1. They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
2 They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
3 They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
4 They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
5 They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
6 They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
7 They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
8 They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
9 They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
10 They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
11 They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
12 They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
13 They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
14 They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
15 They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
16 They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
17 They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
18 Oh...so people don't have a right to choose where they get information? You gonna decide it for them?
19 They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
20 They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
21 They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
22 They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
Occupy Wall Street! Collective statement of the protesters… « Bill Ayers
Alright, I think it is important to mention that this statement does not provide a single solution, only complaining. complaining as you will see is inaccurately targeted.
1. That is the individual's fault they didn't read the fine print. Personal Responsibility.
2. That is the fault of GOVERNMENT, not the businesses.
3. Extremely vague and no solution is proposed.
4. So, grow your own food then. No one is forcing you to buy it. Personal choice.
5. So, grow your own food then and convince others to not eat it if you want. That will put them out of business.
6. It is the individual's choice to take or quit a job. If you don't like it find another job.
7. The government provides the loans, and no one forces a person to get loans. Personal Responsibility.
8. No...in generalities its the high taxes and regulation of government that forces businesses to downsize and lay off workers and even outsource.
9. Can't get much more vague than that.
10. No, Obamacare did that. Businesses know it's cheaper to pay the fee than to provide healthcare so that's what they are doing. Blame this one on government yet again.
11. Really? Business owners sell seats on the side of your house to peak in your windows? What does this mean?
12. Buyer beware. Welcome to freedom. Just because you are too stupid and get ripped off doesn't make it anyone's fault but your own.
13. What is your proposal?
14. politicians are RESPONSIBLE for regulating business? really? Is that in the constitution somewhere? I can't seem to find it.
15. Because solyndra worked so well.
16. boo hoo.
17. I will give you that one.
18. Yeah I am pretty sure that is college professors but whatevs.
19. 10th amendment? Derp?
20. Really? Which States have we annexed recently?
21. Really?
22. So...what do you want to do? Crush their businesses and lay more people off?
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