The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What Motivates the Occupy Movement

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



October 23, 2011 |


What are the Occupy Wall Street protesters angry about? The same things we’re all angry about. The only difference is the protestors turned their anger into public action. Occupy Wall Street lit the embers and the sparks are flying. Whether it turns into a genuine populist prairie fire depends on all of us.

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The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152811/the_shocking%2C_graphic_data_that_shows_exactly_what_motivates_the_occupy_movement_/

[Douglas Carpenter]

1. knr thanks for posting

[snot]

2. K&R'd!

[SpiralHawk]

3. There you have it...

The fugly truth.

No wonder the Occupy movement has Republicon diapers in a twist.

[Odin2005]

4. IMO that first graph says it all.

Stagflation and the collapse of manufacturing depressed wages relative to productivity, and Reaganomics has kept it depressed.

[Hotler]

5. k&r n/t