Ford must have used his connections to get him the vice chairman position at BOA. This is after he lost his run for the Senate here in Tennessee. He was already in bed with the lobbyists while a Congressman. So instead of becoming a lobbyist himself, he ends up a vice chairman at BOA.
3% of your reps "support and defend the US Constituion" 100% of the time in the 112th Congress: S Myrick NC, Ron Paul TX, P Roe TN, B Posey FL, C Mack FL, T McClintock CA, R Labrador ID, T Huelskamp KS, T Johnson IL, W Jones NC, A Harris MD, T Graves GA, John Duncan, JR TN, Jeffery Duncan SC, J Campbell CA, J Chaffetz UT, J Amash MI, Rand Paul KY -Freedom Index-8/8/11 sans those who voted FOR NDAA RON PAUL 2012 restore America
Enjoy your cushy job at BOA while it lasts, Harold. BOA's customers will continue to move their money away from them until they can no longer pay for your 'services'....because of Occupy. Have fun trying to ignore them, Mr. Ford.
I think that if we replace public schools with more private schools, get rid of the minimum wage and let jobs pay whatever, get rid of unions, public health insurance, social security, etc. we could fix a lot of the financial problems that the u.s. has and make the country better for it overall.
It would go a lot quicker if we segregate all schools in America to weed out the poor and the rich. At least the Koch Bros are trying to do that. Hopefully when the time comes, the corporations will eventually dissolve the U.S. Constitution and replace democracy with a plutocracy.
Do you liberals realize what can happen now that we are 15 trillion in debt? If our defisite spending (2 trillion) becomes 50% of our GDP, we cannot recover. No nation in history ever has. Then we go into national bankruptcy because of hyperinflation. Cant happen? Look at Germany in 1920's and 30's...boiling grass to eat, cause money was worthless. Look at Brazil when it happend to them. You dont realize the riots and kaos if our dollar crashes. Liberals dont even care! JUST SPEND MORE
@calimar28 Just spend more? That is the classic republican line. You don't get away with that lie. No, I'm not defending "liberals". Liberal is usually a meaningless epithet used to bash anyone who likes more liberty and justice for more people as opposed to assholes who want more power for corporations. If 15 Trillion fed debt is bad then how bad is 80 trillion consumer debt? or 700 trillions in OTC's? or a stock market jacked up by investment banks even more than that? Love that deregulation!
@calimar28 Liberals aren't behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and never have been. In 2000, conservatives rallied to move their representatives to support Bush in his call to go to war with Iraq. Those wars cost much more than all the entitlement programs combined.
I want SS left alone! In fact, SS could be raised to meet current standards. But Medicare..man, the goverment should of never...well, we are stuck with it now. I say of we cut everything else I talked about, plus reduced non-essintal stuff like 1.5 million immigrants (cut that back to 250,000 a year), and get illegals out (giving jobs back to Americans), we might be able to balance the budget and keep Medicare too. I would be ok with that.
See, the govt created Freddie Fannie, and had no buisness getting involved in home moragages. Now they own about half of Americas deeds. Dodd and Frank made it so banks couldnt refuse loans to the poor, so the banks sold the bad paper to Wall Street...I dont blame them! Another govt intervention, caused the recession. See what happens when govt gets involved? They got involved with education (loans) and now college went up 400%! Same with healthcare...it went up probebly 1000%!
@calimar28 A flat tax will never pass. Even a majority of Republicans favor higher taxes on millionaires, not lower. About 80% of Democrats favor that too. A flat tax that Cain and Perry are talking about will be a HUGE tax cut for the richest Americans. Taxes may not go up, but you can forget about any more cuts.
@ypsidan04 No, you can forget about the current tax code. No republican can win the primary without a flat tax plan, you'll see. Romney has only 25% of the republicans...and it is all he can get. When it is down to just one other canidate, all the teaparty will throw their support to that other canidate, which is 65%. Whoever it is, can easily beat Obama, who has lost ALL of the independant voters. Yes, a flat tax is coming.
It's ok. Ignore Occupy Wall Street peaceful protesters. Then wait for the economic collapse which is surely coming...Then you'll wish for the peaceful protesters.
@calimar28 I'd be happy to join you in the 53% but only if Millionaires and Billionaires get their taxes raised along with mine. Republicans are mostly for not taxing anyone, even the middle class. I'd rather tax everyone, including myself. Our effective taxes are as low as they've been in a very long time, and we have huge debt and our infrastructure is falling apart. Coincidence? I don't think so.
I saw Harold Ford's picture on the thumbnail, and I was like "That doesn't make sense." I thought he was better than this. I've always liked him, and went to a speech of his last year. Money talks I guess.
Ford is even more uncle tom than obama... they both went to the white side... Ferengy looking muddaskunt! Get him some more Gold pressed latinum before he has to sell your kids to labor!
Im also in the 53% of people who pay taxes. Many of you are the other 47% that dont. As a 53%'er, Im saying we will throw out all liberals next year and fill congress and the white house with conservatives that will fix this shitty tax code.
@calimar28 unfortunately, you do not understand that you support people that caused this economic mess. They have successfully turned you against your fellow citizens and convinced you that the top 1% need more tax breaks. Without jobs, your fellow citizens cannot pay taxes and you, for some reason, feel the rich should not pay their fair share. I feel what I am saying is falling on deaf ears, as you are convinced of your position due to the propaganda you are exposed to.
@UserAccountDenied The top 1% getting breaks or not getting breaks doesnt mean ANYTHING. At best that means 100 billion a year. We are 15 trillion in debt, know what that means? Soon there will be a dollar collapse. If that happens you will see REAL riot in the streets. The goverment (spends 4 trillion a year) adds 2 trillion to that debt now each year. The answer: STOP SPENDING! The govt has to cut spending 50% just to not add more to the debt...but they wont even talk about that.
@UserAccountDenied What is a "fair share?" Thats what has us baffled...how do you liberal know what a "fair share" is? Is it 36%? or 49%? Could it be 39.6%? What about 54.3%? TELL ME WHAT A FAIR SHARE EVEN IS?
Only a flat tax will work anymore. The people demand it, so shall it be.
@calimar28 You're missled. The 47% that you say "Don't pay taxes" someone has misled you. That 47% pays state tax, payroll tax, gas tax, sales tax and any other kind of tax.
Income tax is only 44% of the governments revenue. Payroll tax makes up 42% and is only applicable to the first 100,000 you make in payroll. That means if you make more than 100,000 that won't get payroll tax. And if you're like warren buffet you pay 0 payroll tax.
@CarlosIsDown The 47% pay no income tax. Therefore, they should have no right to vote for federal politicians, like congress and president. Unless they have skin in the game, they shouldnt vote. I am the 53%. The 53% want to see the 47% pay THEIR FAIR SHARE.
@calimar28 Ok. I completely agree with you. Lets tax them at .01% (Too much imho).
