My first reaction on reading this was:
Right...and the Tea Partiers were shouting out to kill the cops...Riiiiiight....
Posted on 10/07/2011 9:35:15 AM PDT by bigjoesaddle
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people.
When the Occupy Wall Street protests began three weeks ago, most news organizations were derisive if they deigned to mention the events at all. For example, nine days into the protests, National Public Radio had provided no coverage whatsoever.
It is, therefore, a testament to the passion of those involved that the protests not only continued but grew, eventually becoming too big to ignore. With unions and a growing number of Democrats now expressing at least qualified support for the protesters, Occupy Wall Street is starting to look like an important event that might even eventually be seen as a turning point.
What can we say about the protests? First things first: The protesters’ indictment of Wall Street as a destructive force, economically and politically, is completely right.
A weary cynicism, a belief that justice will never get served, has taken over much of our political debate — and, yes, I myself have sometimes succumbed. In the process, it has been easy to forget just how outrageous the story of our economic woes really is. So, in case you’ve forgotten, it was a play in three acts.
In the first act, bankers took advantage of deregulation to run wild (and pay themselves princely sums), inflating huge bubbles through reckless lending. In the second act, the bubbles burst — but bankers were bailed out
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sir, I’m from I-Witness News; can we talk. Why are you protesting?
It’s the BANKS, man!
So right, so right. Well, John, you can’t get any deeper than that. Back to you at news headquarters.
BGood...Ross
LLS
Krugman is a tool, no doubt, and the protestors seem remarkably uninformed. But there should be outrage at the crony capitalism on display in the financial sector which has apparently bought and paid for both political parties. For a brief moment a few weeks ago it seemed as though Sarah Palin might run on that issue. One of the other candidates needs to make it their own.
Or we’re all screwed.
Did he cowardly disable comments on his tripe “for obvious reasons?”
My first reaction on reading this was:
Right...and the Tea Partiers were shouting out to kill the cops...Riiiiiight....
Krugman’s gone off his rocker - lots of people at ‘Occupy’ are typical ‘rent-a-crowd’. This is one more top-down dem organized sham. Some of the protesters can’t even read the signs they’re carrying and some have admitted being paid to attend...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2789294/posts
“eventually becoming too big to ignore”
These protests, after many DAYS of trying to attract a bigger mob, still pale in size to the rallies that attracted hundreds of thousands of Tea Partiers to DC (twice!). Yet both events were greatly downplayed by the MSM.
Anti-corporate mob endorsed by... former Enron advisor.
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