Occupy Oakland's general strike (poster pdf) is kicking off to the velvet strains of Dead Prez. Oakland's Grand Lake theater looks to be closed in support of the strike. Also going around: the pic below, which people say is of the Men's Warehouse store in Oakland.
The San Jose Mercury-News has a liveblog going. Twitter's a lot of it, with #generalstrike and #OccupyOakland. And from the Atlantic, a tactical note: If you get violent, you lose.
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The strike poster featured on last night's show is an instant classic. If you have one hang onto it. With a provenance it will be worth a lot much as are originals of posters for the Dead or shows at the Fillmore.
The poster reminded me of an old Che Guevara poster and Fox will jump all over it if they make the connection.
it will be worth a lot much as are originals of posters for the Dead or shows at the Fillmore
Classic - let's make money off the OWS movement. Hey, if these "posters" become really valuable then the folks that have them may become the 1 percenters! And since it is a "capital gain"....the taxes would be less :).
I really really lol when I read your blog. Some people here are hilarious, even when they aren't trying.
Yes Skip, and most of the really good material is provided by the GOP candidates.
I read this morning in the LA Times that what Wall street did with mortgages is now being done with used car loans. The bulk sale of loans screwing the purchaser and making a profit for the dealer. I support OWS and Occupy Oakland. It is time to stop the GREED!!!!!
I'm so right there with you!!! Every "THING" is NOT FOR PROFIT!! I am one of the 99% and so are you.....
"All things considered" interviewed the author of this story yesterday. (link) I didn't read the article, but on air the author said that the sad thing about this is that the people actually do need some businesses to fill this need because no one else will lend them money. The issue is that the dealers have the buyers over a barrel and can easily abuse the consumer asking high prices for the car, and unfair interest rates.
Any business that is closed today, is way more likely to get my business tomorrow.
...and to all of the people who keep ringing the tired and intellectually fallow bell that the 99% are anti-capitalism, no, we are not against capitalism. We are against capitalism without a conscience.
Don't you think the businesses closing for 1 day are thinking about that? Closing for 1 day doesn't impact their profits, the same way that not buying gas for 1 day doesn't impact the oil companies' profits. Their business will just come to the another day, probably within the same week. They're manufacturers don't have to shut down or slow production, their profit margins are measuring quarterly, not daily, and this has a likely positive impact on their customer base. If I was running a retail business I'd do the same thing.
Let's not act like this is impacting anyone in any real way.
@batabback
It's about symbolism. Businesses that closed in support of the Occupy movement meant to show their greatly appreciated support. They help no one at all, and certainly not themselves, by doing...what? What would you have them do? I'm at a loss to understand your point.
My point is that symbolic actions don't do anything. It's what gets remembered, but people forget how little they actually did. Martin Luther's "I Have a Dream" speech is the perfect example. The entire Million Man March was a public, popular movement, and it garnered a lot of support. To make sure it didn't boil over into violence, Kennedy agreed to meet with Dr. King after the speech, so the entire march led to a bit of talking and the dissolution of the Million Men. After Kennedy and Dr. King talked, nothing happened, and Martin felt cheated. So cheated, in fact, that after years of such results he wrote a letter to his followers saying Malcolm X was right, and that they couldn't win without making a violent point. Come his assassination and the Kennedy's, we're left with a man in charge who actually pulls the strings and gets it done, and the speech is remembered as an important part of the movement.
Though a moving speech, it wasn't important. It didn't accomplish anything it set out to. Again, if this movement wants to impact the 1%, they need to aim at them, not at independent business and local stores. Shutting down the docks is one way of making a point, but a one day general strike that only leads to 5% of the workforce staying home? That's nothing.
You're confused.
To clarify, Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March took place in '95, quite a number of years after MLK's '63 March on Washington. They are unrelated events.
You're wrong to suggest that Dr. King ever advocated for, or would sanction violence. It wasn't in his nature, and he was beloved by many because of it. His followers numbered 250,000 by the time they reached the Lincoln Memorial, and less than a year later, the Civil Rights Act was ratified. That's what it set out to do, and that's what it did. That's pretty significant, as far as symbolism.
To be sure, Dr. King's famous speech is still remembered, and often cited, some 48 years hence. Because the dream is still alive in many of us. We don't think that's unimportant. We all still crawl before we walk, before we run. Change takes time.