Plus, if they own vehicles they pay the federal gas tax, so if they have a receipt from that year from a gas pump, then they can vote.
In all seriousness they pay no income tax because their income is so miniscule. To tax them would probably kill jobs (because people with low income already spend most of it). Why are you crying about taxing people with no money, while people w/ millions get off scott free?
@CarlosIsDown Because MOSt people pay their taxes. Most rich do too. Only a few rich get away "scott free". It's not like all the rich dont pay anything. Most people over 200,000 per year (which is not rich), pay 36% which is HORRENDOUS.
The poor must pay something...they have to have SOME skin in the game to vote, dont you agree? You really think that people who pay no federal taxes should be able to vote for federal officials?
@calimar28 yes. Why would you give preference to Income Tax. It's only 44% of the governments revenues. The 47% are still paying payroll tax.
Plus, if they're not going to vote in federal elections, then they shouldn't be eligeble to be drafted in war, they shouldn't qualify for the military, they shouldnt have to pay federal excise gas tax. What problems are you even trying to solve with getting these people not to vote?
@CarlosIsDown Because Payroll tax only covers SS, which everyone pays into. But Federal tax pays for everything else federal. So, if they pay no federal tax, then they should have no federal vote.
Gas tax? Are you serious? That goes for interstate hwys. So they should only be able to vote for a dept of highway and transportation official.
If the 47 get to vote and not pay any federal income tax, then we 53% should not have to pay any either.
@CarlosIsDown ANother thing...arent you liberals ashamed that we are up to 47% not paying taxes? It was 30% in the 80's, up to 39% 10 years ago...now up to 47%. When will you liberals be happy? When it is up to 60%? 80%? It is collectivism which is causing this.
@calimar28 I AM ashamed that people not paying income taxes has gone up. The super rich and neocons should be even MORE ashamed that they're letting people fall behind. There's less people paying those taxes because wages have stagnated and more and more people are making less and less.
@CarlosIsDown And making the rich pay even more than 36% will help...how? How does it help to have govt steal even more from people? Ok, lets say the rich is raised to 39.6% again, like you want. Close the loopholes too. Ok, that is about what, 100 billion a year in extra revenue? This goverment overspends by 2 TRILLION a year now! That is 20 100 billions! So raising the taxes on the rich will do what, besides make a philisophical point? When will you libs talk about cutting spending by 50%?
@calimar28 Did I say no to spending cuts? Spending cuts won't do crap about the economy either. When taxes were around 90% for the top bracket no one paid that because they'd rather reinvest instead of pay that, AND NO ONE IS ADVOCATING ANY KIND OF TAX RATE OF 90% or even 50%. Corporations are sitting on 2 trillion dollars of capital instead.
@CarlosIsDown Oh, so now your saying what? That raising to 39.6% tax on the rich isnt enough? Now you also want to do what...steal their 2 trillion they have in other countrys? How do you suppose you have the right to do that?
@CarlosIsDown Spending cuts won do crap about the economy? Well, it might start paying down the debt...which means inflation goes away...which means you'll be able to buy much more with your dollar. It also means we can avert a meltdown of the dollar. National Bankruptcy. Then you will see food riots in the streets if that happened.
@CarlosIsDown You dont say no to spending cuts? Good, lets chat. We can save about 800 billion a year on the military by pulling out of most of the countries we are in. That plus the 39.6% hike, still means we are still 1.2 trillion a year OVER budget. Where shall we begin cutting? Dept of education? (79 billion a year) Dept of Energy? (39 billion) Medicare? (1 trillion), Dept of health and human services? Where should we cut?
@calimar28 Are you fucking kidding me? Those are my only choices? I don't have a problem with making some of those more efficient, but Dept of Education? ARe schools are shitty enough, if cuts are there, they have to come from making them more effective and efficient (which will probably take more money at first). Same goes for Medicare. And all we're gong to do is pull out of all these countries? What about the 66+ billion we gave to Lockheed Martin? AND they'll get 24million more so that cont.
@calimar28 jets won't asphyxiate our pilots. That's just ONE of the many contractors that suck the US Govts money. Answer me this, conservatives seem to love to point to programs that are meant to uplift the poor (ed., soc sec, medicare-aid) yet contractors are KING of waste.
And what about the benis and salary that our elected officials get? We can agree that we should reduce some of those, right? Oh shit, you got me talking about the fckn deficit you cheeky fellow. Reducing it won't even help
@CarlosIsDown Yes, lets reduce salaries, I agree. But of ALL govt workers. Contractors are part of the 1.2 trillion in military spending, I agree. And the govt wants to appear to "help the poor', which is not their job. ANd when they do "help", it always HURTS the poor and everyone else. 15 trillion in debt...how much more can we take? Stop listning to the turks propoganda...his liberal system stinks. It is what got us here, as both Repub and Dem presidents supported these liberal ideas.
@CarlosIsDown It has been suggested that liberals WANT us to go bankrupt and crash the system, so we can start over with a communist system. I dont buy it really. I think liberals just dont realize the extreme danger their policies have put us in.
@CarlosIsDown Dept of education = huge waste. It is not needed. Local schools pay for 92% of their education, the govt stepped in with the dept of education and took the other 8%. It wasnt needed. Schools have gotton WORSE with the dept of education. Pulling out of all the countries = big savings and not so many contracts with Lockheed. We can disove Freddie/Fannie, that will save 150 billion a year. Stop all foriegn aid, that saves 100 billion. There are many places to cut...but WE MUST CUT.
@calimar28 Also, they do have skin in the game. Did you completely ignore the part where everyone making payroll from $1 - $100,000 pays the regressive payroll taxes (which makes up 42% of federal govt. income). I'd say the 47% have MASSIVE skin in the game when guys like Perry propose getting rid of social security.
For the typical worker, you get paid(your incentive) when you go to work. You get paid AFTER working. You do not get paid in advance. SO, hey, "Job Creators" if you want your TAX breaks, that you claim WILL create jobs with tax breaks.. CREATE the jobs, THEN youll get your tax breaks. Weve given these clowns AN INCREDIBLE amount of tax breaks with Republicans telling us that the "Job Creators" will help get the economy back on track with these tax breaks. Theyve SCAMMED us long enough.
Here is an idea. If all of these organizations/individuals that are incredibly rich, are truly "Job Creators" why dont we hold these "Job Creators" to the same standard that the typical American Worker is held to. Tie EVERY tax break for the top tier of individual earners and corporations to the jobs they create. If our scumbag politicians want to show that they are not mindless, spineless shills for their OWNERS.. AKA, the "Job Creators" they would come up with something like this.
occupy vancouver: natives that are just loitering white people, with dreadlocks and most probably live a decidedly poor existance and feel no shame bumming money and cigarettes. the balance was white self-satisfied busybody women frantically moving around the compound advertising that she is very involved in the "movement" punky looking liberals from kits were laughing and eating the communal goulash with bread (burgers wouldnt be cheaper fyi) (:
If people can't see what is really going on BLIND is just an understatement. The banks own and control sooo much of our political system, democracy is nothing but a word now, just a word and nothing else. Repugs and Dems eat out of the same trough.
