I am the 1%

I pay for irresponsible breeding.
I pay for coercive and forced schooling/indoctrination.
I pay for bailouts.
I pay for illegal wars overseas.
I pay for leaches.
I pay for shitty police.
I pay for prison camps.
I pay for public speakers.
I pay for being responsible

I am the 1%.

Let us have the same privileges and opportunities as you and we'll help pay.

>>2
Let us have the same privileges and opportunities as you and we'll help pay.
I i had the same opportunities i wouldent be paying for bailouts would i?

Also what you want is theoretically impossible, maybe in some totalitarian utopia but not in the real world.

>>3
Ok so you manage a business that actually performs an economically productive activity and you pay for the bailouts of the top 0.01% who work in the financial sector whom are the real cause of all these problems.

Why not point this out instead of hating on the 99%?

>>4
Because when they spout "END CAPITALISM" they want to take my livelihood from me in addition to all the other things im forced to pay.

>I pay for irresponsible breeding.
Probably has a wife, an ex-wife and a mistress
>I pay for coercive and forced schooling/indoctrination.
Translation: They don't teach what I want them to teach
>I pay for bailouts.
Either took a bailout or benefited from a bailout
>I pay for illegal wars overseas.
Benefits financially from military contractors
>I pay for leaches.
Others do the work and I profit from it.
>I pay for shitty police.
Some cop gave me a traffic ticket.
>I pay for prison camps.
Yet I scream about foreign aggressors and the need for a huge defense department
>I pay for public speakers.
Who stroke my ego and tell me that the country's troubles are everybody else's fault
>I pay for being responsible
I shouldn't be criticized for being selfish.

>I am the 1%
He is the 1%

>>6
I am clutching at straws and making things up.

>>5
Let me rephrase.

You have 2 options which have 2 effects.

Option 1: Hate on the 99%.
Effect: antagonize the 99%, make yourself feel a little better

Option 2: Inform the 99% the real problem is the top 0.01%.
Effect: Accomplish an actual political goal, gain integrity.

>>8
Option 1: Hate on the 99%.
Effect: antagonize the 99%, make yourself feel a little better
its not really the 99% more like 60%-70%
Kinda hard not to antagonize people who want MORE STATE CONTROL most who's only justification comes from a misunderstanding of how the state works.

Option 2: Inform the 99% the real problem is the top 0.01%.
Effect: Accomplish an actual political goal, gain integrity.
Heh Ive tried myself and as soon as i say i have a different opinion on 1 thing they go off screaming, its not pretty. I cant work with intolerant people.

>>6
Look at the little strawman, aww so cute.
 
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>>10
Look at the Rove-ite.  Aww, so child-like.

I REFUSE TO TAKE ANY KIND OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DECISIONS I HAVE MADE IN LIFE. I EXPECT EVERYONE ELSE TO BAIL ME OUT BECAUSE I AM AN UTTER LOSER. I AM THE 99%.

SInce when were they actually a 99% of anything. More likely they are at least 70%.

The whole 99% bullshit is just properganda

>>13
Other way, 99.99% would be more correct.

>>14
Nah, just propaganda. The whole lets suddenly forget what businesses are thing was pretty pointless.

Classic class warfare mantra.

>>15
>Classic class warfare mantra
Classic Karl Rove mantra

>>16
Then I'd have to say Karl Rove is a honest man if that was his mantra.

gb2/your ows hotel suite

The Declaration of Desperation

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a People to occupy the streets of wealth and to assemble on the lawn of power, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the demonstration.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all People are equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Peoples, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not change for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that people are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to sacrifice their Liberty, their Security, and their pursuit of Happiness for the benefit of a select few, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to set aside daily concerns and demonstrate their grievances, and to demand, and to ensure, the renewal of their Government, which only then may provide sufficient Guard for their Future. –Such has been the patient sufferance of the American People; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their System of Government. The history of the present Government and Social Order is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, constant deception, corruption, and cronyism, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Plutocracy over this Nation. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

The Supreme Court has consistently ruled against the Rights of Citizens in favor of the rights of corporations.

The Supreme Court has given so-called “citizenship” to corporations.

The Supreme Court has removed all restraints from the corrupting influence of private and corporate wealth in the Political Process, thus allowing a select group of persons and corporations to buy Politicians and hold near total control over the domestic and foreign policies of Government.

The Congress has consistently failed to act in the interest of the Nation.

The Congress now acts only in the interests of the wealthiest persons and corporations.

The Congress has enabled the consolidation of Mass Media.

The Congress has deregulated the financial sector, thus precipitating the Great Recession and putting the Nation in danger of a second Great Depression.

The Congress has failed to respond to the Great Recession with substantial financial regulation reform.

The Congress allows former Government Officials to find employment in the industries they once regulated.

The Congress gave billions of dollars to the very Financial Institutions which caused the Great Recession, without requiring any reform of those institutions.

The Congress has repeatedly and significantly lowered tax rates for the wealthiest persons and corporations.

