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http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
You won't find the word "freedom" in there anywhere.
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Show us, do, where the Democrats have anything to do with formal support or endorsement of the "occupy Wall Street movement".
"Resist, we much. We must, and we much. About that, be committed."
If your post was meant to go to me rather than yourself, would have to say that as a liberal independent,
"Resist, we much. We must, and we much. About that, be committed."
Yes, millions did go to Freddie Mac and there certainly ought to be closer scrutiny of who got what in exchange for a job poorly done. But Freddie's behavior was bit less visible in comparison to the big investment banks of Wall Street.
Maybe all that PR money was a sound investment from the FMs' angle: http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2008-07-17-fannie-freddie-lobbying_N.htm
Your last statement seems a bit misinformed. From the above link: "Neither one makes loans on its own, and they were not directly involved in the subprime mortgage fiasco."
Your last statement seems a bit misinformed. From the above link: "Neither one makes loans on its own, and they were not directly involved in the subprime mortgage fiasco."
Their involvement goes a bit deeper than making loans, which they do not do. You have to understand Freddie and Fannie's role to know what they had to do with the crisis.
Saying that they
"Resist, we much. We must, and we much. About that, be committed."
Your earlier statement in regards to the FM's was this:
"Resist, we much. We must, and we much. About that, be committed."
"Resist, we much. We must, and we much. About that, be committed."
Yep...not to mention that a lot of people who make the above claim are self proclaimedTPers who apparently don't have a clue about what the Constitution actually says...or perhaps consider the original wording irrelevant to the Cause. Ironic.
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