tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post1396364665270598864..comments2024-03-27T19:53:53.708-06:00Comments on growing changing learning creating: The trouble with the 1%Tom Haskinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12658791778134826289noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post-28163180841879121522011-10-27T19:29:49.387-06:002011-10-27T19:29:49.387-06:00Thanks for adding some open ears to all this.
War...Thanks for adding some open ears to all this.<br /><br />Warren Buffet is philanthropist and appears as an advocate for non-selfish interests. Michael Boomberg is a public servant. Both are generous and concerned with others' conditions. Neither fit my criteria for the 1% . They both have open ears, as do all of their equally wealthy colleagues with compatible compassion for others. <br /><br />They're not the ones with deaf ears who are messing up the economy, democracy and sense of justice in our world by hiring lobbyists and buying politicians with campaign donations. They're in the 99% with us.Tom Haskinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12658791778134826289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post-49568521760881848142011-10-27T17:45:02.488-06:002011-10-27T17:45:02.488-06:00I'm not sure I agree with you that it is falli...I'm not sure I agree with you that it is falling on deaf ears or that all that are in the 1% fit your criteria. Warren Buffet, who would fall in the 1%, has come out and said that he thinks the current tax system is unfair (for which he was labeled a "socialist"). Michael Bloomberg convinced a group to donate money so that all students in NY state could take their regents exams (standardized tests that have been required in NY state for a century and are used in evaluating student progress and for entrance into NY state colleges)in August and January. This was important because many students in poorer school districts would not have the opportunity to either pass or better their scores. If the regents were offered only once a year, many of them would have difficulty graduating on time as a regents diploma is required in NY state for graduation.<br /><br />These are the people the OWS movement is hoping to reach so that maybe they could have an impact on our current system. At the very least, this movement wants a voice, even if it falls on deaf ears.V Yonkershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11910904367068063554noreply@blogger.com