To: Brumar89 who wrote (631208 ) 10/11/2011 8:26:50 AM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to "The Man" Can't Bust Our Ice Cream! Ed Driscoll now in single-serving thousand calorie packages The inequity that exists between classes in our country is simply immoral. We are in an unemployment crisis. Almost 14 million people are unemployed. Nearly 20% of African American men are unemployed. Over 25% of our nation’s youth are unemployed. Many workers who have jobs have to work 2 or 3 of them just to scrape by. Higher education is almost impossible to obtain without going deeply in debt. Corporations are permitted to spend unlimited resources to influence elections while stockpiling a trillion dollars rather than hiring people. We know the media will either ignore you [ Red-line that irony meter or frame the issue as to who may be getting pepper sprayed rather than addressing the despair and hardships borne by so many, or accurately conveying what this movement is about. All this goes on while corporate profits continue to soar and millionaires whine about paying a bit more in taxes. And we have not even mentioned the environment. Ben & Jerry’s is a division of the British-Dutch Unilever conglomerate : The brands fall almost entirely into two categories: Food and Beverages, and Home and Personal Care. benjerry.com — and “occupy-movement” sums up both the lifespan of their product, and the protestors’ poster boy pajamasmedia.com name the flavor of the new B&J ice cream for their support of OWS : Link to this Comment Reply Govern-Mint Teat Treat Stuttering F&*k Clusters Ché Garcia Forced Marchmallow Link to this Comment Reply Link to this Comment Reply Link to this Comment Reply One bullet speaks to the high unemployment, the next says workers have 2-3 jobs. Where are the protests of the greedy workers hoarding all the jobs? Maybe we need to redistribute those jobs to the unemployed, and redistribute unemployment checks to people with one job. Maybe we could cut the red tape and redistribute the unemployment funds by reducing taxes on the middle class. Maybe, since these are probably bottom 2 income quintile jobs, we could stop withholding for jobs under $35K annual income. Maybe we could get some businesses out of the extra duty of tax collection.
