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Some Gini Coefficients:Delusion or Desperation?Would it help if I told you you're delusional.
"One of the driving factors behind the protests is the decades-long stagnation of the Egyptian economy and a growing sense of inequality.
"'Theyre all protesting about growing inequalities, theyre all protesting against growing nepotism. The top of the pyramid was getting richer and richer,' said Emile Hokayem of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in the Middle East."
As Go Egypt...
The Gini Coefficient in the US is worse than Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen.
What's the diagnosis, Doctor?
Punny..."top of Pyramid was getting richer and richer..."
I'll agree that there's some vast feeling of class inequity in the USA when Mexicans stop crossing the border to escape class inequity.
Hitler found it usefulWhat if the Federal Reserve turned every $10 bill in the country into a $5?um...no.
As long as the TV still works, and fast food still exist - Americans are too otherwise occupied to notice much anything else.
Or worse??
I would be impressed...that would be one heck of a magic trick.
Do you have any thoughts on how rich US generals and admirals would respond to that uprising?
What "Rich US Generals and Admirals?"
Like who?
Possibly including gobs of private corporate police officers enforcing the oppression.What if the Federal Reserve turned every $10 bill in the country into a $5?um...no.
As long as the TV still works, and fast food still exist - Americans are too otherwise occupied to notice much anything else.
Or worse??
The 'worse' would have to be a growing police state with gobs of oppression.
With your car.What if the Federal Reserve turned every $10 bill in the country into a $5?um...no.
As long as the TV still works, and fast food still exist - Americans are too otherwise occupied to notice much anything else.
Or worse??
All the mexicans would return to mexico?
The last two years have seen the biggest economic downturn since 1929.Have the richest 1% of Americans increased their share of national wealth during the last two years?
Have they for the last 200 years?
The last two years have seen the biggest economic downturn since 1929.
Americans are being told austerity is the only solution.
Should that same policy apply to ALL Americans except the richest 1%?
Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Saudi???Yemen next?...
Egypt's revolution redefines what's possible in the Arab world
February 11, 2011 - The Middle East has been riveted by the success of the grass-roots revolution that ended Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign.
As darkness fell over the winter-chilled Middle East on Friday, television screens lit up living rooms from Tehran to Damascus to Rabat. All eyes were riveted by the spectacle that just weeks ago seemed impossible: the toppling of Egypts President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years in power. The collapse in Egypt took just 18 days of bold protest, inspired by the overthrow of Tunisias long-standing strongman just weeks before. For Arabs used to a heavy hand and little hope, Egypts revolution has redefined the possible, before their very eyes.
Everyone is watching this hundreds of millions of Arabs, Muslims, and who knows who else? says Shadi Hamid, the director of research at the Brookings Doha Center, speaking from Cairo. The Arab world is never going to go back to what it was. We are going to wake up to a new Egypt tomorrow, and well also wake up to a new Arab world, says Mr. Hamid. What has changed is that Arabs know that they can change their own situation without the help of the US, without the help of the international community, they can just go out on the streets and do it on their own and no one can take that away from them, he says.
Across the region, Arabs have watched transformative events unfold day after day, first in Tunisia where a single self-immolation in protest in mid-December sparked weeks of demonstrations and finally regime change. Then Egyptians began gathering strength on the streets, battled Mr. Mubaraks security forces, clung on in Tahrir Square in the face of mob attacks, and then simply took over when the regime began losing its ability to control or intimidate the crowds.
On the psychological and symbolic level, it is a shattering moment, says Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics. Remember that Mubarak was the public face of political authoritarianism in the Arab world. He had built one of the most feared security apparatuses, employing five million personnel. The forced exit of Mubarak from the presidential palace has sent shock waves to Arab rulers. Every village. Every neighborhood. Every Arab regardless of how poor, or alienated or marginalized, [now has] a sense of empowerment, a sense of revival, says Mr. Gerges. The psychology of the Arab world has changed.
'Bellwether for the region'
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As Mubarak resigns, Yemenis call for a revolution of their own
February 11, 2011 - Thousands of secessionists protested in Yemen today in an example of how disparate movements across the Middle East are tapping the anti-regime fervor for their own disparate aims.
As jubilant protesters in Cairo celebrated the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Yemenis were calling for a revolution of their own. In the southern port city of Yemen, protesters marched through the district of Mansoura, waving the old flag of South Arabia and chanting, "Revolution, revolution for the south."
Just hours before, security forces had fired live ammunition during a protest on the same street, according to eyewitnesses. Hundreds more staged ad hoc demonstrations throughout Aden, as well as in other cities across Yemen's south.
"After Hosni Mubarak, Yemen is going to be next. I know it," said Zahra Saleh, a prominent secession activist watching the scenes in Cairo on TV in a small Aden office. "Now our revolution has to be stronger," declared Ali Jarallah, a leader in the southern separatist movement sitting with Ms. Saleh on the low cushions of a diwan.
Divergent aims of Yemeni protesters
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What percentage will bring their guns?It's not going be millionaires who hit the streets protesting a tax hike. The number below the poverty line was 39 million in 2008, 43 million in 2009, near 50 million in 2010. When it hits about 75 million, I think the people will hit the streets.
I suspect some are making five to ten times as much in the corporate world.Do you have any thoughts on how rich US generals and admirals would respond to that uprising?
What "Rich US Generals and Admirals?"
Like who?
Like the ones who make between $130,000 and $227,000 a year, and then retire with a pension 50% of their last rate of pay.
"Why are Egyptians unhappy? They have basically no more freedom than Tunisians.if you dont have irrational hatred for people who have more money than you, it really doesnt matter how much they have does it?
I highly doubt the people have been rioting because the rich have so much money.
Be careful what you wish for:The last two years have seen the biggest economic downturn since 1929.
Americans are being told austerity is the only solution.
Should that same policy apply to ALL Americans except the richest 1%?
So you want the people with money spending less, which leads to less goods and services being purchased and hence less jobs?
People shouldnt spend money they don't have. But if you have plenty of money, go ahead and spend it.
Do you have any thoughts on how rich US generals and admirals would respond to that uprising?
What "Rich US Generals and Admirals?"
Like who?
Like the ones who make between $130,000 and $227,000 a year, and then retire with a pension 50% of their last rate of pay.
The Reality...Oh my God...is it...it...possible?
Someone actually as dumb as rd?
Wow...
