Congress' "supercommittee" of the 1% is preparing an austerity plan for the 99%. Will We, the People be allowed to vote on this plan, or, like Greece, will the elites just tell us how it is going to be? Our deficits were caused by tax cuts for the rich and huge increases in military spending. But instead of addressing these causes the elite supercommittee is said to be preparing to take money out of the economy by cutting the things We, the People do for each other. That's right, at the very time when 99% of us need more we will get less so that the 1% can enjoy record-low tax rates -- and it looks like We, the People will have no say in it.

Last week Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou proposed a referendum on the austerity plan that European governments are preparing for the country. "The markets" -- another name for the 1% -- went berserk in reaction. Pressure was applied, and now the Greek people will not be allowed to vote on their austerity plan after all, they will just be told. Richard Eskow writes about this elite veto power over democracy, in Vetoing Democracy: In Athens or Washington, Elites Still Call the Shots,

And what was most striking was the assumption the elite - the 1%, if you will - have veto power over the democratic process. In most of the commentary that flowed from the powerful and the press, a surprising number of world leader didn't even acknowledge that Greece had the right to its own democratic decision-making process.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, whose nation will benefit from "bipartisan" U.S. actions to create a free trade agreement between the two countries, said that "The world has plunged into fears again because of the Greek prime minister's radical step to hold a referendum." Closer to home, French President Sarkozy said that "the Greek's gesture is irrational and, from their point of view, dangerous."

The first part of that statement is a slur against democracy. The second part is, of course, a threat.

Here we are a year after our first post-Citizens United election, in which corporations were allowed to use money to directly influence our elections (as compared to indirectly influencing elections by funding the conservative movement and their organizations, think tanks, media, operatives, propaganda machine, smear machine, etc.). Here we are with the results, a year with no jobs plan from the corporate-elected House majority and a year of filibusters of jobs plans by the corporate-elected Senate Republicans. Here we are with people in the streets, like in Greece, being met with police force, like in Egypt. Meanwhile our Congress pretends it can just ignore the will of We, the People. Mubarak tried that - didn't end so well for him.

So, will We, the People be allowed to have a say over this austerity plan, or will it be like Greece all over again, told by the 1% how it's gonna be?

Or, maybe, Egypt?
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Didn't you all elect your Congress?

It just goes to show how far off base you are.

I am all for the occupy movement its time to take back america.


Did we elect bush on the platform to invade Iraq?
Did we elect Obama to over throw Ghadafi?

elections are pointless at this point.

We sure didnt elect congress the power to form a supercommitte.

These people are the 1% they are not looking out for the best interests of you and I.

Im sure you would sing a differant tune if they slashed your social security and medicare.

I sometimes think many on here are deluded and deluded people are never any fun except to watch in their pathetic foolishness.

If your 100% certain the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few are good for the country by all means carry on.

If you like me find something seriously wrong with the direction this country is going support the occupy movement in any way you can

I think Conrad might just be one of the 1%

Me thinks y'all voted for the Lisbon-Treaty!

Take what doesn't belong to you!
Wanting the Unearned?
No matter what ,you elected them,live with it until you can Un-Elect them!

absurd thought process. Sure we can vote them out but the agenda is the same and the laws stay on the books. Laughable realy.

What you want is not yours,and is not Congress's to give to you!
Pick it off a Tree if you think it just grows!
Wealth has to be made before it can be looted!
So your Chief-Looter in the WH hasn't been forthcoming with the Loot and has given it to his Cronies instead?

Please translae this into something that is understandable

http://mises.org/books/socialism.pdf

That you're barking up the wrong Tree,that you got the wrong 1%!

http://mises.org/daily/3735
That Guy in the WH and George Soros together with the Unions are playing you like a Fiddle!
OWS is performing as expected!

Yes I elected what was given to me to elect the government and lobbiests control who is able to be elected....in a falsified feeling of democracy yes.........

Yes I elected what was given to me to elect the government and lobbiests control who is able to be elected....in a falsified feeling of democracy yes.........

There is only one 1%

someone tell Mr Conrad that the 0ne percent we are talking about are the one percent that controls and manipulates both wings of the business party.( he never listens to me)

Yup!

Expropriate someone's money at the point of a? gun and give it to someone else. That's exactly what a mugger does. But we urge the state to do it all the time. They are both crooks. Our system is collapsing around us because we allowed twisted ideas like this creep in. The welfare state: where productivity is punished and sloth is rewarded.

It's the machines Conrad...the machines