Forum Post: Proposed Constitution of Movement with Acronym
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 12:51 a.m. EST by MadJefferson
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The following is not a call to action. It is merely a suggestion that you may adopt in part or in whole or dismiss in total. Wall Street & Other Top 1% Rats R eimbursement A rrests T ax Code Revisions & Industry Regulations S uspension of War Funding “Rats” has a double meaning. It refers to the economic aggressors who have ravaged the American economy and threatened the future prosperity of America. It is also a simple acronym, that can easily be expressed, that articulates the demands of the Movement. The Movement has the following coherent message. For the purpose of stating this message, Wall Street and other entities and individuals, mentioned below, shall be referred to as Rats. These Rats were (1) directly responsible for the crimes that the Movement rebukes, (2) complicate in those crimes, or (3) both. The demands of the Movement are that the Rats:
- [R]eimburse the taxpayers the billions of dollars that were stolen through the various bailouts of the Bush and Obama Administrations and through corporate welfare; and that corporate welfare in general ceases to be the public policy of the United States of America
- be [A]rrested where necessity mandates pursuant to state and federal criminal law on a case by case basis for mortgage fraud, health insurance fraud, and other financial, insurance, or consumer crimes that have caused or exacerbated the current financial crisis and its resultant hardships
- adhere to [T]ax Code Revisions that discourage financial and insurance instruments and policies that undermine the welfare of the citizens of the United States; and that corporations and the wealthiest Americans have their taxes substantially raised; and that stringent regulations be placed on the aforementioned industries and equivalent industries to ensure that no profits be made at the expense of the welfare of the citizens of the United States
- no longer receive a free lunch from wasteful government spending at the expense of American taxpayers; that a [S]uspension be placed on all war funding; that it be recognized that the current American wars lack any logical purpose but to funnel money through defense contracting to the top one percent under the perverse guise of freedom, democracy, security, etc.
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The following is not a call to action. It is merely a suggestion that you may adopt in part or in whole or dismiss in total.
Wall Street & Other Top 1% Rats
R eimbursement
A rrests
T ax Code Revisions & Industry Regulations
S uspension of War Funding
“Rats” has a double meaning. It refers to the economic aggressors who have ravaged the American economy and threatened the future prosperity of America. It is also a simple acronym, that can easily be expressed, that articulates the demands of the Movement
The Movement has the following coherent message. For the purpose of stating this message, Wall Street and other entities and individuals, mentioned below, shall be referred to as Rats. These Rats were (1) directly responsible for the crimes that the Movement rebukes, (2) complicate in those crimes, or (3) both.
The demands of the Movement are that the Rats:
[R]eimburse the taxpayers the billions of dollars that were stolen through the various bailouts of the Bush and Obama Administrations and through corporate welfare; and that corporate welfare in general ceases to be the public policy of the United States of America
be [A]rrested where necessity mandates pursuant to state and federal criminal law on a case by case basis for mortgage fraud, health insurance fraud, and other financial, insurance, or consumer crimes that have caused or exacerbated the current financial crisis and its resultant hardships
adhere to [T]ax Code Revisions that discourage financial and insurance instruments and policies that undermine the welfare of the citizens of the United States; and that corporations and the wealthiest Americans have their taxes substantially raised; and that stringent regulations be placed on the aforementioned industries and equivalent industries to ensure that no profits be made at the expense of the welfare of the citizens of the United
no longer receive a free lunch from wasteful government spending at the expense of American taxpayers; that a [S]uspension be placed on all war funding; that it be recognized that the current American wars lack any logical purpose but to funnel money through defense contracting to the top one percent under the perverse guise of freedom, democracy, security, etc.
