FOX News is having a poll. You know what to do! (Hint: Vote early and often)
Do ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Represent Your Views of the Economy?
Update: The option, “Yes. These folks are right about corporate greed and what’s happening to the little guy” has pulled out ahead with 63.73% of the vote!
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Absolutely!
GE made 2.5 BILLION in Profit last year and paid ZERO Federal Income Tax. Most small businesses pay average 36%. Is that equal? is that “Liberty and Justice for All?”
The wealthiest 1% of the country pay lobbyists to write the legislation and congress to pass laws that in the end, only benefit them – middle class and the rest of us be damned!
Time for a conversation about what needs to be done about it. This is the start. I applaud them for inviting us all to participate in our Democracy.
I support #occupywallstreet. I am a professional from NY. It is unfair to bail out our banks and then try to deny important social services to those who so desperately need them.
I’m a graduate student and a working mother from Schenectady, NY: I support #Occupy Wallstreet. Haven’t been this happy to read news stories since the writer’s strike taught an industry who does the work, and has the power to shut them down.
Whatever was “too big to fail” in 2008 should have been allowed to. Industry and finance have no problem with “socialist” policies, they simply prefer that those policies benefit THEM. WE ARE the 99%, and its high time and then some our government worked for we, the people that keep this country “running on dunkin’s.” We spend the money that supports existing business and encourages new businesses to open.
I am employed. I am doing well in life because of the way America use to be. I have a 21 year old son in school – I fear for his future because the deck is constantly stacked to support the wealthy.
Hell yes I believe in Occupy Wallstreet!
To those who disparage our movement, for those who say we are just lazy, hippies, uninformed and unpatriotic, consider this: all the unneeded wars in the world, all the money floating around top, and the desperate people who cannot sustain themselves but to toil 2 jobs, to the elderly who are no longer getting their medicines. Our foods contain poisons, they are polluting our air and water and all the while sapping our nations resources and destroying our planet. They spur on segregation through religion, race, class, and sexual orientation, sometimes even combining the four. Who are they? They are the corporations who have bought out our politicians. But these corporations are not inherently evil, most of them started out as a person who found success. So who is behind it all? The FEDERAL RESERVE- THE ROTHSCHILDS. So enjoy working for the minimum pay while your company makes maximum profit off of poor government regulation and non action by the people. Now is the time to make a difference. Now is the time for upheaval. This is why we OCCUPY!
I support Occupy Wall Street!!
Prospects for a graduating high school student.Go to a college you cannot afford ,taking out student loans that you have to pay for the next 20 years. Trying to find a job that affords you the opportunity to pay back these loans. To buy a car that you have to finance for the next 5 to 7 years. To be able to fill the car with gas to get to and from work at the price of $60 to $80 dollars a fill up. To buy a house that will have to be finances for 20 to 30 years at $800+ per month. To try to get married and raise a family all with trying to stay healthy paying outrageous cost to doctors and insurance companies.. Hell, I don’t blame them for protesting greed in America, but they need to start with the colleges that drive up the cost of education. Next, protest big oil and speculators that drove up the price of oil. As fuel prices rise, everything else does also.Then tell the unions to GO TO HELL. Let businesses set the price of their products without having to adjust for union demands to produce the product. Then go after Wall Street and the big banks for being so stupid for falling into the trap of unrealistic pricing. If a product isn’t worth the price, DON’T LEND THE MONEY. If you can’t get loans for the product, prices will have to come down.This is a lot to ask from any generation.