For those fighting the Facebook Misinformation Wars, here's a little cut-and-paste for you....

[Richardo]

Here Are The Four Charts That Explain What The Protesters Are Angry About...

http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-four-charts-that-explain-what-the-protesters-are-angry-about-2011-10


(Henry Blodget is CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider.)


Here are the four key points:

1. Unemployment is at the highest level since the Great Depression (with the exception of a brief blip in the early 1980s).



2. At the same time, corporate profits are at an all-time high, both in absolute dollars and as a share of the economy.



3. Wages as a percent of the economy are at an all-time low. In other words, corporate profits are at an all-time high, in part, because corporations are paying less of their revenue to employees than they ever have. There are lots of reasons for this, many of which are not the fault of the corporations. (It's a global economy now, and 2-3 billion new low-cost employees in China, India, et al, have recently entered the global workforce. This is putting pressure on wages the world over.)



4. Income and wealth inequality in the US economy is near an all-time high: The owners of the country's assets (capital) are winning, everyone else (labor) is losing.

So, Facebook idiots, the message is not 'anti-capitalism', it's not 'blaming wall street' or 'anti-americanism'.

The message is not at all confusing, muddled or unclear, despite what the deep-thinkers on Fox and CNN tell you.

It's very plain: Ninety nine percent of this country's citizenry have been held down, downsized, off-shored, impoverished, so that the other 1% could reap financial benefit at unheard of levels AT OUR EXPENSE. And they refuse to repay in any way those that they have exploited, whether through livable wage growth, or even just ponying up a few more tax dollars to sustain the country, its citizens, and the infrastructure that have contributed so much to their success.

THAT'S why there are people in the streets all over the country, and those right wing tools who are mocking them should realize that those people are speaking on their behalf as well. Not they'd ever acknowledge that.

[bleever]

1. Excellent.

K&R.

[Ian David]

2. Math is hard.

[phasma ex machina]

3. Never before have so few owned so many. nt

[highplainsdem]

4. Thanks! K&R

[RKP5637]

5. Graphs of 21st Century Peasantry in America. n/t

[woo me with science]

6. Here is a more extensive version, too,

for those so inclined:

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1#ixzz1alvBswkW

[Richardo]

7. Thanks!

I could not believe this article was in my linkedin news feed. :thumbsup:

[leveymg]

8. knr - nice presentation. picture is worth 1k words, those charts 1 milion

[Bunny]

9. Great post!

:applause:

[butterfly77]

10. K&R..

[Tennessee Gal]

11. Powerful stuff.

[chervilant]

12. hmm...

I've been calling this "radical income inequity" and I've hoped that more of us will realize the damage done by the vile uber wealthy hedonists across the globe who own and control better than 45% of the planet's resources, including HUMAN resources. Such inequity is unsustainable, and the OWS initiatives underscore this fact.

[progressoid]

13. But but but...illegal immagrants....and teh gay. That's what's destroying Amurica.

k/r

[CarrieLynne]

14. wow look at those clinton and bush years OO

[kayakjohnny]

15. Great job Richardo!!!

I'm saving and sharing.

And highly recommending your post.

Awesome work!!!

:toast: :fistbump: :applause:

[Laelth]

16. k&r. Bookmarking. Thank you for posting. n/t

-Laelth

[bertman]

17. Excellent post, Richardo. REC. nt

[NICO9000]

18. They're gonna be part of the 1% - you betcha!

If they wish hard enough...

:eyes:

[Efilroft Sul]

19. Really good work there! n/t

[RoccoR5955]

20. All the people who I know who are CONs,

stopped sending me their propaganda, because I keep refuting it to them and their friends. I really don't see much of it, except for in the ads on the sidebar.

So, perhaps if you refuted each and every bit of lies, and called them lies, your FB friends would also stop sending you their garbage.

[spooked911]

21. My conservative friends/relatives on FB are impossible-- there is no reasoning with them

they have bought the Fox propaganda, hook, line and sinker.

Now they are pushing the story that the protesters are anti-semitic.

Groan.

[Katashi_itto]

23. Could use some help here on Topix, Alamogordo

Real Scumbag called Milken a RW propoganda machine.

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/alamogordo-nm/T40K9IKECH109T1N9

Any posts would be a help

[midnight]

22. Great charts... I think one more would be needed to show

which corporation took which jobs out of the country and to which country received those jobs...