03-26-2012, 05:25 AM
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Originally posted by Rob Tucker
"Occupy Pahoa" sounds pretty local to me.
When you consider that 80,000 lots in Puna were essestinally subdivided around 1959 to function as a tax mine where taxes are extracted and services not delivered there is plenty for people to get informed about.
I guess the "occupy" movement has a different meaning on the BI? Somehow I don't think Joe the plumber feels like that when he has to step over piles of feces and dodge a junki's needles in order to make his way to the doors of city hall to pay his gas bill. But blowing bubbles and ballons is a heck of a lot better than crapping on the sidewalk, I agree.....but what jahnava is saying is to show your solidarity with these folks. Can you tell me what the corporate influence was/is on the local and or state government here? Contributions of corruption from the financial sector to influence government here? Just sounds like greedy government polititions pocketing tax revenues all the way down the food chain. And on that point Rob you are spot on. But for the average Joe who has worked and sweat their butt off as a steel worker for 25 years as a single parent, scrimping and saving to give your kid a better education, opportunity...I worked for everything I got. These people you see at these ralleys that are the 99% I would say 90% kids, druggies, lazies, and the unfortunate sitting there with there hand held out, and what's even worse is that these 99% are the reason the biggest tard is in office. And lets not go through life with blinders on...this tard is suposedly from here and gave the same corporations that got us into this financial mess BILLIONS of YOUR TAX revenue. These people gave up not too long ago the mentallity that if you work hard all your life and keep perserveering, you WILL succeed. I didn't give up no matter how bad things got. As far as being pissed at the local and state government for taking these revenues and squandering them..hell ya, I'm pissed too. But don't get the two mixed up. Solidarity??