"By employing a plethora of tax-dodging techniques, 30 multi-million dollar American corporations expended more money lobbying Congress than they paid in federal income taxes between 2008 and 2010, ultimately spending approximately $400,000 every day -- including weekends -- during that three-year period to lobby lawmakers and influence political elections....."
Meanwhile:
During a meeting of the Republican Governors Association in Orlando this week, Frank Luntz, one of the most well known political communications strategist in the country, talked to GOPers about how they could do a better job talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement.
“I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death,” said Luntz, a Republican strategist and one of the nation’s foremost experts on crafting the perfect political message. “They’re having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism.”
It ain't gonna be pretty.
A news bit that just hit a couple of days ago.
ReplyDelete6 individual Americans possess more wealth than 30 million and change of the total population of this country.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/09/385941/walmart-heirs-worth-30-percent-bottom/
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A Marine, Christmas and Fuel Cells
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http://www.americablog.com/2011/12/democracy-is-coming-to-usa.html
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Al - Luntz is right to be afraid. Perhaps he thinks the 'Occupy Ports' people are going to start attracting the tea party people.
ReplyDeleteDunno. The Ports protests were kind of a wash here, and we're in the middle of a nasty union-busting confrontation in Longview.
ReplyDeleteBut in the larger sense I think Al pegs the "let them eat cake" sensibility that is pushing the U.S. down the road back to where we were in 1903, only without the Progressives and the trustbusters and muckrakers and all...unless the Occupiers can do more to force the media to actually do their job and afflict the comfortable.