(1 of 2)I have been a fan of yours as long as I can remember, Grew up listening to your music. My mom would play "On the Road Again" every time we would take a trip. Then I got older still listened to your music and found out you support legalization a cannabis I became even more of a fan. I have always been right with you 100%. But after this video I can say I have lost so much respect for you. I always thought you were a patriot but obviously I was wrong. I will always love your music and
@dutytocareforothers Yes, that's why they said they're the ones (aka 1%) with the ninety-nine. There are a lot of people in the 1% (and 2%) standing in solidarity with the 99%.
1. End the FED - take back our money from the private Corporation and create our own Treasury Notes, providing 0% interest loans to the Cities, States, Small Businesses, and Students to get our Economy back on it's feet.
2. End the era of PAC influence in Washington, eliminating them entirely.
3. De- Personhood Corporations. They are not people and should not be allowed these privileges .
Willie was one of my dad's favorite singers..and mine, and is a Patriot first. Willie stood up to the IRS and took a lot of public flak over things the public is only now getting informed of. Most of these negative commentator s haven't a clue the Fed is just private banks and has nothing to do with the US... but has "bought" the US politicians.....silly people, your just paying the banks..!....but the truth will set us free!...Hang in there Willie, it's gonna get interesting real soon :-)
Willie, you're full of #%&*. Willie is hoping everyone will forget that he was one of the bigger tax cheats. He owed the IRS something like $16 million. He was the Wesley Snipes of his day.
You are evil dirtbag whores trying to make some more,truly you are evil that stands with all who want a free ride I PRAY GOD LET ME WRITE THE WRONGS OF THESE EVIL WHORES<LET MY LAW THAT TAKES THERE HEADS FROM THERE BODY! END THE FED! stop creating money from debt and create a debt free money. anyone who is not spending every dollar they ever took from those who do the work, IS TOTALY OK WITH THE MURDER AND RAPE OF OUR NATION BY THE NEW WORLD ORDER! I HATE ALL THE STARS AND PRAY THEY FALL IN HELL
wow...you guys completely miss the point of this movement. Every caustic and hateful word puts you on a side all by yourself and shows exactly who you are.
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No surprise here. An illegal drug user, with a criminal record, who could never do a days hardwork if he tried. Yep sounds like all of the other 99% of losers down on OWS. All of these rich people (Willie Nelson, support these socialist and communist eggheads, but if it came down to it and they got what they wanted, and Willie didn't have anymore than the next guy he would kill himself. Do you really want to support them Willie? They want to eat you!
@TheExecutiveDecision he picked cotton, sold Bibles door-to-door, trimmed trees, made saddles, wrote songs, recorded over hundred albums, starred in movies, hosted farm aid concerts 26 times, and has toured the country for 50 years entertaining fans with his music; been an activist for many concerts. Don't say he doesn't work. What have you done with your life that's so productive?
@LindaLee99 I didn't say he hasn't done anything with his life. He is very accomplished, obviously. However he is also all of the things I listed. And I gotta laugh when you talk about his participation in farm aid, because I am in the commercial beef and dairy industry, and Willie Nelson has been one of the biggest anti-farm activist we deal with. He is always trying to get laws passed that hurt farmers and producers. He is hippie drug scum. He works, just not very hard. Just another liberal.
@brwneyesaz Thank you for your comment. Good to see so many Americans calling me an arrogant twit because I do not support communist and socialist. You make your country proud. Im sure all your founding fathers ever wanted was communism or socialism. I am really glad so many gave their life fighting against this in vietnam, just to have the liberals actually ask for it. Its disgusting and disgraceful.
@TheExecutiveDecision Willie Nelson was picking cotton when he was two years old...and now he's working harder than most 30 year olds at age 77. How many consecutive years have you worked? I bet it's much less.
@folkuke I have been working since I was 14 yrs old. Im now 25 and a CEO as well as a successful (seperate) small business owner. No one handed anything to me, I created my success. This is why the thought of anyone wanting to take that away from me just because they didn't work as hard and get as far makes my blood boil. I feel Willie who is wealthy, is lying if he claims to support the idea of OWS. Would he really want to lose everything he worked for just so the lazy or unlucky can have it?
@TheExecutiveDecision You are talking about my Dad, so I'm sensitive to the negative comments, and I am pretty much an expert on him and can verify that he is a really good man, with a really good heart, who doesn't like to see people get screwed over by corporate greed. And he's not a multi-millionaire. Everyone always assumes that.
@folkukeI could care less if he is your Dad. If he is then I guess I shouldnt expect too much from you either. He is absolutely a multi-millionaire, there is no way he isnt. I personally know a very good friend of his who is much less famous(but far more talented) and is by far a mutimillionaire. So I guarantee Willie is. Unless he spent it all on drugs. Willie became an enemy to the farm industry when he supported prop 2 and got involved with alternate fuels. He has been liberal scum eversince
@TheExecutiveDecision Willie's a hypocrite. He claims in this video that "some of us don't mind paying our share," but he didn't pay his share for years. Willie owed millions to the IRS. Hell, the IRS ended up selling his crap and his buddies ended up buying a lot of his stuff back for him.
@folkuke I already joined that club a few years ago, but there is no club. Its the people who work and earn what they have and the people who don't. I fell terrible for people who have had and lost. I feel bad for those who work 2 jobs and still go to bed hungry. I don't feel bad for people who smoke pot and play xbox, and are now demanding socialism. I dont feel bad for people who abuse the system. I dont feel bad for anyone who has not worked towards their future, yet thinks they deserve one.
@dizzyd1250 Really? You really think there is a conspiracy? I have know drug growers/cookers, etc. I can guarantee you that none of them worked for the gov't.
@TheExecutiveDecision no genius, i am saying that it was illegalized for a number of reasons, cigarettes and alchohol are WAY worse and remain legal. pretty sure bush did Cocaine too, btw. and bill clinton "didnt inhale."
@dizzyd1250 You said "made by". So how was I not suppossed to take it that way? And yes, I am sure most politicians are drug users both past & present. Politicians are corrupt. They waste money, they buddy up with companies that benefit themselves, and that is why I cannot understand why OWS is not storming against the govt. Why would they push for more tax money to be placed in the hands of the thieves who waste it? Money is only safe in our own hands not the govt. How is OWS missing that fact?
@TheExecutiveDecision OWS could not storm against the gov't due to anti-domestic terrorist laws and the patriot act, they would all just be arrested and imprisioned. protesting a private organization is still allowable under law, but not against the govt itself. you can protest the federal reserve because it is a private bank, wall street is privately owned mostly by german companies, etc....