Buying U.S.politicians is the "best bang" for your corporate buck.. (smh). Look beyond " tea party" sitting in congress via protest, threatening budget cuts & lifting regulations in favor of the corporations.., Harold Ford's resume' speaks before he does for now on... It's the reason Washington DC cant get anything but corporate & bankers business done...
If these corporations have already paid taxes in those offshore companies, then should they be taxed a second time? Is double taxation fair?
I am aware that these corporation use all sorts of accounting tricks to avoid paying any taxes at all... But if they have actually paid, then, IMO, they should not pay a second time...
@gauharjk You forget these corporations donate money to politicians. Should a company that pays taxes in another country be allowed to participate in the electoral process/buy us politicians? Bc its clear they shouldn't
Guess what? Wall St has become our congressman, our senators, our sheriff, our grocery store owners, pharmacist even our president... Evidently tax dollars/tax payer services has been classified "COMSUMPTION and/or PROFIT" by Wall St standards...
The biggest problem that the US has is the lawmakers appear to be very cheap to buy.
Pfizer spent 25-50 million in 2010 on lobbying. I am speculating maybe counting every country this might blow out to 100 milion.
They have revenues of 67 billions dollars. So they spent less the 0.1% lobbying, and you are suprised?
Also you do realise that shareholders are people who spend money? buy houses? paying out shareholders with repatriated funds cannot be worse then keeping money overseas.
This former h.ford guy is a prime example of another paid politico that claims the republicans are out of touch when in fact he has no clue of the very things he himself tries to represent.
The only thing he understands are lights, camera and action... politico style... pure propaganda
Harold Ford, Jr. willing to say or do anything to be the house n!*ger at Bank of America. And this guy calls himself a Democrat. What a joke! This guy is bought and paid for. No credibility. Cancel him on all TV news shows.
I used to like Harold Ford. I thought he was a true Democrat. I see he is a traitor and a money-grubbing ass; no better than the republicans. Money has corrupted so many people, it's hard to trust who really cares about the average citizen.
Harold Ford was never a true democrat,anyone who follows politics knows this!..and he is not a ''traitor;; since he never really was a democrat...i really hate people like you who are easily manipulated by politicians.
Ford's views have not changed much in recent years,he was a piece of shit before,and he is a piece of shit now!
@theultimaterockr Where are the facts wrong? Usually when someone makes an accusation, they have something to back it up. Oh, and something more than just your opinion or Republican spewed "facts" that have no basis in reality, please.
If ass-gerbils cured cancer, the Republicans would ban gerbils and we would have to get them on the black market. Too bad your lack of universal healthcare which is handy when the gerbils won't come out. Limbaugh's gerbil is damn near dead.
I stopped liking Harold Ford back when in 2007 he didn't defend Imus after all the support Imus had given him. Ford is clearly a stereotypical politician that should be out of a job.
@doughboycod2 agree. Harold Ford is embodies everything that is wrong with the Democratic party. He loses elections because he is exactly like the Republican with a D after his name, plus you really can't trust him. As you said he turned his back on his supporter and he will turn his back only for money.
Prediction: if Wolf-PAC gets up and they successfully stop corps like Pfizer and Merck from buying politicians, Cannabis will be legal, or at least decriminalised, in most states, if not federally, within 2-3 years.
MAYBE WE SHOULD BLOW UP BA BRANCHES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. DO IT AT NIGHT SO NO ONE IS INJURED.PERHAPS SOMEONE COULD POST HOME ADDRESSES OF BANK OWNERS AND EXECUTIVES. I SUGGEST BURNING THEIR HOMES.....WHILE OCCUPIED.
Solidarity and burning american flags are good, but we need a leader to rise up in the protests, lead us to burning down the white house. Then, we can make this leader our Czar or our new POST-REVOLUTION nation!
Jesus christ, I'm so tired of hearing about how we're getting fucked over by large corporations and the gov't. I am starting to lose hope that there's anything that can be done to change this fucked up "democracy." I love Occupy but what the fuck can it accomplish? None of the fuckers who benefit from the way things are, are ever going to change things. They control the money and the government. How in the hell, exactly, do you overcome THAT?
@tuber123asd The only way Occupy Wall Street is going to succeed is if people like YOU join them in their fight.
The American people can not sit there on their asses and wait for things to just sort themselves out. They need to DO something! Fight back, goddamnit!
@GrowTheTruth I just don't see any scenario in which the "99%" wins. They will not change the laws. They will not overwhelm the gov't with armed revoluion. They will not outspend the lobbyists. They will not gain the type of access corporate leaders have to policy makers. Throughout history it's always been a war between the haves and the havenots, but "the haves" have never been in a more dominant position than they are now. It really is hopeless.
@tuber123asd The 99% wins by refusing to give their obedience. The 1% can't control the People when the 99% have no intention of being controlled.
That's why you stand against them. Their money is worthless if the rest of us don't play their game. Their media is useless if the rest of us aren't buying it. Their power is non-existant if we refuse to allow it to have power over us.
@GrowTheTruth The problem becomes one of logistics, and the obvious advantages of concentrated power reveal themselves when you analyze things. Think about what Goldman Sachs must do to mobilize themselves -- hold a board meeting. Think about what the citizenry must do to mobilize themselves. Which is more efficient? Americans cannot afford to strike, or quit, or abandon money. And the people DO buy into the media. You have to realize most of the 99% aren't smart. All of the 1% are.
@tuber123asd The elite have got a whole lot to loose. Revolution comes when the people look at what they have and realize that they've really got nothing left but their freedom, liberty and their future of their children to lose. When that day comes, finding a way to survive and get through this together becomes a primary goal.
Yes, there are a lot of uneducated 99%, but that should be all the more reason to educate ourselves and others! The elite are doomed to fail, regardless.
@tuber123asd I hope so too. In the end, when your children look back at this and ask you what you did...wouldn't you want to be able to tell them that you were standing with the world and fighting back?
@GrowTheTruth I guess trying to give someone a compliment and respect even in the face of an honest disagreement in this day and age is impossible. I did not disrespect you or put you down. You say I need to grow a backbone but your lack of maturity is disappointing. Also your comment implies that I lack courage. However my argument was based on observations, not fear. What is the point of trying to have a conversation online? No wonder why people resort to "fuck off" and call it a day.
@tuber123asd I posted that comment to you over 50 minutes ago pertaining to your negativity.
And, yes, your cynacism sounds like you're ready to just roll over and die without a fight. Your argument is most definently based out of fear. The protesters have no fear of those in the 1%, which is why they're out there protesting.
My point is that, instead of sitting online complaining about how fucked America is, why not go down swinging?
