Time for Occupy Wall Street to leave, they are not the Tea Party

Irish Central ^ | October 12, 2011 | Ed Farnan

[2ndDivisionVet]

No matter how you spin it, "Occupy Wall Street" is not comparable to a Tea party grass roots gathering. I have been listening lately to those on the left who say it is the lefts version of the Tea Party, but as many see it there is no comparison.

The Tea Party has a clear unified message: Lower taxes and smaller government. It's not complicated and hard to figure out, you can ask almost any participant and you will get that same general answer.

When there is a Tea Party event, people gather at a place that does not interfere with the ongoing commerce and business of a city it is being held in. There are never any arrests and people are usually very respectful. At the end of the day they, clean up any trash that may have accumulated, return to their homes, take a shower and get on with their normal lives. Tea Party members have made their voices heard at the voting booths by turning the elections on their head last November.

The only people the Tea party gatherings inconvenience are the Tea Party participants themselves, who have usually taken time off of work and traveled long distances at their own expense to attend these one day events.

But the citizens of New York are not seeing the respect from the Occupy Wall Street Crowd that they would expect from the Tea party. These "occupiers" are not here for the day to gather peacefully, make a statement and leave, they are camped out in the midst of the city and want to annoy, disrupt and inconvenience the citizens of the city of New York.

Their general beef seems to be that corporations are evil. They have some validity to the close ties between Wall Street and Washington DC, we get it, we want change too. But the core source of the problem is Washington DC and that's where the eye should be directed. Evidently most of them have the time and evidently outside sources of income to hang out in the city for almost a month now.

Along with the general message that corporations are evil, some are demanding free medical, free educations and a living wage of 20.00 per hr. whether working or not and a canceling out of their debts. Raise taxes on the "rich" is another bray heard. Some just want to be part of the movement.

Of course Michael Moore, Inc., champion of the poor and downtrodden has been making appearances shaking his fist at the "rich" and leading the crowds with Marxist style chants. Does anyone in the crowd know that M. Moore, Inc. is worth about 53 million himself? That could pay for quite a few living wage jobs.

Fabulously wealthy, capitalist Russell Simmons, owner of several evil corporations himself, including a debit card company, was there to speechify and condemn the "greed'.

This demonstration could have been accomplished in one day and garnered some attention and support. But what it is garnering now is resentment by the businesses and citizens of New York who are being displaced and damaged by this invasion and occupation of their city.

Who is supposed to be watching out for the citizens of New York City? Seems city officials think the occupiers"rights" are precious. How about demanding and making sure the occupiers show some respect and responsibility to go along with those "rights" by leaving the city as they found it and going to their respective homes to work within our system for change? Everyone forgets responsibilities are supposed to go along with those "rights'?

There is a forecast of rain, is that what it's going to take to release New Yorks citizens from being hostages? Or will the Mayor step up to the plate and protect the citizens of the city he has sworn to protect?

[2ndDivisionVet]

New York is run by lefties, what did you expect?

[Flightdeck]

It IS the left’s version of the Tea Party. The left is a bunch of degenerate, resource-leeching losers. This is what the left’s “Tea Party” looks like.

[cripplecreek]

Of course Michael Moore, Inc., champion of the poor and downtrodden has been making appearances shaking his fist at the "rich" and leading the crowds with Marxist style chants. Does anyone in the crowd know that M. Moore, Inc. is worth about 53 million himself? That could pay for quite a few living wage jobs.

Not to mention the fact that he got a million dollar subsidy on the backs of Michigan taxpayers to make "Capitalism, A love story". To make matters worse he applied for the subsidy just weeks after complaining about taxpayer subsidies for movie makers.

Real scum.

[wizardoz]

Moreover, when we leave the park, it’s clean.

[WilliamHouston]

Occupy Wall Street must be organized by Wall Street to make Larry Kudlow and Jim Cramer look good by comparison.

[justa-hairyape]

The only thing they want to throw overboard is the people who paid for their Tea.

[WilliamHouston]

Occupy Wall Street must be organized by Wall Street to make Larry Kudlow and Jim Cramer look good by comparison.

