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Fat Cat Bash 

These occupiers spend an inordinate amount of time decrying the “1 percent who own 50 percent of everything” but very little time explaining their ultimate objectives.

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“We are the 99 percent who pay 61.98 percent of the taxes protesting the 1 percent who own 50 percent of everything but pay 38.02 percent of all the taxes.” The occupy party is bringing its fuzzy math to Richmond. The…

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