Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Davos: Where your Economic Dictators go to PARTY!!!!! That means your PARTY leaders dear Republicans; you know the ones who send your kids to die in needless wars...


"At meetings the rest of society is excluded from, this powerful '1 percent' negotiates and decides about the fate of the other 99 percent of this world," says David Roth, "Camp Igloo" organiser and head of the Swiss centre-left's youth wing.

"The economic and financial concentration of power in a small, privileged minority leads to a dictatorship over the rest of us. The motto 'one person, one vote' is no longer valid, but 'one dollar, one vote'. We want to change that."

The USA, Europe, and indeed the World’s rich and famous cheered snow polo in Klosters, Switzerland, while at nearby Davos, host of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, young Swiss socialists protest against the power of political elites in igloos.

The real loser in Saturday’s Republican primary was the One Percent. Plutocrats fuelling up their Gulfstream 650s for the trip to Davos should take note: fellow club members Mitt Romney’s and Newt Gingrich’s path to the presidency may be obstructed by their vast riches. The perception of lopsided wealth creation bothered voters even more and was a bigger impediment than the more carnal sins of rival Newt Gingrich. Turns out the Occupy Wall Street movement is resonating in some unlikely places.

Romney’s trouncing in South Carolina’s primary (28 percent of the vote to Gingrich’s 40 percent) will encourage further attacks on his wealth as the candidates move on to the next battleground state, Florida. Romney is clearly girding for such a fight. In his concession speech on Saturday night, he lambasted former Gingrich. On Sunday, Romney vowed to release his tax returns later this week.

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