pbs is owned too. don't get it twisted. PBS gets grants and underwriters from wall street corps. This ensures the wall street co. will not have any negative or even objective information reported.

To Maggie: "Time to dump the party system and get some decent honest people into those seats - if that is even possible!"

First, the party system is the embodiment of "the evil of two lessers". Second, as to "decent honest people", that's impossible. By the time an otherwise honest person gets elected, he or she already owes favours to the necessary evil of financial backers. As soon as you owe favours, you can no longer be honest with no strings attached.

Note to VVVVVV VVVVVV

Enough already! You have posted this TOO MANY TIMES. Do you really have so little to say? Even your "handle" shows a lack of any thought. I'm trying to make up my mind whether you're an annoying mental midget or an actual troll.

blah blah blah blah blah.... cry me a river won't you?? this an every article out there like it serve one and only one purpose, to create envy and provide backing for the LEFT to justify its mob campaign agianst anyone who has it *better* than anyone else. When did freedom include the RIGHT to either have more than the other guy or the same???If you want to complain about all of the imported goods from a comunist country, i.e. the dealings of Wally World, then you have my attention. Of course, you can't bring this up without bringing up the fact that we all demand more for less and could not afford the products we buy from foreign factories if people in America made them at the wage they expected to receive...And... yes, there is the age old question, why not simply tax those with more (aka the *rich* (not sure where the *wealthy* come in)), in order to fund all of the BS programs that both the LEFT and RIGHT have felt the need to install at federal, state and local levels of goverment... Of course, you could simply force government to leave within their means.... ah, but that is a different article, a different thread...Thanks again for once again putting something out there that stirs the pot by identifying what *some* perceive as a problem, without, of course, proposing a solution... Tell you what... if you came into my office with a problem and without a solution, you would be sent out faster than you got in...Thanks so much for stating the obvious, apparnetly for the sole purpose of filling some internet blog space...

The true amount of people that remain on welfare when our economy offers the means to become prosperous are a very small percent. These that remain are stuck in their lives and have no clue about the joys of learning and living.
The problem today and why the welfare system grows so fat is the economic model of the "Trickle down Economy" and those being on the upper most level have forgotten how this model works. For several decades downward flow decreased exponentialy while the cost of living in all areas rose exponentialy.
Obtaining an education so that one could get a lucritive career had most frustrated at the reality of dwindling fields to choose from coupled with a huge debt owed for said education.

Being on welfare sucks , who the hell would want to live a life on meager scraps that just kept one able to survive. Those who intentionally opt out for this are not in their right mind to start with. The majority would never choose this but instead would opt for a full life of their own choosing further cultivating themselves discovering their potential and those around them. This is an awesome life that enriches . Welfare ??? are you joking!!!! The majority of us wouldn't even entertain the thought... THINK before you write such ridiculous nonsense

Remember the corner grocery store? Wallmart lobbied to make them illegal, making laws against free enterprise along with apple pie and Mom. It's unpatriotic to shop at Walmart. I have no clue why anyone who considers themselves an American would shop at a company that spends its life on its knees in front of China.

Yeah, because the Waltons worked SO HARD for their wealth. Guess we can forget about all the low wage workers who are actually responsible for the Waltons INHERITED fortune! God, what planet are you even living on? Yeah, like Walmart is going anywhere. Service industry jobs always stay home, and besides, what are they going to outsource? All their stuff is already made in China, genius. What are they going to do, close all their stores here and rebuild them elsewhere? Yeah, because they're going to make so much more money selling stuff to people who make 50 bucks a month making the products that go in their stores. Keep drinking that kool-aid, bub.

Occupy Everywhere

All of the shadows of everyday people
Checking their phones for clues
Trine to return from home to the steeple
With nothing to lose but the truth

Spinning around in cars and circles
Wannabees has-beens and news
Grinning like clowns in poke a dot purple
Can't tell the blood from the blues

All of the meadows of rainy day lovers
Auto umbrellas under their eyes
Blinding the teardrops when they discover
It's just one more lollipop lullaby

Forgotten kiss
Broken sky
Really care
Click on this
Occupy
Everywhere

© 2011 James Cull

Boycott WALMART...they are a huge part of the problem.

THE AMERICAN PIRATES OF WALL STREET, ARE KILLING AMERICANS.

This is not about glamorized or fictional piracy. This is, “real piracy.”

Hundreds of our wealthiest leaders and most powerful corporations know that in the next few years, they will be able to siphon, skim, and steal, so much “NEW CASH,” that they and their progeny will be ultra-rich for generations to come.

