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Parody: Billionaires tell protesters to buy their own government
The 0.001 percent made their way down to the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” demonstration in lower Manhattan to let the protesters know that they had “bought this democracy fair and square.” One billionaire told Laura Flanders of GRITtv that if the protesters didn’t like it, they should buy their own…
Russell Simmons: I will bring hundreds of thousands to ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Hip hop magnate Russell Simmons said Thursday on MSNBC that he planned on joining the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” in lower Manhattan. Simmons, who has an estimated net-worth of $340 million, noted that all his employees paid more taxes than he did. “Last time I got involved in a protest…
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