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In reply to the discussion: We are in a war for our lives. The war is between the 1% elite and the 99%. You are hopelessly [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)to assume that the 2% is on our side, or the 3% or even the 5%.
You think a family making over $177,000 is on the same side as me? Is in the same boat as me? That with a $6,000 bi-weekly paycheck that they are just living paycheck to paycheck? That most of them sympathize with the poor and lower-paid working class?
And so many people wanna tout Elizabeth Warren, but as Senator elect, she did not do anything, didn't take a stand at all about the fiscal cliff. I mean, one sure thing to tilt the favor towards the rich, is permanent tax cuts which heavily favor the rich. I don't see how that tiger gets put back in the bag no matter who is President. Not unless we can miraculously change 60% of Congress. Or maybe even just 20% of Congress, which would be unprecedented and might, just might, put the fear of the mob into the rest of them.
But as for the NSA, I am not convinced it makes all that much difference in the lives of the typical American. Is the NSA working for "we the people"? Well, I do not have much of a grasp on what they are doing one way or another, for good or ill. Were most of the victims of 011 members of the top 5%? Did the lost jobs from that attack impact the top 10% more than it did the bottom 90%? Insofar as they keep bombs from blowing up, planes from slamming into buildings, water supplies from being poisoned, bridges from being blown up, etc., etc., etc. Well "domestic tranquility benefits us all. It is not really their fault, per se, that the society they are protecting is so unequal.