Wow! What a crazy story this is! I was reading online the other day about a <a href="http://www.keithwilliamslawgroup.com/aboutus.cfm">car accident attorney nashville</a> that had defended a client who was in a crazy car accident. He was driving down the high way and a man randomly jumped out in front of him. He had to swerve so he didn't hit the man, but in the process, he hit another car, and it caused a whole bunch of damage. That law suit that went on for such a long time! People do really crazy things sometimes.
I keep hearing this right wing propaganda about how 43% (around this number) of Americans don't pay tax. This is absolute rubbish.
The way the Top 1% have rigged the system, the less money you make the more percentage of your income you pay in taxes (and fees). This is exactly the opposite of the way it should be and NOW you know what the 99% Movement is all about.
Why should the Top 1% get 25% of the income and own 40% of the wealth of America? They did not earn that by themselves but rather used our country, it's infrastructure and institutions to make their money.
That is why one of the demands of the 99% is to have a truly fair, graduated, progressive tax system without loopholes, subsidies and other tax breaks that only benefit the Top 1%.
From what newspapers around the country pointed out, 43% of income earners get a free pass in our income tax system and somehow the tax system is deemed to be beneficial to the top 1% only. If anything shouldn't it be deemed beneficial to 44%, the freeloaders plus the ultimate owners (of the country)? Should the remaining 56% start a movement to demand more tax responsibilities from the 43% and the 1%?
I demand that I be allowed to get a high paying job after borrowing 50,000 dollars to get my Ivy League degree with my major of Tiddly Winks. It is my birth right and I will not work for small wages at some low level job. Give me, give me, give me. It is my birth right I say!
Our ancestors when they decided to come to America they left everything behind in their homeland just to look for an opportunity to pursue their dreams, their aspiration, their happiness and asked for nothing in guarantee. The 'opportunity' they looked for was nothing other than the permission to enter the US. The word opportunity is now so loaded - for some it even means something given for nothing for no other reason than the fact that they are already here and entitled to a certain economic privilege regardless of whether they can or choose to contribute to the common economy.
It's not always easy for college grads to find job even in the best of times. I have two nephews, who are brothers about 2 years apart. One graduated as a Comp Sci, found job as soon as graduation, the other is still struggling after two years out of school as an Econ. I can't say there are jobs for all graduates, but I don't believe all graduates can't find any job even in this tough period. Last Sat I went to a restaurant and saw a bus boy, young and bright and enthusiastic in his humble mundane job of cleaning tables. I could tell he was grateful for what he had and really took his job seriously - the manner of his wiping down a table was one of a young kid who was cleaning his own brand new car. I said to myself it wouldn't be a surprise for me to find him as the manager of that restaurant in a few years. In case you're curious, the restaurant was an ethnic one and the young man was a white person.
Whats interesting is most of the protestors are going to vote for a democrat meaning less rights,more govt, more police state and more of the tearing down of individual freedom and liberty's. Govt is the problem, not the solution. All the inequities are a result of a govt picking winners and looser's in a multitude of industries. Govt is the problem and costs us all a fortune. One candidate is speaking the truth thats Ron Paul. You cant fix endless spending with more spending and printing paper money.
Why not?? After all Colorado claims the distinction of being the home of the Ludlow massacre where the mine owners had the army shoot and kill men, women, and children to get the miners back to making them more wealthy. The rich, in their desire to get richer are pushing our country well towards the tipping point. There needs to be a diligent effort made to understand and begin to correct the root cause of these people being there in the first place--have you ever noticed that the "Talking heads" never, ever mention unemployment and outsourcing in the same sentence? It is high time the wealthy quit creating jobs--in India and China, and, by reigning in outsourcing, started creating them in America--where Americans would earn money, pay taxes, and in the end, make the wealthy even richer than had the jobs been created in China.
2,000 citizens tried to walk up Denver Capitol Steps...
Resulted in Police Violent Action: Batons, pepper spray, and rubber bullets on citizens?
I am a 68 year old ex Marine.
On TV We See Hilary and Obama Saying.. "US is in Libyia to protect People From Violence for Expressing Democratic Speech."
But Here in America Both Lawyers Do Not Uphold 1st Amendment: "The Right of the People to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
As anyone can see everyday on National TV, local paramilitary police throw young women and men to the ground violently then knee their backs and spines will their full weight, as they lie facedown on street?
Why Do Pres Obama and Sec of State Clinton.....
Not "Defend & Protect he United States Constitution as they Swore"?
That is definitely one road, one thing to blame, one reason to avoid examining oneself. To me no corporation, no single individual can buy any politician if he/she is not 'for sale'. Think about what someone like the current SAVIOR needs to do to succeed in our system. As much as he could raise with small donations, he would not forgo selling $35K per luncheon. Are you going to blame corporations or the rich people for his doing that? Now, what do you replace this system with? Does anyone out there have any idea what to replace this system with except to state a few complaints about what's wrong or what they think the system should not do? We have a system that builds in changes peacefully. Do you want a banana system where someone could just change out his presidential job for another powerful job for a term then come back to be a top dog again? Or, someone if we want to remove from office we have to rebel, to destroy and with luck to kill him like a dog? Well, when it comes to ignorance, I beg to say that each to his own.
I support these people one hundred percent. I am a retired police officer. Every day I fear that my 36,000 dollar a year pension will be taken away because of all of the TIFs and other tax give aways that were given to huge companies like Walmart. They didn't pay taxes but the fire and police were constantly called to their store on shoplifters, domestics, heart attacks etc. All paid for by the other property owners of the city. Which included me. It also hurt the school district. These companies continue to shake down local governments for handouts. Motorola wants 100 million in tax breaks from Illinois or they will go to Mexico. Sears manufacturing in Hoffman Estates is doing likewise. The basic rule of economics is, "There is no free lunch". What they don't pay we have to. I think the core principle of the OWS is FAIRNESS. Everyone is given a fair chance to succeed. To get a slice of the pie. A fair tax code for everyone. Thats all they really want. Keep fighting the good fight OWS. You have more support than you know.
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The way the Top 1% have rigged the system, the less money you make the more percentage of your income you pay in taxes (and fees). This is exactly the opposite of the way it should be and NOW you know what the 99% Movement is all about.
That is why one of the demands of the 99% is to have a truly fair, graduated, progressive tax system without loopholes, subsidies and other tax breaks that only benefit the Top 1%.
Game over for them man!
Resulted in Police Violent Action: Batons, pepper spray, and rubber bullets on citizens?
I am a 68 year old ex Marine.
On TV We See Hilary and Obama Saying.. "US is in Libyia to protect People From Violence for Expressing Democratic Speech."
But Here in America Both Lawyers Do Not Uphold 1st Amendment: "The Right of the People to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
As anyone can see everyday on National TV, local paramilitary police throw young women and men to the ground violently then knee their backs and spines will their full weight, as they lie facedown on street?
Why Do Pres Obama and Sec of State Clinton.....
Not "Defend & Protect he United States Constitution as they Swore"?
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