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Occupy Together - Began at 55 Wall Street & Expanded Globally

No comment on Newt Gingrich’s thinly veiled, racist remark that Barack Obama is the ‘Welfare Check Writer’ while he’s the ‘Paycheck Writer,’ other than to note in general…

On misleading, Republican blather about the economy – ‘Bain, Barack and Jobs’ by ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 5, 2012

‘U.S. Economy Gains Steam as 200,000 Jobs Are Added,’ by Shaila Dewan, The New York Times, January 6, 2012

‘A Tenuous Trend in Obama’s Favor,’ by David Leonhardt, The New York Times, January 6, 2012
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Thanks to the Supreme Court, American politicians can be bought and sold, and even the most tarnished and worthless among them can attract big money from right-wing billionaires – ‘A Big Check, and Gingrich Gets a Big Lift,’ by Nicholas Confessore and Eric Lipton, The New York Times, January 10, 2012

My nomination for ‘The Understatement of the Year’ (and the year has only just got underway!): “It seems safe to say that Trinity Church is not an impoverished institution” – ‘Churchly Sanctuary for Music Cuts Back,’ by James R. Oestreich, The New York Times, January 10, 2012
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hungprep said:
Thanks to the Supreme Court, American politicians can be bought and sold, and even the most tarnished and worthless among them can attract big money from right-wing billionaires – ‘A Big Check, and Gingrich Gets a Big Lift,’ by Nicholas Confessore and Eric Lipton, The New York Times, January 10, 2012
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Are you aware how long back that goes?

And how deception is involved?

And the novel theory SCOTUS came up with in the Citizens United case to avoid dealing with the corporate personhood issue?

And the way laws written by Congress trapped them into a no-win situation?
 
This past week in my hometown, the next-to-the-last week of my winter break from school…

(I’m actually going snowboarding next week, even if it’s only 50° F (10° C ) outside, as it’s been so far this winter, and all the snow is artificial. Maybe, I’ll even wear shorts, as I’ve been doing since Christmas with the temps so unseasonably high…)

‘Occupy Baltimore members gather to fight foreclosure,’ The Baltimore Sun, January 11, 2012

‘Woman evicted a day after Occupy protest delayed sheriff,’ The Baltimore Sun, January 12, 2012

‘The decline of the idea of “public good”’ – Robert B. Reich in The Baltimore Sun, January 11, 2012

Finally, from a couple of weeks ago in The Los Angeles Times, reprinted in The Baltimore Sun (both are currently ‘Tribune Newspapers,’ BTW) – Norman Lear: ‘Occupy movement revives tradition of protest,’ The Baltimore Sun, January 3, 2012
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Two more, opinion pieces – from this morning’s The New York Times – ‘America Isn’t a Corporation,’ by ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman, January 13, 2012

And ‘The C.E.O. in Politics,’ by ‘Op-ed Columnist’ David Brooks, The New York Times, January 13, 2012:

‘We’ll learn more about [“whether (Romney) has picked up traits like emotional security, political judgment and an instrumental mind-set from his upbringing and the deeper experiences of life”] as he confronts brutal attacks that now besiege him.’

Yeah, ‘brutal attacks’… from the other, emotionally insecure, politically injudicious, mental midgets who are running against him in the Republican primaries!
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Krugman makes a good point that a national economy is a lot more complex than any corporation. Having a businessman at the helm is not necessarily a good thing -- having a businessman at the helm who shut down plants and companies is probably not a good thing at all.

Though I disagree that Romney is even a businessman -- he was a financial manipulator. Or did he actually spend time in management?
 
hungprep said:
‘How Fares the Dream?’ – ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman in today’s The New York Times, January 16, 2012
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Good read. I'd forgotten that King was assassinated after he'd started talking about wages and wealth. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was why he was assassinated.
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE--hZkt-hs&fmt=22"]‘Occupy Congress’ – January 17, 2012[/ame]


Don’t let the rain this morning discourage you – it’s predicted to clear up by 1 p.m. with today’s high temps again in the 50s (Fahrenheit)…

So we should leave our snowboards at home – though… Capitol Hill… Hmm… Intriguing!
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^_^ ‘Another world is possible…’ (from the last video, above)

‘84 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing,’ poll finds by Paul Kane and Jon Cohen, The Washington Post, January 16, 2012

So, at an 11% approval rating, what are some of the things that are more popular than Congress?

