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#9 Occupy Wall Street is angry that the United States has “perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.”
Oh really?
Under Barack Obama, the U.S. military has been used as the “police of the world” even more than it was under George W. Bush.
Under Obama, the war in Afghanistan was greatly expanded and the U.S. military began bombing the living daylights out of Libya. In addition, under Obama the U.S. military has been conducting air strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Today, there is a U.S. military base in over half of the countries on the planet and U.S. military spending is more than 7 times larger than the military spending of any other nation on earth.
So if “the left” was angry at George W. Bush for what he did, then why aren’t they filled with rage at Barack Obama for his policies?
#10 Occupy Wall Street is angry that the U.S. has “participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.”
Well, Barack Obama did not shut down Guantanamo Bay as he promised to do.
So where is the accountability?
Under George W. Bush, millions of “evangelical Christians” were cheering for torture.
Today, millions of “liberals” are cheering while the Obama administration conducts “enhanced interrogations” of prisoners and performs “extraordinary renditions” in foreign countries.
If liberals want to complain about “torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas”, it isn’t the Republicans they should be angry at.
Barack Obama is running our foreign policy, and he should be held accountable for what is going on.
#11 Occupy Wall Street is angry because the wealthy are not paying their “fair share” of taxes.
Well, it is undeniable that many big corporations (such as Obama’s good friends over at GE) quite often get away with paying no taxes at all.
But Barack Obama and the Democrats controlled the White House and all of Congress for two whole years.
So why didn’t they “fix” the tax code while they had the chance?
Could it be that they actually like the current system?
The truth is that our current tax system is so flawed, so complex and so full of holes that it needs to be thrown out entirely.
Many big corporations get away with bloody murder under the current tax system, yet nearly all establishment Democrats and nearly all establishment Republicans want to keep the current system of taxation.
In a previous article, I noted some of the big corporations that make a ton of money and yet have paid less than zero in taxes in recent years….
What U.S. corporations are able to get away with is absolutely amazing.
The following figures come directly out of a report by Citizens for Tax Justice. These are combined figures for the tax years 2008, 2009 and 2010.
During those three years, all of the corporations below made a lot of money. Yet all of them paid net taxes that were below zero for those three years combined.
How is that possible? Well, it turns out that instead of paying in taxes to the federal government, they were actually getting money back.
So for these corporations, their rate of taxation was actually below zero.
If you have not seen these before, you are going to have a hard time believing some of these statistics…..
*Honeywell*
Profits: $4.9 billion
Taxes: -$34 million
*Fed Ex*
Profits: $3 billion
Taxes: -$23 million
*Wells Fargo*
Profits: $49.37 billion
Taxes: -$681 million
*Boeing*
Profits: $9.7 billion
Taxes: -$178 million
*Verizon*
Profits: $32.5 billion
Taxes: -$951 million
*Dupont*
Profits: $2.1 billion
Taxes -$72 million
*American Electric Power*
Profits: $5.89 billion
Taxes -$545 million
*General Electric*
Profits: $7.7 billion
Taxes: -$4.7 billion
Are you starting to get the picture?
The amazing thing is that GE can get away with all this and still ship thousands upon thousands of good American jobs out of the country.
There is no way that our current tax code can be fixed with a few “tweaks” here and there. Our current tax code is an abomination that should be immediately repealed and flushed down the toilet.
But the Democrats and most Republicans seem to want to keep it around. They like to play their little social engineering games with the tax code, and the current tax code enables their wealthy donors to do quite nicely.
Occupy Wall Street is right to argue that our tax code is fundamentally unjust, and the number one person that they need to point the finger at is Barack Obama.
So can any “liberal” out there actually defend Barack Obama after reading all of this?
Can anyone out there put forth an intellectual argument for why Occupy Wall Street protesters should be supporting Obama?
The truth is that most of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are intellectual hypocrites.
Most of them are so scared that a Republican might win in 2012 that they won’t say anything bad about Obama.
It is the same trap that many Republicans fell into with George W. Bush.
Look, George W. Bush was a nightmare for this country.
Barack Obama is even worse.
If we are not going to be intellectually honest with ourselves, then we might as well tattoo the word “sheeple” on to our foreheads.
If Occupy Wall Street really believes the stuff that they are saying, then they need to call for Barack Obama to resign.
Does anyone disagree?
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