@horsedoctorman I dont see where you can pull that conclusion anywhere out of our convo. If anything she did. Notice how she has no response to why willie avoided paying his own taxes, until the irs caught onto his ass. She had no answer for that. Really nice of willie to aks you to pay your share when he breaks the law to avoid paying his own.
@TheExecutiveDecision He trusted his accountants to pay his taxes. They didn't. He later sued those accountants contending they put him in illegal tax shelters. The case was settled out of court. There's no evidence Willie Nelson avoided paying taxes on purpose. Any more silly complaints?
@horsedoctorman What else was he going to say? Take the blame himself? And I still don't see where you get a raging hard on over this so-called destroying that took place. You keep brown nosing your favorite druggie. Is it not a bit pathetic to be his age and you still cant put the bong down? Nothing better than growing up with your dad and mom being high as a kite all the time. Find it funny how liberals think its terrible to grow up in a christian home, but ok to grow up in a drug filled home.
@TheExecutiveDecision That would be because Christian homes in America - if you're anything to go by - seem to produce permanently angry, sexually frustrated nutcases like you, their hearts twisted with hatred, spewing out their bile onto Youtube.
@horsedoctorman I'm not angry, or sexually frustrated, or hateful and definitely not a nutcase. I am just someone who doesn't like standing by and watching American values, morals, heritage, and way of life compromised by the lowest class in this country who want the rest of the country to foot their bill and pay their way through life. Liberals have given this country away to foreign countries, & large government. Now they want to give even more to the govt.? Enjoy your freedoms while you can
@TheExecutiveDecision Your hateful nature is evident in the way you show contempt for "druggies" - a true Christian would show compassion for drug addicts. If you were in any way concerned with freedom, you would understand that America's "War on drugs" has resulted in a higher incarceration rate than most of the communist/socialist regimes in history you no doubt rail against. The Pope and the Church of England stand with the 99% but US conservatives are more like the Taliban than Christians.
@horsedoctorman Its not hate for druggies, its disgust in how they choose to live their lives. I feel for anyone who lives a life of darkness. They are incarcerating people who break the law. Do yuou expect me to feel sorry for criminals who knowingly break the law, then end up in jail? Im for freedom for those who deserve it. The Pope and the Church of England are more corrupt than the politicians so you can have them. The liberals are the ones who support the taliban. Buddies of the taliban.
@TheExecutiveDecision Disgust for your fellow human beings - hatred. Incarceration doesn't just affect the 'criminal' - it has a devastating effect on families and society at large. Why is incarceration appropriate for a victimless crime? As for your laughable idea that liberals support the Taliban it only goes to show how how out of touch with reality you are. 'Liberal' president Barack Obama has doubled the military effort against them. The Taliban are religious extremists like yourself.
@horsedoctorman So you have compassion for the child molestor, the rapist, the murder? We do not have to have compassion for everyone, nor should we. Drugs are not a victimless crime. I am a victim when the tweekers come and steal from my business at night, Im a victim when my car is broken into in a parking lot by a drug addict. The families of the drug addicts are victims. There are countless victims, in so many different ways. There is no way you can call drug abuse a victimless crime. (cont>
@horsedoctorman Liberals support the terror because they treat the terrorist and foreigtn countries better than they do our own people and our own country. That argument could go on and on. They are religious extremist, but extremist is much deifferent than devotion.When your faith is based in violent teachings and demands of violence and murder. Then there is a line that is crossed. Islam is a religion of hate and murder, so to be a muslim is to be an extremist, no matter what!
@TheExecutiveDecision I am afraid no longer have the patience to once again refute all your wrong-headed notions (there are just too many). However, I'm fascinated to know where people like you (you all seem to have the same ideas) get your information from. Could you please tell me what sources of information inform your world view? Where did you learn to fear and demonize drug users and Muslims exactly? Also could you tell me your religious denomination. I would like a better understanding.
@horsedoctorman Absolutely. I am christian, white, upper class, republican. My world view comes from my experiences and all outlets of information. I do not watch fox news as everyone always likes to assume. I don't demonize drug addicts, they demonize themselves. I am from southern california, everywhere you look there are crackheads and tweekers. My business and many other local business have been ripped off by tweekers multiple times. I know some personally and you cant trust them (cont-->
@horsedoctorman As for my view on muslims, I have studied islam and nearly all other religions. I have had face to face debates and conversations with muslims about their faith. I have had muslims praise terrorist, I have had muslims condemn the U.S.A., and I have had them try and justify the hate and calls to violence that their religion teaches. If you are a nopn-muslim & do not see the muslim as an enemy then you are asleep and blind. I could go on and on about this one.
@TheExecutiveDecision From your answer it appears you place primary importance on your own personal experiences which is nothing unusual in itself. I am most interested in the words you used to begin your statement - could you expand further on "christian, white, upper class, republican" - how you came to identify yourself in this manner, what they mean to you in terms of concepts and values and how you came to acquire these values. Thanks
@horsedoctorman I say it all with pride and that is why I will answer that. Christian- Jesus Christ is my savior and I believe he died for my sins. I am a sinner and through Jesus Christ my sins will be forgiven. White- I am an American of German heritage. Upper Class- I earn a wage much higher than average, and own possession of a superior standard above the average middle class American. Republican- I find my political views, morals, and expectations of the this country in line with the Rep.
@horsedoctorman You can try and pick apart my personal identification and character but, I am afraid you will find I am not ashamed to admit or speak of all of my views and belief and I do not hold any beliefs that I do not have a vast knowledge on. I am not a opinion of the media, I am an opinion based on experience and understanding.
@TheExecutiveDecision Wasn't trying to pick you apart, or at least not in the way you imply. :) Just interested in how certain modes of thinking originate. I feel like this is far as I'm going to get with this line of inquiry but I appreciate your effort to explain yourself, thanks
@TheExecutiveDecision Just got through reading the entire conservation that took place. I have to say I am on your side on most of everything you say. But I do have to ask how you feel about someone who is christian, that pays their taxes, republican, and does not support the "99%" movement but does use drugs for recreational. I am to a owner in a small business and in my mid twenties. But I smoke weed and use a few other drugs here and there but am far from a addict. Do you still feel (CONT)
@luvinmychica The short answer is no. The long answer is it would depend on the drug, and that would soley be just due to the effect that certain drugs have on a person. I could not say that you were a bad person. I could say that you make bad decisions. For instance a pot head is far different from a meth addict (you gotta understand that). I do not agree with or condone any use of "street" drugs. However my issue is with the public openess of willie. Do what you want behind closed doors.