You're right. I don't normally speak out of turn without the congruent research, but my memory on the name of Dr. King's march was mistaken.
I disagree on your suggestion that Martin Luther King wasn't human. Even the man whose strategies he sought to copy was an opportunistic lawyer and wife-beater, but that doesn't change the fact that he did great things. While this is a subject I've spoken at length on with a number of my history and humanities professors, I've been looking for the sources that they showed me without any success, but I will keep searching for the letters that show what Dr. King was feeling and thinking during his time.
His personal beliefs aside, I agree that it was out of hand for me to say he endorsed violence, for even in his final speech he praises nonviolence as the course to follow.
The timing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is more due to Kennedy's assassination and Johnson's fervor in pushing it through the Legislative Branch than King's march.
Bravo OWS! Keep up the pressure and public presence. The media is still trying to lead the movement and distract the public. Just keep doing what you're doing. We know the Republicans have stalled virtually all of the Democrats bills (well over 200), virtually all of the Presidents appointments and many of the functions of the government in an effort to keep Obama a one term President. We know that the Republican Governors and legislators have killed a half million government jobs in the last year and have or are in the process disenfranchising millions of citizens from the voting process again all in an effort to keep the President from getting re-elected. Finally we know the right-wing corporate leaders have been sitting on two to three trillion dollars and refusing to invest them in this economy claiming that they're "nervous" even though dozens of them have come out publicly and said they too (after all they are all also Republicans who financially back the politicians) want Obama to be a one termer. All of these strategies are not secrets they have been openly published in conservative publications which is why every single Republican politician and businessman is doing the exact same thing in lock step.
I have never seen nor heard of a such a small group spiteful, adolescent people who have pitted themselves against the rest of their own citizens, their own country, their own children's future, just to hang on to a little more money that they really don't need. They are truly a psychopathic/sociopathic, delusional group and something serious needs to be done to the current batch of world leaders, and world corporate structure.
OWS is non-partisan and some groups are talking about occupying Republican and Obama's campaign offices and it is for a good reason. The groups are saying the Dems are just as bad as the Republicans defending the rich. And those groups are right. Obama is not going to get a pass by OWS because he is getting campaign contributions from the same lobbyists.
I don't believe I said Obama should get a pass. Nor did I say the Dems should get a pass. I was simply pointing out some hardcore facts. The last paragraph was directed at those moneyed, special interests who have corrupted both parties. The problem is for the past three years one party more than the other has done every thing in its power to completely stall our recovery in every way purely for political reasons. The Dems may not be much better but check the record. They put forward a couple hundred recovery bills under Pelosi ALL of which were held up by the Republican minority in the Senate. Yet another disgraceful record set by the Republican party. These are simple facts that the media don't tell you but are easy enough to look up, as are all the other facts I related in that comment.
I'm really interested in how the action -response will play out here. These young people are working with a different paradym than we have seen before.
When the protests first started they were ignored, then laughed at, then critisied and most recently attacked. That has been a pretty much standard back and forth if you look a social movements of the past.
The call for a general strike as a response that has not been used, at least successfully, often in this country. We all know what the 1% response will be. It is hard to predict what OWS will respond with. If the strike works the 1% will eventualy respond with force.
The main difference from the past movements is that OWS has the ability to interact in real time and the ability to research using the internet. Those two abilities amount to crowd sourcing as a leadership structure. If you think about that in a really big picture way, it almost perfectly reflects the way democracy is supposed to work.
Our government is not a pure democracy buta republican based structure in which we elect others to speak for us. The rich have figured out how to buy and control those representatives. They quickly bought out the Tea Party leaders and coopted it.
We know the rich have huge political and fnancial resources. Do the rich have enough to buy off the entire OWS movement?
I think the Republicans are running scared because of OWS. Instead of Obama and jobs being the issues in 2012, OWS may make income disparity the main issue. That is an argument that Republicans will lose. With public support on the side of OWS and the issue of taxation of the rich, Republicans will be forced to defend trickle down economics. Saying "Reagan" three times is not going to work any more magic. If Scott Walker is defeated, the Republicans are going to have to retrench and figure out how they are going to work the elections. Walker's defeat will end the Tea Party and quite possibly the ability to buy the elections in 2012.
