"I don't mind you being rich, I mind you buying my government". That is really

[applegrove]

what it is all about. The GOP and the banksters want a government that is all about their needs only. Anything government does that the rich don't benefit from they want destroyed.



Here is the link to the thread that got me thinking:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2209537

The writer of this sign is brilliant. Absolutely spot on.

[Laluchacontinua]

1. I agree. People seem to focus on houses & cars, as if inequality were just about how

big your status symbol was. And if you bitch about inequality, it's because you're "jealous" of their pool or something.

It's about the power that money gives people to fuck other people, period. In a million different ways.

In my state this election, we're voting on whether to start selling hard liquor at grocery stores (v. selling it at state liquor stores).

We already voted NO overwhelmingly on this before, but the folks who want to change it will keep pushing it until they get their way.

That's the power of money & that's how you know it's ON THEIR AGENDA -- they literally WILL NOT STOP AND THEY DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE WANT.

[Saving Hawaii]

2. No, I really do mind them being rich.

I don't care that some people are richer than others. But the 1950s were a good time for equality. And some people were rich and some were poor, but let's do what we can to bring back those days. Those were better times (ignoring some social problems) than what I've lived through in this banana republic.

[TygrBright]

3. "The 1950s were a good time for equality".... REALLY?!?

Not if you had a vagina, they weren't.

Not if you had melanin, they weren't.

Not if you lived in the rural Ozarks or Appalachians, they weren't.

Not if you were gay, they weren't.

Not if you had a physical or mental disability, they weren't.

Not if you were Jewish, they weren't.

Otherwise... well, maybe.

amusedly,
Bright

[Change has come]

6. Thank you!

:kick:

[sarge43]

9. Emmett Till, 1941-1955

Fourteen year ago African-American lynched in Money MS for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The accused were acquited.

"It is the doom of men that they forget."

[mahina]

4. Huuui

check the Nov 12 meeting at Downtown (HiSam).

I can't post the pdf so here's the text:
Policy Solutions to Political
Corruption
Occupy Democracy
Saturday, November 12, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Downtown Restaurant - 250 S. Hotel St (in the Hawaii State Art Museum)
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Take action, listen, and discuss the
way many states are taking back
control of their governments.
We’ll talk story about how a public
funding option for elections can
help pave the way to reclaim a
democracy that’s being sold to the
highest bidders.
Featured speaker, John Loredo grew up traveling as a child with
Cesar Chavez to community meetings to help organize farm laborers
for workers’ rights. Later on, community leaders urged Loredo to run
for office in his home state of Arizona, and he was elected to the AZ
House of Representatives in 1996 and served until 2006. He has
been a champion of Arizona’s groundbreaking Clean Elections Law,
works as a faculty member for the Center for Progressive Leadership,
and was a Fleming Fellow at the Center For Policy Alternatives.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 457-8622 OR EMAIL
kory @voterownedhawaii.org

[mahina]

5. K and R

Check out Common Cause in your area, working on fair elections. Let's go!
http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=4741359

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. totally agree!! In fact, as the song from Fiddler on the Roof goes, "I wish I were a rich man."

I just want America to become a democratic society were everyone has enough and no one ever has to go without health care, educations, food, housing and meaningful employment with a livable wage in the wealthiest and most powerful nation the world has ever known. But we can start by simply becoming a democratic society where everyone has an equal say.

[sandyj999]

8. It's not the wealth it's the power that makes me so angry.nt