END THE FED stop those who value money by there will by ending the debt,the creation of money from debt and build a debt free money system that is for everyone not just those who can barrow or cater to those who can.
every millionare came by their BANK the same way THIS MAKE YOU BAD EVIL DIRTBAGS! now if they the dirtbags are spending there money creating a debt free money that the value of commoditys or service determend then they become good guys who have refused the 600 60 6
Incredible couple, you two are, to stand up to injustice with peace! Willie, I also love "Let's Take Back America!" (Hauntingly beautiful tune with words that you'll never forget! )
Incredible couple, you two are, to stand up to injustice with peace! Willie, I also love "Let's Take Back America!" (Hauntingly beautiful tune with words that you'll never forget! )
its not really tyranny... you dont have to shop at wallmart.. you do it because your cheap and lazy.. you dont have to eat at mcdonalds.. you do it because you cant control yourself.. blame others for your lack of morals if you want.. but the chains of wallstreet have taken over because most men people are rabbits...
@DJDanielPeterson cheap? maybe. Because I can't afford anything else. Lazy? No. I've looked at other stores, I buy my food at our local Food Lion, and use Walmart for small things that I can't afford to travel 45 mins to get to. And I don't eat at McDonalds anymore, the food makes me sick. And just so you know, us "rabbits" are starting to realize they have claws and numbers on our side.
Best way to balance the US budget, is to eliminate ATF. Save billions because alcohol, tobacco, firearms are legal we don't need ATF. Legalize marijuana with out regulations. We don't need 1000s bureaucrats harassing everyone. Save billions. With legalize marijuana we can layoff half all law enforcement close down half of the prisons and jails and related workers. layoff half of the judges and related workers with that along we should balance the budget. police will stop Harassing people.
@apumpkinful Still doing a lot more work on the average day than these corporate thieves you're backing and isn't asking for free handouts from the government funded by working class people.
why don't you get a job and a college or university education and provide for yourself and not blame wall street. you are just two fucken hippies that smoked too much weed and failed school and now you're blaming others because its the easiest thing to do.
@kizhey I don't need my college education to tell you that Willie Nelson's Career still continues. He is 78 this year and works harder than the average American. Slinging mud without basis is well........just slinging mud. Keep up the comments. Your college degree is serving you well.
I don't know about 99 but I do know I'm sick of tyranny, Bankster bail-outs, the Federal Reserve, illegal wars, lies and more lies, Neo-Cons and Neo-Libs, socialists, communists, RINOs and Linos, illegal aliens, nation building, policing the world, giving money to foreign countries, the United Nations, the Patriot Acts, Homeland Security, the TSA, our politicians shitting on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, government handouts, the corporate owned mainstream media, censorship, the IRS and ..
@LindaLee99 I wrote what is shown on a sheet of paper and placed it in front of a mirror. The results are: NO NOS QUEDAREMOS CALLADOS Underneath that it says WE WILL NOT BE _ _ _ _ _ I can't make out the last 5 letter word. MOVED?? Anyone?? I tried to view it full screen but it will not materialize.
@falk1952able That was more about bad financial management than trying to get out of his obligations (see Wikipedia). He eventually settled and paid up...
@LindaLee99 Willie tried to put his money into bogus tax shelters - in order to avoid paying his fair share. The IRS ended up selling his crap and his buddies ended up bailing him out.
Come to Occupy Chicago Willy! We're in front of the federal reserve building at the corner of Jackson & LaSalle 24/7. We're not leaving until we take back our country!
Not so accurate, Trappy. He did not evade taxes. He was misrepresented, then misled. In the end, he could have filed for bankruptcy, but chose to pay it all back because he felt it was the moral thing to do.
@pumpkinful Willie Nelson and other entertainers DO employ people everywhere they perform. There are hundreds of people working behind the scenes that put those venues together. He/they are not raping the people like the greedy corporate CEO's are! You're either one of them or you just don't care about the future, where nothing is left but crap jobs because everything has being sent to other countries where they can get away with paying lower wages. Corporate America isn't investing in America.
@apumpkinful ....and accepting millions in tax breaks that working class people have to make up for by paying more taxes while they ship jobs overseas. People like you and I that purchase goods and services are the ones that really create jobs. The less we have to spend the less jobs there are. Companies don't employ any more people than they have to and they don't create jobs just because they get a tax break. If those jobs aren't needed because we aren't consuming they just don't happen.
Willie is one of the 1% wanting to pay his fair share. He is one of the 1% standing with the 99%. Lots of love and respect to Willie Nelson for doing what is righteous and being a brethren to American mankind. Peace and Love to Willie Nelson <3 <3 <3
@apumpkinful The "vast majority" are still underpaid, uninsured (or under insured) and many people are having their pensions cut or taken away completely, being laid off at a frustrating rate while bank CEOs walk away with our futures. Kid come out of college (that's getting more expensive by the day) with crippling dept and no jobs to look forward to. I'm not saying Willie's a saint, my point is that you're pretty misguided to the truth that MANY Americans face.
@apumpkinful But they are not creating jobs. Where are these jobs? Mcdonalds? Part time retail? Actually, they send their jobs overseas (GE are one of the worst about this) instead of keeping the jobs here, but the system they've manipulated gives them tax breaks for it. Make no mistake, and please close your mouth and open your ears, we do not hate company, we do not hate rich people. We hate greed and corruption.
Say Hello To Your Evolution, . Total Honesty will solve all your problems,.= . You all have, Your OWN FREE WILL To Believe and Do As You Please, keeping this in mind,.. Earth is Extremely Evolving Try To Keep Up If You Want To Make It,. About 1% of the 6.8 billion Earth People live the American Dream,the rest are poorly treated slaves, to the Pathetic Few .THAT ARE DONE NOW .
@apumpkinful No... just businesses who take bailouts (that were paid for with the average person's tax money) to give themselves larger bonuses.
Certain corporations have done exceedingly well through the recession, and people are angry that the tax cuts that corporations continue to receive are not correlating to an increased number of jobs.
They're just sitting on the tax dollars that were given to them by our governments out of our pockets.
@Wendell1961 Obviously you don't have a clue what Occupy is about. It's not against entertainers that got rich from their God given talents. It's against the corporations who got rich from the tax breaks they & their lobbyist bought from politicians; it's Wall Street, the banks & insurance co.'s that took bailouts then gave themselves big raises & at the same time screwed tons of Americans out of their life savings and retirements! Ignorance and blindness that allows them to comes from you!
Willie and Annie, thank you for the support you always give in the right direction, you have sung about it for years, "A true heart is always best with a true start" Keep them wheels a rolling Sir/Mam! Love you and yours always and forever!
P.S. My mama brought me to your melody with the Red Headed Stranger and Hello Walls some 30 something years ago!
Willie, who is a multimillionaire and who is one of the people these idiots are protesting against makes an ignorant video like this... Come on Willie, go smoke another one. “Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks; if you don't have a job and you're not rich,(Willie is VERY rich and has a fantastic job) blame yourself!”
