But while Abbie and the Yippies were mainly in it for laughs, today there is a well-organized, well-funded, and sinister presence behind these folks.
They’re really nothing more than a collection of unclean, know-nothing “look at me” types. Stupidity and degeneracy are much too kind of words to describe their mindset
They are not anarchists. They are commies. Pure, unadulterated commies hiding behind the ‘anarchist’ label to cover the the commie stench.
Real anarchists hate all institutions including govt. Especially govt. The only complaint you hear here about govt is that they aren’t spreading around enough wealth.
There it is. This is REALLY what they want. They want other people to work so they don't have to.
These freeloaders have been living on the street for three weeks. No one with a job, or even searching for a job, could spend that much time away from home.
just for the record, when you walk past them, you become aware of a crowd of weirdos, pretty much like any night in west village.
As soon as you cross the street, you're back into a crowd of commuters and tourists and other people who have something useful to do; the crowd of weirdos is instantly fogotten.
the only reason they're getting this much attention is that it "sells papers."
But while Abbie and the Yippies were mainly in it for laughs, today there is a well-organized, well-funded, and sinister presence behind these folks.
didn’t they claim to be anarchists?
This sounds like communism!
liars.
Yep, they are dumbz
Anyone smell ACORN ?.
They want us to be Greece - somehow I don’t see anything good coming from that.
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage.
Done. Minimum wage is more than enough to live on. See my tagline for starters; next visit http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ and http://www.google.com/search?q=free+land next.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system.
Done. You pay for your healthcare. It’s a service nobody else is compelled to pay for on your behalf.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Done. Your ancestors at some point lived on no income from others, but from the direct fruit of their toil & sweat. I’ll give you $10 in seeds and some chickens; you can make it from there.
Demand four: Free college education.
Done. Visit http://ocw.mit.edu and a library - get busy.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Done. Buy a horse. 10,000 years of human history did fine without fossil fuels.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Done. We did that, many times over.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration
Done. You buy $3 in tree seeds and plant them, and persuade 10 of your friends to do the same.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Done. “All men (gender-neutral pronoun usage here) are created equal.”
Demand nine: Open borders migration.
Done. You’re free to leave.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to [par].
Done. Become an election observer.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all.
Done. Nobody owes you anything. Now fulfill the contracts you’ve agreed to.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Done. Cut up your credit card and let your credit score go to zero.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot ... to form a union.
Done. Anyone can sign that ballot. And any company can fire you any time for any reason.
Demands fulfilled. Now go home.
Bunch of damn whack left idiots...
The replies at the actual demand site are priceless.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/
TruckerTom 7 points 8 days ago
Way too many demands, Lloyd. I’m not the only person saying this. Occupy Wallstreet needs a laser-like focus if you want to get people on your side!
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julespeg 2 points 14 hours ago
You are so right! Focus the message! Make it a sound bite! Liberals suck at this, but we need to change. Otherwise this looks like a freak show.
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HankWaters 2 points 2 hours ago
Too late. It already look like a freak show.
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MidasRex 1 points 51 minutes ago
lol
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navingrey 1 points 59 minutes ago
These demands are inconsistent. And rather funny.
Take, for example, 1 (no free trade) and 9 (free immigration). they have the same effect, economically speaking
If Foreign is Labour abundant, then free trade would cause wages to fall at home and rise at foreign. Free factor movements (the phrase economists use to describe the movement of capital or labour instead or goods) have the same effect.
Yes, there is a consensus on this.
Try this: http://nationofbeancounters.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/this-is-funnier-if-you-ve-finished-third-year-international-trade/
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1DemandLibertyandFreedom 1 points 7 days ago
End The FED! Is something that people on the right and left agree is at the root of the problem. Without the FEDERAL RESERVE, the GOV couldn’t bailout Wall Street, nor could they de-value your money. As for the Government bailing out the american people debt, I’d rather have that then them bailing out Wall Street, but both perpetuate more GOV, as do these overseas wars.
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LloydJHart (Vineyard Haven, MA) 1 points 8 days ago
If you want public support to continue to grow we had better shape a living wage platform that the public can sink their teeth in. If generalized statements continue to be the organizing principal of this action then the public won’t continue to lend their trust. They have been burned so many times trusting the campaign rhetoric of the democratic party that they will be very careful to research this actions real platform.
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guntotinsquaw 2 points 1 hour ago
Hurry let’s change all the power from big oil and nuclear to ....unicorn farts and fairy dust...ROFLMAO...Thank God you have given us your insight...priceless!!
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HankWaters 2 points 2 hours ago
The majority of support you have is young kids who haven’t a clue about what they’re even there for and that list of demands only shows that this is nothing but a liberals wet dream of utopia.
KEEP UP THE FIGHT COMRADES!!
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mattscud55 (Queens, NY) 1 points 1 hour ago
I agree. I’d like to see how they plan to pay for all of these “free” services from the government. Also, if everyone had a college education, a college degree’s value would plummet, causing a higher demand for Masters, PhD’s, etc. Such a myopic list of demands.
I’d like to add a few more:
Make the Middle East stop fighting.
Everyone gets a helicopter that runs on children’s laughter.
Gummy bears are free.
Nobody judges anyone for having dumb ideas or lists of demands. (cough)
These protestors are mostly twenty-something, white, middle class kids.
They will be frozen out of their little camps sometime in the next month or two.
“One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems...”
When you cut down a tree the smaller undergrowth comes up to take its place. This undergrowth is what deer and other animals eat so periodic logging and thinning is actually helpful. But what do I know?
“Have these people ever actually seen the middle of the country or the South?”
All they’d have to do is drive through the state next to them (CT) and see the state with the highest urban tree canopy in the country. Then they can keep on going up I-91 and see #2 and with a slight detour, #3 (MA and NH respectively). Or just stay where they are and see #5.
http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/data/urban/state/viz.asp?var=STUCANPER&state=CT
Just as I suspected. The same commie idiots that attend every other protest.
$20/ hour whether I work or not, debts wiped clean, free healthcare - I’d never work another day in my life. In fact, I bet A LOT of people would never work again.
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