Well, at least it used to mean working. Now it means the political act of protesting the "establishment" which is taken to mean anyone who is self-supporting with a job.
Dumping on Da Neighborhood
Of course, the Canadian version is not quite as sophisticated as your Manhattan slob:
MMMMmmmmmm Is That Nike You've Been Wearing?
At least the Mayor of New York is being positive about his dealing with the situation or at least he promises to be positive at some point in the future as soon as a bit more polling data comes in.
Bloomberg Getting Tougher or More Understanding Soon
Personally, I've contacted a lawyer to bring suit against OWS for defamation of character and slander. I'm clearly not within the wealthiest one percent of Americans and they are implying that I am part of their 99% be default. Of course it's possible that there may be more than 100% in their alternative universe.
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If I were residents of the neighborhood in that first article Id oust the current Board Members and elect someone who would vote to NOT allow those idiots to stay in the park...how can the representatives of the people who live in the neighborhood, ignore the wishes of those people they are supposed to represent and vote to allow the protestors to stay in the park?
Ed
Here is the data on why the 99% are pissed. I'd say since the GOP embraced the Laffer curve the rich have done very well as trickle down was really trickle up and the rich laughed alll the way to the bank while the GOP raked in the campaign donations.
~leadfoot
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1
Once again Lead, you just don't get it. What is mine is mine. I earned it. I don't want what is yours. I am not in the 1%, but I sure as hell am not in their "99".
Laffer says that tax revenue relation to rate causes a curve that intersects zero at two points. At zero rate you get zero revenue. At 100% rate (total confiscation) you again get zero. If your position on the Laffer curve has too high a rate, you get less revenue as you raise the rate. Reduction in rate stimulates economic growth and you increase revenue.
Kennedy did it, Reagan did it, George W. Bush did it. It worked as Laffer said every time. The problem however was that when revenue rose, Congress spent even faster creating debt.
As for campaign donations, do you think that if you take from the rich and distribute to the "99" that they will make campaign contributions? Wanna buy a bridge?
The problem is not that we need higher taxes, we need Congress to stop spending more and more and more on an ever increasing trend. EVEN now when we are hearing of State Bankruptcies...States are STILL increasing their spending. The GOVERNMENT needs to not only stop government growth but CUT..as IN spend less than it did last year for a long while. These things they call cuts are just reductions in increases which is insane.
Ed:
Do you think that Leftfoot works in academia?
I chuckle when people like the vermin in OWS and Leftfoot seem so perplexed by disparity in income and wealth. I believe that we need to arrange a "take a liberal idiot to work with you" year during which they follow successful people around for an entire year and log how they spend their time.
Of course, the liberals will never see the full picture because they would want to arrive a late hour, leave early, keep it to 40 hours a week, and never work nights, weekends, and holidays. In the process, they will by their very deeds demonstrate the difference between those that have and those that have not.
I know and have represented a number of people with money, some with a lot of education, some without beyond high school, some that are pretty illiterate. The one thing that they have in common is that they found something that had financial potential, they assumed risk, and they worked as hard as it took to make it work. They may have failed a few times along the way until they made it. Some of them have failed in recent years with the collapse of real estate and construction.
I heard something one time regarding success that was so simple and so true that one cannot dispute it.
There are two things exclusively within your control that are the largest determinants of your success in life. One is how much you are willing to learn, and the other is how hard you are willing to work.
The trouble with the lower class in this country is that have very little initiative in learning or working and large numbers of them are manifestly unemployable.
@Ed
First you accuse me of being off topic and off the wall. Now you do it. I recall something about leading by example.
The Topic isn't taxation to suppot a welfare state it's "Does giving the rich a tax break lead to job creation. Does it trickle sown" The answer is am emphatic NO. The data is there to prove it
Job creation is what will bring us out of the economic tsunami. When your side of the fence wants to become a part of the solution with an emphasis on job creation instead of being whining about welfare in America will be a better place
Thats what the most of the 99% want, not a handout but jobs that allows Americans who are willing and able to work to live in modest comfort.
Sad that you don't get that
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