Thanks Willie and Annie! We have a voice and are no longer asleep. we are quite rested and ready for the revolution against the 1% corruption. WE ARE THE 99%. We are the ones you have been waiting for.
Thanks Willie and Annie! We are the ones with the 99. During the last couple of years I've taken a stand against our drug laws protesting alone on a daily basis and am now before the courts having been jailed for a half year in remand. I feel vindicated that finally the world has begun to stand up. We shall overcome....
Love your music, but this idea of "the 99%" is a crock. 47% of Americans pay NO Federal Income Tax. I am part of the 53% that do, and I find the OWS movement to be based on envy, laziness, and wanting something that was not EARNED.
@elvisiseverywhere So with that said where does Willie stand? Give me a break, there is something bigger going on here than the losers who do not want to work. Wake up smell the coffee and quit drinking the koolaid.
@aaronschmitzer the 99% refers to the Nelsons support of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Yesterday there were protests in London, Madrid, Rome and New York City against Wall Street greed and economic inequality in the USA and in the world!!
WE are the 99% against the 1% -- Pretty good odds!
@aaronschmitzer - Presently, protesters are camped out in our financial district in NYC (Wall Street). The protests have spread all around the country and now the world. It is America trying as best it can to clean our own house. Wall Street has too much control over Congress, the laws, after 8 years of George Bush and a Republican Congress which allowed the lobbyists to write a mountain of deregulaton laws now favor Wall St. against the consumer. People have to do something. It begins here.
Write on (right on) songwriter!
LateNiteTeeVee 1 month ago
Go guys go
jackieblue63 2 months ago
Great! Now put a tune to it -- it'll catch on!
zonvill 3 months ago
(2 of 2) be thankful for what your are doing for the legalization of cannabis but I no longer look up to you as the hero I thought you were.
luvinmychica 3 months ago
(1 of 2)I have been a fan of yours as long as I can remember, Grew up listening to your music. My mom would play "On the Road Again" every time we would take a trip. Then I got older still listened to your music and found out you support legalization a cannabis I became even more of a fan. I have always been right with you 100%. But after this video I can say I have lost so much respect for you. I always thought you were a patriot but obviously I was wrong. I will always love your music and
luvinmychica 3 months ago
♥¸..•*¨ 2 Take back this special planet 4 Freedom and Humanity ♥¸..•*¨
UKReferendum 3 months ago
Aren't they rich as hell? LOL??????
dutytocareforothers 3 months ago
@dutytocareforothers Yes, that's why they said they're the ones (aka 1%) with the ninety-nine. There are a lot of people in the 1% (and 2%) standing in solidarity with the 99%.
PeedroPaula 3 months ago
God Bless you both!
Lstangel727 4 months ago
woody guthrie, pete seeger & willie GREAT AMERICANS
coal615 4 months ago 2
Anybody who knocks Willie Nelson is just--I mean, c'mon guys, you can't get any more American than Willie.
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Willie Nelson - convicted tax cheat. Hypocrite.
billyc881 4 months ago
@billyc881 He made good on his debts. Willie is a good guy. You haters need to chill out.
RCrooklyn 4 months ago 2
I'm not a country fan. But who doesn't love the red headed stranger?
BitterCanuck 4 months ago 3
Thank you Willie and Annie.
MrAzdaz 4 months ago
Thank you!!!
Aiden057 4 months ago
I knew it would only be 'a matter of time', before Willie (and Annie) Nelson joined the discussion. Living legend. Thanks to you both.
#OWS
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1. End the FED - take back our money from the private Corporation and create our own Treasury Notes, providing 0% interest loans to the Cities, States, Small Businesses, and Students to get our Economy back on it's feet.
2. End the era of PAC influence in Washington, eliminating them entirely.
3. De- Personhood Corporations. They are not people and should not be allowed these privileges .
Will224000 4 months ago
4. Eliminate Fractional Reserve Banking - If a bank does not have the money they will not be allowed to loan it.
5. Re-install Glass- Steagall - separating the function of Savings Banks from Investment Banking.
6. Major Wall Street investment reform that outlaws Derivitives, Short Selling, Hedge Fund, and Algorithmic Trading.
7. Redefine Federal limits back to the Constitution, giving most of it's present powers back to the States, back to pre- Feb. 17, 1871.
Will224000 4 months ago 3
Thanks Willie and Annie. :)
Thanks for posting LindaLee99 :)
cappnonymous 4 months ago 3
Willie was one of my dad's favorite singers..and mine, and is a Patriot first. Willie stood up to the IRS and took a lot of public flak over things the public is only now getting informed of. Most of these negative commentator s haven't a clue the Fed is just private banks and has nothing to do with the US... but has "bought" the US politicians.....silly people, your just paying the banks..!....but the truth will set us free!...Hang in there Willie, it's gonna get interesting real soon :-)
gittarpikk 4 months ago 15
didn't know Willy was reptoid or reptilian... the lady is a fox..
guadalupejoe1 4 months ago
"Some of us don't mind paying our share"?
Willie, you're full of #%&*. Willie is hoping everyone will forget that he was one of the bigger tax cheats. He owed the IRS something like $16 million. He was the Wesley Snipes of his day.
David4041 4 months ago
Willie it;s Time to for you retire to Luckenbach, texas! You have lost it- when you start supporting COMMUNISTS who SHIT on Police cars.
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Willie Nelson represent the 99% of us who gets high.
keepa40 4 months ago
You are evil dirtbag whores trying to make some more,truly you are evil that stands with all who want a free ride I PRAY GOD LET ME WRITE THE WRONGS OF THESE EVIL WHORES<LET MY LAW THAT TAKES THERE HEADS FROM THERE BODY! END THE FED! stop creating money from debt and create a debt free money. anyone who is not spending every dollar they ever took from those who do the work, IS TOTALY OK WITH THE MURDER AND RAPE OF OUR NATION BY THE NEW WORLD ORDER! I HATE ALL THE STARS AND PRAY THEY FALL IN HELL
richardwilliam1967 4 months ago
Beautiful!
chadbrannan 4 months ago
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folkuke 4 months ago
wow...you guys completely miss the point of this movement. Every caustic and hateful word puts you on a side all by yourself and shows exactly who you are.
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No surprise here. An illegal drug user, with a criminal record, who could never do a days hardwork if he tried. Yep sounds like all of the other 99% of losers down on OWS. All of these rich people (Willie Nelson, support these socialist and communist eggheads, but if it came down to it and they got what they wanted, and Willie didn't have anymore than the next guy he would kill himself. Do you really want to support them Willie? They want to eat you!
