CrusaderFrank
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMV0TR3pGzg&feature=player_embedded]Former Soviet Citizen in Dust Up with the Useful Idiots of OWS - YouTube[/ame]
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How many people work for the major corporations in America?
10% or so?
true... halfway.
I work for a publically traded company. But I have about 100 vendors I buy from that are small companies run out of small shops. A couple of them I represent their most important account.
So essentially, while only 10% of us work for "major corporations", they have an incredible impact on the rest of the economy.
How many people work for the major corporations in America?
10% or so?
true... halfway.
I work for a publically traded company. But I have about 100 vendors I buy from that are small companies run out of small shops. A couple of them I represent their most important account.
So essentially, while only 10% of us work for "major corporations", they have an incredible impact on the rest of the economy.
No doubt about that, Joe.
I'm guessing that they represent more than 75% of the national GDP.
But they do so using far less employees (even including their second tier suppliers) than the rest of the nation combined.
And in many cases the big capital corporations treat their emplyees like disposable tools.
So even if workers are employed by major corporations, many of them aren't really allied to their employers.
Hourly just below full time workers without health care, or other benefits who are working less than full time for example.
They have no affection for their exploiters.
They know perfectly well they are not living inside the protective caccoon of their corporate masters.
They have no affinity with the system as it current stands.
Like I say the tools that are well taken care of, the house servants if you will are outnumbered greatly by the field hands that are struggling to make it in America.
true... halfway.
I work for a publically traded company. But I have about 100 vendors I buy from that are small companies run out of small shops. A couple of them I represent their most important account.
So essentially, while only 10% of us work for "major corporations", they have an incredible impact on the rest of the economy.
No doubt about that, Joe.
I'm guessing that they represent more than 75% of the national GDP.
But they do so using far less employees (even including their second tier suppliers) than the rest of the nation combined.
And in many cases the big capital corporations treat their emplyees like disposable tools.
So even if workers are employed by major corporations, many of them aren't really allied to their employers.
Hourly just below full time workers without health care, or other benefits who are working less than full time for example.
They have no affection for their exploiters.
They know perfectly well they are not living inside the protective caccoon of their corporate masters.
They have no affinity with the system as it current stands.
Like I say the tools that are well taken care of, the house servants if you will are outnumbered greatly by the field hands that are struggling to make it in America.
Excellent comment. I have a family member who is a department boss in the underwriting group in a major corp on Wall Street, and she tells me that her company's rank and file (making less than 200K) fully support OWS. Very quietly, of course.
OWS cannot be stopped.
How many people work for the major corporations in America?
10% or so?
true... halfway.
I work for a publically traded company. But I have about 100 vendors I buy from that are small companies run out of small shops. A couple of them I represent their most important account.
So essentially, while only 10% of us work for "major corporations", they have an incredible impact on the rest of the economy.
No doubt about that, Joe.
I'm guessing that they represent more than 75% of the national GDP.
..... small businesses produced half of private nonfarm GDP
No doubt about that, Joe.
I'm guessing that they represent more than 75% of the national GDP.
But they do so using far less employees (even including their second tier suppliers) than the rest of the nation combined.
And in many cases the big capital corporations treat their emplyees like disposable tools.
So even if workers are employed by major corporations, many of them aren't really allied to their employers.
Hourly just below full time workers without health care, or other benefits who are working less than full time for example.
They have no affection for their exploiters.
They know perfectly well they are not living inside the protective caccoon of their corporate masters.
They have no affinity with the system as it current stands.
Like I say the tools that are well taken care of, the house servants if you will are outnumbered greatly by the field hands that are struggling to make it in America.
Excellent comment. I have a family member who is a department boss in the underwriting group in a major corp on Wall Street, and she tells me that her company's rank and file (making less than 200K) fully support OWS. Very quietly, of course.
OWS cannot be stopped.
No, it cannot be stopped...exactly.
But if history is any guide it will be deflected, parced into different groups, where some are bought off, while others (the majority) are left to hang in the economic winds of change.
Believe me, people who lived though the civil rights, the anti-war and then the feminist movements has seen happen before.
The masters are not stupid.
They know how to divide and conquer populist movements.
Like Obama himself, his OWS movement is anti-Semitic and is only waiting for the go ahead from Obama to launch a modern Kristallnacht
The Shitters at OWS see polls that indicate that a majority is unhappy with the way government is going. They ASSUME this means that the same majority supports their views. They refuse to consider that the majority unhappy with the government is unhappy with that government's leftist progress. It's always a surprise when leftist causes lose.
Like Obama himself, his OWS movement is anti-Semitic and is only waiting for the go ahead from Obama to launch a modern Kristallnacht
Like Obama himself, his OWS movement is anti-Semitic and is only waiting for the go ahead from Obama to launch a modern Kristallnacht
And the FrankLoon from the far side of the scummy pond chirps.
I know right? It's almost like they think that the majority of Americans supported the OWS protester who took a shit on the patrol car
I know right? It's almost like they think that the majority of Americans supported the OWS protester who took a shit on the patrol car
No OWS protester has been proven to have taken a shit on a patrol car.
Polls do show that a majority of Americans are with Occupy on the issues. Sorry, but that, unlike a protester shitting on a patrol car, is a fact.
The last poll results I saw show the majority of Americans haven't the foggiest idea what issues you're talking about.
That was a poll on support for the movement itself. I was talking about support for the issues it represents. Here:
New Poll Shows Americans Want Less Corporate Influence in Politics | People For the American Way Blog
85% say corporations have too much influence on government
Study: Most Americans want wealth distribution similar to Sweden | The Raw Story
92% want an income distribution in this country more like Sweden's, believing income gaps are far too large
Those are the two main issues behind the Occupy movement. They are supported by large majorities of the population. That's the real reason why the movement has resonated the way it has.
The last poll results I saw show the majority of Americans haven't the foggiest idea what issues you're talking about.
That was a poll on support for the movement itself. I was talking about support for the issues it represents. Here:
New Poll Shows Americans Want Less Corporate Influence in Politics | People For the American Way Blog
85% say corporations have too much influence on government
Study: Most Americans want wealth distribution similar to Sweden | The Raw Story
92% want an income distribution in this country more like Sweden's, believing income gaps are far too large
Those are the two main issues behind the Occupy movement. They are supported by large majorities of the population. That's the real reason why the movement has resonated the way it has.
though there may be widespread agreement about income inequality, there is no agreement on what caused it or what should be done about it.
If the "issue" is not being aware of income distribution in the USA, then again, I'm not surprised: Many Americans don't know who the VP of the USA is.
If the "issue" is corporate influance on government, I'm also not surprised: any more than I would be astonished to find most think fire is "hot."
The "Occupy Movement" is nothing more than a very small group of disgruntled, unemployed individuals.