Wow, what a loss that would be, a protest free of hypocrisy, hate, and bigotry.
Robertson: Christians Should Not Join Occupy Wall Street
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Quote: Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
English-American, Literary Critic, Journalist, Author,
Essayist, Polemicist, and Outspoken Anti-theist
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
Thomas Jefferson: On Christianity
New numbers: Income for top 1 percent skyrocketed over last 30 years
As the chart at right shows, between 1979 and 2007, the share of after-tax income going to each of the bottom four income quintiles–the bottom 80 percent–has dropped. The only quintile that has increased its share is the top 20 percent. And the top 1 percent has more than doubled its share
. . . The Occupy Wall Street movement has made inequality [emphasis added] a key focus of its protests, and has used the slogan, “We are the 99 percent.”
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Newt Gingrich Says No Atheists in the White House
This man, and the others in his presence, is an idiot!
Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture” On How Such Great Income/Wealth Inequality Came to Be
Watch from time-hack 13:50 – 20:15
Bennett, Robertson Fear Matriarchy
Purveyors of Bigotry Alert!
A MUST-SEE for everyone in America who’s got any questions about what OWS is really all about.
How Inequality Has Soared in the US
If you want to get some idea of why the 99 per cent movement has attracted so much support in the US, just take a look at this graph. Over the last thirty years, the share of income taken by the top 1 per cent of Americans has risen from 10 per cent to 23.5 per cent . . . As you’ll notice, from the 1950s onwards, income distribution in the US remained broadly stable until the Thatcher-Reagan revolution. The neoliberal policies pursued by the Reagan administration – tax cuts for the wealthy (the top rate of tax was reduced from 50 per cent to 28 per cent), deregulation and privatisation, led to a dramatic rise in inequality.
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