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision he picked cotton, sold Bibles door-to-door, trimmed trees, made saddles, wrote songs, recorded over hundred albums, starred in movies, hosted farm aid concerts 26 times, and has toured the country for 50 years entertaining fans with his music; been an activist for many concerts. Don't say he doesn't work. What have you done with your life that's so productive?
LindaLee99 4 months ago 69
@LindaLee99 I didn't say he hasn't done anything with his life. He is very accomplished, obviously. However he is also all of the things I listed. And I gotta laugh when you talk about his participation in farm aid, because I am in the commercial beef and dairy industry, and Willie Nelson has been one of the biggest anti-farm activist we deal with. He is always trying to get laws passed that hurt farmers and producers. He is hippie drug scum. He works, just not very hard. Just another liberal.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@LindaLee99 Mrs Lee, you forgot that he is a real American and Patriot.
skb0rzn 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision - u arrogant twit.
brwneyesaz 4 months ago
@brwneyesaz Thank you for your comment. Good to see so many Americans calling me an arrogant twit because I do not support communist and socialist. You make your country proud. Im sure all your founding fathers ever wanted was communism or socialism. I am really glad so many gave their life fighting against this in vietnam, just to have the liberals actually ask for it. Its disgusting and disgraceful.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision `.... is this Bill O'Reilly?.....dont be pulling our chains bill. i can smell your stupidity from a mile away..
MacTelar007 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision Willie Nelson was picking cotton when he was two years old...and now he's working harder than most 30 year olds at age 77. How many consecutive years have you worked? I bet it's much less.
folkuke 4 months ago 3
@folkuke I have been working since I was 14 yrs old. Im now 25 and a CEO as well as a successful (seperate) small business owner. No one handed anything to me, I created my success. This is why the thought of anyone wanting to take that away from me just because they didn't work as hard and get as far makes my blood boil. I feel Willie who is wealthy, is lying if he claims to support the idea of OWS. Would he really want to lose everything he worked for just so the lazy or unlucky can have it?
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision You are talking about my Dad, so I'm sensitive to the negative comments, and I am pretty much an expert on him and can verify that he is a really good man, with a really good heart, who doesn't like to see people get screwed over by corporate greed. And he's not a multi-millionaire. Everyone always assumes that.
folkuke 4 months ago
@folkukeI could care less if he is your Dad. If he is then I guess I shouldnt expect too much from you either. He is absolutely a multi-millionaire, there is no way he isnt. I personally know a very good friend of his who is much less famous(but far more talented) and is by far a mutimillionaire. So I guarantee Willie is. Unless he spent it all on drugs. Willie became an enemy to the farm industry when he supported prop 2 and got involved with alternate fuels. He has been liberal scum eversince
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folkuke 4 months ago
@folkuke Can you explain your Dads tax fraud? Explain why he did have a problem paying his share?
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision Willie's a hypocrite. He claims in this video that "some of us don't mind paying our share," but he didn't pay his share for years. Willie owed millions to the IRS. Hell, the IRS ended up selling his crap and his buddies ended up buying a lot of his stuff back for him.
David4041 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision That's funny. You are are fighting for the 1%
because you hope they'll let you in their club.
folkuke 4 months ago 2
@folkuke I already joined that club a few years ago, but there is no club. Its the people who work and earn what they have and the people who don't. I fell terrible for people who have had and lost. I feel bad for those who work 2 jobs and still go to bed hungry. I don't feel bad for people who smoke pot and play xbox, and are now demanding socialism. I dont feel bad for people who abuse the system. I dont feel bad for anyone who has not worked towards their future, yet thinks they deserve one.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision illegal drug made by you know who.
dizzyd1250 4 months ago
@dizzyd1250 Really? You really think there is a conspiracy? I have know drug growers/cookers, etc. I can guarantee you that none of them worked for the gov't.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision no genius, i am saying that it was illegalized for a number of reasons, cigarettes and alchohol are WAY worse and remain legal. pretty sure bush did Cocaine too, btw. and bill clinton "didnt inhale."
dizzyd1250 4 months ago 2
@dizzyd1250 You said "made by". So how was I not suppossed to take it that way? And yes, I am sure most politicians are drug users both past & present. Politicians are corrupt. They waste money, they buddy up with companies that benefit themselves, and that is why I cannot understand why OWS is not storming against the govt. Why would they push for more tax money to be placed in the hands of the thieves who waste it? Money is only safe in our own hands not the govt. How is OWS missing that fact?
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision OWS could not storm against the gov't due to anti-domestic terrorist laws and the patriot act, they would all just be arrested and imprisioned. protesting a private organization is still allowable under law, but not against the govt itself. you can protest the federal reserve because it is a private bank, wall street is privately owned mostly by german companies, etc....
MrChappie1971 4 months ago 2
@TheExecutiveDecision LOL you just got BOOM ROASTED by LindaLee99
XoshoppinhoneyoX 4 months ago
@XoshoppinhoneyoX How do you figure?
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision you got DESTROYED
horsedoctorman 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman I dont see where you can pull that conclusion anywhere out of our convo. If anything she did. Notice how she has no response to why willie avoided paying his own taxes, until the irs caught onto his ass. She had no answer for that. Really nice of willie to aks you to pay your share when he breaks the law to avoid paying his own.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision He trusted his accountants to pay his taxes. They didn't. He later sued those accountants contending they put him in illegal tax shelters. The case was settled out of court. There's no evidence Willie Nelson avoided paying taxes on purpose. Any more silly complaints?
horsedoctorman 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman What else was he going to say? Take the blame himself? And I still don't see where you get a raging hard on over this so-called destroying that took place. You keep brown nosing your favorite druggie. Is it not a bit pathetic to be his age and you still cant put the bong down? Nothing better than growing up with your dad and mom being high as a kite all the time. Find it funny how liberals think its terrible to grow up in a christian home, but ok to grow up in a drug filled home.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision That would be because Christian homes in America - if you're anything to go by - seem to produce permanently angry, sexually frustrated nutcases like you, their hearts twisted with hatred, spewing out their bile onto Youtube.
horsedoctorman 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman I'm not angry, or sexually frustrated, or hateful and definitely not a nutcase. I am just someone who doesn't like standing by and watching American values, morals, heritage, and way of life compromised by the lowest class in this country who want the rest of the country to foot their bill and pay their way through life. Liberals have given this country away to foreign countries, & large government. Now they want to give even more to the govt.? Enjoy your freedoms while you can
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision Your hateful nature is evident in the way you show contempt for "druggies" - a true Christian would show compassion for drug addicts. If you were in any way concerned with freedom, you would understand that America's "War on drugs" has resulted in a higher incarceration rate than most of the communist/socialist regimes in history you no doubt rail against. The Pope and the Church of England stand with the 99% but US conservatives are more like the Taliban than Christians.
