Ben & Jerry, members of the 1 percent, support the Occupy movement.
From CNN:
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, will be at the National Press Club today to discuss why and how they feel business leaders should work to reduce economic inequality and to explain why they support the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators.
In a statement of support on the Ben and Jerry website, the Board of Directors writes, "As a board and as a company we have actively been involved with these issues for years but your efforts have put them out front in a way we have not been able to do."
Cohen and Greenfield join American Morning today to explain why they support the Occupy movement and to offer their suggestions about how to create the changes proposed by the OWS demonstrators.
I think Ben and Jerry should start by handing over their profits.
It's not enough to give a portion of their profits to charities and causes.
They should sell what they own and share their wealth and become true members of the 99 percent.
They present themselves as if they haven't benefited by engaging in capitalism. Very hypocritical.
I get that they are in a very awkward position, but unless they take a vow of poverty and quit profiting from their ice cream kingdom, there's nothing that can change that.
Instead of supporting the Occupy thugs and thieves, they should serve as role models to show that capitalists aren't necessarily bad people.
Capitalism isn't evil.
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