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We are the 99% (Original Post) Playinghardball Jan 2013 OP
Problem is, every bullet point is misstated... People b4 profits Jan 2013 #1
 
1. Problem is, every bullet point is misstated...
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 05:43 PM
Jan 2013

The rich will always use their wealth for unfair advantage. Only solution is to eliminate the rich.
Corporations, their nature being only concerned with profits, will always govern us. Only solution is to cripple them so they have no power.
Capitalism is corrupt by nature, as corrupt as its most "successful" practitioners. Only solution is to eliminate it and have a people-based economy.
Banks, by their nature, create wealth for themselves and their owners while extracting value from everything else. Solution is to castrate them so that they have no power.
Investment markets. Please. They exist ONLY to create an imaginary profit for (AGAIN!!!) the owners of capital. Solution is to restrict investing to true investing - no multiple layers of financial scamming. There is no real investing occurring when the average asset is held for 29 SECONDS!
Democracy has never really been tried here in the US. Its perverted, defective brother republicanism has prevented that.

Playing to not lose too much, ala the Vichy-Dems, only slows the torture. It does not change the ultimate outcome one iota.
Half-assed "reforms" are long past having any chance at reversing the downward spiral of this country, and the world. Might as well build some more ineffective levees on the shore to hold back the rising sea.

Go big or slink home.

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