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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wealth and Corruption vs. Democracy, or What the 1% vs. the 99% Really Means
What bothers me the most about the 1% is not necessarily rich. That's annoying when I think about the people who orchestrated the "crash of '08", also being the ones who then received bailouts AND huge bonuses(at tax payers expense). THAT is annoying. But what really pisses me off is that THOSE people are the ones who now or still run the government. I don't like that the 1% have a voice in Congress and I don't. I don't like that the 1% can spend as much as they want to make sure the government is run so they continue to profit, at the expense of the OTHER 99@ and particularly the bottom 25%, which includes children and old people. I don't like that a country that bills itself as a democracy in run exactly like France before the revolution. It is not right that a true non-profit group like MTPeoples Action has a limit on how much they can spend on "lobbying" and a FOR profit org. like NorthWest Energy and NO limit. I hate that the Supreme Court is so corrupt, and the Congress is corrupt. THAT's what pisses me off. I like democracy. I don't like oligarchy, or fascism, or whatever it is we have now.
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