[broken_arrow1]

Okay Claude, you got me. I read and re-read this a couple of times, and concluded that it must be tongue-in-cheek satire. AmericanThinker typically promotes conservative views.

[goldstategop]

If we really has developed socialism, we would be living like in the DDR. And as Communist propaganda would relentlessly tell us, the Communist future is waiting just around the corner.

I’m afraid the OWSers arrived twenty years too late to implement the community organizing of their dreams. It sticks in their craw that Obama has become not the Lenin they hoped but is their Kerensky.

It will be a long time before another revolutionary moment will arrive for them.

[sten]

erect tariffs on goods that originate in countries whose avg salary is 1/4 our poverty level. this will allow American companies to bring the manufacturing back to the US and turn a profit, instead of being undercut by slave labor produced goods

restrict unions to physical injury issues and push right to work to all states

these are two of the things this country needs to do to get back on track

as for this article, it reads as if a Nazi penned it directly from 1937

[pepsionice]

I would offer two outcomes.

First, this looks an awful lot like the bonus Army episode of 1934...same look and feel. Bunch of talk....lot of folks showing up....huge protests (37k at that time), and a untimely ending where folks were hurt by the US Army who tried to establish security in DC at the time (it’s the only place in America where federal troops can be called out and act as the security agent of the US government). In this case....the protesters would act like victims and the President would get the sympathy vote in 2012 because of the terrible police actions committed on the innocent Occupy folks.

Second, if you rounded up all the Latino vote, the black vote, and then got most university students in America incited (excited works too)....then you’d likely win enough of the state elections for the electoral college to work. Toss in Hillary as a VP, and I think the Occupy folks are a comical election ploy.

[reasonisfaith]

The logical outcome of OWS should be to eliminate the public school system and don’t let your kids watch television.

Anyone who gives a moment’s consideration to any of the demands of OWS needs to stop watching television, forget everything they learned in public schools and start paying attention to the real world.

[stormhill]

My take exactly.

The author is describing the economics of a fascist state and leaving it to the reader to connect the dots.
This explains his repeated use of the phrase "logical outcome."

[MCF]

I don't remember ever reading an article written by a average person who works in the fields and factories of China, Vietnam, N.Korea, or Cuba that tells how wonderful their life is. How they have gone from rags to prosperity. I also have never heard of any of these Idealists move from the U.S. to one of those countries to live the proletariat dream. yet they tell us to mimic those countries in order to achieve success. Much like we were told that the European model is what we Americans should follow, until recently

[VRWCtaz]

Just A Modest Proposal...

[Vendome]

The author should stick to reporting facts with a bit of hyperbole.

This satire sucked and was actually a hard read.

John Semmens could write something more humorous...

[BfloGuy]

concluded that it must be tongue-in-cheek satire

Good for you. Explaining logical outcomes is not the same as advocating them. Logic doesn't always lead to desirable results, it only traces the path your actions must take to remain consistent.

[LomanBill]

this two-level price structure can be enforced through a national voucher system administered jointly by the IRS and Department of Commerce.

Quack, Waddle...

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

-- Benito Mussolini

 

[JakeS]

The repatriation of Apple manufacturing infrastructure to the US could create as many as 500,000 positions--all high paying, high quality union jobs--here at home,...

Aint gonna happen folks. Oh sure manufacturing could come back to the states, but not with union labor demanding the pay of Dentist.

But, there are jobs out there to be had for those who are not afraid to work. Since 2005 our sales of firewood, just firewood have more than quadrupled. Firewood is hard work folks, real hard work, but they are good jobs.

Go to one of the Chinese outlets, find a heavy or bulky product, can you or someone you know manufacture it? If so, do it, the cost of shipping today is outrageous, if it is bulky and/or heavy you can probably manufacture it locally and sell it locally with a Made in city, state, USA label on it for the same price as the import.

But as for those high tech jobs coming back here, no way. You are not going to pay the price for a USA union made TV and to be honest, neither am I.

[Nifster]

I take away that this is a forecast of what could happen IF the OWS folks have their way. It is not unlike what happened in Germany as Hitler came to power. I think the effort is to get people to pay attention to the implication that OWS is not a self-generating phenomenon but rather a put up bu those who want government to control everything

[Scotsman will be Free]

Just what I was thinking.