LookieNoNookie
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We wouldn`t have to jail to many or seize very many companies,just like with traditional strike breaking,you just have to jail/punish/penalize a few and the rest will follow.
We pass laws saying labor CAN`T strike for reasons of security and the economy,don`t we?We call out the national guard to step in,yes?When labor strikes,cons call for all kinds of government actions that mirror dictatorships trying to take their people`s freedoms and rights away,yes?
We can do the same with capital.What`s good for the goose is also good for the gander.
The economy,our economy, belongs to everyone,not just the 1%.
That the wealthy are the "golden goose" is an un-challenged assumption.They are not the economy.76% of our economy is consumer spending.That`s us.
Capital didn`t create that.We did.They are just the one`s making the most money from it.The economy doesn`t belong to them,the market place doesn`t belong to them.Those thing belong to everyone.
Yet because they control a small part of it,they are going to hold our prosperity hostage?!!!!
I say,tell them FUCK YOU!
Corporate America is making record profits right fucking now! And they`re going to hold out so and until they can get even more out of our hides?!!!So they can make billions more on top of the billions they`re making now?!!!
I say 1st off,any company not producing jobs should lose the special tax breaks....period.Then that money should be put to creating jobs elsewhere.I don`t care if it`s business or a government job.
If you don`t think it`s possible to do this or shouldn`t because capital owns the economy,it just might be a slave mentality working.
I'm gonna tell you a few secrets that apparently you weren't privy to growing up (as well as a few places you're correct):
I'm gonna guess (it's a gut feel, but I'm going with it) that you're not part of "the 1%" (neither am I by the way...but, I think the main difference between {possibly} you and I is...I believe I can be).
The 1% know inherently that the economy "belongs to all of us". You are 137 and 3/16th's correct on that subject. The 1% however, agreeably, can afford more of it than you can.
And you reserve your wrath for those who have worked hard and done well.
Amazing. Sorry, poor choice of words.....I meant.....stunning.
The 1% aren't even remotely concerned that there are some (many, actually) that believe they're "the man, putting their thumb down on all the rest of (you)". They are vibrantly clear that's what the 99% believe. They're simply too busy providing you with a job to give a shit.
They also know it's not true. They know that you could be a part of the 1% as quickly as you chose to be...as they chose to be. By sacrifice, in many cases.
The reason why they don't spend a whole lot of discomfort with this issue is because they're doing something. They're making decisions and investments that provide jobs. Maybe not as many as you'd prefer at the moment, but far more in the last 12 months than you'll provide in your entire lifetime. They devote a great deal of money and effort to that cause. Why? Because it's profitable to do so.
On a (vastly) smaller scale, why do you buy gas for your car to get to work?
Because it's profitable to do so.
Tell me something. Why the hell aren't you buying more gas? You're fucking the people that make gas. They need to make a living too you know.
Except for those with severe mental incapacity, there isn't anyone on this planet who can't be part of the 1%. The 99% clearly choose not to be. Whether by absolute decision or by default, they chose the easier path. Maybe they like their beer more than devotion to a goal. Maybe they're devoted to a religious goal mandating lack. Maybe they're just lazy. I haven't a fucking clue and I can assure you, I won't lose one minute of sleep tonight wondering why some people choose failure over success. It ain't my gig, nor is it my responsibility to carry anyone across the finish line just to prove it can be done.
My job is to get there first. And if that makes me an asshole or a corporate fuck....so be it. I can live with your derision. (Trust me....I'll do just fine with that).
Stephen Hawking, a man in a wheelchair with ALS (Lou Gehrigs disease) who needs 3 attendants to wipe his ass, who can only type or speak with his teeth and a stylus, has gained worldwide notoriety. He wrote a book...by himself, with his stylus about physics and black holes. Not exactly dinner time conversation, yet he sold millions of copies to people who'd never considered reading such a book because he made it interesting.
From his wheelchair.
Using a stylus.
300 pages.
With his teeth.
What have you done lately to shake the Earth off its axis (other than to bitch about why you or others lack)?
You want to say "FUCK YOU" to these people?
To Copernicus, who devoted his life and suffered unbelievable humiliation claiming that the Earth was not the center of the universe, dying a pauper but knowing he was right?
The Rothschild's, who changed banking in the 19th century (and made shitloads of money doing so) so you could have a credit card and a mortgage today?
Carnegie (Andrew) who in the late 1800's and early 1900's changed the face of this country by improving on the Bessemer process of making steel (and made shitloads of money doing so) which enabled rail companies to cost effectively transport goods nationwide, without which you wouldn't be sipping on that beer in your hand right now....or fresh corn from Iowa, and used the bulk of his money to establish the first libraries across the nation when books were considered priceless, and left a legacy and a bounty that exists still to this day giving out millions to people with great ideas, some of which have changed your life, some of which will change your children's lives.
You want to say "FUCK YOU" to people that changed the world by investing in YOUR future while you sit there and argue plaintively about why some have so much and so many have so little?
You're fucking with the wrong folks my friend.
These are people, the 1%, and they're largely people who have....changed the future. Your future. And at no expense to you, I might add.
Just so you could have one (a future), and a nice Frigidaire.
And they do it everyday, and they've done it throughout history, knowing they could lose everything.
You can be wealthy any time you want to.
(You just have to want to).
No one is stopping you.
Sorry, that isn't entirely true.
(There is one person stopping you from achieving your best).
< Message edited by LookieNoNookie -- 12/9/2011 6:18:51 PM >
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