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Why is that important to you?
Get that forum going....
Why is that important to you?
...not quite....
Political forum is exploding...I'm simply thinking of expanding...so to say...
Why are you still posting here dan when you could be making the big bucks on your website?
How much money are you making off it?How much money will you make off it?I'm simply thinking of expanding...so to say...
It's not about the cash...and it's certainly not about 'visions of graduer' either.....
Nbuhdan's talents are clearly being wasted here. He should be out making the big bucks, and exposing the American government's lies on a fancy new website.
There are plenty of websites which already do that....my site will be unique, proprietary and perpetual..
...and you know what I'm gonna do...I'm gonna give it all away....
Does that piss you off?
That makes me furious!
Anyway...gotta run....remember ....halloween.....
watch out...
What a stupid child.
Maybe that guy with the fractured skull was hit by a protestors rock?
You're an idiot.
All this is pretty simple really..
Has America Become an Oligarchy?
The Second Gilded Age...
LinkStill, statistics indicate that the growing disparity is genuinely overwhelming. In fact, the 400 wealthiest Americans now own more than the "lower" 150 million Americans put together.
Nearly two-thirds of net private assets are concentrated in the hands of 5 percent of Americans. In comparison, the upper 5 percent of Germany hold less than half of net assets. In 2009 alone, at the same time as the US was being convulsed by mass layoffs, the number of millionaires in the country skyrocketed.
Indeed, if you look at the reports it compiles on every country in the world, even the CIA has concluded that wealth disparity is greater in the US than in Tunisia or Egypt.
A New 'Gilded Age'
In a book published in 2010, American political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson discuss how this "hyperconcentration of economic gains at the top" also existed in the United States in the early 20th century, when industrial magnates -- such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan -- dominated the upper stratum of society and held the country firmly in their grip for years.
Writer Mark Twain coined the phrase "the Gilded Age" to describe that period of rapid growth, a time when the dazzling exterior of American life actually concealed mass unemployment, poverty and a society ripped in two.
Economists and political scientists believe the US has entered a new Gilded Age, a period of systematic inequality dominated by a new class of super-rich. The only difference is that, this time around, the super-rich are hedge fund managers and financial magnates instead of oil and rail barons.
A Threat to the World Economy
The academics fear this change could have serious consequences for the country's economic future. As they see it, this extreme inequality threatens to dramatically slow growth in the world's largest economy. This is part of a development, they argue, that has been under way for years but remained largely hidden in the years of cheap credit, rising real estate prices and excessive consumption -- when it seemed everyone was on the way up. And the problems only came to light with the arrival of the financial crisis.
Through the 1970s, income for Americans across all social classes rose nearly in lockstep, by an annual average of roughly 3 percent. Starting in the 1980s, however, this trend underwent a fundamental transformation. Granted, the economy continued to grow -- but almost exclusively to the benefit of the country's top earners. The major economic expansion under President Ronald Reagan benefited only a few, and the problem only grew worse under George W. Bush.
At least since the beginning of the millennium, it has no longer been a simple matter of two societal extremes drifting further apart. Instead, the development is also accelerating. In the years of economic growth between 2002 and 2007, 65 percent of the income gains went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers. Likewise, although the productivity of the US economy has increased considerably since the beginning of the millennium, most Americans haven't benefited from it, with average annual incomes falling by more than 10 percent, to $49,909 (€35,184).
A more pertinent question would be.......WHEN did America become an Oligarchy.
I was tempted to claim that happened during the Reagan Administration, but we DID have an Opposition Party during that time. It just wasn't very effective.
Looks like the action is in San Diego tonight...arrests of peaceful protestors have been taking place all day and now this...
Looks like a mob of people on the move again
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupysandiego
Reports are that over 1000+ people are headed (marching) to the San Diego civic center where arrests have been taking place all day...police are arresting anyone who sits down or lays down...
absolutely no M$M....yeah, coincidink...
Maybe the M$M sees no interest in a bunch of lame brain protesting.
Yeah, 1000's of people are marching through downtown, many getting arrested and the M$M doesn't give a ....very telling...
Riot police ready to crack head in San Diego
http://www.occupystream.com/
Dude. Be more stupidly obvious in your trolling. You are not nearly as clever as you think you are, and it's really ing pathetic.
Last edited by Cry Havoc; 10-29-2011 at 12:50 AM.
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