America Needs a Fair Deal – Right Now

In America today,

the average corporate CEO

receives $300 for every $1

the average American

employee earns (Reich, 2011).

Nefarious Dealings from Wall Street Big Shots

But not only do the Wall Street Big Shots

get a lot more money

they also control the deck

and the deal.

And their dealing is anything but fair.

What is America dealt?

High unemployment

at more than 9% nationwide

(Employment Situation Summary, 2011).

We're dealt high unemployment.

They cash in with record profits!

10 + 4 = $14.7 trillion,

the value of corporate America's

AFTER TAX profits.

That's a record high

(Corporate profits, 2011).

They're gambling with our future

and they don't care if we lose

$6 million.

That's how much Big Shots

at Bank of America

and other Wall Street banks

received as bonuses

after US taxpayers bailed them out

and saved them from ruin (Brill, 2010).

All the while desperate homeowners

were losing their homes to foreclosures

because of those same banks.

They dealt themselves Big Tax Cuts, and we got Jacked.

A Jack is like an 11,

and 11% is how much

the average American

got out of the Republicans' tax cuts.

Those same tax cuts gave the rich Big Shots

an average of 38% (Fieldhouse, 2011).

And now, they want to do it to us again.

And they've got the cards to do it ...

unless you take action.

You pay more taxes than the rich

and you get less and less every day

in a system that's slanted in favor of the rich.

It's time to take action.

Join Occupy America.

Tell your Senators and Congressperson

that Americans need a Fair Deal

Right Now.

Occupy America. Demand a Fair Deal Now.

created by garth rogers

References

Brill, S. (2010, January, 3). What’s a Bailed-Out Banker Really Worth? The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03Compensation-t.html?pagewanted=all

Corporate profits after tax. (2011, September 29). U.S. Department of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis. Retrieved fromhttp://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/CP.txt

Employment Situation Summary. (2011, October 7). U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Fieldhouse, A. (2011, August 10). Highest-income households can afford to pay more in taxes. Economic Policy Institute. Retrieved fromhttp://www.epi.org/publication/highest-income_households_can_afford_to_pay_more_in_taxes/

Reich, R. (2011, October 16). The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America. RobertReich.org. Retrieved fromhttp://robertreich.org/