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Occupy to march this weekend

Occupy Little Rock demonstrators plan for their first protest this weekend. Friday night, the group painted signs for tomorrow's march to the Capitol.

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raerae - 10/16/2011 1:24 PM
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You say “Social justice means both sides play by the same rules”. That will never happen and that’s just the way life is. They don’t and never will. The rich movie stars get away with everything and I mean everything. So why don’t people yell at them and stop that from happening? If they do something wrong, no big deal because they are a movie star! They don’t have to go to jail if they break the law. But if I do the same thing I’ll go to jail. Where’s the justice in that? If they get into trouble people will just want to read more about what they did, because they just love them. Look at how much money their paid for ONE movie. I don’t see people out their protesting them. What about how much the football players make and others that play sports. Nobody is protesting them. While I will agree that the corporations buy their politician, why do you keep voting for that same politician and then get mad over being in that 99%. And who is to say that you can only make X amount of money. If I was to invent something and make a lot of money in the process, why would you say, now stop you have made enough. If I did have a lot of money I already know what charities I would be helping. But I don’t need for someone to tell me I have to give what I made to someone else who didn’t work for it. Who gives the least amount of contributions, the democrats? Why is that? They want to always take, but not give. I’m for everyone paying the same in taxes and obeying the same laws. Just because you’re rich does not mean you can get away with whatever. And just because you’re poor does not mean you don’t have to pay any taxes. You drive on the same roads as I do. So everyone needs to pay the same percent in taxes.

PatJoe - 10/15/2011 6:24 AM
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Maybe you know something about football, rearea. Social justice means both sides play by the same rules. Since about the time of Reagan one side of the class warfare has been changing the rules. Every year they changed the rules just a little. One foot less a year for a first down. and kick off a little closer to your goal. And you kick off a little farther from theirs. You might call that redistribution of income. One class can do this because they pick the guys that make the rules and they hire the officials. Yes, we do want something they have. We want some of their power to bribe the rules makers and we want to hire some of the officials. We do want to "redistribute income" until both sides are playing by the same rules. We are just as big and fast and strong and smart as they are and we can win some of the games. If you think this is not true look at your wages. Look at all the local Mom and Pop businesses that are no longer there. My father could support his family on one job. 40 hrs a week. With low deductible health care and retirement on near his working salary. Mom stayed home and raised us kids and had a healthy hot supper on the table when Dad got home. He was no smarter than you. How are you doing? The rich were with us. They lived next door in a big house and ate at the same cafe owned by another neighbor. He paid over 90% income tax. But only on what he made after the first $3,000,000. So he did not make much over that and got by just fine on his $3,000,000. He did this by investing the extra money on his factory or store and his employees. He seemed quite happy. He was a good neighbor and everyone loved him and his contributions to the community. Then the redistribution of wealth started. Somebody in that other class decided fair was not enough. They wanted to win every game. Then that was not enough and they wanted to win every game by 60 points. You are on our team whether you know it or not. Like the new rules?

AaronS - 10/15/2011 4:55 AM
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We must forget the left and right issues. This is an American issue. It rings across party lines. We are not asking for anyone to give up their wealth. We are trying to point out that with wealth comes responsibility. You must use the influence to make decisions that are based on the good of the people. Using wealth to establish a means of profiting from the failures of the American people, and aiding our people to fail is seriously wrong. We are in a national debt that will not be repaid in anyone's lifetime that is alive today. Yet our government continues to spend our tax dollars like there is no end to them. We have lost the faith of the global community leaders. We have spent beyond our means and we do not have a plan in place to repair it. And we send our trusted officials to meet and solve our problems in a manner that serves the people, yet we see that they would rather play on Facebook, or play solitaire, or check sports scores instead of listening to other speak. These people take bribes from corporations to enact laws that are disrespectful and damaging to our country and our futures. Protecting our freedom and our future for our children is a cause worth fighting for, no matter what your personal political convictions may be, and we must all come together to show that we are in fact a nation united, and we are all Americans, and we all want our country to prosper. Once we have everyone at the same table working to fix the same basic problems, then we can let the democratic process begin to work. But our complacency and our division along party lines only serve to weaken our voice and enable the corrupt and greedy individuals. We must remove their support by becoming aware of the issues, and by speaking out where we see injustice. We must stand as our founding fathers once did, in the face of difficulty, and make a change for our future's sake. I implore each of you to listen, and join the conversation, so that we can all make our voices heard. _Aaron

Babalon - 10/15/2011 1:10 AM
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Raerae - To the contrary, we are employed and work for our living. We are not asking for handouts. Rather, we are asking for the system to receive a makeover so that those at the bottom have a better chance of being able to work their way up. We aren't taking anything from you, nor do we want anything of yours. In all honesty, it sounds like you are part of the 99% due to the struggle you went through to take care of yourself and your family. That is admirable. We don't hate America. We want to help Americans succeed, as you have. Our movement is not warfare. It is a peaceful march to draw attention to economic problems our country is facing. We are on the verge of financial collapse due to hyper-inflation of fiat currency. The bubble will burst unless we do something to change it. It has already come close on too many occasions. I hope you will choose to openly educate yourself on the motivations behind our efforts instead of making assumptions. We are not lazy. We are doing this to help all Americans. I am the 1%, and I am for proportional taxation of the wealthy.

raerae - 10/15/2011 12:46 AM
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Social Justice, well what is the initiative of Philander Smith College. They teach social justice and this is what you get. People who think that everyone owns them something. You can’t have a nicer car, home or clothes than I do. That’s just unfair. Obama started this class WAR FARE, and seeing what he has started just makes me sick. The rich say they should be taxed more, well then send the government your money. I am so sick of the left wing loons always wanting something for nothing. I worked three jobs after my divorce, to feed, shelter and cloths my kids. I didn’t ask anyone for anything, I did it on my own. These young people just want free hand outs and not do whatever it takes to make a living. And these dumb a$$ want to protest and say what? Give me what you have or I’ll take it. This is crazy. If these loons hate America so much then why don’t all the rich stars that are joining them all go live in another country?
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