Hell yeah ! Think Marcellus ( pulp fiction ) Imma get me a coupla hard hittin niggas to go to work on these corporate asses ! You hear me talkin hillbilly corpo robots ? Imma get medieaval on ya asses !
@tuber123asd With WOLF-PAC. They're trying to circumvent the elites and host a national convention. If this is successful, corporate money will be removed from the system.
I'm thankful I've stayed with my credit union for years and not have to deal with the shit banks, like Bank of America, are doing. This dumbass is a huge disgrace to say that about OW. What a sell out.
My father's old neighborhood is in his old district. Frankly, as a Black person, I think that they are better off with the congressman, a White guy, that they have now. Thurgood Marshall said it best. A black snake is just like a white snake. They both bite. I am not surprised by the words or actions of former Congressman Ford.
Anyone seen how the GOP is painting Obama as not Pro-Israel enough? Umm... How exactly is that true? How has Obama done anything that wasn't entirely in Israel's favor, aside from some rhetoric here and there that they need to chill out?
Harold Ford Jr. is everything that is wrong with politics. A complete sell-out. Poster boy for failed corporate Democrats that deserve to be forever booted from the party. Glad he's out (for now). Hate this guy.
Ford must have used his connections to get him the vice chairman position at BOA. This is after he lost his run for the Senate here in Tennessee. He was already in bed with the lobbyists while a Congressman. So instead of becoming a lobbyist himself, he ends up a vice chairman at BOA.
josephc28 2 weeks ago
ford sucks...
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Enjoy your cushy job at BOA while it lasts, Harold. BOA's customers will continue to move their money away from them until they can no longer pay for your 'services'....because of Occupy. Have fun trying to ignore them, Mr. Ford.
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MrLegendman3 3 months ago
I think that if we replace public schools with more private schools, get rid of the minimum wage and let jobs pay whatever, get rid of unions, public health insurance, social security, etc. we could fix a lot of the financial problems that the u.s. has and make the country better for it overall.
kyleh616 3 months ago
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It would go a lot quicker if we segregate all schools in America to weed out the poor and the rich. At least the Koch Bros are trying to do that. Hopefully when the time comes, the corporations will eventually dissolve the U.S. Constitution and replace democracy with a plutocracy.
NaziGOPBallmer 3 months ago
the top 1% are the only people in the u.s. that are worth a damn. I say give them everything they ask for.
kyleh616 3 months ago
5% of 1 trillion is more tha 35% of 0.......
DevastatorsPissed1 3 months ago
986 likes and 9 dislikes equals 99% people vs 1% selfish elite.
EMAN360ELITE 3 months ago 2
Do you liberals realize what can happen now that we are 15 trillion in debt? If our defisite spending (2 trillion) becomes 50% of our GDP, we cannot recover. No nation in history ever has. Then we go into national bankruptcy because of hyperinflation. Cant happen? Look at Germany in 1920's and 30's...boiling grass to eat, cause money was worthless. Look at Brazil when it happend to them. You dont realize the riots and kaos if our dollar crashes. Liberals dont even care! JUST SPEND MORE
calimar28 3 months ago
@calimar28 Just spend more? That is the classic republican line. You don't get away with that lie. No, I'm not defending "liberals". Liberal is usually a meaningless epithet used to bash anyone who likes more liberty and justice for more people as opposed to assholes who want more power for corporations. If 15 Trillion fed debt is bad then how bad is 80 trillion consumer debt? or 700 trillions in OTC's? or a stock market jacked up by investment banks even more than that? Love that deregulation!
hamnose 3 months ago
@calimar28 Awful, take a lap.
seriousguynogames3 3 months ago
@calimar28 All valid points. I'm still trying to find out what exactly 'defisite' spending is.
jaydojmedic1 3 months ago
@calimar28 Liberals aren't behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and never have been. In 2000, conservatives rallied to move their representatives to support Bush in his call to go to war with Iraq. Those wars cost much more than all the entitlement programs combined.
duggtuber 3 months ago
I want SS left alone! In fact, SS could be raised to meet current standards. But Medicare..man, the goverment should of never...well, we are stuck with it now. I say of we cut everything else I talked about, plus reduced non-essintal stuff like 1.5 million immigrants (cut that back to 250,000 a year), and get illegals out (giving jobs back to Americans), we might be able to balance the budget and keep Medicare too. I would be ok with that.
calimar28 3 months ago
See, the govt created Freddie Fannie, and had no buisness getting involved in home moragages. Now they own about half of Americas deeds. Dodd and Frank made it so banks couldnt refuse loans to the poor, so the banks sold the bad paper to Wall Street...I dont blame them! Another govt intervention, caused the recession. See what happens when govt gets involved? They got involved with education (loans) and now college went up 400%! Same with healthcare...it went up probebly 1000%!
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How is Anything going to change in 2012?
Obama , Romney represent the same people. Wall street cannot lose in this election no matter who wins
OCCUPY is America's last chance to turn the tide or America will be left behind by the rest of the developing world
P.S dont believe for a second when Democrats say they are on the side of the occupiers
indaks007 3 months ago
@calimar28 A flat tax will never pass. Even a majority of Republicans favor higher taxes on millionaires, not lower. About 80% of Democrats favor that too. A flat tax that Cain and Perry are talking about will be a HUGE tax cut for the richest Americans. Taxes may not go up, but you can forget about any more cuts.
ypsidan04 4 months ago
@ypsidan04 No, you can forget about the current tax code. No republican can win the primary without a flat tax plan, you'll see. Romney has only 25% of the republicans...and it is all he can get. When it is down to just one other canidate, all the teaparty will throw their support to that other canidate, which is 65%. Whoever it is, can easily beat Obama, who has lost ALL of the independant voters. Yes, a flat tax is coming.
calimar28 4 months ago
-1 for harold ford
SempeVeritas 4 months ago
Obama is a crook, I wouldn't vote for that cunt if my life depended it... .
simgadraco2005 4 months ago
Both sides are bought corporates own them all, hooked into everything, do your homework it all there for you.
charlespontoon 4 months ago
It's ok. Ignore Occupy Wall Street peaceful protesters. Then wait for the economic collapse which is surely coming...Then you'll wish for the peaceful protesters.
beastshawnee 4 months ago
.... I want to smash my hp computer now!
Gr4yW0rld 4 months ago
@calimar28 I'd be happy to join you in the 53% but only if Millionaires and Billionaires get their taxes raised along with mine. Republicans are mostly for not taxing anyone, even the middle class. I'd rather tax everyone, including myself. Our effective taxes are as low as they've been in a very long time, and we have huge debt and our infrastructure is falling apart. Coincidence? I don't think so.
ypsidan04 4 months ago
@ypsidan04 a 9% flat tax sounds good to me. Make it 12%, if you must. No deductions or loopholes for ANYONE. Anything more than that, is ridiculous.
