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Re: Occupy Wall Street demonstrators write to bankers - Oct. 28, 2011

Really20 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:04:59 -0000

You are a complete idi*t my friend. Social safety nets are necessary so at least the poor have a stake in the capitalist system, if we let them get trampled underfoot then it is called facism, not a free market.

Many of these bankers never deserved what they eventually earned. They just gamed the system, rather than working with in it, in order to amass their fabulous wealth. To them, the law was a mere nuisance, not something to be heeded and obeyed.

And now you want people working as apple-pickers. You have truly no respect for human life, just as the majority of the ultra-ultra-ultra rich do not. People who have worked hard in order to improve their state, under capitalism, should be rewarded with a better job and a better life. Plus, even if they are going to pick apples, they deserve basic human benefits so they can improve their life at some point.

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Really20 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:00:58 -0000

If you try to block the streets without specific permission, it is illegal. Just because the bankers hate it they will lobby for a stupid reason to deny the protest application.

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Really20 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:59:44 -0000

Fabulous self-description!

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NathanS — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:13:48 -0000

What you have not heard? college or university however you label it is a scam, a government racket. More people come out of graduation worse off then better. It makes you wonder, are the ones we label hobos, and bums truly more enlightened then the rest of us as they see society for the illusion it is and choose to not partake in that illusion/society.

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LetsGetFacts — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:14:20 -0000

Start real change! You can make a difference!

---L e t s G e t T h e F a c t s S t r a i g h t . c o m

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Guest — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:33:56 -0000

@importracr31,
show your real face, so when we need to "dig a ditch" near you, we will throw you in.

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Guest — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:31:18 -0000

@importracr31,

yo idiot,
It is the harvard and yale economy graduates who created this mess. Someone with an elementary education can't do much worse.

Re: Occupy Wall Street demonstrators write to bankers - Oct. 28, 2011

importracr31 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:57:59 -0000

They had a pro-bono attorney write it for them I'm sure. Although he probably had a tough time deciphering what they were attempting to say between the "tax", "rich", "bad", "teaparty", "free", "equality" and other mindless nonsense these sh!tsacks like to spew.

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importracr31 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:55:57 -0000

That's it - that's the spirit. You are DEFINITELY above that kind of work aren't you. My goodness. We need to cut entitlement programs outright so idiots like bikberbob61 actually have to go hungry if they don't work. Maybe then people will realize you have to earn it - it's not free. Rich people are rich BECAUSE THEY FRIGGIN' WORKED FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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importracr31 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:53:20 -0000

LOL. Bunch of unemployed bums asking for attention from a guy who has no time for them. It's hilarious. Who do these people think they are? they're nobodies. Clueless, undesirable, unemployable, useless ditch diggers that contribute nothing and add no value to society. Little more than paramecium mindless drones that need to be forcefully removed. I have news for the OWS tools - have fun flipping my burgers losers because until you understand that no one is going to give it to you, basic labor is about all you're good for.

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docjcpearson — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:10:58 -0000

i'm going to assume you haven't gone to college in quite a few years or paid for anyone elses college lately. if you can make that much without a college degree then whats the point of going to college.

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docjcpearson — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:56:24 -0000

their are many corporations that don't pay any taxes either. i'm willing to bet that if you were to analyze how much money the government spends for protecting, governance, oversight, infrastructure, etc for "free markets" to occur it would be much higher than what this 50% gets from the government. here's the problem: the paying 49% of Americans (OWS people) pay for both groups, and that group is getting smaller by the day.

The amount the corporations and top 1% are paying is getting smaller and smaller all the time yet their benefits provided by the goverment for these entities to operate in the USA is expanding more and more all the time.

I'm all for "free markets", but with free markets comes a greater responsiblity for a government to protect its citizens, hence larger government. i don't speak for OWS but i get their point, these corporations and top 1% utilize just as much or more of the governments money and pay for less of it then what the paying 49% of americans get from being a US citizen

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Erykthedead — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:31:30 -0000

@ehurly said

"If I was in debt after earning a college degree, why would I settle for picking apples for $150 a day, or working in a farmer's field?"

