The "Occupy" Rallies

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"Occupy Nashville" looked more like "camping at the capitol with the family".

Got about 15 sec on the local news, and the only film clip was about 5 people asleep in the grass.
 
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Don't know if any of you guys saw it, but me and a buddy were downtown Friday (about to go watch Moneyball) and ran into Knoxville's version of this. Around 75 people or so and pretty much everyone not involved had no idea what the heck was going on. Weird people in a group = weird-looking protest.
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The wealthy in this country have gotten wealthier. Some notable examples are paying a lower percentage of their income in taxes than the bottom of the middle class. Unemployment has been high for 3 years while corporate profits, and executive bonuses, sky rocket. Kids coming out of college have real fear that they won't be able to find a job, much less begin a career. Foreclosures and millions trapped in upside down mortgages while those who profited from the sale of securities based on the housing boom get bailed out by tax dollars and continue to reap multi-million annual income.

But hey, the occupy protests are just lazy, whiny, kids. Let's mock them.



Brilliant.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Funny how GOPers applauded the Tea Party as every day Americans just speaking their minds but label the occupy protestors a "mob."
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clearly everyday Americans routinely take dumps on cars and try to take over the Air&Space museum.

How many TP rallies have ended like these are?
 
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lawgator1 said:
Nothing like the old hasty g.

Expected nothing less from you.
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the wha?

and oddly enough we expect nothing more from you. I've seen these people and unless the US is radically different than what I've experienced then they do not represent 99%. It's probably less than 5%
 
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Even the NY Times think they are clowns

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/n...&scp=1&sq=Brookfield Office Properties&st=cse

Panini and Company Cafe normally sells sandwiches to tourists in Lower Manhattan and the residents nearby, but in recent days its owner, Stacey Tzortzatos, has also become something of a restroom monitor. Protesters from Occupy Wall Street, who are encamped in a nearby park, have been tromping in by the scores, and not because they are hungry.

Ms. Tzortzatos’s tolerance for the newcomers finally vanished when the sink was broken and fell to the floor. She installed a $200 lock on the bathroom to thwart nonpaying customers, angering the protesters.

“I’m looked at as the enemy of the people,” she said.

The anticorporate participants in Occupy Wall Street, which began three weeks ago, say they have no intention of leaving soon. The protest has been building in size, with sister demonstrations erupting in other cities, and politicians, labor leaders and celebrities adding their support. But for many neighborhood businesses, the protest’s end cannot come soon enough. In interviews, business owners said they were especially annoyed that the organizers of the grass-roots movement neglected to include portable toilets in their plan to bring down Wall Street.

Residents, too, say they are losing patience
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Mike Keane, who owns O’Hara’s Restaurant and Pub, said that the theft of soap and toilet paper had soared and that one protester had used the bathroom but had failed to properly use the toilet. Both Ms. Tzortzatos, owner of the Panini and Company Cafe, and Mr. Keane said the protesters rarely bought anything, yet hurled curses when they were told that only paying customers could use their bathrooms.
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In a widely distributed pamphlet, “Welcome to Liberty Plaza: Home of Occupy Wall Street,” participants were instructed where to find relief. “After you’ve dined,” it reads, “feel free to refresh yourself in the restrooms of neighboring businesses like Burger King and McDonald’s without feeling obligated to buy anything.”
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Mr. Zamfotis closed his bathroom after it repeatedly flooded from protesters’ bathing there.
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Gross
 
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lawgator1 said:
The wealthy in this country have gotten wealthier. Some notable examples are paying a lower percentage of their income in taxes than the bottom of the middle class. Unemployment has been high for 3 years while corporate profits, and executive bonuses, sky rocket. Kids coming out of college have real fear that they won't be able to find a job, much less begin a career. Foreclosures and millions trapped in upside down mortgages while those who profited from the sale of securities based on the housing boom get bailed out by tax dollars and continue to reap multi-million annual income.

But hey, the occupy protests are just lazy, whiny, kids. Let's mock them.



Brilliant.
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1. Capital gains taxes aren't the same as income taxes, besides, that money has already been taxed once.

2. Kids in college need to get degrees in something useful. Employers don't give a damn if a kid has a BA in Women's Studies or a BS in Cultural Anthropology, if the degree isn't relevant and if the kid hasn't done something to distinguish him/herself, then they're going to have a tough time. If it's student loans they're worried about, go to a cheaper school, no one forced them to go to Harvard and rack up nearly half a million in loans in order to matriculate with a degree that's useless in the real world.

3. Thanks to the CRA and the Carter, Clinton and Bush 43 administrations, millions of people who shouldn't have qualified for home loans were given home loans. Had capitalism been allowed to work properly, many of those people would still be renting.

the OWS rallies are a bunch of lazy whiners and there is nothing you can do or say to prove otherwise. All you can do is attempt to play the class warfare game, which is a losing battle because they don't represent enough of the American public to really matter.
 
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Hey LG. Why don't you post some links of people at tea parties collectively acting similar to the "occupy" rally people so we can compare.
 
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Word on the street is that OWS demonstrations are a
good place to score, herb or sex or both.

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I can see a movie out of this, a comedy called;
"CLUELESS ON WALL STREET."

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lawgator1 said:
That's imbecilic.
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How? There are always going to be some idiots in any large group. Most of these stories are about a group of protestors doing something terrible or not being peaceful.

Can you at least provide one story of a group of tea party protestors doing something outrageous, racist, violent, etc?

Surely there are tons of these types of stories since you claim that the the majority of the group are at least racists.
 
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I flagged it as spam/overpost.

getting paid to be a street agitator is not a government job

btw, 350 to 650/week is not a "living wage" in New York City
 
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MG1968 said:
1. Capital gains taxes aren't the same as income taxes, besides, that money has already been taxed once.

2. Kids in college need to get degrees in something useful. Employers don't give a damn if a kid has a BA in Women's Studies or a BS in Cultural Anthropology, if the degree isn't relevant and if the kid hasn't done something to distinguish him/herself, then they're going to have a tough time. If it's student loans they're worried about, go to a cheaper school, no one forced them to go to Harvard and rack up nearly half a million in loans in order to matriculate with a degree that's useless in the real world.

I can name 4 people right now with engineering degrees, one with a masters, that can't find crap. These are people that had jobs, then lost them when the economy collapsed. What are they supposed to think when corporate profits are high, etc? One of which I know to be a world class employee and I am trying to desperately get him on where I am now. I know it is conveinent to lump everybody that is jobless into the same stereotype, but it simply isn't true.

3. Thanks to the CRA and the Carter, Clinton and Bush 43 administrations, millions of people who shouldn't have qualified for home loans were given home loans. Had capitalism been allowed to work properly, many of those people would still be renting.

This topic has been beat to death. The securities is what LG railed on, and I kind of agree. If the free market had not been "interfered with" then these people would have never qualified, right? Then why the hell do the people that would otherwise know this, bundle these bogus mortgages up in MBS they know are absolute crap? They all saw short term money to be made, and they were going to get theirs before the whole thing crashed, knowing they were too big to fail and would get a bailout when the house of cards fell. I agree with your point, but there is plenty of blame to go around, and the constant railing on Congress and the populace for buying above their means is only half the story.

the OWS rallies are a bunch of lazy whiners and there is nothing you can do or say to prove otherwise. All you can do is attempt to play the class warfare game, which is a losing battle because they don't represent enough of the American public to really matter.
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I agree with some of the message (anti-lobbying, etc) of what they are protesting, but at the same time these people need to stop whining and go get jobs. We're on the same page with the class warfare garbage they tend to spew.
 
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