Posted on 10/16/2011 6:22:52 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
NEW YORK - Thousands of demonstrators protesting corporate greed filled Times Square on Saturday night, mixing with gawkers, Broadway showgoers, tourists and police to create a chaotic scene in the midst of Manhattan.
"Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!" protesters chanted from within police barricades.
Police, some in riot gear and mounted on horses, tried to push them out of the square and onto the sidewalks in an attempt to funnel the crowds away.
Sandy Peterson of Salt Lake City, who was in Times Square after seeing "The Book of Mormon" musical on Broadway, got caught up in the disorder.
"We're getting out of here before this gets ugly," she said.
Sandra Fox, 69, of Baton Rouge, La., stood, confused, on 46th Street with a ticket for "Anything Goes" in her hand as riot police pushed a knot of about 200 shouting protesters toward her.
"I think it's horrible what they're doing," she said of the protesters.
"These people need to go get jobs."
Among the people participating in that march was Sergio Jimenez, 25, who said he quit his job in Texas to come to New York to protest.
"These wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were all based on lies," Jimenez said.
"And if we're such an intelligent country, we should figure out other ways to respond to terror, instead of with terror."
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If you really think that's what most of these protestors want, you are naive.
The communist party is supporting them, not conservatives. They want power for the state, not the people. These are OBAMA supporters, man!
Me too...I kept thinking of my grandparents going through there.
Yes they are...
Jerry Rubin left The Movement shortly afterward to join a brokerage firm on Wall Street. He was not known as a sell-out, but as a vanguard of “working within the system”, “a comic protestor” and later, a shill for every New Age practice he could find and promote, for a fee.
None of his violent comments survived to be included in his obituary. He was totally whitewashed by the NYT.
I got new for them.... Obama is now about to help bail out the European banks.
As a routine assumption I don’t buy it. There are some there, but far from all who are left of center. I can only say how I feel about it and I don’t begin to buy into the notion that Wall Street thieves should walk away with our tax dollars.
They should be on the criminal docket and not on our dole.
The one-time TARP has now almost been paid back. Meanwhile millions of the so-called "underprivileged" remain on the dole for decades.
Banks and corporations help to provide an astounding amount of prosperity and jobs in this country. No wonder the anti-capitalists want so badly to take them down.
The world has gone mad today,-PJ
And black's white today,
And day's night today,
When most guys today
That women prize today
Are just silly gigolos
“The black and red costumes of Obama and family on election night were by design both an outward show of ideological exultation combined with a sublimal message to the world that the presidential seat in the United States would finally be occupied by not only a black, but a red as well.”
Bingo. Not only was Michelle’s dress the traditional anarchist black and red, it was extremely ugly as well. No accounting for taste. In fact, no taste at all.
I was once as enamored with the financial services industry as are you.
The TARP was supposedly paid back but it represented only tiny portion of the taxpayer hand outs that were given to Wall St investment and commercial banks espec, TBTF. These banks should have been forced into receivership, all executive management purged and shareholder value reduced to zero instead of giving bonuses and sending taxpayers the bill for too big to fail and creating the current debacle. Capitalism is about taking risks where the risk takers and shareholders (not taxpayers) pay for their mistakes.
Their accounting schemes and capital reserves are marked to fantasy not market. They were given the right to make up their own accounting. The Fed Reserve is their partner not regulator. It hands them trillions of free money and even gives the wives of the bank executives a piggy bank with which to partake in their own Party. Google: TALF Wall St wives
The Wall St version of capitalism is more about crony capitalism where the public takes it in the ear and the bankers take the gains with the help of Bernanke. Instead of playing with their money, they are playing with taxpayers.
The Federal Reserve has been the problem and Greenspan and others are working for the banks not for the USA. Wall St has become a casino club for the benefit of members and deal makers, and not as efficient allocators of capital for productive ventures. It’s about the deals and deal makers and nothing else. It’s like a bigger version of Solyndra but for those connected to Wall St.. George Kaiser of Solyndra was connected too.
When the Gov't mandates something like CRA which was an attack on banks and profits I believe Gov't should play a part in repairing the fallout.
You think that I believe the financial community sacrosant; I believe that you may believe the taxpayer sacrosant (which for years backed the Gov't CRA policies which, in effect, penalized the banks for profits made on quality loans by pushing them to make toxic loans).
Yes, there were many in the financial community who abused the system which resulted from CRA-type law once it was in place. However, many in the financial community did not. When you say things like ALL executive management should have been purged (would you have preferred that Frank & Dodd or some other Gov't official had appointed new leadership...much of the leadership resigned as it was) I see the broad brush you paint with.
I’ve read of quite a few idiots quitting jobs to “protest”. Of course, there’s free food, free tobacoo, and various orgs are paying people as well.
exactly...
When the day comes, and it will, that one works and pays for their own food or dies of starvation, those jobs will be cherished by the ones who treat them as a pass time and foolishly quit them just to vent.
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