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March on Wall Street Draws 31,000, Media Largely Ignores it
Posted Sat, 05/01/2010 - 09:21 by chuck
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Washington, D.C.
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Read this excellent diary on Thursday's march on Wall Street, sponsored by the AFL-CIO.
It's amazing that a few dozen knuckleheads turn out for a "tea party" and it's all over TV for a week. 31,000 march for social justice and you hear barely a peep about it. Tells you everything you need to know about who owns the media and what their agenda is.
Anyway, it's time to take the bailout money back from Wall Street. It's time to take away their multi-million-dollar bonuses. It's time to make them work for a living and do something productive (i.e., invest in real enterprises) instead of engaging in the ridiculous shell games they play, to the great detriment of the overall health and well being of our society. Nice to see some people in the streets trying to effect that change. It won't happen if we don't make it happen.
One funny thing that happened during the rally was that the banker dudes were yelling at the marchers, "Get a job!" Yeah, we'd love to except you took all the money so now real businesses don't have it. (We thought you guys were supposed to be smart about this stuff. Sheesh.)That's what a lot of people don't get about this economic situation: It is a direct result of the massive transfer of wealth upward over the past 15 years.
Nobody wants to prevent people from getting rich, so long as they get rich honestly, by adding some value to the world. The thing is, the wealth pie is finite. When you transfer wealth upward by lowering taxes on the richest, ballooning the deficit to pay for for-profit wars and for-profit prisons, it means there is less wealth available in the general economy, less money for people to use on things like new cars, haircuts, lunches, clothes, etc. Money can be thought of as blood -- it needs to flow through all parts of the economy. If it all rushes to the brain (Wall Street), the organism dies. So let's save the organism (and the brain) by letting the blood flow to other parts of the body that need it.
Anyway, the march was a good thing. Wish I could have attended.
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Comments
Shaking My Head
I had no idea that 31,000 people marched on Wall Street. It's unbelievable to me that the media ignored this.
What did you do, count heir
What did you do, count heir legs and divide by 2? You biased propagandering buttwipes couldn't tell the truth if your life depended on it. Fuck off, you assholes. You're ruining the country.
LOL!
Are you serious?
"Count their legs and divide by two..." ummm, yeah, because that would inflate the count! LOL! LOL~!
Semi-literate morons who can't grasp third grade arithmetic are in no position to make valid statements about who's ruining the country.
The march was over a year ago, but a solid argument could be made that the target of the march (Wall Street crooks) are the ones who are ruining the country.
When life hands you sh*t, make fertilizer.