In todays world it is truly amazing that we have that real time communication - although the bulk of those "tools" (internet, Ipads, cell phones) are the product of pretty large and successful corporations. And some of those products are made overseas relatively cheap but then marked up pretty high to be bought by all of us (OWS folks included). Corporate greed? I do think so. And again, as I've said earlier - kind of ironic, since if it wasn't for these large and very profitable companies the movement would probably not have that valuable communication tool(s).
The fallacy you're committing here skip is that you're presuming people standing up for the 99% are against the 1%. No one is trying to say you shouldn't be allowed to keep your earnings if you're in the 1%, but you should not be allowed to do so if it causes detriment to the society as a whole. Raising the top marginal tax rate to 40% and raising the capital gains tax and social security/medicare tax won't bankrupt anyone's pocket who belongs to the 1%. Failing to do so- however- will bankrupt those who are struggling to get by who are not part of the 1%. That is the whole point. I am not sure why this is so hard for people to understand. Nobody is saying don't make a profit, don't profit from your good ideas, don't come up w/ good ideas, etc. All people are saying is recognize that you owe something back to society and that you have a responsibility to help sustain the system which helped to make you part of the 1%.
Good points Mouzer - and I do agree that the tax rates and SS/Medicare limits be raised. But I still do think that the Occupy movement has some followers who don't like the amounts of executive compensation. I do think IMO that some of the protest would continue on the pay scales of the corporate officers even if they were paying 40% on their salaries. I think it is presumptious for you to say "no one" is against the 1% keeping the multi-million dollar paychecks. I have also seen more than a few signs railing against profit - maybe they are implying excessive profit only, but that was my point in the above post. Some of those firms like Apple and Microsoft (the companies that are the makers of those communication tools used by OWS) are making some pretty large profits - even after taxes. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are/were not billionaires because of inheritence.
The biggest issue with executive compensation is the 400 hedge fund managers who are getting fees and they are treated as capital gains which has a preferential rate. A secondary issue is the public perception of the compensation banks/Wall Street are paying their executives when they were bailed out by the taxpayers. This comes at the same time the banks are adding charges to people's bank accounts. The compensation is obscene to most people except the wealthy. The banks blundered and created OWS. However, the biggest blunder was Obama's failure to take more decisive action against the banks and Wall Street when he came into office. That is what fuels some of the Tea Party as well as the OWS.
I just heard on the news that the OWS movement (I believe the Oakland "office") has called for a Global one day strike to protest the "wealth" of the 1 percenters. Not sure if it is more defined to imply they are protesting the wealthy because they don't pay enough in taxes or just because they are wealthy.
I also heard yesterday that Bank of America has reversed their plan to charge $5 a month for their debit cards because they were losing too many customers to their competitors that didn't charge the fee. Point being, that if you don't like your bank charging you more fees go to another bank or credit union.
I also do wonder if some of the OWS protesters (and the general public) know that the bailouts to the banks have been paid back to the government with interest. So if the executives of the banks got obsscene compensation, it wasn't with bailout $$. In fact I do believe that AIG just paid back about 3/4 of a billion dollars this week.
OWS is protesting the disparity in income. Executive compensation, bank fees, etc., are sub-issues. People in and out of OWS believe the whole political and economic system is rigged. That is the simplest message for OWS.
I think most people are okay with Microsoft and Apple making profits because they make products that are useful and fun. However, luring people into mortgages and credit card debt by offering initially low interest rates and then making sure they never get out of that debt by raising the interest rate a ridiculous amount is neither useful nor fun.
I mean, watch TV sometime and see the absurd Visa and Mastercard commercials promising rewards for using your credit card. Seriously, rewards for going into debt? I don't want a freaking weather balloon, or "cash back"...I want a reasonable freaking interest rate. This is a scam. I oppose profits which are made by scamming people.
GrrlRomeo - if people are not sure of the fine print I would hope they would ask for help. I do not understand the "lured" concept. A credit card is an unsecured loan from a bank to you. They have NO collateral from you so they charge you interest higher than a mortgage or if you DID put up collatereal. And some of that interest and any fees charged are put against their bad debt account to offset the credit card holders that do not pay back their loans. I have more than a few credit cards with reasonable rates - because of my good credit (I understand not everyone has good credit and it may not be their fault) and because I shopped around. One of my previous credit cards had a low rate, then sent me a letter - which I believe is a law - stating that they were going to raise the interest rate. The letter informed me that if I did not want that new rate, all I had to do was write them a letter and stop using the card. I still had to pay off my balance but it was at the old rate. It is a little bit of a hassle to send a letter (AND stop using the card), but people have to take some responsiblity of their personal finances.
