Erin “Beijing” Burnett. Andrea Mitchell. Herman Cain. Donald Trump. Stephen Moore. Jonathan Hoenig. Chuckles Gasparino. Mitt Romney.
Now that The Movement is underway and cannot be ignored, it’s like they’re all reading from the same Roger Ailes-Chuck Koch-coordinated cue card:
“No one knows what they want!!1!!”, which, in turn, goes into “Those silly naifs don’t know it, but they’re mad at Obama’s failed policies!!”
Hermster Cain laughingly even pulled out the “bootstraps” card, telling the protesters to “Blame Yerselves” if they aren’t rich (assuming they all want to be rich in the first place . . . assuming).
You gotta wonder if so many people in so many powerful positions can be this clueless and out of touch and still walk erect.
Apparently, they can.
Especially when you consider that, economically, not much has changed from the previous administration as far as the Honey One Percenters are concerned.
Not one tax has been raised. Corporate profits are at record heights. 10% of the country owns 71% of the wealth. Not one person or entity responsible for 2008 has been investigated or indicted. Hiring, as pathetic as it’s been, has been reversed from 500-700k jobs lost per month. Life has not been made one atom-speck less comfortable for the ownershit class. They really have absolutely no reason to bitch or be “uncertain”.
The 99%? EVERY reason on the planet.
- The economy, for the past 30 years, has been primarily built on war/defense, pharmaceuticals, insurance, debt investment, technology and risky financial instruments; with the exception of technology, all unstable, speculative sectors and concentrate wealth and security on the top of the chain,
- Pretty much every social program has either been cut or de-funded, resulting in poor schools, crumbling infrastructure and a social safety net that isn't worth the paper it's non-existent plan is printed on.
- With the exception of the Clinton years, taxes on the wealthy have been lower and lower with each passing year, which is part of the reason for a 14 trillion dollar increase in the national debt (the other part being worthless, illegal and greed-based wars) and affecting the economy with booms, bubbles and crashes rather than steady job creation and real wealth building.
- Manufacturing, Automotive and General Industry in the US has gone the way of the Dodo, resulting in several million displaced workers, many of whom will be experiencing long periods of un/under-employment.
- College costs have skyrocketed while college degrees (thanks to there being substantially less jobs available than college-educated workers that can fill them) have become all but worthless.
- Our corporations have been overrun by Friedmanite bean-counters who refuse to veer from this predatory plan that has failed the overall economy for that same amount of time (you know, unless you happen to be well-monied . .. then it works out just fine).
- Incomes of the wealthy have increased anywhere from 29 to 1000 percent while the average worker makes, in real dollars, the same income he/she did in 1973 (this same condition was prevalent in the Great Depression as well).
- Job security no longer exists in many American occupational sectors, which now require massive amounts of time and expensive training to even get entry to.
- Offshore out/in-sourcing has replaced paying American citizens good wages and has jeopardized the future of at least 14 million jobs by 2015 according to one survey.
And people have the unmitigated gall to say “No one knows what they want?”
How about “STRUCTURE and STABILITY?” How about the notion of a fair living wage for an honest day’s work? How about the notion of long-term goals instead of short term gain and profit? How about REAL “shared sacrifice”?? How about making capitalism well-functioning, regulated and BORING again? How about not operating international business as if it were a whiskey-throttle casino in which the 1% wins at the rigged roulette wheel every time?
“No one knows what they want??”
Are you idiots still going to say that when we’re at the doors of your mansions, board rooms and limos?
WISE up. GROW up. SHUT up. No one’s buying your coordinated nonsense anymore . . . and you’re sweating.