Goverment must learn to live within boundries.
calimar28 4 months ago
I saw Harold Ford's picture on the thumbnail, and I was like "That doesn't make sense." I thought he was better than this. I've always liked him, and went to a speech of his last year. Money talks I guess.
ypsidan04 4 months ago
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this guy is a idiot
e2bert 4 months ago
Ford is even more uncle tom than obama... they both went to the white side... Ferengy looking muddaskunt! Get him some more Gold pressed latinum before he has to sell your kids to labor!
hectorreyesLIVE 4 months ago
1% own the police...
UserAccountDenied 4 months ago
@UserAccountDenied Im in ther 99%...and none of you represent me.
Im also in the 53% of people who pay taxes. Many of you are the other 47% that dont. As a 53%'er, Im saying we will throw out all liberals next year and fill congress and the white house with conservatives that will fix this shitty tax code.
I am the 53%
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 unfortunately, you do not understand that you support people that caused this economic mess. They have successfully turned you against your fellow citizens and convinced you that the top 1% need more tax breaks. Without jobs, your fellow citizens cannot pay taxes and you, for some reason, feel the rich should not pay their fair share. I feel what I am saying is falling on deaf ears, as you are convinced of your position due to the propaganda you are exposed to.
UserAccountDenied 4 months ago
@UserAccountDenied The top 1% getting breaks or not getting breaks doesnt mean ANYTHING. At best that means 100 billion a year. We are 15 trillion in debt, know what that means? Soon there will be a dollar collapse. If that happens you will see REAL riot in the streets. The goverment (spends 4 trillion a year) adds 2 trillion to that debt now each year. The answer: STOP SPENDING! The govt has to cut spending 50% just to not add more to the debt...but they wont even talk about that.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 your republican buddies raised the debt the most.. check out wikipedia "National debt by U.S. presidential terms".
UserAccountDenied 4 months ago
@UserAccountDenied Im no friend of the last several republican presidents either.
calimar28 4 months ago
@UserAccountDenied What is a "fair share?" Thats what has us baffled...how do you liberal know what a "fair share" is? Is it 36%? or 49%? Could it be 39.6%? What about 54.3%? TELL ME WHAT A FAIR SHARE EVEN IS?
Only a flat tax will work anymore. The people demand it, so shall it be.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 You're missled. The 47% that you say "Don't pay taxes" someone has misled you. That 47% pays state tax, payroll tax, gas tax, sales tax and any other kind of tax.
Income tax is only 44% of the governments revenue. Payroll tax makes up 42% and is only applicable to the first 100,000 you make in payroll. That means if you make more than 100,000 that won't get payroll tax. And if you're like warren buffet you pay 0 payroll tax.
CarlosIsDown 4 months ago
@CarlosIsDown do a youtube search for "Top 1% Doubled Income In Last 30 Years - CBO Report"
UserAccountDenied 4 months ago
@CarlosIsDown The 47% pay no income tax. Therefore, they should have no right to vote for federal politicians, like congress and president. Unless they have skin in the game, they shouldnt vote. I am the 53%. The 53% want to see the 47% pay THEIR FAIR SHARE.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Ok. I completely agree with you. Lets tax them at .01% (Too much imho).
Plus, if they own vehicles they pay the federal gas tax, so if they have a receipt from that year from a gas pump, then they can vote.
In all seriousness they pay no income tax because their income is so miniscule. To tax them would probably kill jobs (because people with low income already spend most of it). Why are you crying about taxing people with no money, while people w/ millions get off scott free?
CarlosIsDown 4 months ago
@CarlosIsDown Because MOSt people pay their taxes. Most rich do too. Only a few rich get away "scott free". It's not like all the rich dont pay anything. Most people over 200,000 per year (which is not rich), pay 36% which is HORRENDOUS.
The poor must pay something...they have to have SOME skin in the game to vote, dont you agree? You really think that people who pay no federal taxes should be able to vote for federal officials?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 yes. Why would you give preference to Income Tax. It's only 44% of the governments revenues. The 47% are still paying payroll tax.
Plus, if they're not going to vote in federal elections, then they shouldn't be eligeble to be drafted in war, they shouldn't qualify for the military, they shouldnt have to pay federal excise gas tax. What problems are you even trying to solve with getting these people not to vote?
CarlosIsDown 4 months ago
@CarlosIsDown Because Payroll tax only covers SS, which everyone pays into. But Federal tax pays for everything else federal. So, if they pay no federal tax, then they should have no federal vote.
Gas tax? Are you serious? That goes for interstate hwys. So they should only be able to vote for a dept of highway and transportation official.
If the 47 get to vote and not pay any federal income tax, then we 53% should not have to pay any either.
calimar28 4 months ago
@CarlosIsDown ANother thing...arent you liberals ashamed that we are up to 47% not paying taxes? It was 30% in the 80's, up to 39% 10 years ago...now up to 47%. When will you liberals be happy? When it is up to 60%? 80%? It is collectivism which is causing this.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Hey, it'll be 90% soon with these goat fucking rich raping the country.
robertmike57 4 months ago
@robertmike57 Oh stop crying and go get a job ya bum
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 why? you need a blow job?
robertmike57 4 months ago
@robertmike57 Oh is that what you do for money?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 I AM ashamed that people not paying income taxes has gone up. The super rich and neocons should be even MORE ashamed that they're letting people fall behind. There's less people paying those taxes because wages have stagnated and more and more people are making less and less.
CarlosIsDown 4 months ago
@CarlosIsDown And making the rich pay even more than 36% will help...how? How does it help to have govt steal even more from people? Ok, lets say the rich is raised to 39.6% again, like you want. Close the loopholes too. Ok, that is about what, 100 billion a year in extra revenue? This goverment overspends by 2 TRILLION a year now! That is 20 100 billions! So raising the taxes on the rich will do what, besides make a philisophical point? When will you libs talk about cutting spending by 50%?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Did I say no to spending cuts? Spending cuts won't do crap about the economy either. When taxes were around 90% for the top bracket no one paid that because they'd rather reinvest instead of pay that, AND NO ONE IS ADVOCATING ANY KIND OF TAX RATE OF 90% or even 50%. Corporations are sitting on 2 trillion dollars of capital instead.
CarlosIsDown 4 months ago
@CarlosIsDown Oh, so now your saying what? That raising to 39.6% tax on the rich isnt enough? Now you also want to do what...steal their 2 trillion they have in other countrys? How do you suppose you have the right to do that?
calimar28 4 months ago
@CarlosIsDown Spending cuts won do crap about the economy? Well, it might start paying down the debt...which means inflation goes away...which means you'll be able to buy much more with your dollar. It also means we can avert a meltdown of the dollar. National Bankruptcy. Then you will see food riots in the streets if that happened.
calimar28 4 months ago
@CarlosIsDown You dont say no to spending cuts? Good, lets chat. We can save about 800 billion a year on the military by pulling out of most of the countries we are in. That plus the 39.6% hike, still means we are still 1.2 trillion a year OVER budget. Where shall we begin cutting? Dept of education? (79 billion a year) Dept of Energy? (39 billion) Medicare? (1 trillion), Dept of health and human services? Where should we cut?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Are you fucking kidding me? Those are my only choices? I don't have a problem with making some of those more efficient, but Dept of Education? ARe schools are shitty enough, if cuts are there, they have to come from making them more effective and efficient (which will probably take more money at first). Same goes for Medicare. And all we're gong to do is pull out of all these countries? What about the 66+ billion we gave to Lockheed Martin? AND they'll get 24million more so that cont.