I totally understand that some people have the misfortune of losing their jobs or having other monetary issues, but the good majority of people out there don't pay attention to what they are doing and end up buying "wanted" items on credit rather than "needed" items and end up owing thousands of dollars on the unsecured loans. The same goes for mortgages. If the monthly mortgage payment is eating up the majority of you paycheck, then maybe you shouldn't get that big house and settle for a smaller one - or rent until you can afford it. I am being a little over-simplified and again, I know some people have had bad financial luck. BUT...a lot of people just don't take a little time to look out for themselves. If you don't want a weather ballon or cash back, there are thousands of credit card issuers that will have little or no programs and fewer fees - you just have to put effort into it. NO ONE is forcing you to get a credit card. We have to be adults some times and say no if it seem to good to be true or if you KNOW you can't afford more debt.
Ok, let's agree income disparity exists. Let's also agree taxes on the 1% should be raised. In the end, though, that won't solve the problems we face. When you have a 14+ trillion debt and a 1.3+ trillion annual deficit on the national level, and how many trillions at the state level, you have a spending problem. And that spending problem is primarily caused by the rich entitlements we have granted without thinking of how to pay. Health care is the latest example. If single payer was the answer, why are Medicaid and Medicare in trouble?
You cannot change the direction through brute mass demonstrations. The OWS group thought they could change direction by occupying a private park in downtown NY. What they didn't foresee was the blowback a long term occupation would have on the residential community. They didn't foresee that, providing meals, would attract many homeless and less than desirable NY'ers to the park.
In the end, the only way to resolve this is to vote for people who honestly can confront this long term problem.
The entitlements exist because the free market has failed in health care. These programs came into existence because there was no other entity that could take on these obligations. Any doctor who treats Medicare patients is not getting rich. The only people getting rich off Medicaid/Medicare are the middle men in the system. Medicare, like Social Security is funded by employees and employers. These programs were not adjusted based on actuarial tables because politicians did not want to lose votes. Finally, I would note that the inflation in medical care far exceeds the actual rate of inflation and this has been going on for over a few decades.
A lot of our debt was racked up by two wars and two tax cuts. We can't do much about the wars costs, but we can certainly do something about the tax cuts. I don't foresee Obama allowing the Bush tax cuts to be extended. That alone will make a significant dent in the debt. Cuts in the budget have been enacted and there will be more to come. But you can't cut your way out of debt.
While discussing topics like corporate greed and executive compensation are fine they don't really get to any solutions. Changing the structure of our free trade agreements so that they reflect a more balanced trade policy including equalizing our tariffs (like every other country does) will stop the flow of our jobs over seas and the flood of cheaper imported goods into our country boosting manufacturing businesses again.
Additionally, there has to be an overhaul of the judicial/law enforcement system. Those of us in the 99% can lose everything we have and end up in prison for ridiculous minor crimes while the 1% consistently get away with any and everything. One of our most important principles is that there is justice for all and all men are equal but those ideals have been ignored by the rich who believe themselves to be just like King George and those we originally revolted against.
Finally this "too big to fail" mentality which incidentally stretches to all western nations has got to be deconstructed. This is not the free market I know and love. We need to use the Sherman Anti-Trust Act or a newer version of it to start breaking up these huge multi-nationals so if they fail, they do so just like any other company would in the free market. Incompetence and corruption should not be bailed out, especially by our tax dollars.
Skip, if you don't understand the "lured" concept, then you don't understand human psychology. Will is a finite resource. If a bank does not thing a person will be able to pay back a $2000 credit limit, they should not give them that credit limit in the first place.
You asked why people don't get angry at companies like Apple. I answered. Some companies make a profit by offering products that simply people's lives...some companies make a profit by offering products that complicate their lives.
GrrrlRomeo, I think I give people more credit than you do. Banks do not know people personally and at the time someone gets a credit card, they may be OK financially. If a person continually defaults on credit payments or is always late, trust me the banks will stop offering them.