horsedoctorman 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman Its not hate for druggies, its disgust in how they choose to live their lives. I feel for anyone who lives a life of darkness. They are incarcerating people who break the law. Do yuou expect me to feel sorry for criminals who knowingly break the law, then end up in jail? Im for freedom for those who deserve it. The Pope and the Church of England are more corrupt than the politicians so you can have them. The liberals are the ones who support the taliban. Buddies of the taliban.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision Disgust for your fellow human beings - hatred. Incarceration doesn't just affect the 'criminal' - it has a devastating effect on families and society at large. Why is incarceration appropriate for a victimless crime? As for your laughable idea that liberals support the Taliban it only goes to show how how out of touch with reality you are. 'Liberal' president Barack Obama has doubled the military effort against them. The Taliban are religious extremists like yourself.
horsedoctorman 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman So you have compassion for the child molestor, the rapist, the murder? We do not have to have compassion for everyone, nor should we. Drugs are not a victimless crime. I am a victim when the tweekers come and steal from my business at night, Im a victim when my car is broken into in a parking lot by a drug addict. The families of the drug addicts are victims. There are countless victims, in so many different ways. There is no way you can call drug abuse a victimless crime. (cont>
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman Liberals support the terror because they treat the terrorist and foreigtn countries better than they do our own people and our own country. That argument could go on and on. They are religious extremist, but extremist is much deifferent than devotion.When your faith is based in violent teachings and demands of violence and murder. Then there is a line that is crossed. Islam is a religion of hate and murder, so to be a muslim is to be an extremist, no matter what!
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision I am afraid no longer have the patience to once again refute all your wrong-headed notions (there are just too many). However, I'm fascinated to know where people like you (you all seem to have the same ideas) get your information from. Could you please tell me what sources of information inform your world view? Where did you learn to fear and demonize drug users and Muslims exactly? Also could you tell me your religious denomination. I would like a better understanding.
horsedoctorman 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman Absolutely. I am christian, white, upper class, republican. My world view comes from my experiences and all outlets of information. I do not watch fox news as everyone always likes to assume. I don't demonize drug addicts, they demonize themselves. I am from southern california, everywhere you look there are crackheads and tweekers. My business and many other local business have been ripped off by tweekers multiple times. I know some personally and you cant trust them (cont-->
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman As for my view on muslims, I have studied islam and nearly all other religions. I have had face to face debates and conversations with muslims about their faith. I have had muslims praise terrorist, I have had muslims condemn the U.S.A., and I have had them try and justify the hate and calls to violence that their religion teaches. If you are a nopn-muslim & do not see the muslim as an enemy then you are asleep and blind. I could go on and on about this one.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision From your answer it appears you place primary importance on your own personal experiences which is nothing unusual in itself. I am most interested in the words you used to begin your statement - could you expand further on "christian, white, upper class, republican" - how you came to identify yourself in this manner, what they mean to you in terms of concepts and values and how you came to acquire these values. Thanks
horsedoctorman 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman I say it all with pride and that is why I will answer that. Christian- Jesus Christ is my savior and I believe he died for my sins. I am a sinner and through Jesus Christ my sins will be forgiven. White- I am an American of German heritage. Upper Class- I earn a wage much higher than average, and own possession of a superior standard above the average middle class American. Republican- I find my political views, morals, and expectations of the this country in line with the Rep.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@horsedoctorman You can try and pick apart my personal identification and character but, I am afraid you will find I am not ashamed to admit or speak of all of my views and belief and I do not hold any beliefs that I do not have a vast knowledge on. I am not a opinion of the media, I am an opinion based on experience and understanding.
TheExecutiveDecision 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision Wasn't trying to pick you apart, or at least not in the way you imply. :) Just interested in how certain modes of thinking originate. I feel like this is far as I'm going to get with this line of inquiry but I appreciate your effort to explain yourself, thanks
horsedoctorman 4 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision Just got through reading the entire conservation that took place. I have to say I am on your side on most of everything you say. But I do have to ask how you feel about someone who is christian, that pays their taxes, republican, and does not support the "99%" movement but does use drugs for recreational. I am to a owner in a small business and in my mid twenties. But I smoke weed and use a few other drugs here and there but am far from a addict. Do you still feel (CONT)
luvinmychica 3 months ago
@luvinmychica The short answer is no. The long answer is it would depend on the drug, and that would soley be just due to the effect that certain drugs have on a person. I could not say that you were a bad person. I could say that you make bad decisions. For instance a pot head is far different from a meth addict (you gotta understand that). I do not agree with or condone any use of "street" drugs. However my issue is with the public openess of willie. Do what you want behind closed doors.
TheExecutiveDecision 3 months ago
@TheExecutiveDecision I am a bad person for using drugs even though I am still a productive member of society?
luvinmychica 3 months ago
Thank you both for taking a stand for Love and a better humanity.
ariannasolare 4 months ago
END THE FED stop those who value money by there will by ending the debt,the creation of money from debt and build a debt free money system that is for everyone not just those who can barrow or cater to those who can.
every millionare came by their BANK the same way THIS MAKE YOU BAD EVIL DIRTBAGS! now if they the dirtbags are spending there money creating a debt free money that the value of commoditys or service determend then they become good guys who have refused the 600 60 6
richardwilliam1967 4 months ago
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Incredible couple, you two are, to stand up to injustice with peace! Willie, I also love "Let's Take Back America!" (Hauntingly beautiful tune with words that you'll never forget! )
hempeve 4 months ago
Incredible couple, you two are, to stand up to injustice with peace! Willie, I also love "Let's Take Back America!" (Hauntingly beautiful tune with words that you'll never forget! )
hempeve 4 months ago
Nelsons : HAIRY , but luvli !
Hemulen40 4 months ago
its not really tyranny... you dont have to shop at wallmart.. you do it because your cheap and lazy.. you dont have to eat at mcdonalds.. you do it because you cant control yourself.. blame others for your lack of morals if you want.. but the chains of wallstreet have taken over because most men people are rabbits...
DJDanielPeterson 4 months ago
@DJDanielPeterson cheap? maybe. Because I can't afford anything else. Lazy? No. I've looked at other stores, I buy my food at our local Food Lion, and use Walmart for small things that I can't afford to travel 45 mins to get to. And I don't eat at McDonalds anymore, the food makes me sick. And just so you know, us "rabbits" are starting to realize they have claws and numbers on our side.
ShePlaysIt 4 months ago
Yuck. How LUKEWARM.
Get out doors
And quit being whores..
Get behind RON PAUL.