The Movement will realize its demands by:
Engaging in the current showdown, namely Occupy Wall Street and equivalent peaceable assembly to compel candidates for office and the current Federal Government as well as state and municipal governments to cease and desist aiding and abetting Rats, thereby being Rats themselves, and to begin representing the ninety-nine percent of the populations that has been forced by the other one percent of the population to make these demands
Creating a formal union of members of the Movement and encouraging that membership to cast no vote for any candidate seeking any office of the United States, the various states, and their municipalities unless said candidate embraces the above demands, subject to their elaboration below
Encouraging, through the Movement inadvertently, foreign divestment of private American securities, thereby crippling Wall Street and other private sectors whose crimes, actions, and connivance through lobby of Congress have caused or exacerbated the current financial crisis and its resultant hardships in order that they may not yield such destructive powers in the future; and such influence on foreign investors will succeed notwithstanding American media indifference because uncorrupted foreign media will cover the Movement
Further articulation and reasoning of demands
Reimbursement
Reimbursement of Taxpayers is mandated for three reasons. First, private gains of private corporations should be the result of private costs. This is the essence of capitalism as the Rats would have us believe it to be. But instead, they used their control over Congress to socialize their costs and losses onto the ninety nine percent. This is unacceptable. Secondly, the financial losses that befell Wall Street should remain with Wall Street because it created those losses through deliberate fraud. Thirdly, the bailouts of the Bush and Obama Administrations were entirely unnecessary and predicated on an accounting gimmick. Wall Street deliberately funneled corporate funds from the corporations to their executives and owners to create the appearance of imminent collapse. To avoid that collapse, real or imaginary, they exercised control over Congress to commit the largest-ever heist against the citizens of the United States. They now own this bailout money in addition to the original money that was laundered into so-called corporate debt.
Arrests
The rationale for arrests is very simple. Crimes have been committed, yet the perpetrators have not been hailed to justice. It is not just that amoral or objectionable actions took place. Actual crimes, violations of longstanding state and federal criminal codes, have occurred. Law enforcement can remedy this be merely doing the job they have thus far neglected. If need be, statutes of limitation should be extended retroactively.
Tax Code Revisions and Regulations
Tighter industry regulations can be inductively justified by considering the recent history of Wall Street. The collapse of 2008 was proximately caused by Congressional deregulation measures beginning during the Clinton Administration. This policy needs to be reversed to avoid future economic hardships.
The tax cuts that the rich received from the Bush Administration were misbegotten and need to expire immediately for two reasons. First, under the Bush tax reforms, there was established a contract between the top one percent and everyone else. In exchange for tax breaks they would stimulate the economy and create jobs. They have done neither; they are in breach. It follows that the tax cuts should expire immediately. Secondly, tax cuts for the elite is bad economic policy. Because the elite already have more money than they are willing or able to spend, giving them more money only precludes that money from stimulating the economy. This bound-up money strangles the economy.
The health insurance industry needs to be heavily regulated or socialized. It is un-American that the individual per capita cost of health care in the United States is more than twice the cost in European nations whilst the quality of care in the United States is far inferior. If Congress fails to remedy this discrepancy, then they do not believe in an America that leads the free world- they believe in an America that is at the bottom of the barrel. The unending rise in costs are lowering wages, causing bankruptcies, causing lay-offs, and even causing deaths. Not surprisingly, the few other groups that benefit from the health insurance industry include Wall Street, politicians, and mass media. They benefit from investment profits, campaign cash, and advertisement revenues, respectively. They’re all Rats.
Suspension of War Funding
Suspension of War Funding and wasteful military spending is easy to justify. We can’t afford the wars we are engaged in; they are ravaging our economy. These wars have no legitimate ends or strategies. Men, women, children, and elderly are dying. Irreparable damage is being done to the image of the United States of America. Future generations of enemies are being born. The citizens of the United States do not support the wars. They don’t support $600 toilet seats sold by defense contractors and billed to taxpayers either.
Who are the Rats?
The Rats are those members of the top one percent and their enablers who wish everyone else to have nothing and live as peasants in a plutocracy. As expressed or implied above, the major categories of Rats include Wall Street, the health insurance industry, bought and paid politicians, the war industry, and the mass media. These groups work in concert. They do not represent separate entities; rather they have been horizontally integrated for the collective purpose of establishing a plutocracy that embodies the traits of monarchy already rebuked by the founding fathers of the United States.