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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 1% Has Been Looting Us For A Generation
What Is A Little Broken Glass Compared To Trillions Stolen From The Powerless?
I don't approve of looting, but it us usually done by the filthy rich who are above the law, and don't pay taxes like working fools.
They didn't get their 50 TRILLION by playing by any fair rules now did they?
The government works for them. For every penny a person gets on welfare some fat cat gets a Caddillac.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)JI7
(89,247 posts)everyday . ESpecially these days when they have been closed because of the virus.
And I have a feeling that the people breaking glass and looting are not voting in any elections to prevent the looting by the 1 percent.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)I don't want my windows broken.
It's just the real theft is going on waaaaay above us, but we just can't see it.
Every time you pay a bill, and half the money goes to our "owners".
There is a reason why every one of our bills are much higher than the same services in other advanced countries.
Monopoly control, and price fixing.
Then the fact that people who work pay the taxes, and people who own don't. They just grow their wealth. See The Waltons, and the Kochs.
The looters need to go to jail. Especially the billionaire ones.
JI7
(89,247 posts)better system compared to many other states when it comes to things like minimum wage, unemployment etc.
Because we voted for people who would support those things.
radius777
(3,635 posts)Most of the breaking of the store windows, arson and other actions to 'kickstart' the looting etc seems to be done by white individuals who are heavily disguised and there for reason(s) other than racial justice.
Hav
(5,969 posts)It's those businesses that also provide jobs and where you can buy essentials like food so that schools don't have to beg for their students.
The disgust for the abstract 1% clouds the judgment and lets us enjoy the misfortune of others who are anything but the 1%.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)COVID. People who are destroying and looting don't give a fuck about George Floyd. In fact his brother told people to stop yeasterday because it dishonored his memory. Fuck looters.
58Sunliner
(4,381 posts)People in expensive cars picking up bags of stolen merchandise, organized. How about we break out your windows and loot your home. Are you ok with that? You know who is going to suffer? The poor. No paycheck, no money, no food, no housing. All during a pandemic. Fuck this post.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)It's just our country is looted every day. Legally. Now the people that have nothing want a piece of the action. This isn't going well.
Captain Zero
(6,802 posts)one