MichaelBoryAlis 4 months ago
gbu
bonkerrza 4 months ago
God Bless You, Willie Nelson! You and Annie are da bomb!
suuzzee5 4 months ago 2
Best way to balance the US budget, is to eliminate ATF. Save billions because alcohol, tobacco, firearms are legal we don't need ATF. Legalize marijuana with out regulations. We don't need 1000s bureaucrats harassing everyone. Save billions. With legalize marijuana we can layoff half all law enforcement close down half of the prisons and jails and related workers. layoff half of the judges and related workers with that along we should balance the budget. police will stop Harassing people.
KYKIN44 4 months ago
@apumpkinful Still doing a lot more work on the average day than these corporate thieves you're backing and isn't asking for free handouts from the government funded by working class people.
Thrillcekr 4 months ago
why don't you get a job and a college or university education and provide for yourself and not blame wall street. you are just two fucken hippies that smoked too much weed and failed school and now you're blaming others because its the easiest thing to do.
kizhey 4 months ago
@kizhey I don't need my college education to tell you that Willie Nelson's Career still continues. He is 78 this year and works harder than the average American. Slinging mud without basis is well........just slinging mud. Keep up the comments. Your college degree is serving you well.
michaelcturk 4 months ago
Thank you, for doing this video, thank you very much. With the 99.
Wolfiemouse 4 months ago
Looking forward to hearing the full and complete tune of this.
lancethrustworthy 4 months ago
I don't know about 99 but I do know I'm sick of tyranny, Bankster bail-outs, the Federal Reserve, illegal wars, lies and more lies, Neo-Cons and Neo-Libs, socialists, communists, RINOs and Linos, illegal aliens, nation building, policing the world, giving money to foreign countries, the United Nations, the Patriot Acts, Homeland Security, the TSA, our politicians shitting on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, government handouts, the corporate owned mainstream media, censorship, the IRS and ..
XPIOLT 4 months ago
NO NOS QUEDAREMOS CALLADOS
Right beneath that it says "WE WILL NOT BE _ _ _ _ _
I tried to view it full screen but it won't materialize.
momsenior1 4 months ago
@momsenior1
We will not be silent.
MisoLoLi 4 months ago
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"We will not be silent"
MisoLoLi 4 months ago
I am the 69% i get that all the time.
RBHILL300 4 months ago
i thought he cut his hair? goddamnit, either his hair grows extremely fast or yahoo news lied to me again
RalphAndCaddy 4 months ago
sorry, I don't know how to flip the video to make the letter appear correctly.
LindaLee99 4 months ago
@LindaLee99 I wrote what is shown on a sheet of paper and placed it in front of a mirror. The results are: NO NOS QUEDAREMOS CALLADOS Underneath that it says WE WILL NOT BE _ _ _ _ _ I can't make out the last 5 letter word. MOVED?? Anyone?? I tried to view it full screen but it will not materialize.
momsenior1 4 months ago
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he did his best to get out of paying taxs but he got caught, anybody remember that
falk1952able 4 months ago
@falk1952able he's paid more taxes than me, more than most; more than you, maybe?
LindaLee99 4 months ago 10
@falk1952able That was more about bad financial management than trying to get out of his obligations (see Wikipedia). He eventually settled and paid up...
rahlgren 4 months ago 6
@rahlgren That's right. Bad tax advice.
LindaLee99 4 months ago 8
@LindaLee99 Willie tried to put his money into bogus tax shelters - in order to avoid paying his fair share. The IRS ended up selling his crap and his buddies ended up bailing him out.
David4041 4 months ago
@falk1952able he paid more taxes in a day than GE paid last year.
WildWe5 4 months ago
@falk1952able yup, and he lost everything. And he found a way to get through losing it all and wrote a book. Do YOU remember that?
EyeAmHearNow 4 months ago
@falk1952able that was his manager/accountant,he makes enough money that he has to pay someone to manage it for him.
slinkie59 4 months ago
We stand with humanity, against this insanity, for everyone to be free, us and them, you and me, were the ones with the 99.
clay613 4 months ago
THANK YOU WILLIE AND ANNIE!!!! That was awesome!!!
opticrainbow 4 months ago
1% is 70 Million people. you should have said the 99.999% for 7,000 people.
RBHILL300 4 months ago
@RBHILL300 You have a point, but I imagine it's really hard to change "We are the 99.999%" over and over ;)
ILostMyTongs 4 months ago
sweet^^ but why is the vid inverted left to right? just wonder
pay4cayray 4 months ago
@pay4cayray they recorded it on a webcam on a computer
chrisfriez 4 months ago
@chrisfriez hmm, that could make the picture revers itself... no mater just another mystery of the world ;P
pay4cayray 4 months ago
you guys have been picked on by the tax man allot to see you in support of the protest makes me very happy. we support you to Willie and Annie
CazyDayz 4 months ago
i think her shirt is backwards and in spanish.
i don't have the sober mind to figure it out...
jorelb 4 months ago
ty guys
11maisey11 4 months ago
Anyone else think of Team Rocket?
bigepi 4 months ago
Come to Occupy Chicago Willy! We're in front of the federal reserve building at the corner of Jackson & LaSalle 24/7. We're not leaving until we take back our country!
0330mom 4 months ago 2
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folkuke 4 months ago
beautiful!!!
sisterjinx 4 months ago
Thank you Willie and Annie!
crazy8sdrums 4 months ago 4
Does anyone remember this extremely rich guy speaking was in trouble for evading taxes a few years ago. This is hypocritical.
trappy77 4 months ago
@trappy77 And you're nitpicking a situation to try to score some feeble points.
Can't you do better with yourself than that?
integral 4 months ago
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folkuke 4 months ago
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Not so accurate, Trappy. He did not evade taxes. He was misrepresented, then misled. In the end, he could have filed for bankruptcy, but chose to pay it all back because he felt it was the moral thing to do.
folkuke 4 months ago
Awesome!
kcruceable 4 months ago
What is the phrase on Annie's shirt?
Of course I agree wholeheartedly with what they are speaking.
But the backward writing on her shirt does not compute for me! Anyone???
momsenior1 4 months ago
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folkuke 4 months ago
@pumpkinful Willie Nelson and other entertainers DO employ people everywhere they perform. There are hundreds of people working behind the scenes that put those venues together. He/they are not raping the people like the greedy corporate CEO's are! You're either one of them or you just don't care about the future, where nothing is left but crap jobs because everything has being sent to other countries where they can get away with paying lower wages. Corporate America isn't investing in America.
pj58tt09 4 months ago 3
@apumpkinful ....and accepting millions in tax breaks that working class people have to make up for by paying more taxes while they ship jobs overseas. People like you and I that purchase goods and services are the ones that really create jobs. The less we have to spend the less jobs there are. Companies don't employ any more people than they have to and they don't create jobs just because they get a tax break. If those jobs aren't needed because we aren't consuming they just don't happen.
