Maybe we could send these stats to Congress. Maybe then it would sink in.

[ThirdWorldJohn]

They sure don't seem to know what is going on. Maybe the lobbyists are just not telling them.

# In America, every 2 minutes a baby is born into poverty

# Every hour a baby dies before turning one year old

# Every 15 minutes a baby is born to a mother who received late or no
prenatal care

# Every 7 minutes a baby is born at low birth weight

# One out of every 4 American veterans is now homeless

# Twenty-two thousand Americans will die needlessly this year because of private, over-expensive, capitalist healthcare insurance companies

# 35.9 million Americans now live below the poverty line, including 12.9 million children

# At least 25% of American workers are unemployed, though the rigged government figures report it to be only 7.2 %. 2

# Over 2 million Americans have lost their homes to foreclosure since January, 2007; 12,000 homes a day continuing to go into foreclosure

# American workers have lost $10 to $15 trillion in the value of their homes

# 4 million Americans are now homeless, subsisting on the streets or in tent cities (right)

# American retirees have lost $2 trillion in retirement funds (of the total of $9 trillion in late 2007) due to the fall in the stock market

# Home foreclosure filings have surged 100 percent from 2007 to 2009

# Bank repossessions have soared 200 percent from 2007 to 2009

# Of the 1.6 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, 38% of Army and 50% of National Guard service members have been diagnosed with mental illness. (2007 Pentagon report)

# The United States has the third worst level of income inequality and poverty among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 30 member states (only Mexico and Turkey ranked worse in those categories)

# Capitalists have looted and continue to loot over $7.4 trillion taxpayer dollars (as revealed by Bloomberg News), pretending it's a necessary bailout or stimulus program--pocketing the money themselves

# The criminal capitalists have seen that finance institution executives receive millions in salary and bonuses

# Capitalists have destroyed the American economy and are now perpetrating the lie that the only way to "maintain the confidence of the financial markets" is to cut Social Security and Medicare

http://www.hermes-press.com/capitalist_genocide.htm

[47of74]

1. I doubt it

While it would work with some members of Congress, there are others there - even Democrats - where little seems to penetrate that semi-divine detachment they've affected themselves with.

[ejpoeta]

2. they don't care.

They live in their little world where they can act like part of the rich people and sometimes become rich too. They have healthcare. They get paid. They have clout and therefore they do not live like the rest of us. They have no reason to care.

Sure some of them do. You can tell there are some who are actually there to try to help us, but there aren't enough of them. The monied interests have bought and paid for enough to ensure that this list of yours stays just as long. And they'll make sure that the congresscritters stay in their little bubble so they don't have to worry about a thing.

[indepat]

3. These are but a few of the joys of 'pukes having set the national agenda during the post-WWII era

:P

[Turbineguy]

4. The economy has to move

from zero sum, where some get wealthy at the expense of others, to wealth creation.