Wall Street Protests

[classicman]

One of their "leaders" was just on the radio 1/2 hour ago answering calls from the public.
(on the show which replaced Rush)
He refused to denounce any violence and blamed it upon retaliation to the police.
He seemed rather unprepared and stumbled/mumbled through a lot of his responses when taken off message and asked direct questions. :/

[Cyber Wolf]

So Occupy DC packed it up, cleared out of McPherson Square on K Street, the city re-seeded the grass that was damaged during the occupation and then...

http://wtop.com/109/2623180/Occupy-g...rns-to-DC-park

[glatt]

Yeah, I saw that. But the city isn't as welcoming as it had been. They won't be allowed to sleep there.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

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I feel that, for Lake Oswego, the best route would be to have a legal decision that the water is public,
and then to have the City government work with the State Marine Board to hold public hearing and set rules of conduct.
This has been done elsewhere and works out well, for the most part.
Of course, the wealthy L.O. property owners will not have their isolation.

This law suit has gone ad extemimus sillimus

http://www.oregonlive.com/lake-osweg...tml OregonLive
Molly Harbarger, The Oregonian
July 10, 2012, 2:50 PM

Jonathan Lee Riches alert: restraining order, appeal filed to warn residents of Oswego Lake volcano, "sue-nami"

Jonathan Lee Riches is persistent.
The serial suer asked for a restraining order against Portland attorney Mark Kramer
and Lake Oswego Planning Commission member Todd Prager,
who are suing [The City of] Lake Oswego for denying the public access to Oswego Lake.

Riches, named the most litigious man by the Guinness Book of World Records
(which he sued afterward), previously filed a motion to become a plaintiff on the case,
claiming the city is hiding President Barack Obama’s Kenya birth certificate and Jimmy Hoffa's remains,
among other things, in a secret underwater bubble.

When Judge Ancer Haggerty dismissed it as frivolous, he appealed the decision,
naming all the city councilors and Lake Oswego Police Chief Don Johnson
as conspirators who forged Prager and Kramer's signatures on the original lawsuit.

The original lawsuit challenges Lake Oswego City Council’s decision to block the public
from accessing Oswego Lake from city property. The lake is considered private,
and lake-front property owners pay membership fees to Lake Corporationto use the lake.
Prager and Kramer are challenging that the lake can be considered private property in a federal lawsuit.
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[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by UT

The gain from 2003-2007 is rather large, but if we continue this graph from 2007-2011, I assure you the drop-off will be similarly massive.

The economics reason for this is simple:

During good times, everybody gets richer, but the rich get richer at a much faster rate. During bad times, everybody gets poorer, but the rich get poorer at a much faster rate.

The data for 2008-2009 is in today.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

The data for 2008-2009 is in today.

What is this showing?

[Undertoad]

It's the graph in this post, updated with 2008 and 2009.

[BigV]

Good morning UT.

Would you please give a cite for your numbers? I would like to follow up on this thread; you quoted me after all. I tried to follow the links backward to no avail.

[Undertoad]

Congressional Budget Office; click on any of the supplemental tables at the bottom and you download the spreadsheet. Open it, go to the household income sheet, and the data is in the table labeled "Average After-Tax Income (2009 dollars)".

[Undertoad]

BumpV

[BigV]

just saw this bump...

I'll read and reply. thanks for the bump.