01-01-2016, 08:36 PM
Quote:They are NOT about the lower class attacking the upper class, precisely the opposite in fact.
Uhm, if I was teaching on class warfare, I'd use the first one as an example of exactly how corporate shills promote class warfare. The second article?
Quote:Jake DeSantis, a 40-year-old commodities trader at AIG, was an unlikely face of Wall Street greed. Stocky and clean cut, with an abiding moral streak, he’d worked summers for a bricklayer in the shadow of shuttered steel mills outside Pittsburgh; he was valedictorian of his high-school class and attended college at MIT. Compared with the way many of his Wall Street brethren lived, with their Gulfstreams, Hamptons mansions, and fleets of luxury cars, his life wasn’t one to invite scorn. He had canvassed for Obama in Scranton on Election Day and drove a Prius. His division at AIG was profitable. And since joining the company in 1998, he had never traded a single credit-default swap.
Now his boss was selling him out. DeSantis left work that day feeling that his world was falling apart. The next day, the House passed—by a wide margin—a bill that would levy a 90 percent tax on bonuses at firms that were bailed out. The Connecticut Working Families Party planned to bus protesters to the homes of AIG executives in Fairfield County. There were death threats. “It’s been terrifying,” says his wife’s mother, Lynnette Baughman. “It’s like a witch hunt.”
That's what you are championing, good job. Even if you do look at the slimy people involved what exactly transpired? Oh yeah, the government *GAVE* billions to corporations while *TAKING* millions from people. Uhm, how is supporting that not a corporate shill?