Have to laugh at all the idiots protesting at Wall Street.

Yeah they are protesting in every place they can think of disrupting.

 

Then you'd better march on down to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

 

Why don't people #occupytheFED?

 

You understand how to get killed there. I'd hardly call that living.

 

Well if there is anyone who knows anything about living it would be the Aussies.

Just just as long as you don't get non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

 

This is really a riot, the Democrats have no idea what to do with them. They would like to make it THEIR Tea party but many are disenfranchised Obama voters...It's a bit tough to take them under your wing when many are calling your Boss a Crook.....
This is Obama's and the Dems huge problem. I heard one Dem say..''Well, true they do not like Obama, but he is better than Cain''
REALLY? WHY? do his Lobbyists have nicer ties or something?

If you take a good look at them their real problem with Cain is that the Repubs may actually find them a job...

 

No, silly sheep - if MissJonelyn can respond to you, she clearly understands how to LIVE there.

 

Yep. You should see the sheeple in action in Atlanta, where they silence civil rights leader John Lewis:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI"]Occupy Atlanta Silences Civil Rights Hero John Lewis![/ame]

 

Who the hell is John Le...

Ohh...Those racist....

 

You've all been royally screwed by the banksters, but they're not gonna take it anymore! Isn't that the American thing to do? Why are you not all down there sending a message?

 

I tend to leave mindless protesting to the idiots myself.

 

Small businesses are almost always corporations as well. You're just talking about working for a different corportation. If labor doesn't need a corporation, why don't they just earn their living without working for ANY business?

Unions are actually OK, if they are not given too many protections. The problem that businesses have with unions is usually the fact that they have so many government protections that there is no good faith negotiation - the union will simply extort their desire out of the business.

The way I see it, labor and management are in a symbiotic relationship. Labor needs the business because they are unable or unwilling to get as much value out of their labor by working for themselves. Business needs some labor to produce whatever they sell. If government influence is kept out of things, they will end up with a reasonable exchange of work and pay. Government keeps picking sides and helping out one side or the other, continuously destabilizing the balance and pitting each group against the other when they should be working together.

 

How much money did Obama take from the banksters?



Is Goldman Obama's Enron? No, it's worse

 

It seems to me that the OWS crowd is largely non-partisan, as they don't seem to be railing against or showing support for either party, which cannot be said for the tea party movement which is overwhelmingly anti-Democrat and pro-Republican.

 

Considering that many of their "demands" are very liberal in nature, it still seems to be one-sided, even if it isn't overtly partisan.

 

Which demands are those? Or are you just regurgitating what's being told to you on Fox News?

 

If that is a charge you think it is legitimate, then it is perfectly fair to ask if you regurgitate what is being fed you on MSNBC, is it not?

 

It wasnt a charge, it was a question, one which you avoided...

I don't have cable tv...I don't watch Fox News nor MSNBC...and I wasn't the one labeling things as "liberal"...

 

I wasn't asked the question. I'm strictly reacting to a nonsense question that you know is patently intellectually dishonest, and I turned it around on you - and you (true to form) tried to duck it by calling it a question.



Is the question fair to ask of you? You sound as leftist as he sounds rightist - so what exactly is the point of throwing such BS out with which to begin?

No. You were the one labeling things as Fox News talking points. But of course you don't watch Fox News, yet still have an intimate understanding of their talking points.

 

I have to base it on the only demands I've seen, which include open borders, increased wages and free education and healthcare.

If you have a better list of demands, please post them or at least a link to them.

 

What was intellectually dishonest about my question? And how was answering it straight forward an attempt to duck it?

Do you feel that the "demands" of the OWS movement are "very liberal"? Can you sight such demands?

No, I asked a question in response to another poster's assertions. What makes me sound leftist in your opinion? The fact that I'm not railing against "leftists"?

The liberal vs. conservative paradigm is a false choice scenario aimed at getting us to pick sides against our own self interests. The sooner the majority realize that the sooner we can get past it and get on to actually sorting out the mess we are in.

 

I don't have a list of demands, do you have a link for yours?

 

The right is all that keeps the country afloat. If it was up to the left we would be Cuba...

 

I am a new comer on this site, so forgive any breaks with the norms of responses.

I don't understand the amount of paranoia about these protesters. They have been almost entirely peaceful and well-behaved. They are cleaning up after themselves and many in the communities clearly support them as there are stories of food being brought to them by neighbors and local restaurants. As to anger, why not? The teasters have certainly shown sufficient anger and at some of the same causes. Didn't the bailouts of Wall Street and the banks set of the teasters? Government waste. So the key question I hear from this group is, "Who is going to bail us out?" Many of them point out on their signs that they have played by the rules, gotten their college degrees, went into substantial debt to get the training, but now nobody is going to offer them jobs and nobody is going to bail them out of their debts. Why does the CEO of a major corporation who drives it into a ditch get help in paying his company's debts and a huge golden parachute when he is "fired?" When does the PHD graduate who can't find a job get his golden parachute?