CarlosIsDown 3 months ago
@calimar28 jets won't asphyxiate our pilots. That's just ONE of the many contractors that suck the US Govts money. Answer me this, conservatives seem to love to point to programs that are meant to uplift the poor (ed., soc sec, medicare-aid) yet contractors are KING of waste.
And what about the benis and salary that our elected officials get? We can agree that we should reduce some of those, right? Oh shit, you got me talking about the fckn deficit you cheeky fellow. Reducing it won't even help
CarlosIsDown 3 months ago
@CarlosIsDown Yes, lets reduce salaries, I agree. But of ALL govt workers. Contractors are part of the 1.2 trillion in military spending, I agree. And the govt wants to appear to "help the poor', which is not their job. ANd when they do "help", it always HURTS the poor and everyone else. 15 trillion in debt...how much more can we take? Stop listning to the turks propoganda...his liberal system stinks. It is what got us here, as both Repub and Dem presidents supported these liberal ideas.
calimar28 3 months ago
@CarlosIsDown It has been suggested that liberals WANT us to go bankrupt and crash the system, so we can start over with a communist system. I dont buy it really. I think liberals just dont realize the extreme danger their policies have put us in.
calimar28 3 months ago
@calimar28 again... CONTRACTORS! ENDLESS WAR! That ain't free either.
CarlosIsDown 3 months ago
@CarlosIsDown Dept of education = huge waste. It is not needed. Local schools pay for 92% of their education, the govt stepped in with the dept of education and took the other 8%. It wasnt needed. Schools have gotton WORSE with the dept of education. Pulling out of all the countries = big savings and not so many contracts with Lockheed. We can disove Freddie/Fannie, that will save 150 billion a year. Stop all foriegn aid, that saves 100 billion. There are many places to cut...but WE MUST CUT.
calimar28 3 months ago
@calimar28 Also, they do have skin in the game. Did you completely ignore the part where everyone making payroll from $1 - $100,000 pays the regressive payroll taxes (which makes up 42% of federal govt. income). I'd say the 47% have MASSIVE skin in the game when guys like Perry propose getting rid of social security.
CarlosIsDown 4 months ago
For the typical worker, you get paid(your incentive) when you go to work. You get paid AFTER working. You do not get paid in advance. SO, hey, "Job Creators" if you want your TAX breaks, that you claim WILL create jobs with tax breaks.. CREATE the jobs, THEN youll get your tax breaks. Weve given these clowns AN INCREDIBLE amount of tax breaks with Republicans telling us that the "Job Creators" will help get the economy back on track with these tax breaks. Theyve SCAMMED us long enough.
freelandwhippet 4 months ago
Here is an idea. If all of these organizations/individuals that are incredibly rich, are truly "Job Creators" why dont we hold these "Job Creators" to the same standard that the typical American Worker is held to. Tie EVERY tax break for the top tier of individual earners and corporations to the jobs they create. If our scumbag politicians want to show that they are not mindless, spineless shills for their OWNERS.. AKA, the "Job Creators" they would come up with something like this.
freelandwhippet 4 months ago
Cenk...this is not a liberal nation. This country rejects liberalism, and you cannot convert us. Only blacks and dopey hippies are liberal anymore.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 ".this is not a liberal nation.."
It was in 1930s, and it will be again sooner or later.
People forget easily how it feels in the failed society.
allgoo19 4 months ago
@allgoo19 Yes, the 1930's were a fail...because of FDR's liberal policies. We have not forgotten.
Enjoy your one term Obama presidency you liberal miscreant.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 "Yes, the 1930's were a fail.."
Historically incorrect.
No wonder you have wrong idea, or pretending dumb?
The unempolyment rate peaked and start dropping in the same year FDR got in the office, then on economy started picking up.
Google, "New Deal" then scroll down to "Origins".
What proof do you have that FDR failed?
Show me.
allgoo19 4 months ago
@allgoo19 Proof that FDR failed? He never got us out of the depression! How is that for failed?
calimar28 4 months ago
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@calimar28 "He never got us out of the depression!"
The unemployment rate started dropping in the year(1933) he took the office.
Did you expect the Depression to be over in a few days?
How did you expect it to be good enough to be "Success"?
allgoo19 4 months ago
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@calimar28 "He never got us out of the depression! How is that for failed?"
I make it easier for you to answer.
1) What constitute "Getting out of Depression"?
2) When "Getting out of Depression" took place?
3) Who gets the credit for "Getting out of Depression"?
allgoo19 4 months ago
@calimar28 Quote: "I like political debate, because I like to win.'
No reply"
Is this your way of winning a debate, by hiding? ^_^
allgoo19 4 months ago
@calimar28 Stick & Stones
qland 4 months ago
occupy vancouver: natives that are just loitering white people, with dreadlocks and most probably live a decidedly poor existance and feel no shame bumming money and cigarettes. the balance was white self-satisfied busybody women frantically moving around the compound advertising that she is very involved in the "movement" punky looking liberals from kits were laughing and eating the communal goulash with bread (burgers wouldnt be cheaper fyi) (:
mfyt4mp 4 months ago
Corruption is so bad the Russians say "DAYUM".
Jh5kRadio 4 months ago in playlist More videos from TheYoungTurks
IM not buying any HP's or JJ's
ZephonTLucifer 4 months ago
lol i'll be surprised if the voting turn out is huge in 2012 because it just shows our goverment really just dosn't give a dam about its citizens.
rdavian 4 months ago
American CEO's, Banksters and Politicians don't realize that they will have the same faith as Ghadffi if they don't listen to the massess.
TheFranksantana 4 months ago
wall street= death of america
we will all flee to europe WTF
MALIRIPPA 4 months ago
If Corporations are "people", can they run for offices?
ttzz2003 4 months ago 6
fuck harold ford, that little high yella bitch!
HeadbangakillstheKKK 4 months ago 7
I really can't wait till it gets real and we get to kill these motherfuckers...
odom602 4 months ago
If people can't see what is really going on BLIND is just an understatement. The banks own and control sooo much of our political system, democracy is nothing but a word now, just a word and nothing else. Repugs and Dems eat out of the same trough.
nagone11 4 months ago
The title of this video should be changed.
