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Originally Posted by mopek1
Kevin Marx,
I said he wasn't part of the 1% and you said he was.
Maybe he's technically in the 1% with the amount of money he has and maybe you are too but the 1% is about the ultra rich like financial institutions and oil companies who make deals with the government (left or right) to create policy to make them richer and if it fucks over the rest of the population so be it.
So perhaps they should be called the 99.99 percenters but saying 99% makes a neater picture.
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"Ultra rich" would be a characterization just as much as "wealthy" is. Many people would have classified me/us as wealthy, whereas I would not have. I would have considered us as upper middle class...... maybe. Lucky and fortunate more than anything. My next door neighbors are certainly middle class, but live in a similar home and drive similar cars. The other next door neighbor is a lawyer whom I believe does much better than we do. However, we are all pretty much middle class.
I go back to my original thoughts and you actually restated it quite well. Companies, institutions, individuals that make legislation and laws work best for them to "make them richer and ................"
WHY IS OCCUPY NOT PROTESTING AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT???????? The Tea Party pretty much wants smaller government, lower taxes, etc. They want the government to get out of the way of the population, not inject itself more.
I'm not a fan of Michael Moore, but it doesn't mean he and occupy are completely wrong with what they are believing in. I just think they are attacking the wrong snakes is all.
Interesting how the media and government has the protesters protesting against each other at times rather than protesting against the true problem.