Posted on 10/19/2011 6:09:31 AM PDT by randita
Hey! Free gourmet food too!
http://newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/occu_pie_the_kitchen_PIZ7EsDJEZqzPgzzEWKX7I
Followed by:
“13.... Paying our teachers a competitive salary commensurate with the salaries of People in the private sector with similar skills. “
Where I went to University - the Education department had the lowest entrance requirements to Uni-and the lowest average GPA. Thus - this implies that they should be paid at or below the average liberal arts major is worth after graduation. Hmmm - most of them went to work as store clerks...so that would be...minimum wage?
Heck - think of all the money we would save in education!
Me thinks they will be hoisted by their own petard.
Hey - don’t let a little detail like the first amendment get in the way! If we’re gonna make silly asinine demands - we might as go for the full monti!
Yep - so in CA - their union spends all THEIR money trying to defeat Meg Whitman. Brilliant!
Yes, this list of demands is different than the prior ones.
It is more polished, more coherent. Political pros no doubt were involved in writing this one.
I think that David Axelrod and the AFL-CIO are directing OWS, whether the protesters realize that fact or not. And they are being aligned for use in conjunction with Obama’s re-elect strategy.
But I still think planks like “getting the money out of politics” and “easing the student debt burden” will have broad appeal amongst the great mushy middle out there.
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Michael Parsons, Facilitator of the OWS Working Group on the 99% Declaration
Need some research into who this guy is.
All I can find is:
http://www.skgf.com/professionals.php?PeopleID=353
Fits the profile of someone who could write this. Obviously the writing is drawing in a lot of people with a libertarian bent - esp. the first four points.
I’m anxious to see when the reference to union campaign funding in I. is removed. Unless that’s removed, this document is dead in the water.
Bits of red meat for those on the left/middle/right of the political spectrum are being tossed out as bait. That’s not a coincidence.
I can't believe you would post such an uninformed and demeaning comment on a serious subject. It's obvious that any chinchilla coat amendment that does not require an accompanying badazz hat would be a travesty.
Their twentyfirst demand was that all lending institutions and corporations be put on double-secret probation.
Ha! I didn’t want to seem greedy!
It’s not greed if it’s for the good of the Republic, sir.
And, this reminds me of the joke about the lady going through the airport wearing a mink coat. Animal rights activists were there demonstrating.
“Do you know how many animals had to die for you to have your coat?”!!!!!
She said: ‘Do you know how many animals I had to $#@ew to get this coat?”!!!!
Why don’t we just call this “Directive 10-289”?
I’m finding it a bit bizarre that this document was crafted by an “OWS Working Group”, yet there’s not one mention of Wall Street in the entire piece.
The movement thus far has been about punishing rich people like Wall Street bankers. That’s what most of the protestors THINK their complaint is.
But now that the crowd is all riled up and in place, the focus shifts off Wall Street and to the Obama re-election agenda. The Wall Street rabble, as was suspected, is being used as pawns in a media campaign.
Clever, but not clever enough not to see through.
Indeed.
Great thread.
Among the first four and elsewhere are prohibitions that extend to a member of the governments immediate family. Should I have a child I disagree with politically and that child gets elected to congress, how is it fair that I cannot work for a company that child regulates in congress?
"But the answer I gave the young radicals seemed to me the only realistic one: “Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing — but this only swings people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.” — xxiii"
With that, you could add another year to the "lost decade". Our economy relies on a healthy real estate market, and a freeze on foreclosures merely delays the point where the market bottoms out.
BTW, I've been reviewing HAMP. With their latest revisions, it's now a relatively simple process for the borrowers. For a typical borrower that qualifies, all they need to produce is a 3 page standard form, copy of tax returns and two current pay stubs.
No, I don't work for Fannie or Freddie... lol
I don’t know when “giving money to politicians” became “free speech.” But then, I don’t know when pole-dancing and crosses-in-urine became “free speech” either.
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