Will may be a finite resource, but part of being an adult in this life is exercising some judgement. I don't understand how some people think the government has to get involved in every aspect of life. Granted, there are many things local, state and federal governments shoud be doing for us but I do not want to have the government become a babysitter/advisor on what I eat, buy, do, or what credit card I get and how much they should charge me. If you do not like a product - be it car or a credit card - or do not like the terms of the purchase/use, then don't get it. There are plenty of alternative products/services to pick from.
I did not ask why people are not angry at Apple. I just found it ironic that part of the protest is against corporate greed and some of the richest, most profitable corporations are ones that make/sell the "communication tools" the OWS movement use so well - and if there wasn't a profit motive, I seriously doubt we would be this advanced technology wise.
OWS is protesting income disparity that is caused by the rich buying our politicians and setting the rules to benefit themselves to the loss of all others. This graph shows what the politicians did for the rich:
http://visualizingeconomics.com/2011/04/14/top-marginal-tax-rates-1916-2010/
That is how we got screwed. The only way to get unscrewed is to either tax the rich until they can not afford to buy our politicians or get the money out of politics so that politicians are responsive to the will of the voters. To get the money out here is a place to start:
http://www.getmoneyout.com/
All the other issues will become fixable when we get the death grip of the rich loosened from our government.
Things are so totally screwed up we can't all just go tilting at our own pet windmills we need to focus on the root problem.
Why did we get so little from the health care bill? The rich twisted to many arms. We pay the most in the world by far for our substandard health care. Who gets all the wasted money? The 1%. We need to get their money out and then we can fix health care.
Why bother even discussing executive compensation when we can do nothing until we get their money out of politics?
Why bother talking about oil subsidies when we are powerless to do anything? Get the oil money out and we can get the subsidies out.
Why bother talking about predatory loans we we are not in charge? Get the bank money out.
Get the money out.
All together now - Get the money out.
Go 99%
Skip, profit and greed aren't the same thing.
As to why the government needs to regulate the market, it's for the same reason it regulates building codes. We are all connected. If one building goes up in flames due to poor construction, it can catch neighboring buildings on fire. If many of your neighbors default on their mortgages, it can bring down the value of your house. That's the reality.
BBC America News is calling the OWS protesters anti-corporate greed protesters not anti-capitalist protesters.. An interesting take from the other side of the pond.
From the Atlantic article link above:
Those bygone events and Wednesday's general strike are different in all sorts of ways. Most notably, the International Longshoremen Worker's Union, which these days has a pretty sweet labor deal, is encouraging its members to work their normal shifts on the Oakland waterfront.
Interesting and ironic that a union is telling their workers to work during the general strike planned for tommorrow. A union not supporting a pretty large strike. I wonder what will happen when these union members try to go to work as the pass the OWS protesters and members of other unions at the docks.
The owner of the Grand Lake is a stand-up guy.... you can always count on him to be supportive, with both words AND resources.
Curious what happened to the People's Forum civil war thing in OWSLosAngeles a few days ago. Did that blow over and is the GA back in the driver's seat? Not much on twitter after that Awl article a few days ago.
I am also way curious about where this goes. That is, when some progress is made on the economic inequality issue, is there any room for an Occupy movement on other issues, such as Climate Change?
The process used by the GA is a means of governance but could you really do much on topics other than those you are 90% towards consensus on? There aren't many of those issues, and the important ones, like what concretely to do about our system of global finance, or what to do about global warming- they are so far away from 90% that the process seems like a total mismatch.
I am really confused about how OWS type movements do more than offer an expression of mass frustration on an issue.
IF we can get other elected leaders to come out in support of OWS, then a true paradigm shift will be realized.
Mayor Quan recently wrote:
Greetings!
November 1, 2011
It is my hope that tomorrow's general strike is peaceful and places the issues of the 99% front and center. I am working with the police chief to make sure that the pro-99% activists - whose cause I support - will have the freedom to get their message across without the conflict that marred last week's events. Although getting the balance right is never an easy task, in Oakland we are committed to honoring free speech and protecting public safety.
The protestors are raising important issues that we must confront. Oakland is city struggling with high levels of unemployment, underemployment, foreclosure, and budget cuts. We all have to work together to solve these problems.
In the short term, I want to encourage everyone to support our small businesses, especially those in the downtown core who have experienced declining patronage. They are a part of the 99%, and they are essential to our local economy.
The Urban Peace Movement is having a separate event tonight to demand quality job creation in Oakland. These are the issues Oaklanders care about.