The Congress has enabled the gross redistribution of wealth into the hands of the top 1%.

The Congress has failed to take the necessary measures to reinvigorate the national economy.

The Congress has failed to take any substantial measures to preserve the Middle Class, or to help the Lower Class.

The Congress has allowed the public education system to deteriorate and to fail to adequately prepare Students for employment and their Duties as Citizens.

The Congress has so neglected higher education that Students must endure usury and indenture themselves for education.

The President is either incapable or unwilling to lead:

He neglected to reform financial regulations when he first came into office and had sufficient political capital.

The Criminals of Wall Street have not been arrested, tried, and imprisoned for perpetrating the Fraud which so devastated the world economy and wreaked such havoc on the lives of Americans.

Corporations plunder Our seas, ravage Our coasts,  burn Our towns, and destroy the lives of Our People, without fear of commensurate retribution.

The Press fails to address the real issues.

The Press neglects even the most basic investigative journalism.

The Press propagates trivial distractions which deflect attention from the real issues.

The Press is guilty of aiding and abetting Politicians in the deception and manipulation of the American People.

The Press is now little more than the propaganda network of the wealthiest persons and the largest corporations.

The top 1% possesses 40% of America’s wealth.

156 million Americans, half the Nation, posses 2.5% of America’s wealth.

3.5 million Americans are homeless.

14 million Americans do not have jobs.

46.2 million Americans endure lives of poverty.

52 million Americans go hungry.

A Government, whose character thus condemns millions of men, women, and children to lives of desperate poverty and unwarranted hunger, while ordaining a wealthy few to live lives of unprecedented opulence, is unfit to be government of any people.

In every stage of these Injustices We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury:

We have not been wanting in Our observation of Our Representatives. We have condemned them from time to time for their failures to represent Our Interests, but Our voice remains unheeded. The Politicians reserve no lie to garner Our votes. They shamelessly neglect their campaign promises, and only realize those favors promised for the highest bribe. They have proven themselves unworthy of Our confidence. Worthy candidates cannot be heard over the babbling voices of those Whores of Wall Street and their incestuous bride, the Press. The two-party political system is broken: We no longer enjoy the luxury of electing representatives who represent Our Common Interests and Values, and are now resigned to just vote against those Politicians We most fear. The Political Process is no longer responsive to Our Will. For the Politicians have formed to themselves an interest separate from the Interest of their Constituents. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity of nonviolent direct action, and hold them, as We held their royal forbearer, in contempt.

We, therefore, the People of the United States of America, Assembled, in General Outrage, appealing to the supreme judgement of the world for the rectitude of Our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of this Nation and its Founding Principles, solemnly publish and declare, That these United States must be, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent of Corruption, of Greed, of gross Inequality, and that Government must cease to be a Plutocracy; and that We, as the Citizens of these United States, reaffirm Our Sovereign Right and Power to consent to Government, and to revoke Our consent; and We here resolve that this Nation will have a new birth of Democracy–and that government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall again prevail across the earth. — And for the support of this Declaration, We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.

We are the 99%.

fuck you and your money.pig

OWS became the FAIL. Now they have special no-rape tents and delousing centers. Acorn  FTW!

>When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a People to occupy the streets of wealth and to assemble on the lawn of power,

Strange, they don't seem to be marching into Washington DC. Maybe they should use their IPads to find it?

>The Supreme Court has given so-called “citizenship” to corporations.

Contact your local Senators and Congressman instead of going to OWS. Get a job and off welfare. Vote. Make friends. Repeat the message instead of spamming meaningless political crap that doesn't even mean anything.

Or you could use bombs and political assassinations....

OWS gets worse by the day. Murders, rapes, drugs, lice, and random diseases.

Dear fascists Obama fags, please get your fucking act together.

It's time for #opG.Sachs

i heard people in ows were shouting about constitutional rights. that's not how it works. they should be explaining how if it's still in effect their protest can't be shut down by any government level. you know, since it's supposed to be this supreme mandate (however messed up it is) to every official institution in the nation.

that said i've seen more conflict at ows than at the teaparty. we're talking about intimidation, burglary, assaults. at other occupy events we've heard about rape and murder. this is also why you've lost.

i've also heard people (like cenk) say that bloomberg is doing this because he's chosen the bankers side. didn't he always favor them?

we've seen pro-obama supporters in this movement. it could also be that he, especially as a mayor, doesn't want more of a federal take over. i say this because more and more of his critics are calling him a thug that lusts for absolute city power.

if your case is for nation-wide socialism, that may work in some aspects with the local state and more better at the community level but the aggressive powers that be in washington d.c. don't know what's best for such a gigantic layout of a countryland. even ron shmall has admitted to this flaw with federalism.

when i saw jay-z, kanye west, and russel simmons in the first weeks supporting this thing i became very concerned. let's not pretend this isn't going to turn out any different than the new teaparty. so many already powerful groups and people are still getting away with playing the rest of us as fools!