Occupy Protesters Inject Income Inequality Into Political Debate

[midnight]

Source: Bloomberg


The protest against income inequality that has taken over a park near Wall Street and public squares around the world is also occupying the U.S. political debate.
For the past eight weeks, the demonstrators, some of whom are beginning a march to Washington from New York City today, have been chanting “we are the 99 percent.” That’s a reference to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz’s study showing the richest 1 percent control 40 percent of U.S. wealth.
Their message may be resonating. Sixty-one percent of those surveyed said the U.S. wealth gap is larger now than it has been in the past, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released today. The survey also found that six in 10 said they support government efforts to reduce that disparity.
Occupy Wall Street has “started to change the debate in the country” and has “pried open some questions people hadn’t been asking,” said Nina Eliasoph, a sociologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles who studies grassroots political activism.


Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-09/occupy-wall-street-protests-inject-income-inequality-into-political-debate.html

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This movement has given those on mainstreet an opportunity to unionize their voices on this terrible income inequality...

[meow2u3]

1. Thanks, Occupy. We are the 99%

Occupy brought out into the open what many people secretly suspected: the rampant income disparity between rich and poor; the systematic destruction of the middle class; the brazen criminality of corporate gangsters who all but nullified the Constitution; and the wholesale corruption of government, from local school board members all the way to Supreme Court Justices, by overpaid snakes in suits who'd give Satan himself a run for his money in terms of sheer evil.

[fascisthunter]

2. cats out of the bag, isn't it, right wingers?

[roseBudd]

3. DUers on Facebook share this on your Wall n/t

[nineteen50]

4. Don't let this be defined as income inequality it is

economic inequality. That includes more than just income.

[midnight]

5. You are correct.... There is a lot going on with the way our economic

policies are shaped to favor the wealthy...

[Little Tich]

6. I don't think politicians will rush to solve the issue of income inequality.

Why can't people just keep their heads in the sand and let the politicians run the country?

[freshwest]

7. Because they're running it right Into the ground. Oh, and here's your smiley:

:sarcasm: