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In reply to the discussion: Joseph Stiglitz Sees Terrifying Future for America If We Don't Reverse Inequality [View all]Blanks
(4,835 posts)and they'll do it again. Among the first thing that the occupiers wanted: money.
You can't run an army without resources, and since this is the only resource we recognize.... There you have it.
I gave the local occupiers my farm fresh eggs (and a huge bag of pecans) on a couple of occasions, they seemed to appreciate it and all, but they really seemed to lack direction IMHO.
'We' are never going to get anywhere without a plan to hurt 'them'. This long running unemployment coupled with
Obama's threat to eliminate oil company subsidies; has that group on the offensive.
That's what it looks like when you hurt them. They get ugly, and are somehow able to rally every redneck in this country to bitch about the president. The cost of gasoline is down at the pump, and it coincided with an action by the president. Remember 2008 prices. Hillary Clinton said the president could do something about gas prices; Bush did nothing, Obama took a stance.
When he stands up to a huge industry like that; we should be more supportive. We should remind the rednecks that he's on the job; trying to keep a day on the local (government owned) fishing hole still within their financial reach.