Occupy Wall Street Protests

I got it off the Internet and just like everything else, you can be the judge

 

You're right I'm mad, mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more... Or something like that It's true I don't like Obama. No secret there. But Obama is going to have to stop pushing his liberal agenda if he wants the Republicans to work with him. I'm quite happy the Republicans aren't willing to go along with all his Socialist crap. These protesters want a hand up not a hand out. Obama has done basically zero to give them a hand up as he promised in 2008. They want jobs.

 

But what exactly is "the movement"? The majority seem to be protesting against greed but what does that really mean?
Our local Occupy protest was in front of the courthouse & was led by a local "environmentalist" so I don't really know how the two are connected. I plan on going there this morning & chatting with the protesters to see what their beef is.

 

Really, and you hold the Republicans in congress with a 14% approval rating, a record number of filibusters, and the single most obstructionist group in congressional history not responsible? What about the latest jobs bill Cantor says is dead on arrival? What about the fact that in the 2010 midterms the only thing the Right ran on was creating jobs and a year later have yet to come up with even one jobs bill? They've spent the entire time arguing over abortion, making English the official language, repealing the health care law, and every other issue that divides this country but does nothing to create jobs. Let’s give them a free pass why? Oh yeah, rabid partisanship.

 

Isn't the Dim leadership putting off the vote on BO's Jobs "act"?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111005/D9Q639L00.html

McConnell is requesting an immediate vote on BO's Jobs "Act", it's Harry Reid & DimocRat leaders who are blocking the bill!!!!

 

Is this our Arab spring without the Arabs necesarily or the spring? Maybe it's the Western world's fed-up Fall?

The LA Times reports:

the movement has spread nationwide, from Boston to Kona, Hawaii, taking inspiration from the social-media-driven Arab Spring revolts in the Middle East,” and that higher-ups are starting to respond. “The anti-corporate push even got a nod from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who said of protesters: "On some level, I can't blame them.​

 

Oh, like his Nixonian health insurance reform? Or his betrayal of the Socialist ideals of Dwight D Eisenhower with his putting Social Security on the butcher block? And why he should want Republicans of the 2011 ilk to work with him in the first place is a mystery to me. The goal should be to crush the Republicans at the polls when possible and stonewall and obstruct them when not. Of course all of that assumes that I believe the fairy tale that there are still two parties in this country. There are not. There is one political establishment and it is owned by Wall Street and people who get worked up about Republicans VS Democrats might just as well get worked up about Royalists VS Roundheads. They are living in the past.

 

You sound angry for sure. Man....you must have a boatload of cash to be that angry.

America wants jobs, not leftovers.

 

.....or the common message.....

 

Can anyone here say they have spent any time talking to these protesters? Well I have.
If anyone thinks there is a common "message" or cause here you are delusional. These are just a bunch of radicals looking for a reason to congregate & complain.
I spoke to a kid who claimed to be a student, holding a sign asking where the jobs were. I asked him why he wasn't in class, learning, so that getting a job would be easier? His response? "It really isn't about the jobs". Really? I asked him to expalin it to me. I was told "my generation" was to blame. "For what?", I asked. That is when the conversation ended. I wasn't able to find a single protester (of the 15 or so who were there) who could tell me what they were really there for....plenty of platitudes but no answers.

 

Typical. It's beginning to look like this "protest" is just a bunch of college kids looking for a reason to skip class. And here I thought maybe they were actually intelligent and were wanting to air their grievances. Damn!

 

First they ignore you, then they make fun of you, then they fight you, then you win. I guess Gandhi would say that you have moved on to making fun of them. They are just that much closer to winning. Thanks.

 

Making fun of them is step two. Right on schedule.

 

But you missed having a cause to protest. And now we find out Soros and MoveOn.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9269-big-soros-money-linked-to-occupy-wall-street

 

Heck, I'm just trying to understand them. I'll make fun of them once they figure out what they are protesting.

 

You have people in New York who protest just to protest, but I do not thing this is it here. Last summer when I was in New York the bus drivers just waved me through after we all piled onto the bus when I went for a metro card. People who work for a living are disgusted that there was talk of laying off fireman, teachers, cutting back in services while everyone knows the rich stole and got paid for doing it. Not left wing talk, just what people were talking about.

 

Aha, now here comes the truth. Yep it seemed like the grassroots protests were a little too "AstroTurf" (to quote Nancy Pelosi).

 

On the subject of the Occupy movement, what it is exactly and where it will go, I will quote Zhou Enlai. "It's too soon to say"

 

If you posted it you yourself have made a judgment about it. And if you're not prepared to defend that judgment then what you've posted doesn't count as evidence.

 

I judged it to be to legitimate. Clembo judged it otherwise. Who is to say?