Forum Post: well. it's quite apparent none of you are serious...
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 4, 2011, 10:58 a.m. EST by RichardGates
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what a let down
Advertising, hate politics, lowering public school standards are few of tools those who seek total power have used. THEY have used social research to understand and silently take control of AMerica. They uneducated are led by sound-bites like herds of cattle. The historic answer to social unrest? Make a big wall, kill off the poor while the rich get richer. USE YOUR POWER before they squash you. REGISTER EVERYONE TO VOTE. Tell the EVERYONE will vote.
The ugly truth. America's wealth is STILL being concentrated. When the rich get too rich, the poor get poorer. These latest figures prove it. AGAIN.
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.
Another word about the first Great Depression. It really was a perfect storm. Caused almost entirely by greed. First, there was unprecedented economic growth. There was a massive building spree. There was a growing sense of optimism and materialism. There was a growing obsession for celebrities. The American people became spoiled, foolish, naive, brainwashed, and love-sick. They were bombarded with ads for one product or service after another. Encouraged to spend all of their money as if it were going out of style. Obscene profits were hoarded at the top. In 1928, the rich were already way ahead. Still, they were given huge tax breaks. All of this represented a MASSIVE transfer of wealth from poor to rich. Executives, entrepreneurs, developers, celebrities, and share holders. By 1929, America's wealthiest 1 percent had accumulated around 40% of all United States wealth. The upper class held around 30%. The middle and lower classes were left to share the rest. When the majority finally ran low on money to spend, profits declined and the stock market crashed.
Of course, the rich threw a fit and started cutting jobs. They would stop at nothing to maintain their disgusting profit margins and ill-gotten obscene levels of wealth as long as possible. The small business owners did what they felt necessary to survive. They cut more jobs. The losses were felt primarily by the little guy. This created a domino effect. The middle class shrunk drastically and the lower class expanded. With less wealth in reserve and active circulation, banks failed by the hundreds. More jobs were cut. Unemployment reached 25% in 1933. The worst year of the Great Depression. Those who were employed had to settle for much lower wages. Millions went cold and hungry. The recovery involved a massive infusion of new currency, a World War, and higher taxes on the rich. With so many men in the service, so many women on the production line, and those higher taxes to help pay for it, the lions share of United States wealth was gradually transfered back to the middle class. This redistribution of wealth continued until the mid seventies. This was the recovery. A massive redistribution of wealth. Then it began to concentrate all over again. Here we are 35 years later. The richest one percent now own well over 40 percent of all US wealth. The lower 90 percent own less than 10 percent of all US wealth. This is true even after taxes, welfare, financial aid, and charity. It is the underlying cause. No redistribution. No recovery.
The government won't step in and do what's necessary. Not this time. It's up to us. Support small business more and big business less. Support the little guy more and the big guy less. It's tricky but not impossible. No redistribution. No recovery.
Those of you who agree on these major issues are welcome to summarize this post, copy it, link to it, save it, show a friend, or spread the word in any fashion. Most major cities have daily call-in talk radio shows. You can reach thousands of people at once. They should know the ugly truth. Be sure to quote the figures which prove that America's wealth is still being concentrated. I don't care who takes the credit. We are up against a tiny but very powerful minority who have more influence on the masses than any other group in history. They have the means to reach millions at once with outrageous political and commercial propaganda. Those of us who speak the ugly truth must work incredibly hard just to be heard.
Must suck to be so poor.
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Sadly enough it's the lack of a consensus and leadership. The hearts are in the right place but the heads a scattered. They are angry so they are also easily infiltrated by those who insult instead of discuss and try to subvert as a tactical defense. But...don't give up. You are one of the clear thinkers.
Recreational protesters. Let's all sleep in the park and tell each other we are changing the world.
I tried to tell you that the other day Richard. The movement needs to be Occupy Washington and to end the corruption between Wall Street and DC. Only radicals want to destroy our country and create some anarcho-syndaclist system.
there are thousands of protesters in D.C. do the research. the ratio of protest to result for D.C. protests are very poor anyway. the ratio of storefront protests to result is much higher.
besides. it's all engine and no wheels. the protesters give power to the voice, it's on the web people come and listen to that voice. this is what they hear. right here. all the other forums look like slower versions of the same.
Don't need 1000s, need 100s of thousands. Need to surround the White House and the Capital and demand all 537 elected officials to resign immediately.
thats just another extreme.
Why is it extreme? 82% of the country would favor that idea. Less than 2% favor the anarchists trying to run OWS behind the curtain.
Where do you get the statistic of 82% of the country favors the idea of kicking every member of congress out?
73% of all statistics are made up
Disapproval rate with Washington and Congress.
That rate doesn't equal the idea of removing every congressman.
removing our leaders all at once is anarchy. you present a false argument.
No it isn't If they would pass a budget by April that would carry us through the election there would be no problem. The remainder of the year would be used to set appropriate candidates. I didn't say shut down the government, i said do away with the elected officials. The original intention of Congress was to pass a budget only anyways. Of course we are going on 3 years without a budget so they aren't even doing the one thing they are supposed too.
yes, ok. they aren't doing there jobs. so take it to court. there are so many orgs trying to jump in this thing feet first, how hard could it be to get one of them to pay for a court case? the case itself would be an extension of the protest.