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View Poll Results: Who do you support: 99% or corporations?
99% 15 55.56%
Corporations 8 29.63%
Neither/Someone else 4 14.81%
Voters: 27. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-05-2011, 10:25 PM
 
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Bringing OWS into this is tangential at best. It is akin to answering a question about white people by specifically and repeatedly referencing the KKK under the guise that they claim to speak for "white people" what ever that means. OWS is a relative small part of the 99%. You just would rather talk about it then the actual question of the who do you support 99% of Americans, corporations, or other.
There was no babble about the 99% until OWS was organized.

Sorry.

You own them.
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:28 PM
 
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There was no babble about the 99% until OWS was organized.

Sorry.

You own them.
Again you seem so anxious to talk about OWS, it is as though you have an obsession with them. I personally think this thread poses a far more interesting question as to the relative value of (large?) corporations and the very wealthy to society versus the rest of the population.
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:29 PM
 
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Again you seem so anxious to talk about OWS, it is as though you have an obsession with them.
No, I want to know who made up "99%"

Who pulled that number out of thin air?

Thoughts?
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:33 PM
 
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No, I want to know who made up "99%"

Who pulled that number out of thin air?

Thoughts?
The 99% are the lowest income/least wealthy 99% of Americans. The reason 99% is used as a symbol, most likely stems from the rapidly increasing gini coefficient of America.
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:33 PM
 
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The 99% are the lowest income/least wealthy 99% of Americans. The reason 99% was taken is likely because of the rapidly increasing gini coefficient of America.
Americans who earn over $343,000 a year are the problem?
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:37 PM
 
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Americans who earn over $343,000 a year are the problem?
No the perceived problem is there is an ever increasing gap between the rich and poor and the American middle class is declining.

As I like to say the quickest road to Communism is a large wealth gap and that is why it is something that should be avoided.
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:38 PM
 
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No the perceived problem is there is an ever increasing gap between the rich and poor and the American middle class is declining.

As I like to say the quickest road to Communism is a large wealth gap.
What government system currently has no wealth gap?
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:42 PM
 
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What government system currently has no wealth gap?
Every system has a wealth gap. The trick is to keep it in a manageable range. The fact is if you get a wealth gap that is to big that is when you start getting Communists and I mean real Communists like the kind they had in Russia and Latin America.
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:43 PM
 
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Every system has a wealth gap. The trick is to keep it in a manageable range. The fact is if you get a wealth gap that is to big that is when you start getting Communists and I mean real Communists like the kind they had in Russia and Latin America.
Yeah, how did those revolutions work out for the underclass? Aren't they still poor?

Who decides what a "manageable range" is?

Government?
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:44 PM
 
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I support people who can best serve other people locally. Corporations out of control are akin to large governments out of control and end up doing no one in the whole society good, much less the people that they initially were formed to cater to.
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