AquariuStace 4 months ago
Buying U.S.politicians is the "best bang" for your corporate buck.. (smh). Look beyond " tea party" sitting in congress via protest, threatening budget cuts & lifting regulations in favor of the corporations.., Harold Ford's resume' speaks before he does for now on... It's the reason Washington DC cant get anything but corporate & bankers business done...
HiRoader11 4 months ago
If these corporations have already paid taxes in those offshore companies, then should they be taxed a second time? Is double taxation fair?
I am aware that these corporation use all sorts of accounting tricks to avoid paying any taxes at all... But if they have actually paid, then, IMO, they should not pay a second time...
gauharjk 4 months ago in playlist More videos from TheYoungTurks
@gauharjk You forget these corporations donate money to politicians. Should a company that pays taxes in another country be allowed to participate in the electoral process/buy us politicians? Bc its clear they shouldn't
qualityrkc 4 months ago
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Obama is a piece of sh it. USA blackmails UNESCO agains the Palestina.
Disgusting.
Tetsuoha 4 months ago
Guess what? Wall St has become our congressman, our senators, our sheriff, our grocery store owners, pharmacist even our president... Evidently tax dollars/tax payer services has been classified "COMSUMPTION and/or PROFIT" by Wall St standards...
HiRoader11 4 months ago
Just so sad. A promising future lost being a slave of the banks. S
StyngRay1 4 months ago
The senselessness of expecting bought-off politicians to solve any problem.
crumbtrey 4 months ago 3
Dems don't represent liberals anymore
timoback3000 4 months ago 31
@timoback3000
Liberals don't represent liberals.
TheCagedTiger 4 months ago
The biggest problem that the US has is the lawmakers appear to be very cheap to buy.
Pfizer spent 25-50 million in 2010 on lobbying. I am speculating maybe counting every country this might blow out to 100 milion.
They have revenues of 67 billions dollars. So they spent less the 0.1% lobbying, and you are suprised?
Also you do realise that shareholders are people who spend money? buy houses? paying out shareholders with repatriated funds cannot be worse then keeping money overseas.
deathByStupid 4 months ago
ELLISON IS THE ONLY GOOD CONGRESSMAN LEFT
jopaddy81 4 months ago 2
FORD IS A SELLOUT
jopaddy81 4 months ago
This former h.ford guy is a prime example of another paid politico that claims the republicans are out of touch when in fact he has no clue of the very things he himself tries to represent.
The only thing he understands are lights, camera and action... politico style... pure propaganda
wingedlightning 4 months ago
Ford was Herman Cain before Herman Cain was!
MultiSamTaylor 4 months ago
Okay, okay, okay. I'll be the one to say it...Banks vs. America...Who's side are you on?
7d7e7f7 4 months ago
Harold Ford Jr & Herman Cain are just the same. Uncle Tom sellouts.
blachubear 4 months ago 4
Harold Ford, Jr. willing to say or do anything to be the house n!*ger at Bank of America. And this guy calls himself a Democrat. What a joke! This guy is bought and paid for. No credibility. Cancel him on all TV news shows.
Bigwave2003 4 months ago
if u turn in the captions. and turn the volume down it makes no sense!!
ninonumerouno 4 months ago
FINALLY!! You're including sources!
mmatvnetful 4 months ago
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@mmatvnetful "FINALLY!! You're including sources!"
no fukn shit, right!?!
hoosiergambler 4 months ago
I love it when Cenk calls out people as corporate shrills
anders86 4 months ago
fuck you bank of america
AndrewMacedonia 4 months ago
Bring Down Bank of America
callouschristian 4 months ago
damn nigga, where can I buy a politician?!
Tripp393 4 months ago 3
I used to like Harold Ford. I thought he was a true Democrat. I see he is a traitor and a money-grubbing ass; no better than the republicans. Money has corrupted so many people, it's hard to trust who really cares about the average citizen.
spadrine 4 months ago 48
@spadrine Really?? It always seemed pretty obvious he was a pos.
qualityrkc 4 months ago
@spadrine
Harold Ford was never a true democrat,anyone who follows politics knows this!..and he is not a ''traitor;; since he never really was a democrat...i really hate people like you who are easily manipulated by politicians.
Ford's views have not changed much in recent years,he was a piece of shit before,and he is a piece of shit now!
WANTStoFEELupPALIN 4 months ago
that's a powerful stat!
jord23an 4 months ago
that guy is the most whitest looking black dude I have ever seen.
cennon 4 months ago
Giving coporations more money does not create Jobs, they just take that money and invest in China for maximum profit
davidi3002 4 months ago
The Democrats have lost their ways... it's sad that no one supports the people, but the people.
mspy01 4 months ago 3
What needs to be done to replace Congress?
dropilol 4 months ago
TYT needs someone to check their facts before they decide to just say whatever opinion pops into their collective head
theultimaterockr 4 months ago
@theultimaterockr Where are the facts wrong? Usually when someone makes an accusation, they have something to back it up. Oh, and something more than just your opinion or Republican spewed "facts" that have no basis in reality, please.
AvalonDraconis 4 months ago
@AvalonDraconis I was speaking of the fact that he said all of the Republican candidates tax plans raise taxes on the poor.
theultimaterockr 4 months ago
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If ass-gerbils cured cancer, the Republicans would ban gerbils and we would have to get them on the black market. Too bad your lack of universal healthcare which is handy when the gerbils won't come out. Limbaugh's gerbil is damn near dead.
CATSASS1117 4 months ago
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DAMN THE RICH ARE GOING TO HELL IF THEY DON'T GET BETTER "
stonethugmusic 4 months ago
I stopped liking Harold Ford back when in 2007 he didn't defend Imus after all the support Imus had given him. Ford is clearly a stereotypical politician that should be out of a job.
doughboycod2 4 months ago
@doughboycod2 agree. Harold Ford is embodies everything that is wrong with the Democratic party. He loses elections because he is exactly like the Republican with a D after his name, plus you really can't trust him. As you said he turned his back on his supporter and he will turn his back only for money.
mspy01 4 months ago
YT, why do you not have a segment about occuppy oakland today?
himynameisjc91 4 months ago
Who the hell wants a Bind On Account Congressmen.
PeterjohnsonLAWL 4 months ago
did you guys here that Saddam Hussein DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!
SensitiveVirmin1234 4 months ago
Those subtitles are way off !
MHJDenmark 4 months ago
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LancePoint9 4 months ago
well this is reason enough not to have Bank of America. Fuck your monthly service fees.
SpideySting 4 months ago
"The whole republican party supports the tax holiday" ?
Im sure RonPaul doesn't support this at all!
NooneEatsCandyCorn 4 months ago
Harold Ford better not ever try to run for office again.
W1I2L3L4ARD 4 months ago 2
Fuck this mulatto!
