This is dumb, these corporations keep this economy going. Well whats left after this class warfare rhetoric bullshit. He is fundamentally transforming this country into another civil war. As the top 10% of income earners pay 69% of the taxes. Shit the top 50% pay 97 % of the taxes. These people on wall street are just looking for handouts. Thats all this is about. I don't make much but i strive for my money and excellence and one day i will earn my money like they did. The bottom 50 percent pay all of 2% of all taxes. Obviously these guys have nothing better to do then sit down there. Not to mention people that "live in poverty" have a lot more items than alot of people that dont meet the government standard of poverty.
"Nearly 40 percent of all poor households actu*ally own their own homes. On average, this is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Eighty-four percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Nearly two-thirds of the poor have cable or satellite TV.
Only 6 percent of poor households are over*crowded; two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The typical poor American has as much or more living space than the average individual living in most European countries. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
Ninety-eight percent of poor households have a color television; two-thirds own two or more color televisions.
Eighty-two percent own microwave ovens; 67 percent have a DVD player; 73 percent have a VCR; 47 percent have a computer.
The average intake of protein, vitamins, and minerals by poor children is indistinguishable from that of children in the upper middle class. Poor boys today at ages 18 and 19 are actually taller and heavier than middle-
class boys of similar age were in the late 1950s. They are a full inch taller and ten pounds heavier than the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War II."
These are the people down there protesting. This country is taking care of plenty of people already especially when i am in the damn grocery store and some bitch in front of me is sliding a EBT card for candy, soda and whatever the hell she wants. Wearing name brand clothes and hops in a Lexus to drive off. These hippies need to go home and and let these companies do what they do best. This president needs to step out of the way of these businesses to let them do what they do best and leave them alone. Do you see the correlation here. Check this out someone making 4k a year makes more than i do.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...onique-de-rugy
Baraca Obama says - The rich aren't paying enough money, the stocks drop. Next speech The rich need to pay their fair share, market drops again and its a endless cycle. These businesses see they are under attack so they are hiding their money and not hiring. The more they hire the bigger they get the more they get attacked for being evil. If this president is smart he would back off. Think about the damage that would be caused if these corporations folded up shop all at once and left. What then? This country would collapse completely.
Also think about how they got all these Iphones and Macbooks down there on wall street if they are so poor. Sounds like a lot of bad spending when you cant afford it. Especially with these people obviously having no job.
The funny thing is big oil made all of 8% profit last year how much did mac? 23%. Big oil is making to much money? Yet they want to cut the tax cuts for big oil and want the gas prices to raise on people not getting hands out from the government? The people getting handouts will just get more money for gas while the oil companies will have to raise prices to keep the 8% profit they want. And without these "evil" corporations we wouldn't have the technology we have today. No competition = no innovations.
As for politicians they will always lie and cheat to get what they want. They have to take bribes to get into the office. We need to change the system so there is an election for any given office every year no matter what the position. This would keep politicians more in line with what the people want and not force through bullshit legislation.
As for the rich not "sharing the wealth", you want some of there wealth get hired by one of these corporations. They want to expand, they want to grow. They want more employees but instead of these protesters applying for a job they are yelling and screaming about them having millions of dollars.
#OccupyWallStreet. Why is this not getting major MSM attention?
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