Forum Post: Adopting the 1% mantra--the death of OWS
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 14, 2011, 9:43 p.m. EST by isee
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I do not get the 99% thing, 1% thing. . . ..as it relates to OWS
IMO probably the worst political blunder of the last few years.
Are you against people who make money? With the 1% hovering around $340,000, that makes you against football players (and not even the best ones) authors and some professors. . . .it makes you against entrepreneurs and lead nurses. . . against doctors, dentists and podiatrists. . . against saleman who are having good years (but you like them in bad years) . . .against actors (again not even the good ones) and musicians (many of whom songs you have song) . . against political activists (Michael Moore) and tv commentators (James Carville) . . .against party planners and congressman and tennis pros and engineers and lawyers and architects. . . against the guy who invented the blacket with sleeves. . ..and yes, some who work on Wall Street.
If this really is supposed to be about Wall Street Reform, you've gone off the path. The Wall Street group has to be a small percentage.
You all are setting yourself up to be the biggest laughing charade. . .
The life of the "leaderless" . .. . .
I'm all for people making money. The problem is that the 1% is privatizing the profits and socializing the losses (and other external costs). What we need is real capitalism, not the crony-capitalism we currently have. For decades now the corporations and special interests have had our "representatives" bought and paid for. We need to get the money out of our politics. Until we end the current system of legalized bribery (campaign donations) and paid lobbying our politicians will continue to be the lap dogs of the corporations and special interests. What we need first and foremost is real, loop-hole free CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM!!!! If the corruption is not dealt with first, the chance of any other meaningful reforms becoming a reality is almost zero - the special interests will just use their money to buy votes and put forward bills that create loop-holes or otherwise twist the law in their favor. If we want our children to live in a country where there vote matters, we need to get the money out of our politics, otherwise they will increasingly become the 21st century version of the "landless peasant." Spread the word - CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM needs to be THE main goal of the protests.
I don't think it's against the people making money, not even the millionaires. It is about economic disparity. The gap between the very poor and the very rich has grown huge, and the Government appeals to the very rich. That's not democracy.
Mostly I think it is about the private banks, and the CEOs of corrupt and criminal corporations, and war profiteers.
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