[icwhatudo]

Fleabaggers!

[WilliamHouston]

Occupy Wall Street must be organized by Wall Street to make Larry Kudlow and Jim Cramer look good by comparison.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I for one don’t want them to leave or disperse. I want to give all our good Dem friends plenty of chances to align themselves with the OWS bunch, and to make all kinds of silly statements praising them. And then I want the OWS crew to come out with more and more obtuse statements and more and even more Dem congressites to align with them. May this go on and on through the dead of winter until the most brain dead idiot can see what a goofball crew this and those who support them are. Let the MSM drink up all the newsworthiness they can muster out of this exercise.

[BobP]

It IS the left’s version of the Tea Party. The left is a bunch of degenerate, resource-leeching losers. This is what the left’s “Tea Party” looks like.

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Let the Occupy Wall Streeters rant so America can see progressives for the vapid lunatics that they are.

Here's a few to begin: $20 minimum wage regardless of employment, trillions of dollars in new spending on alternative energy and infrastructure, and debt forgiveness -- all debt on the entire planet. Hate the Jews and Israel. Hate people who work. Hate people who have money. Hate hygiene in any way shape or form. Hug the environmentalists.

All this looks like Obama's re-distribute wealth conversation with self-employed plumber Joe Wurzelbacher in Toledo, Ohio on October 12, 2008.

''Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?'' Wurzlebacher asked.

Obama explained, ''I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.''

The more they talk economic justice/redistributive change, the worse it is for Zer0.

Liberalism has finally succeeded in creating an entire generation that feels they are entitled to other people's stuff without actually having to work for it.

Forever trapped in the entitlement mentality, they want to reconstitute the Soviet Union in modern 21st century America.

[Libloather]

The occupiers are gonna get frustrated beyond what they already are. I’m waiting for some violence.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Exactly: I want there to be an “Occupy XXX” in every one-horse burg and hamlet from Northern Maine to San Diego, with wild antics that play on the local news and YouTube every day from now until November 2012.

[boop]

In Seattle the OWS idiots are demanding that the mayor make room for them at City Hall, and have free access to bathrooms and meeting rooms. The pathetic thing is that the mayor isued a statement saying he would take their requests “under consideration”. Being a pinko, my guess is he will acceed to their demands. If he were a real leader, he’d tell them to get f&$#ed and get off the streets and stop bothering people who actually contribute to society.

[boop]

My sneaking suspicion is that someone WILL commit violence at one of these so-called rallies and that they will blame it on some nutjob Tea-Partier. That way they can show just how “violent” right wingers are. Reichstag fire, anyone?

[rockvillem]

I want there to be an “Occupy XXX” in every one-horse burg and hamlet from Northern Maine to San Diego, with wild antics that play on the local news and YouTube every day from now until November 2012.

I like where you're coming from - in the media's rush to anoint this movement as "authentic" and contrast it with the somehow evil Tea Party, they could well be galvanizing the simmering "silent majority" (who have expressed themselves through the ballot box and the Tea Party) to be sure of showing up at the ballot box and making absolutely sure that the election doesn't go in favor of whining, mooching hippies and freaks.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I realize the thought and sight of them is an irritation, but my view is that the longer this goes on, the more it will be an irritation to more and more people who may regard it with indifference or mild acceptance today. Thus, more will come to reject it. And with that growing rejection will likewise grow the rejection of those liberal voices who speak in support of it. In a month or so, with the arrival of cold weather, when your city has spent some hundreds of thousands of dollars in scarce tax funds and begins to take exhortations to double down, to use empty buildings to house and then feed these people, at even greater public expense, this will produce full-on revulsion. We should welcome that.

[Rembrandt]

“It IS the left’s version of the Tea Party.”

I think the Occupy Wall Street crowd needs a catchier name, something that brings to mind just who they really are. Hmmm. ACORN comes to mind.

[Lorianne]

What do you mean their message is not clear and easy to understand?

Occupy Wall Street Protester Wants College Paid For Because That’s What He Wants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrPGoPFRUdc&feature=player_embedded

[CommieCutter]