tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post5673605527646283498..comments2023-05-07T02:42:28.740-07:00Comments on Whiskey and the morning after: We are the 99%, here's why we Occupy Wall StreetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post-44567460596739689652012-08-20T11:04:35.298-07:002012-08-20T11:04:35.298-07:00Words of protest only work when there is someone t...Words of protest only work when there is someone that hears. Wall street only listens to money.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14890035373496536421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post-63815098799847492382012-01-01T10:41:50.394-08:002012-01-01T10:41:50.394-08:00Very True! But we cant put it all on the Baby-Boo...Very True! But we cant put it all on the Baby-Boomers. They are vitims of Reaganomics due to the fact that they were told to invest in the stock market then lost 1/3 of their investments during the Reagan administration....then again under Daddy-Bush....now in the banking crisis. They took out second loans on their houses to send their kids to college and now they cant sell an under water house and they have run out of years to make it up...yet again. Those born in 1946 (Baby-Boomers) began working around 1967. They were the first generation who discovered what it is to be laid off. The generation before them could rely on getting a job....working ones way up...and building a nice retirement pension. That is the generation who are sitting comfortabley in AZ and FL. Boomers have been informed that their company cant cover the pension plan they contributed to....had their company close and move....they were the first to hear the word "down-sized" and the government always took the side of the company. They contributed to their company and social security and now, in the face of retirement, they are told there isnt any money to honor that agreement and they are to old to start over.<br /> Reaganomics converted this country into "Corporate America"....this is when the gap between corporate execs and the average worker began to float....deregulation became the wedge between worker and management. I have said for 20 years that workers are the cattle herd which corporate America feeds off of and my co-workers laughed at me....some have wised up.....some still want to blame the lazy...the drg addicted....the illegal immigrant...the minority groups....and refuse to see that their own elected officials are selling them down the river....the corporation they work for is whittling away at their futures...and corporations are taking more and more in fees and such month after month....to the point where workers will be back at the point where we owe everything to "the company store", so to speak...as in the 1920s. The drug companies wont be happy until every man, woman, and child is dependent on at least 3 drugs. A drug addicted, poverty stricken population is easy to control and give no opposition. This isnt where we are going....this is where we are!...and people simply wont see it....they refuse...all the while waving the flag and telling themselves how we are the greatest country in the world. It is going to have to take a much higher percent of the population to be effected before they will see. Occupy can still herald the warning though.Enquiringkittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06479902940445058547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post-52951585206028685762011-11-03T05:31:00.927-07:002011-11-03T05:31:00.927-07:00Spot On description of the 99%. They try to make u...Spot On description of the 99%. They try to make us look like we're the ones milking the system when they are the one actually milking the system. Reverse politics and fake victimization....I wonder who came up with that idea? Oh yeah, Karl Rove. Isn't he on the right side of things (pun intended).Big Al Frazierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453120600494420102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post-45994611400208466672011-11-02T20:54:55.064-07:002011-11-02T20:54:55.064-07:00Second. I don't care to work for swine. The &q...Second. I don't care to work for swine. The "pearls" of one's work is discounted. Like reading the Holy Gita before a donkey.(East Indian take on "pearls before swine")Malcolm The >:}https://www.blogger.com/profile/15751256356870565873noreply@blogger.com