In the long term - in keeping with the Urban Peace Movement's goals of reducing violence by creating more good jobs for the next generation - we must remain committed to job-creating projects like redeveloping the Army base.
OTHER DETAILS:
Mayor Jean Quan
I continue to support Mayor Quan, as an enlightened leader. OWS is the catalyst, and we are the creators. Allowing compassion to lead, offers a direction that elevates everyone.
Join me...Join OWS
Well, I got part of that letter in an email from the Mayors office. Everything before "The Urban Peace Movement" was included. The OPOA also wrote a response letter that is less supportive, but summarized as we were just doing our jobs:
I think after the incident Mayor Quan did a 180 on her position of OWS. I don't think her intent was to incite violence, but it happened and now she's forced to take the more complacent position to keep her job. I still think the new police chief should still resign for allowing the outside help to act the way they did and in instigating the violence with their presence in the first place. When I see riot police I don't think they're there for my protection, but on the verge of an assault.
If you look at what the Police association put out yesterday, it appears to me that this is a case of government workers thinking they know better than elected leaders. We saw that with Larry Summers when he derailed Obama's inclination to take more forceful measures with Wall Street in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis.
The Oakland police say they are confused and it is worth considering what they mean. To me, I don't see anything confusing about it. You have a 4th of July parade, you need police to keep the often drunken crowds from not going off the deep end. You have crowds at sports events that can potentially turn into mobs. It rarely happens, but you need lots of police standing by if things start to get out of hand. But the folks in the crowd are not the enemy. There are families, women and children in there. The cops are there to protect them. That's the way I see it- the Oakland strike is a large public event. No big deal. So what is so confusing?
I can see that the Oakland police association sees it differently. Why would they say they are confused because city employees would be on both sides of the "line".
If this was a July 4th parade would they be confused? No.
The explanation I can see for this confusion is that they view the Occupy folks as the enemy.
This is the huge problem Quan has. It is also a problem Obama has- it was the problem that the new leader Kennedy had at the opening of his presidency with his advisers during the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Our elected leaders must deal with what political science folks call the Fourth branch of government- a mixture of interest groups and bureaucrat elites who control the actual administration of government. Peter Orzag said of Summers: "Larry just didn't think the president knew what he was deciding. Was this [obstruction of the president's wishes] outright and willful?"
The Oakland Police needs to get it through their thick heads that Quan is their boss and that she is saying the crowds are not the enemy. They are us. Protect them. Think of it as a July 4th parade- you know, like when we celebrate our freedoms.
Is that simple enough?
Ditto!!!!! And MORE ditto!!!!
Yes I heard t - hat on NPR last evening. The used car dealers are charging 30+%, the borrower defaults, the dealer gets the car back and does it again - reselling same car several times. Sounds as bad as our MI governor putting a cap on the value of vehicles owned by people needing food stamps. When you lose a good job, you still need your vehicle to find another. The 99% are finally alive - like waking a sleeping giant!
It's time for a National Strike
That will help the economy and generate jobs.
A national strike is a tall order. I'd like to supersize it.
Was interested to read this piece from the Daily Caller. Frankly not sure what to make of it and not certain what sort of rep the Daily Caller has. http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/02/nyc-arrest-records-many-occupy-wall-street-protesters-live-in-luxury/
If that's the case, then it's people using their privilege for good. I'm not opposed to people being wealthy...just opposed to people being greedy. Numerous millionaires have come out saying they're fine with their taxes being raised.
Could be using privilege for good. Could be hypocrisy. Hard to know.
I'm not sure how you could make a case for calling it hypocrisy when someone goes out of their way to be arrested for a cause. If that's the case, then every white supporter of civil rights in the '50s and '60s was a hypocrite.
Well, as long as none of those were carrying signs saying "We are the 99%"....
Closing for one day won't hurt their profits, but it will make an impact. Long live Occupy Wall street. They are my heroes. Thank you for supporting them. Fox News have been saying some mean things about them. Things that are untrue. It's nice to see a news channel that support the truth. We need to throw off the chains of capitalism that has kept the poor poor and the rich rich and start doing right thing by the American people. We need to make Americans strong again. We need need to put an end to poverty, hunger and the heartache that comes with it. We need to stand up against these Republicans who put themselves and big business interests ahead of the American People.
Just remember, everyone: capitalism isn't patriotism.