Comments on: Occupy Wall Street

By: buckaroo5

buckaroo5 — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:09:12 +0000

The President,as leader of his party, once again expressed that every American should pay his fair share in taxes. One sizable loophole in the Federal Tax Code is TAX EXCLUSION INCOME. It is time to do something about this unfair tax revenue placed disproportionally on small business & especially the self-reliant. The President is correct we are all in this mess together. It is time to correct the inequity of Tax Exclusion income for some rather than for all workers earning income & paying taxes on all received income. There is no reason for this inequity especially after the President many request for equity.

By: Hodja1

Hodja1 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:47:40 +0000

Republicans have made an official announcement that The American Dream was actually intended to be called The American Fantasy. Everyone should adjust their thinking accordingly, get over themselves, and let the wealthy do what the hell they want because they are Job Creators.

By: roussellej

roussellej — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:51:54 +0000

we need to change congress get the money out get the lobbists out. sign get the money out.com

By: Phula

Phula — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:13:56 +0000

The board members are responsible for delivering value to their shareholders, employees and customers. They are likely graduates of good schools and universities where they likely studied hard to achieve their goals. They have probably spent a great deal of their time away from their families as they developed a career. The janitor is probably a high school dropout, who didn’t have the skill, knowledge or talent (perhaps opportunity, though with all the grants/aid available that’s hard to believe)to get out of the Bronx, to move somewhere to improve his children’s chances of success. There is no reason for someone who has been brought up to earn $30K should “have” to live in the Bronx if they don’t want to live there, and LOTS of people succeed who’s parents were janitors – I know I did. My dad worked as a union laborer for the garment workers union until they drove the manufacturers out of business with unreasonable demands. He ended up (at 55 years of age with 2 children at home/in school) working as a janitor for the Bd. of Ed, in a non-union job, to help his family, until he died.

By: PatG

PatG — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:24:33 +0000

I agree that “Occupy Wall Street” needs to get organized. Do they want a flat tax? Do they want more regulation of Wall Street? They can also get more of the 99% of the country they believe they represent behind them if they could better articulate exactly what they want from their government. They can become a very powerful group during the 2012 election year.

By: RAY1933

RAY1933 — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:53:50 +0000

The beast we seek has a thick hard skin but we can get to him from within. We can start with the corrupt Washington D.C.. The ones who make it possable for the beast to enslave us.

By: voxon123

voxon123 — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:52:07 +0000

Everyone has a different complaint… the heart or root of the problem is the structure of “corporations”. They allow the 1%, the board members etc. to decide who gets what. Thus, the members vote themselves a 3 million dollar salary, while deciding their janitor deserves only $30,000 a year. Thus one goes home to a mansion in a beautiful neighbor, while the other to a government project apartment in the Bronx, where he send s his children to failing schools. Where they are being educated to take their father’s place as future janitors when dad retires.

By: Michael1984

Michael1984 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:29:41 +0000

What is needed is a 35 hour work week and a way that the wealth can be divided more justly.

By: Camille82

Camille82 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:40:25 +0000

The Daily Mail is a British tabloid. You wouldn’t quote the Enquirer, a US sensational tabloid, would you?
All the photos taken by people I know or know through others are showing people doing art, protesting peacefully with senses of humor, collaborating, planning, cleaning, and helping each other.
Don’t buy into it! The defamation of the protestors is what the 1% wants. Think about it – it’s going to get cold in NYC really soon…those people care enough to be there. The least we can do is not spread gossipy magazine crud about them.

By: philpearl

philpearl — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:23:06 +0000

A petition has been posted to the “We The People” White House web page, asking the Administration to implement Voter Referendums on issues that the Washington political system is unable ( or unwilling ) to resolve.

Details can be seen at http://wh.gov/4rM and if you agree with the aims, please give it your support and sign the petition.