To me, there are at least four areas of concern I have regarding society's wealth: 1. Overall wealth of society, 2. How wealthy our poor are in absolute terms, 3. Upward mobility possibilities, and 4. Equality of distribution. I just listed, for me, those three things are in order of importance. I don't want people starving in our streets. I don't want kids to lack health care. I want the poor to be in better shape than they have been in the history of the world. But I am not concerned with the poor being equal to the richest--or even close to it. I also believe that by letting our society become as wealthy as possible--including some fabulously rich individuals--we best serve the poor. The Occupiers seem to prioritize things in this order: 1. Equality of distribution, 2. How wealthy our poor are in absolute terms, 3. Upward mobility possibilities, and 4. Overall wealth of society. I might be misrepresenting their position, and it's not an insane order to place those things, but... those just aren't the things that I value the most. Ed O.
If by "reeducation camps" you mean "don't let them pass 4th grade if they can't read, or pass 8th grade if they can't do enough math to balance a checkbook, or graduate if they don't know about civics" then yes, reeducation camps. How do you propose cleansing someone of narcissism, Herr? How would that help? It "worked" when the alternative was execution or life in a no-shit, for-real leaky dungeon. Right now, what's the worst that can happen? Jail time, where you get free food and health services?
Not even close. MSNBC is the worst ratings-wise of Fox, CNN, and the like. It hemorages money and would have gone away years ago without Microsoft spending $400M a year to keep it afloat. Olbermann went to current tv where he has the audience he deserves - in the thousands.
This made me want to see the ratings/viewerships. Here's a link. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...-saturday-sunday-october-29-30-2011-2/109101/ Ed O.
It was a tongue in cheek response. I don't believe you seriously think the majority of Americans are "Uneducated, Narcissistic, Non-Accountable"
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the-scoreboard-sunday-october-30_b95790#more-95790 This site has rating but only for the 25-54 demographic (I have no idea why the limit it to that). It shows MSNBC leading the pack of cable news The data from Ed's site is more comprehensive though. Fox kills it on Saturday with the 35-64 demographic.
Like it or not, Fox kills the competition head to head. Like O'Reilly's show #1 against Chris Matthews or Olbermann or Maddow. And by millions of viewers.
So you think if more people watched MSNBC it would actually help them be better educated, more thoughtful and accountable?
No, it would be brainwashing. MSNBC doesn't have any real actual news anymore, it's just a bunch of left wing talk shows. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57154.html
Thanks Brian. I was going to post exactly the same thing. And clearly shows why we are in trouble in this country.
Since it keeps being brought up by anti OWS posters trying to confuse the issue... OWS is at it's base protesting the fact that the top 1% wealthiest (not highest paid) people in America (some not even American citizens) have secured complete control of the Government of The United States of America and are using it for their own purposes. It's not a protest about income disparity or tax disparity, it's about re-installing an honest government of, by and for the people. This is not something a new tax plan will fix. Americans want their government back and the enemy created DHS specifically to protect them from this inevitable revolution. When this thing refuses to die out quietly, martial law, curfews and mass internment of American citizens will commence.
Background In mid-2011, the Canadian-based group Adbusters Media Foundation, best known for its advertisement-free anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters, proposed a peaceful occupation of Wall Street to protest corporate influence on democracy, address a growing disparity in wealth, and the absence of legal repercussions behind the recent global financial crisis.[12] According to Adbusters' senior editor Micah White, Adbusters suggested the idea on their email list in mid-July and “it was spontaneously taken up by all the people of the world.”[12] At their website they wrote: "Beginning from one simple demand—a presidential commission to separate money from politics—we start setting the agenda for a new America." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
I think that you're as confused (if not more) about Occupy than I am. Which is difficult. Here's what the Portland paper says: Nope, nothing about DHS. Speaking of them, though, which component of those jackbooted thugs are the ones that are draining the Portland gov't of $200k in overtime? Or shooting Oakland protesters? Or arresting people in Atlanta? Is it the coast guard? TSA? FBI? CIA? Or is it policemen of the town that the protesters are being allowed to illegally squat in?
First, "decimating" implies that one out of every ten would be lost. The military is mandated that 90% of the force is composed of high school graduates, and all have to have graduated or have some equivalency (GED, CHSPE, etc). But don't take my word for the quality of recruits: BTW, the US average graduation rate is 70.1%.
