Occupy Wallstreet

[plhogan]

Bullshit.

[D.o.S.]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y[/youtube]

[phantasmagorovich]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y[/youtube]

[theavondon]

http://www.facebook.com/MYBALLSDOTMYBALLSDOTCOM

[D.o.S.]

The companies want something done about this sluggish world economic situation. Profits have been running a little thin lately and we need to stimulate some growth.

Now we know there's an alarmingly high number of young people roaming around in your country with nothing to do but stir up trouble for the police and damage private property. It doesn't look like they'll ever get a job It's about time we did something constructive with these people.

We've got thousands of 'em here too. They're crawling all over...

[The Mad Owl]

No one has forced people to consume to be blunt. No one put a gun to their heads and made the middle class run up huge debt, buy a new car ever five years whether they needed it or not, to hire out professionals to fix every little thing that people used to do for themselves, or buy disposable items for a tiny savings over more durable ones.

You can give everybody a pile of bricks. Some people will build something. Some will beat their neighbors bloody with them. Others will trade the pile of bricks for a pimp hat or a bag of hash.

I'll take door #3: I blame the people who orchestrated this fiasco. It's distracting from the real elephant in the room: who is going to pay for medical care for everyone and their brother with aging boomers and the mass expansion of Medicaid in 2014?

Can blame the rich all we want, but the basic problem won't be fixed. Can restructure how investment is done, further scaring money out of the market at a time we can ill afford more silliness, or do the equivalent of fixing the lawn mower while the house burns.

That said, it was a brilliant move not because of the chance of success of this movement but rather because it will desensitize the public to riots and demonstrations, open the door to unprecedented police powers, and let the same people profit all over again.

That was the effective result of the 60s riots after the DNC convention in '68.

And these demonstrations will make any protests over the incoming budget cuts thanks to the summer of gov't shutdown stupidity just more of the same.

This will soon be 'this sucks, change it' television.

QFT.

I think the biggest sticking point to me is protestors saying the following:

"The rich need to pay higher taxes. It's only fair that they pay their fair share. We want equality."

Which BY DEFINITION is inequality. For fucks sake, are people really that stupid nowadays? If you want to raise taxes on the rich that's fine and dandy, I really don't give a fuck if that's what you want. Just don't do it in the name of equality when you clearly don't understand what the fuck you are saying.

QFFT.

[The Mad Owl]

Still camping.

Burning Man was too damn hot.

Rainbow didn't have WiFi.

The NBA's on strike.

The proles had to do something.

LMFAO.

It's too cold here in Nor Cal. The only ones left in my town are protesting our destruction of the environment. Oh well.

[jfrey]

I can't believe this thing is still going on.

It really baffles me.

[GiAnt_ROboT]

fuck money

[kbit]

I don't even know what to say about this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMUgPTCgwcQ[/youtube]
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/1 ... 695124.php

[D.o.S.]

Veterans against war sounds an awful lot like bankers against banking, if you catch my drift.

[mutmoo]

Veterans against war sounds an awful lot like bankers against banking, if you catch my drift.

[D.o.S.]

[MEC]

Veterans against war sounds an awful lot like bankers against banking, if you catch my drift.

Wouldn't veterans against war be more like former bankers against banking?

Maybe someone who has some insight from past experiences as to what's really going on and doesn't agree with it.

Sorry duder....I meant to "come at you" and "came on you" instead.

[Mudfuzz]

Veterans against war sounds an awful lot like bankers against banking, if you catch my drift.

No that would be the Department of Defense?

Veterans have like experienced war and stuff... They like actually know what it's like and stuff... So wouldn't they be a better judge then someone that just watches Tv/internet and stuff for their opinions?





































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