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"Wall Street crooks have avoided penalties and prosecution and continued to receive bonuses and excessive compensation while pensions and saving have been looted."
Record corporate profits belie a growing Main Street Depression. Unemployment is over double official numbers. America's worst ever housing crisis continues with no end in sight. Millions lost homes. Millions more will before it ends. Washington is doing nothing to help or create jobs.
"(I)income inequality in this country" is unprecedented. (T)he top 1% of the population has financial wealth equal to the combined financial wealth of the bottom 95% of the people."Protests across America are "way overdue (to make) the president and Congress listen."
They hear, but they don't care. They know, but they do nothing. They talk, but they don't act.
Business as usual won't end until people power replaces fossilized duopoly power with progressive government of, by and for the people.
Its main focus must be on returning money power to public hands where it belongs. Without it other objectives will fail, including ones Occupy Wall Street (OWS) adopted on September 29.
They stress
- social justice;
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