{"id":185118,"date":"2011-10-06T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/06\/not-enough-bullets-53\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T22:37:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/06\/not-enough-bullets-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happened in Chicago at the Occupy Wall Street protests there?<\/p>\n<p>Some traders hung out a sign reading, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/10\/05\/336590\/chicago-protests-we-are-1-percent\/\">We are the 1%<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>T<span style=\"color: blue;\">he Occupy Wall Street movement spread to Chicago this week, where protesters have gathered outside the Chicago Board of Trade, the world\u2019s oldest options and futures trading center. Like the protesters in New York and other cities around the country, the group gathered to protest our nation\u2019s growing income inequality, as the top 1 percent of Americans continue to see their incomes rise rapidly and their tax rates fall. The Chicago traders, confronted by the protesters\u2019 \u201cWe are the 99 percent\u201d message, crafted their own not-so-subtle reply, hanging signs in eighth-floor windows that said, \u201cWe are the 1%\u201c:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img856.imageshack.us\/img856\/5430\/2011105onepercent.jpg\" width=\"490\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that these folks will carry their smirks on their faces until they see Madam Gillotine.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t Cthulhu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened in Chicago at the Occupy Wall Street protests there? Some traders hung out a sign reading, &#8220;We are the 1%&#8220;: The Occupy Wall Street movement spread to Chicago this week, where protesters have gathered outside the Chicago Board of Trade, the world\u2019s oldest options and futures trading center. Like the protesters in New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1004,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-finance","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}