Are you part of the 53%?

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by JU_88

The top 1 % are not neccesarily evil greedy monsters. look at the charity work of Bill gates for example.
If you offered a person who despise the 1% a chance to join the 1% I doubt many would refuse based on principle.

The wall street protesters are not united in their beliefs, some are just anti captialst jumping on the band wagon, others are lazy freeloaders.
But the 56% are sorley mistaken if thats what they think the protest is about.

Alot of the portesters are genuinely concerned and about the amount of power and influence that has now been aquired by banks and co-operations, and that it had gone too far- which it has.
There is nothing wrong with having a successful enterprise or business. the problem is that many of them are now above the law and are infulencing goverment legistlation with cash - not ballots.

The top banks now have more power, wealth and influence than the US government itself.
Some thing is horribly wrong with that. in any country the Goverment should be at the very top of the heirachy, in America they are not.

They sold you out, the bail outs are proof of this - and now some people are angry.

I like the way you put this.

I just wish we could settle this whole tax debate with everyone pays a flat percentage on their income, period. No deductions, no write offs, no wiggle room. Just 12% comes out and goes to Washington. Then we would all be part of the 99% and no one could say "He isn't doing as much as me" or "I'm doing more than him".

Each man gets one vote, each man should pay the same percentage in taxes.