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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 895029" data-attributes="member: 2189">I disagree using purely income and worth as a measure of the 1%.&nbsp; I look at who has and holds power and can dictate public policy to their advantage.&nbsp; There are numerous small and medium size business owners in the low 8 digit worth and income realm yet they are very much IMO in the 99% because they are just as burdened by the corp. socialism as the rest of us.&nbsp; You might even be surprised from a certain measure of income and assets how many blue collar UPSers are in the 7 figure realm of worth and yet by income they are a solid blue collar middle class person.&nbsp; IMO, measuring the 1% is not as much about pure wealth as it is about the ability to derive wealth thanks to seizure of political power and the power to use public policy and public assets to shift wealth from one factor in the market to themselves.&nbsp; That is corp. socialism or what some call corp. welfare or rent seeking.A few recent pieces worth considering for Occupiers or sympathetic parties.Anarcho-libertarian Anthony Gregory on <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory242.html" target="_blank">&quot;The Occupiers and The State&quot;</a>Becky Akers and <a href="http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers168.html" target="_blank">&quot;The American Police State&quot;</a>Business Insider sez<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/marine-with-crowd-control-training-points-out-oakland-used-methods-prohibited-in-war-zones-2011-10" target="_blank"> &quot;Police Using Tactics On Americians Prohibited for Soldiers in a War Zone&quot;</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 895029, member: 2189"] I disagree using purely income and worth as a measure of the 1%. I look at who has and holds power and can dictate public policy to their advantage. There are numerous small and medium size business owners in the low 8 digit worth and income realm yet they are very much IMO in the 99% because they are just as burdened by the corp. socialism as the rest of us. You might even be surprised from a certain measure of income and assets how many blue collar UPSers are in the 7 figure realm of worth and yet by income they are a solid blue collar middle class person. IMO, measuring the 1% is not as much about pure wealth as it is about the ability to derive wealth thanks to seizure of political power and the power to use public policy and public assets to shift wealth from one factor in the market to themselves. That is corp. socialism or what some call corp. welfare or rent seeking. A few recent pieces worth considering for Occupiers or sympathetic parties. Anarcho-libertarian Anthony Gregory on [URL="http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory242.html"][COLOR=#ff0000]"The Occupiers and The State"[/COLOR][/URL] Becky Akers and [URL="http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers168.html"][COLOR=#ff0000]"The American Police State"[/COLOR][/URL] Business Insider sez[URL="http://www.businessinsider.com/marine-with-crowd-control-training-points-out-oakland-used-methods-prohibited-in-war-zones-2011-10"][COLOR=#ff0000] "Police Using Tactics On Americians Prohibited for Soldiers in a War Zone"[/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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