Forum Post: Can you please help me understand what the OWS movement is trying to achieve?
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 2, 2011, 5:03 p.m. EST by VladimirMayakovsky
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If you want job creation, why not take up the jobs picking produce in the West Coast now that the Repos have driven away all the illegal immigrants who were very hard working, civil, good people?
I look at the movement as MLK saw it. Demonstrations do not solve problems they merely draw attention to a problem. That, it is doing admirably. There is an extreme wealth disparity in this country continuously made ever worse by the greed (and power) of the 1%.
How can we lower income disparity in the country? Should we put a cap on how much people can make? Like, say, no one can make more than $50k/year?
Sorry this took so long. You end income disparity by taking away the unjust advantages that the rich enjoy. Eliminate the loopholes. Have them earn their money not scam it by their manipulation of Wall Street prices. Eliminate their disproportionate influence in Washington. There are many ways if you just put your mind to it. I don't think you should limit salaries but tax them appropriately because, as the atheist Mr. Buffett has said, "we're here because of luck," and don't we know how to tax the lottery winners, eh?
direct democracy
public health care
no war
no stop and frisk
Make sure gullible people like these do not get to lead the American people!
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Nope, cant quite figure it out myself...have some suspicins,...
But, hey, let's all bypass the government and Nominate and Elect a new one?
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What will happen when money is separated from politics? Will people have to fund their own elections and only the rich will be able to run?
No, it's called public campaign financing....
How would that work? Everyone gets the same money from the Govt? Anyone who wants to run?
After you separate money from politics, you replace it with free air time for candidates that provide x number of petition signatures. Stations are now required by law to provide public service announcements. This would just be an extension of that. We could start with a certain number of spots and we could increase it to equal those of rich people who choose not to go with the public option.
But you will need money to raise the signatures.
But not so much that only the rich can afford it, and how about Internet signatures (after validity can be guaranteed, of course)
True, but still it will be hard for the homeless person living in a tent to compete. Even OWS needs to raise money, no?
Great point.
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Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council. "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over . . . We are here to stay." Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas; "We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are @#$%ing in their pants with fear. I love it."
Separating money and politics. It's really quite simple.