This Whole "Occupy Wallstreet" thing seems like theater of the absurd.

Originally posted by Jezus

Originally posted by Convicted
The funniest thing, is that rich, fat heifer Michael Moore up there telling everyone about people paying their fair share. If he wants to share, why dont he give his 50 million to charity.

I have seen this same concept many times.

It doesn't make sense for multiple reasons....

Originally posted by Convicted
reply to post by Jezus

 

Well tell Bill Gates and Warren Buffet that.
They each are giving at least $50 billion dollars away.
I guess they are just stupid with money.

Originally posted by DerVerboten
reply to post by gncnew

 

That would be true if the media was even covering it!

Only thing i saw was on BBC.

THey do'nt march DC because it's so ghetto they'd probably all get shot.

Things happen. Personally it smells like communism.

Originally posted by gncnew
Just an fun update, and thread coming... here are the "Demands" of this ridiculous collection of bored malcontents:

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

Please visit the link provided for the complete story.

OccupyWallStreet.org

No, seriously, they're demanding getting paid even if you don't work...

Originally posted by schuyler
It is. One of my favorite blogs, Ace of Spades, has this to say:

The Left doing what the Left does best: Marching to protest [fill this space with, literally, anything].

What do we want? Free unicorns!

Originally posted by reallywow

LMAO

I applaud them for marching on Wall Street, but they should be marching on Washington DC.

90% of those protesting in Manhattan are either:

- college students there because their professors told them they would get extra credit for attending. They don't even know why they are there, they just want 5 extra points on the next test.
- naive college students who don't understand how the world really works, or who were brainwashed by their far left wing professors.
- People who watched "V For Vendetta" one time too many and think they can bring down the evil Capitalist pigs.
- Communists and socialists.
- the usual Anarchist agitators who come out for every protest.

These people are annoying the people of New York City who are late for work and school.

They are disrupting public transportation and hurting innocent people who have nothing to do with government policy.

Want to protest; then go do it on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC.

Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by gncnew

 

Yeah.. my one problem with the movement is that it is misdirected. It should be the towards the government, I think what they are doing is good, I just think they need a wake up call. The only ones that can do anything about wall street are the people THROUGH the government.

Originally posted by Indigo5

Originally posted by reallywow

LMAO

I applaud them for marching on Wall Street, but they should be marching on Washington DC.

75% of Washington DC works for Wall Street and that is the issue...get it?

They are protesting precisely the right place.

Originally posted by VonDoomen
reply to post by schuyler

 

and only the ignorant think this is a left right issue.

I bet if you asked most of the people at these protests who they support, it would be ron paul, someone running on the RIGHT.

you have a lot to learn if you think social justice = communism or socialism.