Yes! Currently – the US is the most unequal nation in the developed world - like the Ivory Coast, Ethiopia and Pakistan.
63%
No! Republican will win the war on the middle class.
38%
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The majority of the American middle class will vote against its own best interests. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-05/the-real-u-s-map-a-country-of-r...
Up until a few weeks ago, I didn't think we would. But now my faith in humanity is beginning to be restored.
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Yes, the "99%" of America will 'listen'. Will they -be- =able= to =do= anything (significant) about it? =THAT= is the important question! And, frankly, without some -serious- 'blood in the streets', I doubt it. Why? Because entirely too many "people" have been deliberately -and- =willingly= turned into "sheeple". Sorry, but that's how I see it .. at present.
I am so disappointed in my fellow Americans at times, what is wrong with us. We are a nation of people that put their very lives on the table to run the English off this rock. And then fought to build this Great Nation. They not only put their lives on the table in a life or death bet, but the lives of their wives and children as well. They not only did it gladly, but because they had NO choice. They were being straved out by a bunch of greedy pigs. Now we find ourselves facing the same exact situation, and what do I see in the answers on this poll, NO the Greedy pigs are going to win. Bull, not as long as I am alive and can pick up a rock, we the people are going to run the 1%ers off this rock again. And then we are going to set up some factories, and start building the items we need for ourselves. By the people, and for the people. And thats that. Are you going to fight for your families, or let a measely 1% beat you. What a bunch of wimps. Shame on you. Bet, fold, or get away from the table.
I am heartened by the growing protests in this country and I have been waiting for years for it since I've seen it coming for a very long time. Unfortunately, we have way too many who are only listening to corporate media who tell either outright lies or so distort the truth that I am as yet uncertain as to the outcome in next year's election. I will pray for the whole truth to come between now and then and that President Obama will continue to lash out and stand up for the 99% against the incredible odds he is facing. The alternative is unthinkable not only for this country, but the people everywhere who are standing up against oppression and greed.
First, it should be be made clear that insatiable personal profligacy of the American "middle class" consumers resulted in their becoming what should be more accurately referred to as the indentured class — the banks own them, like indentured servants, because they spent wildly beyond their means... they spent as mindlessly as they voted.
The last thing any sane and sensible person should want is a strong "middle class" resurgence. The American "middle class" over consuming consumer of annual mountains of unnecessary disposable stuff has been the prime factor accelerating global climate change — a climate change that can and will (if not immediately seriously mitigated) make the Earth unfit for human habitation (extinction sooner, rather than later). Are liberals so obsessed with their own comforts and so depraved that they do not care if their children have a future?
People who need to work for a living, but consider themselves to be "middle class" rather than working class, are people who consciously or subconsciously aspire (like lottery players) to become members of the ruling class that they envy and admire. That's why they vote for the corporate party's (R) & (D) gangsters, rather than for working class representing real person non-corporate candidates.
There is a class war, and everyone who has voted for the corporate party's Republicans and Democrats has waged class war against the working class, with every (R) or (D) vote they cast.
What's needed for our children's survival is an ecologically sustainable economy — **NOT** economic growth!
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There are about 10,000 stock companies on the New York, American and Nasdaq markets. Each company has from 4 to 20 Excessively Compensated officers. Last time I checked, the average (yes average) CEO pay was above 5 million dollars per year. This pay includes stock options, bonuses and standard salary. It does not include various perquisites (perks). The president of the United States receives a million or less and some perks. Now, who has a more important and total involvement job than the president? How do these officers get their salaries etc? Theoretically by merit, but in general, through a system of cronyism and mutual back scratching by board members. So how do their salaries affect the American People? They do so by the company having to charge more for their individual products in order to show a proper profit. How much does this cost the average American Family? Well, 10,000 companies times 30 million in excess pay equals 300 Billion Dollars, divided by 100 million American Families equals $3000 per family per year, or stated the way the government does, $30,000 every 10 years. Or over an average family life time; $150,000. And if invested at an average return of 5%, about $400,000. This is more than twice the amount of an average families savings.Question: If this excess salary was divvied out to the people who would spend it, wouldn't that create more jobs?PS Having been an investor for some 45 years, I was dismayed with the disparity 40 years ago and wrote letters to the SEC about it. They did nothing. And probably couldn't.
If people would switch from Fox news, they could find out a wealth of information. Or, at least watch another station too. Check everyone out. See what others have to say. Like Laurence O' Donnell or Chris Matthews on MSNBC.
The American people have the wool pulled over their eyes, but with the Wall street march/protest, etc. peoples' eyes are opening. You won't hear that on Fox. All you hear is that the Wall Street protestors are filthy uneducated people. Talk radio hosts on KFI in Los Angeles are saying that these people are crazy. This is in addition to Rush. What a shame--- and O'Reilly says that you get fair and balanced on Fox and that they don't lie. I look in on O' Reilly just to see what he has to say for the day, and he INTERRUPTS and TALKS OVER WITH HIS LOUD ----NAH---anyone whose opinion differs.
And how many people even pay attention to what the IMF says?
I don't know anyone who watches the news or listens to talk radio. My mother used to ask my father who to vote for.