1. 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).

2. 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.

3. What is America dealt?
High unemployment
at more than 9% nationwide
(Employment Situation Summary, 2011).

4. 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).

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.
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8. 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 from
http://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 from
http://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 from
http://robertreich.org/