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Jordan,
You do know that corporations give money to politicians to write laws in their favor? You do realize that there are individuals that broke the law…and have not been tried? Do you recognize the effect that Citizens United has on your own political voice? Do you believe that it matters who you vote for? Do you really think your politicians…[Read more]

Demand for goods and services create jobs?
And who will demand these goods and services if there is no middle class? Are we going to stand by and continue to watch regulations written for the benefit of politicians and corporations? When will we see the conversation come back to the cause of the recession? What does that take? It looks like it…[Read more]

Exactly.
These inequities are what drive the OWS protests. People don’t want handouts. It’s not a class uprising and we don’t want civil war — we want just the opposite. We want everyone to live in the same country, and live by the same rules. It’s amazing that some people think that that’s asking a lot.

Andrew,  let us know what you find.

How does protesting create jobs? Demand for goods and services create jobs? Just a thought…

Again reminded of how depressing this economy is…my husband didn’t get the one job he actually landed an interview for. Workin’ on four years since graduation and still can’t find a professional job…and people wonder why there are protesters?  :*(

thanks Robert and all Ya’ll….
I appreciate your advice. I’ll check all these suggestions out….

What a Debbie downer, I don’t know that there is one positive thing in your comment 
 

Alan,
These other packages are great but have you considered Vectoworks Landmark? I’ve been using it for over a year and the 3D modeling, grading and Landscape are far superior to Autodesk’s solution for a fraction of the price.

This is what the OWS is about, see something wrong? 

 
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/10/income-inequality-america

It does seem like we  need a more subtle definition than just ‘capitalism’ to convey a more accurate agenda for social change.. Our society is not solely capitalistic, nor is it the concept of buying and selling that we (liberals) object to…completely…
And I think what we all like is ‘representative democracy’ but insofar as that system has b…[Read more]

Also wanted to add…that the fact that individuals think capitalism is a total failure is a symptom of how far our country has fallen. We should be able to have open discussions about what works and what doesn’t. The fact that there are people openly arguing against capitalism (of which I would argue does not actually exist in our current system)…[Read more]

You are probably right. It makes me uncomfortable. I don’t want to be part of a movement that uses violence. Sigh. Obviously…there has not been anything like this in my lifetime, so I am getting a lesson in protest. It is scary in many ways. I went to the Occupy Oakland Facebook page and saw one of their discussion topics was, “destroying…[Read more]

Oakland has had some real problems with the police, recently, I am hoping that is what drove that incident. Tensions are already very high between police and residents, in Oakland