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What are we protesting, exactly?
There are so many things that could be protested that it is hard to settle on any single one. Here's a partial list of some candidate issues. Choose the ones that matter to you, and write to your representative about them.
• Forced bailout of mortgages for those who made bad or risky investment choices by those who were more careful.
• Massive federal spending on government social programs that are likely to become entrenched interests.
• Increasing taxes on small businesses and their owners, who are the engine of the economy.
• Massive deficit spending that will take many generations to recover from.
• Ineffective throwing of hundreds of billions at financial institutions with no discernable positive result.
• Reduction of tax breaks for home mortgages and charitable contributions.
• Not allowing details of "spendulous" plans to be seen, read and comprehended prior to a vote.
• Massive "Cap and Tax" on the same kind of air molecules that we breathe out every few seconds.
• Wealth transfer that discourages industry and promotes laziness.
• Lack of concern for the trillions of dollars of personal savings that is being lost in the stock market.
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1. The Republicans didn't want to regulate the mortgage guys or the derivatives. And most of the mid-2000s home flippers would probably be in the GOP.
2. Are they talking about taking away SS from the wealthy? Raising the retirement age to 70? Reducing the military? Or just social programs that they don't agree with?
3. How much have taxes gone up? And not the health insurance taxes vs insurance premium issue...
4. It's not right, but there wasn't very much support for raising taxes to pay for programs in the 80s or the last 10 years when the deficit actually was going up.
5. Without the banks, we would have had big problems. It would take years to recover from a major bank collapse. The same people in the financial industry would still be in it in the future.
6. So, now that the average middle age person has been able to write off their mortgage interest, they don't want to let others have that benefit? I think the charity thing should be limited to charities that they are not a part of.
7. Even if they could read them, do you think that they would change their mind?
8. We only breathe a small amount of CO2 compared to the amount industry releases... And the real cost of carbon based energy isn't being paid right now. Maybe if we had to pay to clean up oil spills, military operations to secure oil and stop the switch to the euro, and just cleaning up the air.
9. The amount of wealth being transfered is pretty much the opposite of what they are claiming.
10. I think the stock market has recovered. People who rode out the dip are doing ok. The 'government' shouldn't interfere in one breathe, yet they want them to protect their investments.
And criticizing companies and banks that do stupid things is perfectly fine. It's un-American if we were prevented from criticizing.