"Not Part of the 99%"? Youre Fooling Yourself. "I'm not part of the 99%. " That's the catch-phrase of a counter-protest that misunderstands the entire nature of the Occupy movement. Buying the lies that 99% activists are just a bunch of unemployed hippies looking for handouts, people like the following young student trumpet their work-ethics, and chide the rest of us for not being them. Parodying the various signs held by Occupy demonstrators, this picture epitomizes a view that misses the entire point of the protests. "The 99%" does not refer to people who want handouts; it refers to the people who pay the larger share of taxes, work the longer amount of hours, do the harder degree of work, and yet continually have our pay, jobs, health, environment and economy endangered or destroyed by the other 1%. * Having her pay or job cut so that her CEO can get a pay raise. * Losing her job or the company she works for to a badly-played gamble by one or more of her bosses. * Any combination of the above.
The Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It « Urban Farm Collective. Wheat was a case in point. North America, the Saudi Arabia of cereal, sends nearly half its wheat production overseas, and an obscure syndicate known as the Minneapolis Grain Exchange remains the supreme price-setter for the continent’s most widely exported wheat, a high-protein variety called hard red spring. Other varieties of wheat make cake and cookies, but only hard red spring makes bread. Its price informs the cost of virtually every loaf on earth.
As far as most people who eat bread were concerned, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange had done a pretty good job: for more than a century the real price of wheat had steadily declined. Nothing had changed about the wheat, but something had changed about the wheat market. “It’s absolutely mind-boggling,” one grain trader told the Wall Street Journal. “We have never seen anything like this before,” Jeff Voge, chairman of the Kansas City Board of Trade, told the Washington Post. Then, like all speculative bubbles, the food bubble popped. 13 Staggering Facts About The Global Super Rich. The world economy may still be in the doldrums, but global wealth continues to grow, hitting an all-time high this year of $231 trillion, according to a new global wealth report from Credit Suisse. And more than ever, that figure is concentrated at the top of the pile. A mere 0.5% of the world's population owns an eye-popping 38.5% of its total wealth.
As protests against the "1%" continue to rage on in downtown Manhattan and cities across the globe, we're taking a look at how wealth is distributed and which countries are increasing their share of the world's richest people. The charts are from Credit Suisse's 2011 Global Wealth Report. Click here to download the full report. A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and... If You Hate Taxes . . . Found at the excellent blog What Would Jack Do? : If you’re a conservative who hates taxes, please do the following. The fact is, we pay for the lifestyle we expect. Without taxes, our lifestyles would be totally different and much harder.
America would be a third world country. “I like to pay taxes. Link to original post. Did the Founding Fathers really work tirelessly to end slavery? N.
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