A great video summarizing many aspects of OWS featuring two of my newly favorite journalists Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11961 Also, the inevitable rap video in support of OWS. Rappin' wit facts, yall! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOGMJaHHRVs"]MC Moneypenney - Tap Dat A$…
i'm sorry, how did you get that at all from my post? what i'm saying is they get paid better than most (here in england). most here being defined as the bottom line. and while i agree it might take quite a bit of education to teach at a college or university level, a monkey could teach at primary and secondary school…
[greevar i hates u] the real problem why our Capitalism isn't working at the moment is because the federal reserve creates artificial Interest Rates. This makes the market run on speculative spending. Meaning the market will sky rocket up and plummet all within a week. That is artificial growth. the main culprit is…
The raw income tax rate is higher, however there are more loopholes the rich can avail themselves of than the poor can. I'll give you 2 guesses who bought and paid for those loop holes. The majority of their money comes from investments not "income" as in pay checks. So while their pay check might be taxed at 35% that…
Not ALL corporations are evil, the vast majority do not make illegal choices, it's not worth the risk for most. But some choices they make are just plain socially/morally wrong. But don't generalize all of them as evil. Even Haliburton was once started by "one" guy and his wife, with good innovative ideas. I'm sure he…
So I've been lurking for a long period of time and decided to activate my profile here. Funny that I'm doing it via Occupy Wall Street. But you know what? That basically just proves greevar is correct in talking it out through forums. It got me to come on here to talk about this movement and continue to read everyone's…
Damn, Chomsky owns every single time. I got to see him in person recently on his visit to Iceland. The world is going to be a poorer place upon his passing. From his latest article (just an excerpt) this chunk is highly relevant to this discussion, but the full thing is great too.…