Remember the 99ers?
Remember the unemployed who had been unemployed for more than 99 weeks, losing unemployment benefits, losing access to health care, losing their homes, being booted out into the streets by the banksters, the market, Congress, President Obama, because all of those high up folks did not give a damn about them.
President Obama did not mention the 99ers when he made his speech about his proposed new jobs creation bill. But that bill contains within it the provision to reauthorize the soon-to-expire unemployment extensions for the long-term unemployed. With the economic future looking bleak, Congress may be faced with a dilemma: Reauthorize or create more 99ers.
http://www.huliq.com/...
In the meantime, the 99ers have morphed into the 99 percent and, because they didn't have a job, they've taken up an occupation, an occupation of Wall Street, of Seattle, of Chicago, of Raleigh, of San Antonio, of Los Angeles and various other points around the United States and around the world, and merged with jobless young people who had high hopes of their higher education, of returning Afghanistan and Iraqi war vets who find themselves also jobless and hopeless.
And Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia is having a royal hissyfit and Wall Street is in a panic:
It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
We are all the 99%.
We are all Anonymous.
We are all legion.
We will never forget.
We will not forgive.
Expect us.
Bankster Footnote:
October 11, 2011 8:06 pm
Banks fail to trim bonuses in pay packages
By Megan Murphy in London
Top earners at some of the world’s biggest banks are still taking home as much as 96 per cent of their pay in the form of an annual bonus, calling into question banks’ claims that stricter pay regulations have reduced their flexibility on costs.
The Financial Stability Board, a Basel-based committee of regulators and bankers, on Tuesday issued its second report card on the progress international banks have made in implementing a number of new pay practices endorsed by the Group of 20 nations in 2009.
http://www.ft.com/...