"Michael Moore has confirmed that he will be visiting Chapman & Lownsdale Sq. this Monday, October 31st at 3:30pm. #OccupyPortland"
it sounds like they'll be occupying a park in the Pearl district because somehow they represent the 1% ? its pretty obvious they are just jealous that other people have money (or rent to live in a nice yuppie area). I'm pretty sure the average income in the Pearl isn't even close to $380k or how much it is to be part of the 1%.
wait a second. I thought the 1% was "wealth", not "income". Am I missing out? In one case, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates (who don't come close to making 380k in salary) are the 99%, but a heart surgeon is in the 1%, where in the other Gates and Bezos and Paul Allen are the enemy 1% and people who make 6 figures but are upside-down on their house are less wealthy than some homeless dude under the bridge (whose net worth ~0).
I think it's income, but it includes capital gains. How much income really matters is another question, of course... Ed O.
Good point. And yet minorities (20% of Portlanders) are conspicuously absent from the protest. Maybe the difference is NBA players are rich enough to buy backbones?
I went down to occupy portland today, and I have been a supporter (not a protester) but today I spoke with a few groups of people and was very worried about some of the things that one group of young men were saying. Basically, they were saying that the time has come to "beat down those fucking bankers with our boots". When I responded that this is a peaceful protest and violence is not the message to send, one of the kids said "the message I'll be sending is that if you help run the banks, you'll die." I walked across the street to the a policeman and told him exactly what transpired, and pointed out the kids. The cop thanked me and went to talk with the guys. Hopefully, it was just bluster, but that shit scares me.
...some are delusional and lack proper education on the main topics of discussion, but some of them are just impostors and phonies!!! [video=youtube;VrvMzqopHH0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrvMzqopHH0[/video]
It's possible, but not probable. The main kid talking about violence had shaggy hair and tats on his fingers.
This war memorial is being used as a makeshift water fountain and waste water disposal station. The memorial was donated by Mothers, Sisters and Wives of the fallen.
That's a neat drawing and all, but it's not exactly accurate. But I'm not surprised considering the source.
That the Tea Party was against Bush, the "Tax those evil fat cats into oblivion", The solution is to increase government control over the economy, we should be bailed out too, break the system, we deserve other peoples money and how they have the audacity to say "get the money out of politics (cept for unions)" when a lot of their movement was funded by the Koch brothers. But yeah, other then that the graph has neat colors.
1. They were against big-spending politicians (unless you're saying that Bush wasn't one?) 2. Fine. "Tax those evil 1%ers into oblivion" 3. "The solution is to keep the government spending high, and just tax those evil 1%ers more to pay for it" doesn't have the same ring 4. "Break the system" is absolutely a mantra. 5. "We deserve other people's money" How can you disagree with this? They want to tax rich people more and have their student loans (among other things) paid. 6. "Get the money out of politics" (except for the hundreds of billions that went from the stimulus to the unions 2 months after Obama took office. Hmm)
