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[ljm2002]

...I think that the meme that "we are all owners now" was created to allow the Democrats and the unions, and their messages, to be entirely co-opted. To make people scared to rock the boat, because "then you could be the losers, too -- not just the big bad CEOs and the elites".

Of course they fail to mention the seriously paltry amounts that most of us have invested in stocks, etc. through our IRAs and the like. Especially when you compare these amounts to those held by the financial elites.

They fail to mention the many, many people who really don't own anything at all, much less stocks. All the low-wage workers, the Wal-Mart greeters and the McDonald's burger slingers -- think these folks have any real "investment" in corporate America? But then the bosses will tell you, "Well where else they gonna get work?" As if it is set in stone, that the only source of employment for most of us is the big corporations.

And then to top it all off, they pay lip service to small businesses, even note from time to time that it is really small businesses that employ most people, while they continue to craft rapacious policies that screw the small business owners in favor of the corporate pirates.

The question really is, what can we do to change it.