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the other completely unrealistic thing going on is this new fifty three percent
movement so the idea of these protests is the ninety nine percent are out
protesting
that so much
deference is givin to the top one percent of income earners and now eric
erickson
who is from red state i think is also involved with public which is an
internet
uh... kind of aggregation website
he has this new movement and we actually have the pictures he put up and he says
pay on the fifty three percent on the fifty three percent
that pays federal income taxes
everybody else's freeloading
were the ones that really are supporting the other forty seven percent now this
is patently absurd because number one if we want to look at it face value daryl
even if you don't pay federal income taxes
income taxes payroll tax
sales tax property tax
excise tax of road tolls tunnel tolls bridge tolls
so what happens on utilities
so this is it do you even believe eric erickson believes this fifty three
percent stuff where he just thought
this is going to get people riled up
again he's got a whole riled up thanks i want to cut the politic sometimes off
either side
truth plays no part any if we can say something that we know will rile people
up in truth can just take a back seat because is not relevant
right it speedo i'm in the fifty-three percent but pays everybody else is a
deadbeat loser he also in the picture which we have up here
he says i'm making uh... a rather know this is the wrong picture in a time
let's put up actual picture of eric erickson this it was when is it either
i know we have it it's it's the third one the one we haven't had a lovely at
the picture other eric erickson ok definitely something we're getting
closer to what
what i'm looking for here
uh... that area
he talked about how it works three jobs now one of those jobs
is as a c_n_n_ analyst it's not exactly heavy lifting you know i go in
they put makeup on me
and i talk about politics
if you're trying to show how you're really a man of the people
may be referring to your job is a highly paid c_n_n_ analyst isn't the best way
to get people on your side don't you think
absolutely they go back
away convinced me at all so then he goes on with a lot of other stuff which you
know what the reality is everything he has on that paper actually shows he
should be in the ninety nine percent movement
i have a house i cant sell
really
why do you have a house you can sell is it because of
hipster college graduates that are out on the street and wall street
no it's because of the big banks it's because of the foreclosure the bottle
it's because of the destroyed housing market
it has nothing to do
with the forty seven percent you claim exists oppressing you
an even more funny my family insurance card
are outrageous
yeah that's because we have the for-profit health care system you claim
works great and provides great care
i don't even know if you worked a parody
a fifty three percent
piece of paper message from eric erickson
it would be the same thing wouldn't that they're on he's actually pointing out
why the ninety nine percent is around there
as you know one thing i think can you possibly give them a copy of this
is it possible that you could present this to him and and some public form and
then just asking to respond to it levi these are not the type of thing for even
being presented to him dancer let people talking about them
genteel ground the young turks is talking about it our friends over you
know sam cedar at majority f_m_ he's talking about it
reasonable people can see and let's go to some of these other ones that these
people
are jumping on the bandwagon in doing more fifty three percent messages
they've put up another one
i'm the fifty three percent i'm making at five dollars an hour lesson my
current job than in my previous job
what does that have to do with with
pointing out how you don't like what the ninety nine percent as they're doing
shouldn't you be behind them
if you understood the reasons why you're making five dollars less now an hour
than before
you should be out on wall street instead of taking pictures of of hand-written no
papers and posting them to twitter check torture to eric ericsson's website
it's amazing how many people
act
organize and vote against their own best interest i think there'll because they
just don't understand it i don't think it's anything more than just the total
lack of understanding that their acting against their own best interest
i think they'd like to get on the fact that newspapers have like disappeared
and people are not really new already entered anymore is manifesting itself in
this exact way there wasn't time when people were informed about what's in
their best interest
they get their interest op from the news clippings in between music on the radio
yet and you know i don't want to get too much into this but by i've been talking
to a lot of people about this idea of the american dream
and the american dream is if we defined the american dream is everyone has a
chance to make it big
should be rich etcetera
i don't think that that the patently bad-faith but the the concern i have is
many many people
will act in the interests of the top one percent
or support the top one percent
because they believe
dates you might be in that top one percent someday now some of them maybe
someday
statistically speaking though
they won't be
they owed that ninety-nine point nine nine percent of them will never be in
the top one percent
none of us will
and therefore this american dream idea translated the people said well
someday i might benefit from that
and ven
i would want those benefits
do you see that there are people saying
i could be rich someday al act for the rich now
actually that is just part of a larger scheme has been going on for a long time
you make people thing
that if they continue to do what they're doing right now of financially they
might get a completely different without i mean at not to go into a whole
religious context but it's done in n in religion and it's also being done here
if you keep doing this of angelina result might be different up enough to
sent by multi
are pull up on david patten dot com for the last week was will be occupy wall
street protests actually affect change i was pretty pessimistic because while i
support the reasons they're out there
what will lead to j_p_ morgan deciding to do anything different because these
people are out there you know i just didn't see
people seem to be pretty split on this their demand percent said the occupy
wall street protests will not create any change thirty four percent said they
will twenty seven percent don't know
so which have a situation here that's very very very split
what do you think there are on i'm
pessimistic at this time
as to whether network it'll change anything too yeah i mean i agree with
that i sympathize with all the reasons but i just don't know the mechanism that
will get those protest to make big corporations do anything different
did the people that they're fighting aren't looking at this and laughing
the only way that you're going to change big corporations is just somehow punch
them in the pocketbook and unfortunately these protesters while they might be a
big at the media attention they don't have that type of power that's going to
hurt the corporations in a way that will make them listen they just don't have it
what do you think the time he will look at the occupy wall street protesters
actually do
that might get something to happen get something to change uh... i again i want
to very clear islip
for what they're doing
uh... i just don't know that it will change in nutan go ahead
i really have no idea mean
if they were
or uh...
to go on strike mea kyu comparison workers going on strike i can see how
that would change their employers mine buttons these are people who you know by
and large airy their underemployed or unemployed i don't know if they're
actually going up force and change that
yet it like this on says it's it's hard to imagine exactly how they would be
able to force changed to happen
um... if they all go on strike i mean we know what happens when people go on
strike out on our understand maybe mt cynical i don't know if i can think of
anything that's going to really force change
unless they email
hi i just don't know
i'm pessimistic there
if you are together situation where they can get inside of the corporations
in order to affect the strike
and then get me they would have to listen to that point because their
bottom line would be emilie affected
anything short of that is just not at work and i just again don't think that
they have that type of power at that moment
but it's no power
well we'll see what