Thia Ain't Good

I guess we (the 99%) need to get over being a commodity to them, like their toilet paper. We exist to facilitate their sh!tty habits, only to be flushed down the toilet with their turds when they're done with us.

 

Funny how I just mentioned on that other thread about "the writing is on the wall", and the value of our "legal tender. If history repeats itself (it usually does), all great empires must fall. We stopped going up hill a ways back.

 

the only solution for the future.. move to the land down under, i can hunt and eat kangaroo, a country boy will survive. also be shreding mad west coast aussy waves. i hope move there one day but who knows they might be losing theyre civil liberties as well. its getting hard man, i dont like the way american society is going.

 

I'm glad that I lived in the USA when I did. Truly has been The Golden Era. Now, though, it's a slippery slope & we're sliding down at an accelerating pace. Hastened by our good friends in Beijing, whom we've enriched over the years with our idiot fair trade agreements as well as shipping our technology over there so they could sell it back to us.

Soon, overall tax rates at 60% to protect the professional pols & their incompetence. Our kids taking Chinese language classes for 'the global marketplace.' Our bi-partisan 'leaders' have cut our nuts off for the past 40 years.

The piper always gets paid.

 

There were sightings & reputable reports of Anglo men (read: USA POW's) working under closely-supervised slave labor conditions on the North Korean shipping docks for many years after The Korean War ended. So much for the myth of our elected arsewipes bringing our boys home.

I think of that situation every time I see the POW/MIA symbol.

 

That article was from sept 12 2012

 

women roar / men thunder

i SO agree. u going; i might join ya…….i have the east coast covered, not so much
south and west coast…..in sydney they like american men (the ladies do; i mean)...

 

Maybe if everyone in the swellinfo community puts their money together, we could buy a small island in the south pacific, and we could start our own democracy. We call it The Republic of Swellinfo. The currency is in wave priority.

But, of course, you can't talk about anything you want, or you might get banned off the island - J/K!!!

 

You might be on to something here.

 

Since we know your intellectually honest maybe you should also thank your senator for VA Beach having the lowest income inequality in the U.S. Of note as well, 70% of the states (and the district) with the lowest income inequality between the 1% and 99% are in Red States:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-best-states-for-the-99-percent-EPI-report-193329822.html

 

Let's all be honest, the millionaires/billionaires on both ends of the political spectrum really don't give 2 sh1ts about the poor and middle class.

 

probably not, but without them your tax base and a large part of the economy on which the poor and middle class depends is facked.

 

Wow, this thread pops up just as I have been reading about the decline of the Western Roman Empire. It rotted from within which allowed migrating peoples (not calling them barbarians because they were not) to infiltrate and remove it's social, economic, and political structures. Visigoths and Lombards were cool dudes.

 

If you spread the wealth around via wages instead of handouts then the taxable base in the economy would be much more robust. Pay the middle class more and you have more wages to tax. The problem with trickle down econ is the 1%ers are very adept at finding ways to reclassify their "income" in ways that don't get taxed.

Manager makes 50k and taxes go up 1% he has to cough up $500 more dollars
CEO makes $1mil and taxes go up 1% he has to cough up $10,000
What situation has more blowback for the politicians? Who has better access to the politicians?

If a CEO only gets 15 million of the payroll pie instead of the usual 20 million that leaves enough $ to give 500 managers a $10,000 raise which will definitely have a much greater impact in your community than whatever the CEO would've done with the extra 5 mil.

That goes against all of my libertarian leanings but I don't see any other way out of this mess.

 

And so its not breaking news and the US dollar hasn't crashed since then and is in fact up from where the US index was in that article. And these issues were covered extensively by financial journos at the time from the wall st journal, new york times et al. So I just don't quite get the post, since that article made it seem like it was breaking news of an imminent US currency collapse... Having said that there are serious financial issues regarding how we trade with china, our debt, oil and the global economic community at large but that article didn't seem to want to dissect those serious issues in a serious way even back in sept 2012, nevermind feb 2014.

 

occupy wall street

when i was involved with the ows movement i learned that were bill gates to forfeit
his annual compensation 80K people could instead have a job making $1000 p/week.