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  • Occupy Oakland's costs to residents spell disaster

    12/09/2011 6:48:13 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 4 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 9, 2011 | Chip Johnson
    After two months of the Occupy movement, Oakland residents should adopt their own chant. We are the 98.5 percent. The 1 percent control the vast majority of the nation's wealth, possess influence in the highest halls of government, and profit from the misery of others. The one-half percent have taken to the streets. Then there's everyone else: the veritable Silent Majority who work and pay the bills and the taxes that make the wheels turn. Even though both sides of the conflict claim to have our backs, neither group, it seems, has our best interests at heart. Oakland Mayor Jean...