Even the 1% are starting to realize the oppression has simply gone too far.......

[Playinghardball]

[brewens]

1. Some of them realize that when the shit hits the fan, it will stay hit! Then they get a lot

bigger haircut than they would have had they just evened things out a little.

It's no different than the ruling class taxing the peasants in the middle ages now. The real crime is how many of our tax dollars go right into the pockets of the 1%. They claim to be taxed to heavily already but many are way in the black as far as our tax dollars go. They take in more than they pay out.

Some corporate officer from a defense contractor is an easy one, but you can say the same about the big bosses at oil companies and any outfit that does a lot of business with the federal and state governments. Anyone heavily invested in the right corporations might take in enough tax dollars to top what they pay in federal taxes as well.

What goes right to the top makes "welfare" and everything else they harp about a joke!

[ejbr]

2. The guy in the green shirt

sure likes that 1% booty. But unfortunately she is only one. I wonder if she might buy a politician or two to follow through.

[99th_Monkey]

3. I guess it's a start. Her & Warren Buffett. nt

[Rafale]

4. If only she...

Had enough to buy Time Warner or Comcast there might be hope.

[Bubzer]

5. This is what responsibile wealth looks like. We need more like her.

[Helen Borg]

6. Good for her...

Perhaps she could start by handing out $1000 to 100 poor families in her town. In addition to demonstrating, that is.

[jtuck004]

8. That's what the government does. And we have 10 million more people in poverty

than we had 8 years ago.

Maybe, instead of playing plantation master, she finds 10 families and pays them a decent wage to work for a year, while they take classes and learn how to make something. Say bread.

Then she funds a cooperative bakery, and they buy it from her.

Or we could keep doing what doesn't work.

[Helen Borg]

13. I agree. My point though was

To do something more than demonstrating.

[jtuck004]

14. Yup. :) n/t

[artislife]

19. She might already be doing that

We see she has a conscience by the photo, we don't know what she has already put into play.

[dae]

23. You are absolutely correct!

[cui bono]

17. That is a picture of one moment of her entire life.

How do you know she isn't doing much more than demonstrating already?

[artislife]

20. Like minds, cui bone, like minds!

[cui bono]

21. ...

[zentrum]

7. A swallow...

…does not a summer make.

Still, she has the sensibility of FDR, who was born a 1%er.

[SmittynMo]

9. If what you see is true

then she is the ONLY 1%er that has a heart.

The rest could give a shit. More, More, More!!!!! Gimme more!!!

[blondie58]

10. I think that Greed is a mental illness

Of sorts. Really , how much do you need?

[NJCher]

11. I think that's it more than anything

We are being held hostage in an economic system that is controlled by maladjusted people.

These people rose to the top because the economic system rewards ruthless competitiveness.

There is little or no reward for people who want to live a meaningful life and do some middle-income type of thing for a job (take teachers as an example), and worse yet, even less for those who are altruistic and who would like to even the playing field.

Once in a great while you get a person like the young woman in the picture. Or a Ben and Jerry type of situation. Or the clothing textile guy who turned the company over to his employees as a cooperative, even while he was still interested in running it. These people are aberrations, because the system we have in place is made to appeal to the usual sociopath who rises to the top because of a single-minded obsession with money.

It's a very sad situation, and I'm sorry to say that I don't see it ever changing. Bernie's got the right idea, and if he were elected, change might be possible. Other than that, I don't see any change coming, and I also see us going down as a species because of this defective model of economic operation.


Cher

[roguevalley]

12. she is a miracle. she had it all and she pushed back. I admire here

and welcome here to our side. She is a miracle.

[oberliner]

15. This photo is from 2011

During the Occupy Wall Street protests.

[cui bono]

18. That's what it looked like to me too.

[C Moon]

24. It'd be interesting to see, but I'd bet she's changed her mind since then.

Lots of money does evil things to people.

[Phlem]

16. I applaud her but unfortunately

she is a minority in the 1%.

We must press on.

Thank you.

[cstanleytech]

22. The problem isnt that they dont get it its that the majority of them wont care until

their necks are literally on the block and by that time its to late the crowds will want blood.

[Hotler]

25. I don't believe it. Anyone can make a sign.

The message is correct, but is she really wealthy????

[raouldukelives]

26. Nothing wrong with wealth. As long as it comes from good works.

The only people truly standing against the 99% are shareholders. A hard right republican Trump lover without Wall St ties does less to harm the nation and the world at large than a "liberal" with them.

[laserhaas]

27. Isnt this woman absolutely friggin awesome

I want to have her babies

[Alkene]

28. It may be relevant to re-play this piece:

Memo: From Nick Hanauer
To: My Fellow Zillionaires

I see pitchforks.

Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014?o=1

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014?o=2

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014?o=3