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Jaws67
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Jaws67 asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 10 years ago

Occupy Wall Street will not work until they hit the target where it counts, in the wallet. Agree or Disagree?

Update:

The first step would be for every supporter of the cause to move ALL of their money and finances to a Credit Union, from the banks.

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  • 10 years ago
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    There is another way to do this. The banks send you letters for credit card applications. Along with those letters are pre posted envelopes. When you send those envelopes back the banks are charged for postage. If you send the envelope back empty it costs the banks money. If you send your junk mail to the banks with these envelopes it costs them more postage. If you put wood shimmys in the envelopes it costs them even more in postage. If you send back roofing shingles in the envelopes it costs them even more. If thousands of people do this it will cost them thousands of dollars in postage fees.

    It’s time to mobilize and aggressively move

    on common sense political reforms.

    We’ve had enough of…

    ■The Two-Party Oligarchy

    ■Big Government

    ■Big Corporate Power

    ■The Concentration of Power

    It’s time to…

    ■Decentralize

    ■Create New Political Parties

    ■Restore the Rule of Law

    The economic top one-tenth of one percent of the global population has launched an economic war on us. They are hoarding $39 Trillion in investible wealth, not counting the vast sums they have hidden in offshore accounts. In the United States, we now have the highest and most severe inequality of wealth in our nation’s history. While there is a record number of American citizens currently living paycheck to paycheck, in debt, unemployed, underemployed, without healthcare, on food stamps and in poverty, as our society is breaking down, global bankers have taken our tax dollars and given themselves all-time record-breaking bonuses. The same people who destroyed our economy have been rewarded with trillions of dollars in national wealth. It is now evident that both political parties and all three branches of government, along with the mainstream corporate media, have been bought off by a global economic elite.

    As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.

    Here’s a general outline of our common ground platform:

    ■Enforce RICO Laws

    ■Break Up the Big Banks

    ■End the Fed

    ■Break Up the Mainstream Media

    ■Shut the Revolving Door

    ■End Closed Door Lobbying

    ■Increase Government Transparency

    ■End Corporate Personhood

    ■Amend Campaign Finance

    ■Verify All Votes

    ■Investigate War Profiteers

    ■Investigate War Crimes

    ■End the Wars

    ■Reopen the 9/11 Investigation

    ■Restore Civil Liberties

    ■Uphold the Constitution

    ■Clean Air, Water & Food

    ■Reduce Healthcare Costs, Profiteering

    ■Make Healthcare a Human Right

    ■Improve Education For All, Reduce Costs

    ■Reform Prison System

    ■Reform Drug Laws

    ■Immigration Reform

    ■Rebuild Infrastructure

    ■Protect Internet Freedom

    ■Empower States’ Rights

    ■End Corporate Welfare

    ■Raise Taxes on Richest 0.1%

    ■Reduce Taxes for 99%

    These are the core common ground issues that we must urgently rally around and support. Unless we organize and take decisive action, we will all suffer the consequences of our collective inaction. Any politician who does not urgently move on these issues must be voted out of office and replaced by people who will aggressively fight on these fronts.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    The OWS movement has worked already, people are talking about it at last so that's a start and the more it grows the more the bankers and politicians will realise their symbiotic and corrupt regime must be ended.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Disagree.

  • 10 years ago

    One of the reason for the protests is that 1% of the people control most of the money right?

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  • 10 years ago

    Disagree.

  • 10 years ago

    it has worked. some are whispering some russian economist be appointed fed chief so that socialistic ideas can be implemented in capitalistic structure

  • 10 years ago

    I think that is correct. I don't know how to do that, but perhaps some economic genius will come up with an answer.

  • Bridge
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Gandhi-like tactics have worked before, and they will work again. It takes time.

  • 10 years ago

    Agreed, it's all about the money.

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