Isn't the real question why wouldn't you? Is $18.75 a hour a bad wage, or is "that kind of work" below a college graduate? Or maybe it's beneath the current generation to do manual labor? Just wondering.

Seems like the more we hear from OWS the more it becomes about "getting" the rich people and less about equity issues, the few we hear talking about corporate influence in government sound a LOT like the tea party. I guess we can trust them just about as far.

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sony2005 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:09:01 -0000

they bought Wachovia and kept many of the executives involved in the scandal. However, i do agree they are not as culpable. Should fire the wachovia executives.

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JConry — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:08:26 -0000

How is "unlawful assembly" even possible!? "Congress shall make no law.."!

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cmcle — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:26:09 -0000

For tax year 2009, 47% of households paid no FEDERAL INCOME taxes. Those households consisted of retired people living on social security, unemployed people, and people with incomes low enough so that their exemptions and deductions exceeded their incomes, leaving them with no FEDERAL INCOME tax liability. The working poor DID PAY -- PAYROLL TAXES, STATE and LOCAL INCOME TAXES, SALES TAXES, etc.

In summary, while the poorest among us might pay no federal income tax, the taxes they do pay consume a larger percent of their income than the taxes paid by a large proportion of the wealthy -- Warren Buffett's argument for the wealthy to pay more taxes. Incidentally, a recent survey reported by the Wall Street Journal (Oct. 21, 2011) found that 68% of millionaires favor raising taxes on millionaires.

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erikmartin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:32:11 -0000

Just what are the claiming Wells Fargo did wrong? They had nothing to do with mortgage securities.

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BlacDynamite — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:49:47 -0000

Power to The People. No delay!
Make everybody see, in order to Fight The Powers that be!

- Chuck D. Public Enemy
BD

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Mick2011 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:13:20 -0000

You're right we couldn't do it overnight, it would probably take at least a week.

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moeller1 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:11:24 -0000

The letters were coherent, unlike your grammar....You are THE target viewer for Fox News. Perhaps my 3rd grade son could spell check for you before you post.

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moeller1 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:58:06 -0000

At some point the line became blurred between corporations taking care of their employee's and corporations doing whatever it takes to drive earnings, which in turn, drives their stock and executive compensation, which in turn, drives them to hurt the many so a few can prosper. That is backwards. If stock options are the quickest way to amass wealth, why doesn't EVERY publicly traded company give EVERY employee stock? Because executives feel THEY do all the heavy lifting, so they get the lions share of the reward. If all non-executive employee's walked off the job at any publicly traded corporation, the corporation would crumble. They can not outsource EVERYTHING. They can not retrain EVERYONE overnight and it would prove that ALL jobs within an organization are critical to the success, not just the c-suite. Instead of occupy Wall Street, folks should organize folks to walk off the job and see how that spooks executives. It would send a very strong message and wake some folks up.

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BarneyBeer — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:45:01 -0000

Assuming that your 50% is correct, how many of them are retirees? How many are children? How many are people that are not able to work? How many of them do not have jobs? How many of their incomes are below the poverty line? Do you honestly think that they are the problem?

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BarneyBeer — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:42:03 -0000

I think you meant "were" instead of "where."

Before you assume that the people that disagree with you politically are stupid, you might want to actually get out there and meet some of the people rather than taking the word of the pundits who are so eager to paint them as a bunch of unwashed, ignorant hippies. It's possible that those same people that want to turn you against the 99% are actually the same people that profit the most from keeping you ignorant.

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131811 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:41:43 -0000

and the penalties that are foisted on all entities, businesses and individuals, by governmental units locally, statewide and federally.

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131811 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:38:10 -0000

payroll taxes are always taken. maybe even pays your social security