Forum Post: What did Corperations do to you guys?
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 10 p.m. EST by CapitalismRulesPeriod
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What did (in your opinion) The corporations do to you that makes you hate them so much? I would like to add that technically you aren't the 99 because then everybody would have to be on your side besides the "1%" you speak of.
Americans should stand up with the Occupy Wall St. protestors. Chris Hedge’s says, “The criminal class in this country has seized power [and the protestors], in the true definition of the political spectrum, are conservatives in this sense: they call for the rule of law -- they call for the restoration of the rule of law. And what’s happened is that the real radicals have seized power and they are decimating all legal impediments to the creation of a neo-feudalistic corporate city, one in which there is a rapacious oligarchic class, a thin managerial elite. And two-thirds of this country live in conditions that increasingly push families to subsistence level.”
The two-party system pits us against each other over emotional issues, like gay rights and abortion. Our individual differences will never be resolved, and as long as we cling to them we’ll stay locked in the left/right paradigm. We’ll all keep butting our heads together while our democracy is being gutted by corporatism and the military-industrial-complex. Americans must come together because divisionism hurts us all. The theme for this movement should be the Beatles song, ‘Come Together.’
What’s more important to you: having a job, a house, feeding your family, a decent salary, medical care when you need it, banding together to reclaim our democracy from those who would divide us, dismantling corporate power structures that keep everyone in this country and around the world in bondage, or taking away someone else’s personal rights?
There are no parties in the constitution.
It’s not a free market if it involves force, tyranny, slave labor, overthrow of governments, war. Bankrupting America, robbing Americans of jobs. Where is the freedom?
We’re close to being a totalitarian state unless we all stand up for democracy -- otherwise we'll get what somebody else paid for.
what do you have against people sticking up for themselves? I tell you what, you work labor till it hurts to breath just to get by while the profits made by you and all the employees just like you are spent by a guy that didn't lift a finger. yes, this is power, but it is not democratic capitalism. having a clean continence aboard your yacht wile the people that made the money for you can hardly feed their kids. sounds like the same rhetoric given before we invade another country doesn't it. but you know this.
he doesn't lift a finger because he worked hard for years to get there. second you mixing government systems and economic systems. we live in a democratic republic and have a heavily regulated form of capitalism for our economic system. they are separate and cannot be mixed though the goverment may be involved in economic dealings but the two systems don"t
if you don't like that link, have another http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674055742
you're an idiot. http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/files/politics_market_socialism.pdf search the term you say doesn't exist, then argue with professors about it.
i didn't say it doesn't exist. I'm sure others have done the same thing
The 1% are the Corporations, who seem to have more influence in politics than the 99% (real people, rich and poor).
You know something like this happened in the Weimar Republic. There were protests for communism and this led to the anti protests by the fascists which led to the election of Hitler.
To the protesters here who DIDN'T AT LEAST list "You screwed us over with so-called 'Free' Trade! You made us subsidize oil so that we can subsidize shipping for Chinese imported goods! You use the Double Irish and Dutch Sandwich to save BILLIONS in taxes while you RAKE IN THE PROFITS! YOU KILLED this country!"
as their answer...you do not deserve to protest anything.
just because they don't agree with us doesn't mean they don't deserve to protest. They can protest about whatever crazy thing they want. for everyone else there is no Free Trade they call it "Fair" Trade now.
Ha! Ha ha! Fair? Are you dense?
We haven't even TOUCHED the other FTAs we're in - and guess what? Obama JUST passed the South Korean FTA that will KILL Bay Area electronics jobs! Who knows - this may be the FIRST STEP towards the death of the US Tech Industry!
And of course you want these idiots to protest. Because you could just keep on infiltrating this group with more scams scams scams so that they would actually be fighting AGAINST their rights. I just talked to a few people who advocated flat tax, flat consumption tax aka "fair" tax and there was even some guy who advocated that we remove capital gains taxes.
Yes the idiots advocating the flat taxes were ALSO for having that be the ONLY tax. Thereby removing income, corporate, capital gains, dividends, etc. taxes. They -just- wanted a universal 20% consumption tax. Oh and who can forget Herman Cain's 999 and Warren Buffett's Flat Tax?
I don't even see people discussing the G20 summit or removing oil from the speculation market. Some people are advocating a rotating triumvirate to replace the presidency and...I don't even know anymore.
I don't hate them. I just have a few problems with some of the things that they do. Lots of them do lots of good things! Lattes anyone?! Good stuff! Corruption. Not good stuff.
I believe that 1% buys their representation in government.
Which I have a little problem with , because it diminishes my fair and equal representation. Mostly, this is big wealthy corps. Nothing personal. It's just a little thing I have against corruption. Thats all.
Also, some corps behave very badly by being greedy. Greed is not good. Greed is destructive. Greed is a personal failure of morality. Profit is good, capitalism is good, but there must be a healthy dose of responsiblity and ethics.
For starters, Brookfield Office Properties (BPO:US) has rewritten the rules for zucotti park to assist Bloomberg in denying us our Right to Free Speech, Assembly, and Redress protected by the First Amendment. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/told-to-leave-protesters-talk-pre-emptive-strategy/?ref=nyregion.
Koch is the right-wing bogeyman, like Soros on the left.
extracted my surplus value.
that is not what the "99%" refers to actually. do you know anything about the occupation?
i know what you mean I was speaking as if someone didn't take it symbolically
I Have found that this forum has everyone from angry lunatics to Intelligent people. It's quite a contrast.
go eat a hot bowl of dicks tea peeper
the tea party can be too extreme for me sometimes thank you very much