Posted on 12/23/2011 4:03:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Some of the leading proposals to solve the country's economic and political problems, offered by members of the Occupy movement who were interviewed by The Associated Press:
— Impose a 1 percent "Robin Hood" tax on large financial transactions, and use the money to support social programs.
— Reinstate portions of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that were repealed in 1999....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Oh, yes, AND
- Repeal the law of unintended consequences.
And we have a Xmas wish list of ignorant demands courtesy of AP-Obama and WSJ-Obama.
Nice of them.
The DNC is ought to pay slave reparations. $8 trillion ought to do it.
ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha........what a supreme group of morons. sorry, these yokels are the stupidest people on earth.
The only appropriate “slave reparation” must include a one way ticket to Africa.
I've heard a lot of people on the right supporting this. Key words are “portions” not all of it. I know it was a law that forcibly separated different banking structures to keep them honest. I don't know if it worked, didn't work, or worked but caused worse problems. Anybody else more informed like to comment on that? :/
If we paid reparations would that mean we could do away with welfare/big g’mint once and for all?
If we paid reparations would that mean we could do away with welfare/big g’mint once and for all?
— Instill a fair conscience and a sense of morality into the minds of big decision makers.
LOL! Seriously? You want us to somehow make Democrats have Morals and a Conscience? That’s a pretty tall order...
Didn’t they include those new Air Jordan tennis shoes in their wish list?
I’m for paying reparations to anyone who can prove they were once a slave.
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These imbeciles can’t seem to grasp the concept of individual responsibility, nor do they understand that taking money from people who have earned it and giving it to professional slackers will improve either.
Another group of “highly degreed” but poorly educated products of our overpriced, underperforming, imitation education systems.
will NOT improve either.
Wednesday my wife an i were driving in downtown Sarasota when we saw one of the scuzzy Occupy people standing on the sidewalk holding some kind of lefty sign that had a quote from Goethe. When my wife gave him the thumbs down sign, he really got a weird look on his face, like he couldn’t believe that everybody didn’t agree with him.
As for reparations the Blacks Have already gotten them from Obama,Read The Pigford case to see the BILLIONS in reparations that you have already paid for and are continuing to Pay
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