I am fortunate to earn enough to keep my head above water. Indeed, my wage has been in decline since 1988 but am comfortable in the fact that I contribute little to the perpetual war machine. There are desperate people everywhere and I help when I can. But desperate people do desperate things. If the anger of desperation can ever be focused on the powers that deprive normal people from housing and feeding their families then watch out fat cats and war pigs. Hopefully soon, these megalomaniacs will realize that social security IS national security. But probably not and lead will become precious metal.

General strike. American citizens, the time for a strike against your government is at hand. It is embarrassing watching other countries citizens strike against their government while American voters work, go home watch tv or play video games or eat processed food. For crissakes liberals, progressives or whatever label you apply to yourselves...get off your asses and sit in somewhere or disrupt something. Jeez, the economy is already defucnt and the perpetual war machine will continue operate. Marches n rallies are nice however accomplish nothing. Disrupt the money man, disrupt the money.

Jon Stewart and Al Franken would probably consider your rally "extremist."

Glenn Greenwald, who would disagree with Stewart and Franken, still wouldn't support such a rally because it would constitute "tribalism" (and we all know from Ayn Rand and Ron Paul how awful that is).

The Democrats and the MSM wouldn't like it because it would be "shrill" and "unserious."

If it gets really big, the police will bust it up with heat rays and god knows what else.

It's a tall hill, buddy. I hope you know a lot of workers who are willing to help you climb it.

As long as the right-wing war machine continues its incredibly successful propaganda campaign to convince Americans to vote against their own best interests, the rich will get richer and the poor will become more numerous.

There is a rally coming up in DC in a week. This will be interesting to see if the protesters of the modern era finally get it.

Marching does not solve anything, because at the end of the day, everyone goes home. So the next day, it's back to business as usual, again.

All we have to do instead is simply sit down and not get up. If we do that enmasse, we will be practicing a fundamental First Amendment Right, which is "peaceable assembly".

If we were to start a massive sit in, by the end of the next day, I would expect several million people to have joined us, not only in DC, but also at virtually every one of the 525 Senate and House offices back in their own states and districts.

If we have over 500 simultaneous sit-ins throughout the US, I would expect our government would be forced into finally obeying the will of E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many, We are One, WE THE PEOPLE.

"In findings echoed by other economists and studies, Moody's economist Mark Zandi said the Moody's study shows the fastest way to infuse money into the economy is through expanding the food-stamp program. For every dollar spent on that program $1.73 is generated throughout the economy, Zandi said.
 
"If someone who is literally living paycheck to paycheck gets an extra dollar, it's very likely that they will spend that dollar immediately on whatever they need - groceries, to pay the telephone bill, to pay the electric bill," Zandi said.

 
"Tracking that single dollar spent through the economic chain shows what economists call the ripple effect, Zandi said. For example, that dollar spent at the grocery store in turn helps to pay the salaries of the grocery clerks, pays the truckers who haul the food and produce cross-country, and finally goes to the farmer who grows the crops.
 
The report pointed to expanding unemployment benefits as the program that gets the next biggest bang for the buck. That's because, although the unemployed are already getting checks, they need to spend the money. For every dollar spent here, the economy would see a return of $1.64, Zandi said."
 
Source:  http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/29/news/economy/stimulus_analysis/index.htm
 
 

Last time I looked, the Republicans were trying to hold taxes down for EVERYBODY, not only the rich. Obama is the modern-day DENNIS MOORE (Monty Pyhon) who won't be happy until we're all poor....although the "royal family" has been spending money like it was sand, haven't they?

Who makes jobs? The government? At times, but where does the money come from? Taxpayers....so government jobs are just an additional tax burden on everyone else!

The only real job creation comes from the private sector. Where is there enough money to start businesses and create jobs? Banks and Rich folks. Yeah, we'd all like to be rich.....but right now I'm feeling lucky to be a teacher with a job! I was also paying attention during my econ and finance classes...I guess Mr. Hightower wasn't!

"You can't raise the cane back up when it's in the feed"....a great line from a great song! (The Night They Drove old Dixie Down). England found this out the hard way--they taxes all the old, land-owning families until NOBODY had any money to create new businesses (and new jobs). Let's not kill America's potential for economic growth and new investment! Instead, lets encourage the rich to invest their money in new, AMERICAN companies, employing AMERICAN workers by offering tax credits for those who do.

Of course we can just dance down this path of class envy, kill the "goose that lays the golden eggs" and prove the truth behind the old poem:

Tax the rich and feed the poor
Until there are no rich, no more
And still the poor will still be poor!

The Bush tax cuts started going into effect in 2001.

They are still in effect.

In the meantime we've had the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and soaring unemployment.

And yet tax cuts are still touted by some as a "solution" to unemployment?

What a triumph of theory over fact!

Take off the blinders and realize you are being scammed by greedy rich bastards who could care less how the rest of us live or whether we live at all.

They'd be just as happy with automatons, where available.

The point, I think, is that they care nothing about the general welfare (to quote the Constitution) of *individual* citizens. Individuals are more-or-less "useful" and easily replaceable--not ends unto themselves. Thus, who cares about preexisting conditions and such matters?

A liberal viewpoint, by contrast, treats individuals as ends, not means.

This depression was created by Cheney (alias Darth Vader?)) , his callous superrich f(r)iends and the pitiful stunned deer of a 'president', GW and now the Repugnicans want to blame Obama.
These Repugnican tax cuts for the superrich and large corporations!! have been IN EFFECT since 2001... so WHERE are all these mythical jobs these supposed corporate do-gooders were going to create?
Why, for example, do enormous utilities use their tax cuts to pay for lawyers to raise rates on middle and lower class consumers, but put NO money into necessary jobs like, e.g., meter readers (try getting ComEd to send an adequate no. of meter readers out), or customer service representatives (try getting ahold of a representative of AT&T ON THE PHONE for example)
WHY IS THE PUBLIC DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY THIS TAX-CUT/ JOB CREATION MYTH???

People out of work in New York can rally on Wall Street; someone who is not unemployed might sponsor signs for them, with the names of the Wall St criminals painted on, jail bars over pictures of their faces . . . what? Too subtle?