liberalsarecool:

“The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret…. The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed’s below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.”

This is the “99 v 1” dynamic in a nutshell. The ultra-rich play by a different set of rules.

It’s a completely different world up there, folks. Now the question is, do we just sit back and “get used to it”?

(via silas216)

(Source: wearethe99percent, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

(Source: thetotalblamblam, via activistaabsentee)

ryking:

Warren Buffett Reveals ‘Billionaire Friendly’ Tax Return

Coincidentally, a new study is out validating everything that Buffett has been saying: “Report: A quarter of U.S. millionaires pay taxes at a lower rate than some in middle class.”

Yay Warren Buffet!

…er wait, that’s bad.

(Source: diadoumenos, via socialistexan)

eddiecolla:

Downloadable Posters HERE

Shit, I just want one to hang up in my room… design kicks ass.

(via socialistexan)

sonicbloom11:

These are the 99 percent, or at least they used to be, via Reddit.

Citations:

1. Boy’s death highlights US health debate
2. Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance
3. Deaths at West Virginia Mine Raise Issues About Safety
4. Investigators: Massey Energy Falsified Safety Record at Upper Big Branch Mine
5. Massey Energy CEO to retire amid mine probes
6. Suicides in the downturn raise worries about recession’s real cost
7. Record 2.9 Million U.S. Properties Receive Foreclosure Filings in 2010 Despite 30-Month Low in December
8. U.S. Suicide on Rise: Middle-Aged at Risk
9. New Estimate Puts Gulf Oil Leak at 205 Million Gallons
10. Presidential Panel Blames Companies for ‘Avoidable’ Gulf Oil Spill
11. BP CEO Tony Hayward to Resign, Get $17 Million in Severance
12. At Many Homes, More Profit and Less Nursing

(via socialistexan)

#OccupyWallStreet - ‘The Marines are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors’ | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com | (via progressivefriends)

 I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America.

(via itstimefortruth)

I don’t even think thats the best line, here’s more of what the Marine said:

My true hope, though, is that we Veterans can act as first line of defense between the police and the protester. If they want to get to some protesters so they can mace them, they will have to get through the Fucking Marine Corps first. Let’s see a cop mace a bunch of decorated war vets.

(via newwavefeminism)

Okay, wow. I thought they were being “sent”, not going because they wanted to. This is awesome.

(via magicalbagofghosts)