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Lizzie Poppet

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1. They keep squeezing and squeezing...

Reply to Klukie (Original post)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 01:47 PM

Jul 2012

The corporate powers-that-be keep squeezing and squeezing, counting on propaganda, inculcation, and distraction to keep the people from realizing just how thoroughly they are being fucked. However, I for one think they've begun to overreach, to squeeze too hard (OWS being one of the first real indicators), and realization is beginning to set in.

Unfortunately, the political system has been almost totally corrupted by money...and our awakening will not (at first) accomplish anything. We'll vote for change, and it won't come. Then the real outrage will set it...and it will end in blood. I don't like (or advocate) this...but I really don't see any way out.

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Corporations Have Captured 88% Of All Post-Recession Income Growth [View all] Klukie Jul 2012 OP

They keep squeezing and squeezing... Lizzie Poppet Jul 2012 #1

but romney leads obama by one point in one poll okieinpain Jul 2012 #12

you can hear Dickens character lovuian Jul 2012 #18

Yup - they get it all - and we get nothing. Fucking thieves. Initech Jul 2012 #2

Shareholders including retirement pensions, 401ks and university endowments own corporations. dkf Jul 2012 #3

True Klukie Jul 2012 #4

Who holds the business equity PETRUS Jul 2012 #15

Thanks..I was trying to find some stats on this. Klukie Jul 2012 #16

You bet. PETRUS Jul 2012 #19

But at age 67, most, including me don't want anything to do with the market stufl Jul 2012 #7

Corporate bonds are also beneficiaries of corporate profits. dkf Jul 2012 #14

Nope. Guess I'll have to live on whatever principle they let me accumulate. stufl Jul 2012 #17

Funny that we have the worst inequality in over 100 years, what with all that stock ownership. Romulox Jul 2012 #10

post recession? what post recession? robinlynne Jul 2012 #5

I thought the same thing Klukie Jul 2012 #6

My income is now 15% of what it was 5 years ago.... And I am certainly not the only one. robinlynne Jul 2012 #20

Since the GD, we have never had this kind of labor slack persisting after a recession. Yo_Mama Jul 2012 #8

What caused the entry of women into the workforce? Klukie Jul 2012 #9

They were largely *tricked* into it by corporatists. Romulox Jul 2012 #11

Inability to make ends meet Yo_Mama Jul 2012 #13