Ron Paul...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...-both-tallies-at-gop-pres-straw-poll-in-iowa/

Ron Paul wins both tallies at GOP straw poll in Iowa
Posted by
CNN Political Reporter Shannon Travis
Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - Ron Paul has won two separate tallies for the National Federation of Republican Assemblies Presidential Straw Poll.

Paul won both the Iowa-voters-only count at the Saturday convention in Des Moines as well as a tally of non-Iowans who participated.

In the Iowa voters result, Paul took 82%. Following him were Herman Cain with 14.7%, Rick Santorum with 1%, Newt Gingrich with 0.9%, Michele Bachmann with 0.5%, Rick Perry with 0.5%, Gary Johnson with 0.2%, with Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman 0%.

The total number of votes cast in that tally was 430.

In the tally of non-Iowans who voted, Paul won 26% followed by Cain at 25%, Perry and Santorum tied at 16%, Gingrich at 11%, Bachmann at 6%, Romney at 1%, and Huntsman and Johnson with 0%.

The total number of votes cast in that count was 101.

Though Paul won both tallies, the NFRA has not yet officially endorsed a candidate. Delegates to the convention will decide that later Saturday.

 

[Further]

This past week I found out that myself and about 75% of my coworkers will likely be squeezed out of our current positions over the next year or two. Many of us will be able to find equivalent jobs elsewhere, in fact, I already have, but for the majority of people involved this is a very stressful and trying time.

My point in bringing this up is simply that I suppose that at the root of much of the protesters core, is fear that they will continue to struggle until they eventually die. This is common in third world countries, but in America, going back 25 years, I don't think that this fear was so great. Most people believed that hard work could lead to a level of comfort where we did not have to worry about how to pay the monthly bills. Now, a great portion of the populous fears the future.

I have not been part of the Occupy movement, but I do understand where the protesters are coming from. If we do not find a way to stop the disappearance of the middle class, expect that even if the Occupy movement does go away, another and another and another movement will pop up until eventually, America as we know it will end.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

 

[The Sebastian Express]

If that is a real cow then the occupy movement is about to get PETA on their ass.

 

[huevonkiller]

If you don't like how america works, you can always leave for greener pastures. If you can find any.

http://www.fool.com/investing/gener...protestors-youre-probably-part-of-the-1-.aspx


Attention, Protestors: You're Probably Part of the 1%

About a year ago, The Wall Street Journal ran an article describing the plight of Americans struggling to rebuild after bankruptcy. The article highlighted Linda Frakes, who filed for bankruptcy after accumulating more than $300,000 in credit card debt.

"Ms. Frakes is now unemployed, living on $330 a week of unemployment benefits and odd jobs," the Journal wrote. Frakes "struggled to rent a home and buy a car after bankruptcy. A used-car dealer ultimately gave her financing on a Jaguar."

No one's hardship should be belittled. Becoming unemployed or losing a home aren't just financial problems. They're social and emotional problems that strike at people's sense of being.

But things always need to be kept in perspective. Only in America, I thought to myself after reading the article, can someone be driving a Jaguar and portrayed as living in an impoverished underclass. Context is crucial with these issues.

The recent Occupy Wall Street protests have aimed their message at the income disparity between the 1% richest Americans and the rest of the country. But what happens when you expand that and look at the 1% richest of the entire world? Some really interesting numbers emerge. If there were a global Occupy Wall Street protest, people as well off as Linda Frakes might actually be the target.

In America, the top 1% earn more than $380,000 per year. We are, however, among the richest nations on Earth. How much do you need to earn to be among the top 1% of the world?

$34,000.

That was the finding World Bank economist Branko Milanovic presented in his 2010 book The Haves and the Have-Nots. Going down the distribution ladder may be just as surprising. To be in the top half of the globe, you need to earn just $1,225 a year. For the top 20%, it's $5,000 per year. Enter the top 10% with $12,000 a year. To be included in the top 0.1% requires an annual income of $70,000.

Just like I thought. I said a few weeks ago that 30 K a year was good money.

Also most of those European Countries that barfo cited are very fucked economically.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

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