Thrillcekr 4 months ago
@apumpkinful
Why are you even here shilling out unwanted sillyness, are you for America or for Corporate Greed, you have to make a choice.
SuperPeppoman 4 months ago
OMG awesome! I love Willie
beerandbanjo 4 months ago
Willie is one of the 1% wanting to pay his fair share. He is one of the 1% standing with the 99%. Lots of love and respect to Willie Nelson for doing what is righteous and being a brethren to American mankind. Peace and Love to Willie Nelson <3 <3 <3
mamisylvia 4 months ago 3
Way to go, Willie!
willyr9 4 months ago
@apumpkinful The "vast majority" are still underpaid, uninsured (or under insured) and many people are having their pensions cut or taken away completely, being laid off at a frustrating rate while bank CEOs walk away with our futures. Kid come out of college (that's getting more expensive by the day) with crippling dept and no jobs to look forward to. I'm not saying Willie's a saint, my point is that you're pretty misguided to the truth that MANY Americans face.
viastephtop 4 months ago
James Kerr feelin much Texas pride right now. Thanks Willie.
jrkerr 4 months ago
@apumpkinful But they are not creating jobs. Where are these jobs? Mcdonalds? Part time retail? Actually, they send their jobs overseas (GE are one of the worst about this) instead of keeping the jobs here, but the system they've manipulated gives them tax breaks for it. Make no mistake, and please close your mouth and open your ears, we do not hate company, we do not hate rich people. We hate greed and corruption.
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111Ancientarchetype 4 months ago
Awesome
A1Cvenom 4 months ago
@apumpkinful No... just businesses who take bailouts (that were paid for with the average person's tax money) to give themselves larger bonuses.
Certain corporations have done exceedingly well through the recession, and people are angry that the tax cuts that corporations continue to receive are not correlating to an increased number of jobs.
They're just sitting on the tax dollars that were given to them by our governments out of our pockets.
NotjustGrey 4 months ago 2
I'm sure disappointed in Willie.
driverbob 4 months ago
Rock on
leec85 4 months ago
@Wendell1961 Obviously you don't have a clue what Occupy is about. It's not against entertainers that got rich from their God given talents. It's against the corporations who got rich from the tax breaks they & their lobbyist bought from politicians; it's Wall Street, the banks & insurance co.'s that took bailouts then gave themselves big raises & at the same time screwed tons of Americans out of their life savings and retirements! Ignorance and blindness that allows them to comes from you!
pj58tt09 4 months ago 5
@apumpkinful Doesn't the 1% refer to those who take and don't pat their share? Willie has definately paid his share and more!
michaelcturk 4 months ago
This is a nation that understands its wongs, we are STRONG, and we stand on the mountain above all others.
michaeljameslester 4 months ago
GOD BLESS YOU WILLIE
michaeljameslester 4 months ago
Willie and Annie, thank you for the support you always give in the right direction, you have sung about it for years, "A true heart is always best with a true start" Keep them wheels a rolling Sir/Mam! Love you and yours always and forever!
P.S. My mama brought me to your melody with the Red Headed Stranger and Hello Walls some 30 something years ago!
USA1BODYSHOP 4 months ago
It is about time that we speak up, this is a time in HISTORY that will change AMERICA FOREVER.... About DAMN TIME.
michaeljameslester 4 months ago
We love you Willie ♥
HempOilForPower 4 months ago
@apumpkinful Yes, he IS the 1%....i.e.: "We re the ones WITH the 99".
And they basically said in the poem that they are willing to "pay their fair share".
artisanrox 4 months ago
Thank you Willie and Annie ^_^
artisanrox 4 months ago
Willie, who is a multimillionaire and who is one of the people these idiots are protesting against makes an ignorant video like this... Come on Willie, go smoke another one. “Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks; if you don't have a job and you're not rich,(Willie is VERY rich and has a fantastic job) blame yourself!”
Wendell1961 4 months ago
Thanks Willie and Annie! We have a voice and are no longer asleep. we are quite rested and ready for the revolution against the 1% corruption. WE ARE THE 99%. We are the ones you have been waiting for.
MamaLooja 4 months ago
Thanks Willie and Annie! We are the ones with the 99. During the last couple of years I've taken a stand against our drug laws protesting alone on a daily basis and am now before the courts having been jailed for a half year in remand. I feel vindicated that finally the world has begun to stand up. We shall overcome....
budoracle 4 months ago
I love it
Gsantollo 4 months ago
99% is still 70,000,000 people. I guess it is a metaphor, but it's more like the we're the 99.9999%
Elite1987 4 months ago
Thanks Willie
ironplums 4 months ago
NO NOS QUEDAREMOS CALLADOS. América, spaniards support you! SEE: .youtube.com/watch?v=SjUIEAZr4Yo
FlorVenenosa91 4 months ago 2
hey willie get merle too!!
vivascargill1 4 months ago
We Will Not Remain Silent! Gracias por su apoyo. And yes I sometimes feel like we have gone to the other side of the looking glass too.
celtiac 4 months ago
I do believe 99 percent of the population is getting screwed by the 1 percent all whom are in congress & bankers & insurance companies!!!
mds1954 4 months ago
Love your music, but this idea of "the 99%" is a crock. 47% of Americans pay NO Federal Income Tax. I am part of the 53% that do, and I find the OWS movement to be based on envy, laziness, and wanting something that was not EARNED.
elvisiseverywhere 4 months ago
@elvisiseverywhere So with that said where does Willie stand? Give me a break, there is something bigger going on here than the losers who do not want to work. Wake up smell the coffee and quit drinking the koolaid.
VedderState 4 months ago
thanks guys. you have no idea how much this means to us :)
reverendbug 4 months ago
I'm not an American, so I'm not entirely certain of the context of this. Would anyone care to explain?
aaronschmitzer 4 months ago
@aaronschmitzer the 99% refers to the Nelsons support of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Yesterday there were protests in London, Madrid, Rome and New York City against Wall Street greed and economic inequality in the USA and in the world!!
WE are the 99% against the 1% -- Pretty good odds!
join us!
baimudan 4 months ago 20
@aaronschmitzer - Presently, protesters are camped out in our financial district in NYC (Wall Street). The protests have spread all around the country and now the world. It is America trying as best it can to clean our own house. Wall Street has too much control over Congress, the laws, after 8 years of George Bush and a Republican Congress which allowed the lobbyists to write a mountain of deregulaton laws now favor Wall St. against the consumer. People have to do something. It begins here.
ArriDP 4 months ago 2