They want $lice of the occu-pie

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/ ^

[Chode]

the Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em...

[spokeshave]

If the vandal(s) were destroying the drums....how come no one heard .....?

Probably thought that someone was practicing.

[Sherman Logan]

“The other day, I took in $2,000. I kept $650 for my group, and gave the rest to Finance. Then I went to them with a request -- so many people need things, and they should not be going without basic comfort items -- and I was told to fill out paperwork. Paperwork! Are they the government now?” Smith fumed, even as he cajoled the passing crowd for more cash.

If paperwork is not kept in order, at some point someone will claim that money was misappropriated, usually with a strong implication that it went into someone's pocket.

This has happened repeatedly after natural disasters. If the government distributes aid rapidly and efficiently, IOW without a lot of paperwork to establish qualification, by definition some (or many) of those who get it won't be qualified. Criticism ensues.

If careful procedures are followed to make sure all rules are implemented, distribution is by definition slow and inefficient at getting to those who need it NOW. Criticism ensues.

But the critics never seem to recognize there is a direct tradeoff between procedural exactness and efficiency.

Same thing applies in business and life, BTW. If you follow all the rules and document them meticulously, the odds are you won't get much of anything else done.

[Navy Patriot]

Bryan Smith, 45, who joined OWS in Lower Manhattan nearly three weeks ago from Los Angeles, where he works in TV production.

Bryan Smith, 45, useful idiot # 143,975,854.

Repeat after me, Bryan: "Comrade Stalin, save me!", you'll be needing to memorize that.

[sinanju]

I’m betting that the slickster law students, PR types and “organizers” you see out with the megaphones and giving press conferences and interviews to all the TV camera crews and cable shows already have visions of career sugar plums dancing in their heads.

If they simply had everyone punch a time clock and lined them up for a payday every morning, this could last forever but my educated guess is they want to glom as much of this cash as possible to set themselves up in business as their own newly-fledged power-lobbying, rabble-rousing outfit-for-hire and ride this cow to brilliant careers in the radical lefty firmament.

Betcha they’re already putting the paperwork together and polishing their resumes while spending nights (in their hotel rooms) editing footage and writing their first draft and designing their stationery and business cards in between fielding calls and emails.

That’s what I think is going on behind the scenes. OWS is dying because the “Finance Committee” have turned their interests to themselves. But that’s not exactly news for some of us.

[Oatka]

4. They threatened to "splinter" off.

Reminds me of this scene from MP's "Life of Brian"

[onedoug]

Write Soros a very sternly worded letter.

[chris_bdba]

LOL Oh the irony!So thick it can be cut with a knife.....

[bboop]

Are they going to file a 501(c)3 then? Or get a business license? What about the cooks? Do they have Health Department inspections like all the other businesses do? And then they get graded - A, B, C. If they don’t have to, why not? Do the cooks have to wash their hands before they cook? Do they have signs in the PortaPotties to remind them? Why not?

And when cholera breaks out, or typhoid, or e coli, do we the (’f—k the rich’) taxpayers have to pay for THEM? What about public health threats to the greater population, or are they only polluting their own nests? I thot those laws were meant to keep civilization sanitary?

Some animals are more equal than others, I guess. And the laws only apply to the (’f—k the rich’) suckers who are funding these hapless fools?

[bboop]

Are they going to file a 501(c)3 then? Or get a business license? What about the cooks? Do they have Health Department inspections like all the other businesses do? And then they get graded - A, B, C. If they don’t have to, why not? Do the cooks have to wash their hands before they cook? Do they have signs in the PortaPotties to remind them? Why not?

And when cholera breaks out, or typhoid, or e coli, do we the (’f—k the rich’) taxpayers have to pay for THEM? What about public health threats to the greater population, or are they only polluting their own nests? I thot those laws were meant to keep civilization sanitary?

Some animals are more equal than others, I guess. And the laws only apply to the (’f—k the rich’) suckers who are funding these hapless fools?

[Guardian Sebastian]

Hope they are not holding that $500,000 in back packs on the streets. Do you think that they put it in the (gasp) big bank?

[DoctorBulldog]

Huh? They want lice of the octopi? That’s just crazy; they already have lice!

:p

Cheers

[BlueLancer]

"1. Did the vandals take the handles?"

And what about the flagon with the dragon?
Or the vessel with the pestle?
Or the chalice from the palace?

[SuziQ]

This is priceless. Priceless! The anarchists are falling out over money! We're getting a micro-lesson in governance and corruption.

Yeah, and it ain't the Wall Street folks screwing them over!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Yep. The old software development rule goes: You can have good, fast and cheap.

But you can only pick two.

[Sherman Logan]

Absolutely.

Not being a software guy, I ran across this adage only recently. But it applies to the same extent in my field, and I would suppose in all others.

A client recently insisted that the projected time for a project was too long and he needed it done in about half the time. He then got incensed when the revised proposal was a LOT more money. And I would assume he’d be at least equally outraged if we attempted the faster completion for the same money and did a crappy job, which is of course what would happen.