‘Polygamy, caning, BP in the summer of 2010, George W Bush at his lowest rating, Paris Hilton…’

‘Handful of protesters arrested during “Occupy Congress”’ – by Annie Gowen and Katie Rogers, The Washington Post, January 17, updated 6:06 p.m.

There absolutely were more than 500 people there, BTW, though probably fewer than 3,000, not including the US Capitol Police. I know because it was about the same number that used to show up for our mid-week, early afternoon, (NCAA Division III) lacrosse games a year ago!

‘The Invisible Hand Behind Bonuses on Wall Street,’ by Kevin Roose, The New York Times, January 17, 2012
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A front-page story in this morning’s local newspaper: ‘Baltimore officials kept close eye on Occupy’ – by Justin Fenton and Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun, January 17, 2012

A history lesson (from one of the two, other papers my parents subscribe to): ‘For God So Loved the 1 Percent…’ – by Kevin M. Kruse, ‘an associate professor of history at Princeton [and] the author of the forthcoming “One Nation Under God: Corporations, Christianity, and the Rise of the Religious Right,”’ in The New York Times, January 18, 2012
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hungprep said:
A history lesson (from one of the two, other papers my parents subscribe to): ‘[/COLOR]For God So Loved the 1 Percent…’ – by Kevin M. Kruse, ‘an associate professor of history at Princeton [and] the author of the forthcoming “One Nation Under God: Corporations, Christianity, and the Rise of the Religious Right,”’ in The New York Times, January 18, 2012
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I knew Billy Graham had been funded by the 1%, but this is wider -- thanks for the link!
 
hungprep said:
‘Taxes at the Top’ – by ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman in The New York Times, January 19, 2012
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Good piece.

Not that the apologists for greed will pay attention. They'll continue to advocate lower and lower taxes on those who don't lift a finger to earn any income, and who do nothing productive with it. Even if they got their way and the nation's economy collapsed into a deeper depression than imaginable, they'd continue to blame someone else.

Low taxes on the wealthy don't create jobs.
 
Just to remind everyone where the OWS movement got its inspiration – last year, in the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ – ‘Chaotic Start to Egypt’s First Democratically Elected Parliament,’ by David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times, January 23, 2012

‘How to Integrate Europe’s Muslims,’ by ‘Op-ed Contributor’ Jonathan Laurence, The New York Times, January 23, 2012

‘Is Our Economy Healing?’ – by ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman in The New York Times, January 23, 2012
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Wow! I want this man’s job (when he finally grinds to a halt)!

Red Herrings? Shibboleths of the Right? Or just an empty string of buzzword cliches, meant to elicit a Skinnerian response in the reader? – ‘Free-Market Socialism,’ by ‘Op-ed Columnist’ David Brooks in The New York Times, January 23, 2012, in part, as follows (Italics added for emphasis):

‘Democrats, meanwhile, have shifted their emphasis from lifting up the poor to pounding down the rich. Democratic candidates no longer emphasize early childhood education and community-building. Instead they embrace the pseudo-populist Occupy Wall Street hokum — the opiate of the educated classes.

‘This materialistic ethos emphasizes reducing inequality instead of expanding opportunity. Its policy prescriptions begin (and sometimes end) with raising taxes on the rich. This makes you feel better if you detest all the greed-heads who went into finance. It does nothing to address those social factors, like family breakdown, that help explain why American skills have not kept up with technological change.

‘If President Obama is really serious [ ! ] about restoring American economic dynamism, he needs an aggressive two-pronged approach: More economic freedom combined with more social structure; more competition combined with more support.

‘As a survey of nearly 10,000 Harvard Business School grads by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin makes clear, to get companies to locate their plants in the U.S., Obama is going to have to simplify the tax code, cut corporate rates, streamline regulations, make immigration policy more flexible and balance the budget over the long term.

‘To ensure there’s skilled labor for those plants, Obama would have to champion different policies: successful training programs like Job Corps, better coordination between colleges and employers, better treatment for superstar teachers, more child care options and better early childhood education.’

See? What we (suddenly, as if by magic) need now is what the Democrats had been saying for years, albeit to a resistent, even deaf, Republican audience – ‘early childhood education and community-building.’

More, better… It’s simple. Now, just do it – like old Reebok ads (or was it Nancy Reagan?) used to say!
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