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Forum Post: People of the movement

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 22, 2011, 11:20 a.m. EST by OccupyJustice (0)
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If it's not broken, don't fix it. Judging by the number of protestors I'd say quite a few things are broken. I'd like to propose a simple set of ideas that I feel need to be addressed starting with corperate greed. While the minority controls the majority of the money, they also control the power. Companies sway political agenda and pass laws to meet a profit margin. it's time to take the money out of politics. I suggest a scaling tax on political donations where the larger the entity's revenue the greater the percentage that goes toward repaying the national debt. Many large companies have political funds to spend because they've outsourced their work. Outsourcing may protect a company's stock but at the cost of American jobs. Lets bring manufacturing back home. Institute a higher tax on manufacturing outside the country. Offer incentives to return production here. In the meantime let us put our people to work repairing what has been crumbling for years, our infrastructure. Roads and bridges have been left to ruin, many unfortunately still in use. We need to schedule repairs on our vital structures before they continue to collapse.

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[-] 1 points by Mcc (542) 12 years ago

MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – Florida is touting the new jobs it created Friday after a positive unemployment report. But based on numbers from all W-2’s filed in the country, the wages simply aren’t keeping up.

According to the Social Security Administration, 50 percent of U.S. workers made less than $26,364 in 2010. In addition, those making less than $200,000, or 99 percent of Americans, saw their earnings fall by $4.5 billion collectively.

The sobering numbers were a far cry from what was going on for the richest one percent of Americans.

The incomes of the top one percent of the wage scale in the U.S. rose in 2010; and their collective wage earnings jumped by $120 billion.

In addition, those earning at least $1 million a year in wages, which is roughly 93,000 Americans, reported payroll income jumped 22 percent from 2009.

Overall, the economy has shed 5.2 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession in 2007. It’s the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression in the 1930’s.