Who we are, and what we want!

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We are not anti-Capitalism. Do not listen to FoxNews.
We have nothing to do with George Soros.

We are tired of Washington politicians not representing the people.

We want the DOJ to catch those responsible for the financial meltdown and hold them accountable.
We want Congress to fix Social Security by slowly raising the retirement age over time, means test, and increase FICA payroll tax a little on upper income brackets.
We want regulation to be installed in the financial sector to help prevent future abuse.
We want to stop Congress from cutting programs that made this country the greatest on Earth and increase taxes on the wealthy back to where they were under Clinton.
We want to reduce military spending for unneeded pork projects, streamline the military, wrap up the Iraq war, have fewer boots on the ground and utilize drones and special ops.
We want banks to help fix the mortgage mess they created with teaser ARMs by using the government money to buydown high risk rate loans to stop the foreclosures from continuing to drag down the housing market.
We want to keep religion out of Government.
We want to stop the wasteful hurtful War on Drugs, reschedule marijuana as a Schedule 2 drug, and move toward a national medical marijuana rule.
We want to protect the EPA.
We want to stop talking about distracting invasive social issues like abortion control, gun control and illegal immigration, and start talking about rebuilding our infrastructure, building a national hydrogen distribution network for the future generation of fuel cell powered cars, increase agriculture production as the world population increases to avert global food price escalation, and do other things to create jobs now and in the future.
We want Government to stop approving M&A activity that reduces competition.
We want to stop the police state that has materialized since privatizing the industrial prison complex.
We want the Republicans to work with Obama and the Democrats.
We want Congress to stop talking about cutting taxes on the "job creators", and do things that will increase consumer demand.
We want to legalize gay marriage across the nation and be done with it.
We want to reform Wall Street to stop wild speculation that increases prices for oil, food, and other commodities.

This is what the Occupy protests are about, not what FoxNews says it is.
Fox condemns the protests as anti-American, un-patriotic, anti-Capitalist, but nothing could be farther from the truth.
We ARE Americans!
We love our country!
We want to take it back from the special interests and the Corporations and the ultra-rich, and return it to the PEOPLE!

Stop Corruption by ALL Government Employees

We need the following law passed, perhaps on a state by state level by voters:  No government employee or candidate for office or their immediate family members (Identified as spouses, parents, and children, natural or adopoted) may take anything from any lobbyist, corporation or its employees who are seeking to do any business with the government over which that government employee has any control.  If it is later found that said government employee or family member did take anything, then that contract or legislation will be voided and the employee immediately fired and all benefits terminated as of that date.  IF WE DON'T STOP CORRUPTION, ALL OUR EFFORTS ARE IN VAIN because we will never be able to afford a functioning government.  Look no further than the military for proof.

Taxes?



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Can I suggest that taxes be completely simplified for both individuals and businesses. Complete reform, simplification while maintaining the progressive algorythm for fairness.



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Even though it is a conservati­ve idea, it makes more and more sense as corporate tax welfare expands and the world becomes more complex:

Eliminate all deductions­, credits, exemptions­, etc.......­.for businesses and individual­s.
Standardiz­e accounting practices for businesses­....no more tricks.
Allow the mortgage interest deduction, child care credit and a range of charitable contributi­ons deduction.
Drop the tax rates in a progressiv­e algorithm for both business and individual­s.
Be prepared to re-train and employ all of the accountant­s, tax prepares and lawyers who will lose their jobs.

If we could back this tax reform up with institutin­g a national bio-metric Social Security card, we would eliminate a huge portion of the undergroun­d economy. No card - No work. Businesses that don't comply are fined 10 times the taxes that haven't been paid on ineligible workers. This will also be the beginning of addressing our immigratio­n issue(s).

Be Fair, Be Simple and Be Consistent­!

 

Thomas the Believer

SWARMtheBANKS's picture

Many excellent ideas.

Personal freedom can free up time so people can become more involved in the wrong doings.  People are enslaved by their debt.   People cannot change terms on their debt unless they first default.

This one singular issue results the loss of main street's wealth to the bankers and the 1%

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