GazelleHeavy 4 months ago
Harold Ford Jr., you a such a disappointment...
klewieblu 4 months ago 2
He sounds so educated, especially with that accent!
kenshinbattousai374 4 months ago
Prediction: if Wolf-PAC gets up and they successfully stop corps like Pfizer and Merck from buying politicians, Cannabis will be legal, or at least decriminalised, in most states, if not federally, within 2-3 years.
tvsinesperanto 4 months ago
MAYBE WE SHOULD BLOW UP BA BRANCHES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. DO IT AT NIGHT SO NO ONE IS INJURED.PERHAPS SOMEONE COULD POST HOME ADDRESSES OF BANK OWNERS AND EXECUTIVES. I SUGGEST BURNING THEIR HOMES.....WHILE OCCUPIED.
drummerboy54100 4 months ago
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Solidarity and burning american flags are good, but we need a leader to rise up in the protests, lead us to burning down the white house. Then, we can make this leader our Czar or our new POST-REVOLUTION nation!
ZakirAhmedFaziThe3rd 4 months ago 2
Jesus christ, I'm so tired of hearing about how we're getting fucked over by large corporations and the gov't. I am starting to lose hope that there's anything that can be done to change this fucked up "democracy." I love Occupy but what the fuck can it accomplish? None of the fuckers who benefit from the way things are, are ever going to change things. They control the money and the government. How in the hell, exactly, do you overcome THAT?
tuber123asd 4 months ago
@tuber123asd The only way Occupy Wall Street is going to succeed is if people like YOU join them in their fight.
The American people can not sit there on their asses and wait for things to just sort themselves out. They need to DO something! Fight back, goddamnit!
GrowTheTruth 4 months ago
@GrowTheTruth I just don't see any scenario in which the "99%" wins. They will not change the laws. They will not overwhelm the gov't with armed revoluion. They will not outspend the lobbyists. They will not gain the type of access corporate leaders have to policy makers. Throughout history it's always been a war between the haves and the havenots, but "the haves" have never been in a more dominant position than they are now. It really is hopeless.
tuber123asd 4 months ago
@tuber123asd The 99% wins by refusing to give their obedience. The 1% can't control the People when the 99% have no intention of being controlled.
That's why you stand against them. Their money is worthless if the rest of us don't play their game. Their media is useless if the rest of us aren't buying it. Their power is non-existant if we refuse to allow it to have power over us.
GrowTheTruth 4 months ago
@GrowTheTruth The problem becomes one of logistics, and the obvious advantages of concentrated power reveal themselves when you analyze things. Think about what Goldman Sachs must do to mobilize themselves -- hold a board meeting. Think about what the citizenry must do to mobilize themselves. Which is more efficient? Americans cannot afford to strike, or quit, or abandon money. And the people DO buy into the media. You have to realize most of the 99% aren't smart. All of the 1% are.
tuber123asd 4 months ago
@tuber123asd The elite have got a whole lot to loose. Revolution comes when the people look at what they have and realize that they've really got nothing left but their freedom, liberty and their future of their children to lose. When that day comes, finding a way to survive and get through this together becomes a primary goal.
Yes, there are a lot of uneducated 99%, but that should be all the more reason to educate ourselves and others! The elite are doomed to fail, regardless.
GrowTheTruth 4 months ago
@GrowTheTruth I truly respect your optimism, and I really hope that of the two of us, you're right, and I'm wrong.
tuber123asd 4 months ago
@tuber123asd I hope so too. In the end, when your children look back at this and ask you what you did...wouldn't you want to be able to tell them that you were standing with the world and fighting back?
GrowTheTruth 4 months ago
@tuber123asd By the way, your cynical attitude of "let's-just-give-up-because-we'll-never-win-anyways" is rather pathetic. Grow a goddamn backbone!
GrowTheTruth 4 months ago
@GrowTheTruth I guess trying to give someone a compliment and respect even in the face of an honest disagreement in this day and age is impossible. I did not disrespect you or put you down. You say I need to grow a backbone but your lack of maturity is disappointing. Also your comment implies that I lack courage. However my argument was based on observations, not fear. What is the point of trying to have a conversation online? No wonder why people resort to "fuck off" and call it a day.
tuber123asd 4 months ago
@tuber123asd I posted that comment to you over 50 minutes ago pertaining to your negativity.
And, yes, your cynacism sounds like you're ready to just roll over and die without a fight. Your argument is most definently based out of fear. The protesters have no fear of those in the 1%, which is why they're out there protesting.
My point is that, instead of sitting online complaining about how fucked America is, why not go down swinging?
GrowTheTruth 4 months ago
@GrowTheTruth
Hell yeah ! Think Marcellus ( pulp fiction ) Imma get me a coupla hard hittin niggas to go to work on these corporate asses ! You hear me talkin hillbilly corpo robots ? Imma get medieaval on ya asses !
hieronomy 4 months ago
@tuber123asd With WOLF-PAC. They're trying to circumvent the elites and host a national convention. If this is successful, corporate money will be removed from the system.
onlypolar 4 months ago in playlist October 25
Can't create jobs with no demand,
can't create demand if the majority of people don't get paid enough,
can't pay people enough when top 1% feel entitled to 40+% of the wealth in the country through "capitalistic" siphoning and are still insatiable.
This country's fucked as long as we do what's good for "job creators".
The people at the top leech FAR more out of the system than those that need government assistance to live off of ramen noodles.
OtakuRebel 4 months ago 51
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@OtakuRebel ron paul 2012
kyle7412 4 months ago
I'm thankful I've stayed with my credit union for years and not have to deal with the shit banks, like Bank of America, are doing. This dumbass is a huge disgrace to say that about OW. What a sell out.
Mika20 4 months ago
Ignore us?
I'd like to see you try. We're growing so quickly it's impossible to ignore us.
Omegashadowyoshi 4 months ago in playlist More videos from TheYoungTurks
@Omegashadowyoshi Too big to ignore, and "too big to fail."
Ojin0 4 months ago
My father's old neighborhood is in his old district. Frankly, as a Black person, I think that they are better off with the congressman, a White guy, that they have now. Thurgood Marshall said it best. A black snake is just like a white snake. They both bite. I am not surprised by the words or actions of former Congressman Ford.
ebsmith29 4 months ago
He doesn't want to create jobs, he wants to "Simulate job creation" 1:09
annoythefish 4 months ago
this guy is a freak
LANDSHARK7130 4 months ago
Off topic:
Anyone seen how the GOP is painting Obama as not Pro-Israel enough? Umm... How exactly is that true? How has Obama done anything that wasn't entirely in Israel's favor, aside from some rhetoric here and there that they need to chill out?
dEdGrimley 4 months ago
Harold Ford Jr. is everything that is wrong with politics. A complete sell-out. Poster boy for failed corporate Democrats that deserve to be forever booted from the party. Glad he's out (for now). Hate this guy.
Umberto2 4 months ago
Harold Ford had such potential. He shows his true colors...just another scumbag.
XksY5abNm701g 4 months ago