[artichokegrower]

"The 99 percent have made sacrifices for this movement," said a member of the Occupy Oakland group who calls herself Veruca. "Everyone has to make sacrifices. We're into this together."

You don't have a job. You are preventing those who do from getting to work. You are jeopardizing their future employment as these jobs may leave Oakland. So who is making the sacrifices?

[piytar]

"What this shutdown costs is the permanent loss of jobs, impacts on working families and the working people these movements are trying to help," Isaac Kos-Read, a port spokesman.

No. What this shutdown costs is the permanent loss of jobs, impacts on working families and the working people these movements falsely claim they are trying to help.

The occupy crowd is mostly greedy entitlement minded leaches. They could not care less about working people, Mr. Kos-Read, ya dope.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"The 99 percent have made sacrifices for this movement," said a member of the Occupy Oakland group who calls herself Veruca.

To claim that you represent "99%" is a more extreme claim than the "Bolsheviks," who merely derived their name from the Russian word for "majority." I'll give you, tho, that it's slightly less extreme than Hitler's claim to speak for "the whole German people."

Either way, cut it out. You speak only for yourselves. Even if "yourselves" does include - to the nation's disgrace - the current occupant of the White House.

"Everyone has to make sacrifices."

No.

"We're into this together."

When did you first get these grandiose delusions?

[rogue yam]

I was in downtown Oakland last night, attending a jazz concert down at Jack London Square. On a Thursday night in the midst of the holiday season it was a ghost town. Oakland needs Occupy Oakland like San Francisco needs another earthquake.