{"id":7815,"date":"2011-09-20T09:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T14:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7815"},"modified":"2011-09-20T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T14:43:29","slug":"occupy-wall-street-organizer-republicans-are-the-ones-waging-class-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/20\/occupy-wall-street-organizer-republicans-are-the-ones-waging-class-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Wall Street organizer: Republicans are the ones waging class warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

The summary of the video below comes from the article Occupy Wall Street organizer: Republicans are the ones waging class warfare<\/strong><\/a> on the Raw Story web site.<\/p>\n

David Graeberm, one of the organizers of the \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d protest, said Monday on Democracy Now that it was Republicans, not President Barack Obama, who were engaged in class warfare.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, generally speaking, when you hear a Republican talk about class warfare, you know they\u2019re waging it,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that the easiest way to put what\u2019s going on in perspective is to think the situation in the \u201950s under Eisenhower, who was of course a Republican president, when tax rates on the wealthiest were actually 90 percent. I don\u2019t remember the economy freezing up and falling apart in the 1950s. In fact, it was booming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that for the last 30 years we\u2019ve seen a political battle being waged by the super-rich against everyone else,\u201d Graeberm added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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