{"id":572,"date":"2011-02-11T22:55:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T22:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=572"},"modified":"2011-02-11T22:55:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T22:55:28","slug":"an-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"an “American Revolution”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and the “Arab Revolution” gathers steam across the region. \u00a0 The Egyptian protesters, as with the protesters in Tunisia, had grown weary of entrenched regimes that shared the wealth with upper levels of society, while a significant portion of the rest of society lived in poverty, and fear… \u00a0 Meanwhile across the sea in America, we primarily have two political Parties that have been entrenched for more than 100 years. \u00a0 These Parties are tremendously influenced by lobbyists employed by such interests as: banks, mortgage lenders, stock brokers, big retail companies… \u00a0 These lobbyists have tremendous influence in the crafting of legislation (by either Republican or Democrat representatives). \u00a0 In turn, this regularly generates big tax breaks, subsidies, and so on, for the wealthiest sectors of America. \u00a0 The end result is the top 20% of Americans own 84% of the wealth; while the bottom 20% of Americans own 0.1% of the wealth, according to Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine… \u00a0 <\/em>So, in essence, what we have in America is a “corporate dictatorship” that pulls the strings of both Republicans and Democrats… \u00a0 Maybe it’s time for millions of protesters to show up on the Mall in D.C. for the “American Revolution.” \u00a0 Note: \u00a0<\/strong> I’m just reading the book Run the Other Way<\/em> \u00a0 by Bill Hillsman, who was a campaign consultant for such independent candidates as Jessie Ventura and Ralph Nader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and the “Arab Revolution” gathers steam across the region. \u00a0 The Egyptian protesters, as with the protesters in Tunisia, had grown weary of entrenched regimes that shared the wealth with upper levels of society, while …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}