Posted by floatingbridge on November 10, 2011, at 21:33:22
In reply to Re: The top 1% » sigismund, posted by Dinah on November 10, 2011, at 20:48:09
I think this is what people are angry about. At least I am. This is what I read into the OWS movement.
This is reported in a fairly moderate publication. A study by congress from 2008:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/
And another report this year, also featured on CNN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfvsHV_j-wk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
When Mitt Romney made his comments on corporations, I suspect it is something like the above studies his hecklers had in mind. I feel Romney blurs the line between corporations--large one's, not small one's, and equates that what is good for corporations is good for people. I see people and
corporations as two separate categories. I do not necessarily feel that what benefits corporations benefits society at large.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z9PsKhStx8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I have no idea what I would call myself. Maybe I would be called a socialist? I see the conditions of my local community degrading. The infrastuctures in Californa are in shreds from hospitals, schools, social services, our highways. The food banks here cannot keep up with local needs. Small businesses here are certainly struggling. The university system, once a jewel among state systems is reduced to nickel and diming their employees. They are now being run for profit as a corporation. That is the new model. Corporate hood. I personally do not agree that the goals of gaining and retaining the highest profit yields are in our society's best interests, and with little understanding of how economics work (I truly admit), I reject this model as being the only way for our country to be productive, humane, and socially high-functioning.
I dig a pony.
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