Community | January 23, 2012 | 11 comments

Has the 1% already "Seceeded" from America?

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Thom loses his cool with Mitt Romney, who loses his cool with an Occupier.
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  • dugdog47
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      dugdog47  
    • Good video. Agrees with what must of us have already figured out . I say force the 1% to move to the Caymen islands so they can be with their money.

    • 4 months ago
  • ThirdSection
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  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • I'm certain the 1% haven't. It would be naive, imho, to believe they could.
      But the .01% are a whole different ball game than the 1%. Millionaires
      are light years away from Bilionaires. You hear of the nefarious evil
      designs of the infamous Koch Bros intermittently here on this website.
      But you never hear of Millionaires trying to buy the Government as if
      it were a sack of potatoes. It's important to make a distinction between
      those who are very comfortable, despite others' jealosy of their wealth,
      and those who are so obscenely uberrich they rig the game and delude
      themselves they own everything and everyone. I don't mean to criticize
      good souls who merely repeat what others say. But it occurrs to me we
      are better than that. Better than to pretend we're all so downtrodden we
      can't admire those who've been more ambitious than us, and strive to
      see significant wealth materialize in their lives. I owned a small business
      which fluorished for 5 years until the market went south in the 1990s.

      And I had a chance to see my dream of making legal easy money as
      fast as I could work to produce it. It made me feel empowered to build
      something fine. Being a refined person with both simple & expensive
      tastes, I figure I must be an exception to the usual rule. But I'm glad
      I had the cohones to make bold moves to build up a business at my
      own risk, and succeed in doing something great for as long as it lasted.
      I'm only a 4.0 law student. I won't pretend I'm worthy to even stand in
      the shadow of such a great humanitarian as Abraham Lincoln. But yet
      he advocated for people to strive to be Millionaires, rather than to tear
      down the Millionaires who are a functioning integral part of our society.
      I'm not a Communists because I'm a Teamster. Nor am I a fool to have
      made the points I have. I believe in, and support the OWS movement
      100%. But I am no God damned mindless crowd follower. I'm a leader.
      And I say ease up on the rhetoric. We're in the wrong country to storm
      the Bastile, folks.

    • 4 months ago
  • attilatheblond
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  
    • attilatheblond:

      I wish I could ^ that a few times, you're exactly correct.

      The military industrial corporations make up the 0.01% and it's obvious they care not for this country, except that they can use it like a cheap whore.

    • 4 months ago
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  
    • Has the 1% already "Seceeded" from America? Yes, of course they have. They have no clue how the 99% live. And when 1%er's like Mitt Romney try to pretend they do, they look like idiots! This country is already a plutocracy.

    • 4 months ago
  • warman1138
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  • The_Wanderer_Kansas
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      The_Wanderer_Kansas  
    • I deny that Russia, China, Cuba or North Korea are better in any way, and Mr Romney it is not the 99% who are dividing the country, when the vast majority are standing unitied against a common problem that sounds like solidification ad opposed to division. If anyone is dividing the country at this time its the 1%. They are the engineers of thier own troubles through agendas for personal gain over societal welfare.

      Thom is on point in this video, that the 1% do not care about the suffering of those they see as beneath them because thier own security and welfare is not at any risk. The only way to change this situation is to make it clear to them that thier amassed fortunes alone cannot protect them from the masses when a guilotine is finally erected in the "Belly of America" where the 99% slave away to keep the "Antionettesque" fed.

      Revolution is only violent when the masters leave the revolutionaries no other choice...

    • 4 months ago
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