I Am Proud My Daughter Participated in the OWS Protest

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Sunday October 02, 2011 · 3:38 PM PDT

2011/10/02 · 15:38

It was interesting to read the news stories about the Wall Street protest today. I have the inside story because my daughter was there. She was on the walkway part of the bridge and watched people get arrested. She said she was a little nervous, that she had never seen so many police at a protest (and she has participated in other marches and protests before). She, like so many other young people, worked hard, went to a good college, and is now working at a low paying job that doesn't require a college degree. But she is grateful to have a job. So many of her friends have been unable to find work or are working for minimum wage. Many are having to work two jobs to make ends meet (and to pay back college loans). What she described and the accounts of the protest I read didn't always match up...I prefer to believe the accounts of someone who was there (my daughter). I am proud of my daughter for participating in the protest. I am proud of young people for standing up. We, the people of the United States have allowed a small minority of oligarchs to hijack our country but we will no longer remain hostage. What does concern me is the lack of coverage by the mainstream media, the suppression of information, and the obvious attempts to shut this movement down. I have been watching the live feed off and on since Day 1. I find it interesting that the news media would cover protests in Egypt 24 hours a day but will barely cover this movement that is going on right here in our own country. We have a right to protest and peacefully assemble. We have the right to "petition the government for a redress of our grievances." The problem we face is how do we get our government to listen? Do we, as regular citizens, have access to our government officials? Has anyone from our government sat down with these young people and addressed their concerns? It seems taking to the streets is the only way people can get their voices heard (and even then they are trying to suppress those voices with a media blackout and a strong authoritarian presence). So if this is what the young people and all of us must do to be heard then so be it...let's take to the streets and let our voices be heard.

Someone I Know Doesn't Like Progressives

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Sunday October 02, 2011 · 6:57 AM PDT

2011/10/02 · 06:57

This blog is about me. I am proud to be a Progressive (not all of the quotes he quotes are written by me).

http://thatsjustwrongonsomanylevels.blogspot.com/

What Justice Brandeis Said About Corporations

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Monday September 26, 2011 · 8:52 AM PDT

2011/09/26 · 08:52

Justice Brandeis was right.

"Through size, corporations, once merely an efficient tool employed by individuals in the conduct of private business have become an institution-an institution which has brought such concentration of economic power that so-called private corporations are sometimes able to dominate the state. The typical business corporation of the last century, owned by a small group of individuals, managed by their owners, and limited in size by their private wealth, is being supplanted by huge concerns in which the lives of tens or hundreds of thousands of employees and the property of tens of hundreds of thousands of investors are subjected, through the corporate mechanism, to the control of a few men. Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power. And, as ownership of the shares is becoming continually more dispersed, the power which formerly accompanied ownership is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few... [and] coincident with the growth of these giant corporations, there has occurred a marked concentration of individual wealth; and that the resulting disparity in incomes is a major cause of the existing depression.Dissent, Liggett Co. v. Lee, 288 U.S. 517 (1933), at 565-67. Justice Louis Brandeis

FED UP WITH THE PLUTOCRACY

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Monday September 19, 2011 · 12:13 PM PDT

2011/09/19 · 12:13

Most people want to work. I see many who can't find a job or are working for minimum wage where I volunteer (and they are coming to get canned goods so they can make it to the end of the month). I was just talking to my daughter this morning...most of her friends where she lives have a college degree and are working low paying jobs or looking for a job. The young people in this nation are getting discouraged. They know who caused this mess but the ones who didn't are paying the price!

The problem with our country is it is a plutocracy...all the money is going to the top and a few elite and corporations are literally writing our laws (see ALEC). There is a protest going on at Wall Street right now but is the corporate media covering it? There are so many of us who know what is going on and if we just all band together we can make a difference and change things.

Corporations are the ones being given welfare. The head CEO of Walmart makes 16,000 an hour but Wal-mart pays its workers a wage that is hard to live on. So, we the taxpayers have to help these people out. We, the taxpayers, are are subsidizing these corporations that are making record profits. These corporations have a big racket going. The welfare state we are creating is because of them...they are using our government and us the taxpayers so they don't have to pay decent wages and give benefits, all the while making TONS OF MONEY and record profits. The banks are what caused the economy to collapse, not the poor or the working middle class. The elite in this country are taking the rest of us for a ride and laughing all the way to the bank.

This myth of people "not wanting to work" has got to stop and we need to acknowledge where the money is being redistributed....AND THAT IS TO THE TOP!

The ones who aren't working want to work but the Republicans in Congress voted down to give incentives to companies that keep jobs here INSTEAD OF GOING OVERSEAS.

Yes, I am FED UP ...with us being a plutocracy.

Justice Brandeis said that you can have wealth in the hands of a few or you can have a democracy but you can't have both. The question is, "Which one do you want?"

Wall Street Protest

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Sunday September 18, 2011 · 9:51 PM PDT

2011/09/18 · 21:51

Please support the Wall Street protestors. Here is the Live feed.http://www.livestream.com/...

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