No, this is not funny, or fiction, or a conspiracy, it is just simple greed and simple theft.
The new pirates of America have launched an all-out siege on us in order to capture, amass, and hold trillions of dollars for themselves.

All of the recent political power grabs and nonsensical debating is purely a slight-of-hand deflection. President Obama, Democrats, Republicans, the International Press, and even the Tea Party, are watching the tiny pea in the shell game…while the rich and powerful “Piratical Right” is stealing America right out from under us.

Consider that their combined total plunder from corporate flipping, downsizing, offshore labor, speculation, price fixing of oil and energy plus, corruption in defense, healthcare, banking, student loans, foreclosures, etc., etc., is a trillion dollar treasure for these pirates.
Go ahead, put your own calculator to it.

Are they smarter than we are? Yes, and they are laughing at us. I, we, you, and all of us, have not been able see the big picture of what is happening to our own country and to our own people. The rape and theft of America, has been cleverly packaged, promoted, and sold under the guise of “cost-cutting,” “deregulation,” and “free enterprise.”

The “Piratical Right” is directly responsible for millions of people dying, getting sick, losing their jobs and homes, losing their ability to fight, their spirit, and even losing their will to live. The sick smell of this carnage now permeates the air across America.

To us, this is all unimaginable, because we look for some sense or the morality of things. These modern-day American pirates however, have no moral compass. They are devoid of any conscience, humanity or soul, and are feeding on the flesh of the American people.

Don’t look to the President, the Senate, Congress, the press, or any political party to help. Sadly, they just don’t see it, don’t care, or are part of it. “We the people” are on our own. Start asking questions. Demand answers. If we don’t fight back America…who will?

History has taught us how to stop piracy.

V

If we add the net worth of the top 3700 people of this country, I would not be surprised if it is more than the net worth of 50% of the US citizens. That means just 0.0001% of the population control the wealth of the nation and sets structures for the rest of us. Expose the true picture....

So this is what you can do if you own your own bank. Borrow from your own bank and leverage your stock options to the (Stock Markets) breaking point.
There are all thieves they just don't want to admit it!
Maybe they can get a tax bailout package too?

No, good for the Walton's lawyers who rammed their stores into every town, USA, wiping out thousands of thriving small businesses in the name of low prices. Welcome to America.

The French had a solution to the elitest and the greedy. It was called the French Revolution.With the fact that there are more people than jobs, a new world order will have to be established.The political officials will have to face reality at some point.

The Walton's have passed medical costs for their employees to American taxpayers by not providing medical benefits or making access to benefits unaffordable for their employees. Because they pay so poorly, many of their employee's qualify for free medical through Medicaid. We all pay for that. They have fought health care reform because now they will have to pick up some of the costs for their employees. I don't shop Walmart and never will because of this and their systamatic method of ruining small town businesses. They are a blight on the America we once knew and loved.

The rich get richer, while the poor stays poor. The rich get richer, while the poor stays poor. The rich get richer, while the poor stays poor. The rich get richer, while the poor stays poor. In a utopic society, these rich people would pay their same share as middle and lower class. Tea Party members thought they had the answers, but got to D.C. and saw status quo. You can't change greed if you never had money. A lot of these TP's congressmen and women and senators learned that even when you played hardball, it's the money that makes D.C. operate. You see when you are new to the game and you finally make more money in your paycheck and you are finally ahead on your bills, you start to think I need more greenbacks. That's the greed and need to return back to this cushy job with three hour lunches and days where you work from your home office simply because you don't want to come in, and still receive that 15000 plus paycheck every two weeks and cash it in a bank that we regular Americans no nothing about. You know they don't have to worry about spending their paychecks that we foot, because they pay on a card that we also foot. New money does this. It's like going to college for the first time and you get a new credit card. You spend, what do you care it's not your money, right. We foot the bill and then you tax us because we don't pay for your meals from boosters and lobbyists who want their agenda passed. Think again we want you to pay us for the charges on our accounts. Stop acting like we don't matter because we do. The rich get richer, while the poor stays poor. The rich get richer, while the poor stays poor. The rich get richer, while the poor stays poor. The rich get richer, while the poor stays poor.

So well said. Inherited billions made off the backs of minimum wage workers who were even, in many cases, kept without benefits by restricting their work hours should not be aggrandized. We cannot any longer keep quiet and eat the crumbs. We must Occupy the minds of those who consistently vote against their own interests, because they are told to.