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Old 10-05-2011, 07:14 AM   #1
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Hey, at least it is in paragraphs.

Back to the protests ...
What are they saying? It isn't clear - many different voices - but there are a few recurring themes:

There is too much corporate influence in politics (although I'd say it has got to the stage where calling it "influence" rather than "ownership" is debatable).

Because of this power imbalance, wealth has been and is being redistributed toward the very rich, to the great detriment of the rest of the population and to the economy itself.

The current design of our financial system gives too much reward for short-term risk taking (with other people's money) and not enough for productive innovation, which is the cause of the most recent crisis.
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Old 10-05-2011, 07:16 AM   #2
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Because of this power imbalance, wealth has been and is being redistributed toward the very rich, to the great detriment of the rest of the population and to the economy itself.
That's racist!

er, I mean, that's Class Warfare!!
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