occupier nut jobs: "Get rid of capitalism and everyone will make $115k per year.

The rich are waging class warfare on the poor

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It should be called the 79% versus the top 21%. The top 21% has been stealing money from the poor.

99% is a hyperbole.
 
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The rich are waging class warfare on the poor

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It should be called the 79% versus the top 21%. The top 21% has been stealing money from the poor.

99% is a hyperbole.
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You know, if people would spend the energy they do worrying about the rich, protesting things they have no clue about and ranting in tongues and put that energy into themselves and being productive and successful, then they would be in a much better place.

Obama is doing a good job on two things: 1.) class warfare and 2.) keeping people down and out and on the guberment dole.....why? because he can continue to sell them "hope" for votes. It's the democratic way since the 1950's. All frauds!!
 
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You know, if people would spend the energy they do worrying about the rich, protesting things they have no clue about and ranting in tongues and put that energy into themselves and being productive and successful, then they would be in a much better place.

Obama is doing a good job on two things: 1.) class warfare and 2.) keeping people down and out and on the guberment dole.....why? because he can continue to sell them "hope" for votes. It's the democratic way since the 1950's. All frauds!!
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I like linear extrapolation. By 2070, The poorest 20% will have only 10% of the buying power of the poorest 20% in 1980. Hundred years after the start of supply-side economics, also known as keynesianism on steroids (pls keep spending more money than you have, repubtards!) the grandchilds of grandchils have barely 10% left!
 
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so scary.

we're not a democracy, we're a republic. there's a very big, important difference.
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True. But remember, that point is lost on the "hippies".
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My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters

I would raise the fee on stock transactions to a much higher percentage.
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2. Pay for your own bailouts. A tax of 0.1 percent on all trades of stocks and bonds and a 0.01 percent tax on all trades of derivatives would generate enough revenue to pay us back for the bailouts, and still have plenty left over to fight the deficits the banks claim to be so worried about. It would also deter the endless chase for instant profits through computerized insider-trading schemes like High Frequency Trading, and force Wall Street to go back to the job it's supposed to be doing, i.e., making sober investments in job-creating businesses and watching them grow.

Maybe you both should take a look at who has paid back their TARP loans and who hasn't

http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives...uments105/August 2011 105(a) Report Final.pdf

Seems to me and just about everyone else, WS has repaid most of their loans with interest whereas those failed union enterprises are still very much in arrears.

Maybe add a tax/fee to all the new cars to help them pay for their own bailouts, right?
 
A judge in New York today said there are too many unemployed lawyers and we should create a funding stream to pay them to advocate for the poor.

We are totallly fucked with this pervasive logic.
 
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A judge in New York today said there are too many unemployed lawyers and we should create a funding stream to pay them to advocate for the poor.

We are totallly fucked with this pervasive logic.
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Man, I thought you were full o'sht with this post since, well..., just look at some of your posts, until I found the article:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/aid_to_indigent_lawyers_2ONcIUlgjv06MYsrkXwfVK

New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman convened a special panel last week to find ways to expand services for the poor.

This provided a platform for one of his top lieutenants to advocate for -- are you ready for this? -- poor lawyers.

Or, at least, unemployed lawyers.

Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Michael Coccoma wants to put them all on the public, um, payroll.

With so many law-school grads out of work, Coccoma asked last week, “Why can’t we develop funding streams and programs which would provide an opportunity for these attorneys ... [to provide] legal services for the poor?”Coccoma’s plan would let new grads give a little and get student-loan forgiveness in return. “This is an idea which I believe you should consider recommending to the Legislature to appropriate funding for,” he said.

Actually, it’s an idea that’s a bit of a headscratcher, given the current state of the New York fisc.

And if the new kids at the bar can’t find work, maybe that’s a message from the market: New York has enough lawyers already -- and maybe too many.

According to the American Bar Association, the state’s already lousy with ’em, with more attorneys outright than any other state and double the national per-capita average.

Maybe some should go chase ambulances elsewhere.

Certainly the last thing New Yorkers need is to put them on welfare -- and pay off their student loans to boot.

Lippman -- whose fundamental liberalism was just highlighted in The New York Times -- has yet to meet a tax dollar he’s not hot to spend.

So it’s probably too much to expect him to haul Coccoma up short.

He should, though.

Once again, New York is on its uppers, and talk of new “funding streams” for anything -- let alone paying down young lawyers’ student loans -- is absurd and inappropriate.

So Lippman’s pet projects will simply have to wait. The courts need to come back to Planet Earth.

More on Judge Lippman:

http://exposecorruptcourts.blogspot.com/2011/03/chief-judge-jonathan-lippman-must-step.html
 
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