99 Percent, Wealth Inequality in USA, Bank Mergers, and Occupy Wall Street

Karl Rove gets Mic Checked during speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ePZHSOmvQ #occupybaltimore Mic Checks Karl Rove
members of #OccupyBaltimore mic check Karl Rove during a speech at Johns Hopkins
"Mic Check! Karl Rove is the Architect. The Architect of OccupyIraq. The Architect of OccupyAfghanistan. The Architect of tax cuts for the 1%. The 99% think it's time to #Occupy the Architect. To #Occupy the Architecture. Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Baltimore. Occupy Johns Hopkins. Occupy America. Liberate America. Occupy everything. Occupy everywhere. Occupy together. We are the 99%."
15 hours ago by iandangerest

More than 49 million Americans — even more than thought — live in poverty, new measure finds
In September, the government reported that a record 46.6 million Americans were living in poverty. But a new report released Monday by the Census Bureau using a more sophisticated method to measure poverty rates has found that the true figure is even higher: 49.1 million, or 16 percent of all Americ...http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/more-49-million-americans-even-more­-thought-live-172552290.html http://www.thesoapboxroadshow.com/BlogAmericanDemocracy/

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[Blairtim69]

Your videos should not single out republicans.

When you do this you isolate half the country.

Your videos should reflect the crimes of both parties. They are both liars and cheats.

Not today, and not tomorrow, but soon both parties will have a rude awakening. Both are filled with the 1%. How many members of either party are not of the 1%.

They protect and serve themselves.

[Ralphdraw3]

@Blairtim69 We have a two party system right now. Republicans love businesses and low taxes on the wealthy - ever since Ronald REagan. If you know of a political party supporting regular people and poor people, let me know about it.

[Blairtim69]

@Ralphdraw3

I no longer believe we have a two party system. I believe we have a one party system divided into colors. The democrats seem like they support the middle and lower classes, but where was the enforcement of TARP?

Democrats voted to help pillage pension plans. The Democrat’s health care plan catered to their lobbyists, big pharma and others.

[Ralphdraw3]

@Blairtim69 Then who do you vote for in 2012? FYI: Citizens United Going Down? Democrats Introduce Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Ruling huffingtonpost com

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court may treat corporations like people who can spend whatever they want on elections, but the American people don't have to accept it, said Democratic senators who proposed a constitutional amendment Tuesday to retake control of campaign spending. The amendment, introduce...

[Blairtim69]

Mr. Ralphdraw3

Why didn’t you include Democrats in your cartoons? Did they enforce the key provision of TARP which was to keep people in their homes?

They take lobby bribes as well.

Jon Corzine is a Democrat.

The SEC is filled with ex financial thieves.

Democrats are just as guilty as the republicans.

Soon we will have a nation for the people by the people.

[Ralphdraw3]

@Blairtim69 All the liberal/Democrat appointed Supreme Court justices voted against the Citizens United decision which opens the floodgates to corporate money in campaigns - the vote was 5 to 4. The 5 Republicans on the SCOTUS - Thomas, Scalia, Alito, Roberts, and Kennedy voted in favor of Citizens United. Democrats Introduce Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Ruling huffingtonpost WASHINGTON The Supreme Court may treat corporations like people who can spend whatever they want on elections,

[glorp896]

@Blairtim69 Duopoly is the better spelling... i just keep asking them, HOW HIGH AN INCOME OR TOTAL WEALTH MUST THEY HAVE BEFORE YOU TAX THEM MORE? it seems the sky is the limit with these Ayn Rand insane people... no amount of wealth in the hands of one is sick, evil, obscene or of moral questionable nature... and conversely, how low can wages go WHILE the owners are making SO MUCH can you stand before you cry FOUL-UNFAIR and that 1%ers suck!? a total wealth tax NEEDS to be broached

[Blairtim69]

@GOPkicksbutt

Instead of lowering the minimum wage from below the working wage, to unlivable wage, we remove tax breaks from companies that move overseas, and give those tax breaks to companies that open factories here.

Eliminating Medicare will add millions to unemployment, and put hundreds of thousands of elderly on the streets.

 We need our wealthy to actually pay their fair share in taxes. 15% or less is not fair.

[Blairtim69]

@GOPkicksbutt

It was republicans that removed the regulations from the financial institutions, voted to allow companies to pillage pension surplus, cut taxes at a cost of over 1trillion in ten years, started a war without proper funding, and allowed insider trading in congress. It was conservative judges labeling corporations as people, and allowed them to destroy our election process.

It is the conservatives that have done nothing for one full year in the house.

[Blairtim69]

@glorp896

I now concede on the point many people made here.

I have been trying to talk and debate with some conservatives, and found they are not interested in compromise of any type, or even a willingness to even listen and check facts.

They refuse to even look at evidence.

[glorp896]

@Ralphdraw3 wow ralph, never had to make my comment in under 2 minutes before as my comments get interrupted by your next video - this is upsetting to the long winded of us losing our comment, not good... i'm a racist voting for obama, pretty cool huh?

[glorp896]

@Blairtim69 the repubs are far worse at protecting the very rich while dragging their feet as to raising the minimum wage - i've seen it for decades... they deserve MOST of the opprobrium OBAMA is trying to feed them --- u make the point Nader likes to make, DUOPOLOY

[RunningHalo3andMW2]

@Ralphdraw3 The libertarians aka Ron Paul

[GOPkicksbutt]

Thanks to liberal policy the world economy is crashing. We must do two things to stop the meltdown NOW!!! Firstly, we need to raise all payroll taxes 10% for one year. We also need to stop (right now) wasteful handout programs like medicare, social security, unemployment,, etc. and lower the minimum wage to $2/hr so we can compete with China for jobs. I will work with Cantor, Paul Ryan and my other republican colleagues and take immediate action on these proposals. God bless the GOP!

[TheForwardGaze]

I love your graphs. Liberal and social democratic state capitalism is the middle road and has lead to enormous shared prosperity and freedom (negative liberties), but it's also easily corrupted. I think the permanent solution is to create a drastically different public education system, or to transition to participatory democracy. Keep the good videos coming.