What is your take on the Wall Street protests?

[lizbud]

It reminds me of the Tea Party protests in that they are airing their
grievences, but without wearing silly hats & toting guns. I've heard
no talk of "watering the tree of liberty" with anyone's blood either.

[momcat]

I saw a survey asking if people support the OWS group or the Tea Party:

OWS: 63%

Tea Party: 24%

[Puckstop31]

It reminds me of the Tea Party protests in that they are airing their
grievences, but without wearing silly hats & toting guns. I've heard
no talk of "watering the tree of liberty" with anyone's blood either.

c. 305 Tea Party Express events. 0 arrests

We are well into the 1,000's with this mob.

Did ya miss this little gem? http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/...eve-our-goals/

ETA: Awwwww. It looks like they took down the video of the communist shrieking on about how this needs to be like the French Revolution. What a surprise.

[Puckstop31]

I saw a survey asking if people support the OWS group or the Tea Party:

OWS: 63%

Tea Party: 24%

Im sure is was a 100% accurate, scientific one too. LOL

[smokey the elder]

I think right now it's kind of an anarchic venting of frustration with the misdeeds of Wall Street; a common theme is that executives ran companies into or almost into the ground, took corporate welfare (TARP, etc), and turned around and got huge bonuses. BUT...if most of us here were to do equivalent misdeeds (at our own level) we would be out the door, do not pass go, do not collect $200.


For instance, if a chemist in a pharma company falsified data on a new drug application, watch out!!

(JMO, of course.)

[RICHARD]

ETA: Awwwww. It looks like they took down the video of the communist shrieking on about how this needs to be like the French Revolution. What a surprise.

I bet people were waiting to be served cake?

[Edwina's Secretary]

ROTFLMAO...as they say.

Life is very simple to some people...

Protesters with whom I agree = loyal patriots, true Americans

Protesters with whom I disagree = morons, communists, potheads, drunks

[lizbud]

Fox News was so shocked by it's own poll on Occupy that it quickly
took it down once it became clear that the majority of people were in
agreement with the protests. Check out Fox's own numbers.

http://www.observer.com/2011/10/fox-...ent-backfires/

[momcat]

Fox News was so shocked by it's own poll on Occupy that it quickly
took it down once it became clear that the majority of people were in
agreement with the protests. Check out Fox's own numbers.

http://www.observer.com/2011/10/fox-...ent-backfires/

Thank you very much for posting this, lizbud! While I tend to not take surveys all that seriously, people have had enough. We just have nothing more to sacrifice.

[blue]

Fox News was so shocked by it's own poll on Occupy that it quickly
took it down once it became clear that the majority of people were in
agreement with the protests. Check out Fox's own numbers.

http://www.observer.com/2011/10/fox-...ent-backfires/

And Im sure DU had nothing to do with that. DU is known for blowing up conservative polls.

Ive help blow up my share of liberal polls.

[Puckstop31]

OK... So most people agree with the protestors.

What do we do about it? Seriously.... Whats the answer?

[Puckstop31]

I gotta keep this short. The deer get up early....

You know what I see from this 'protest'? That the modern leftist-socialist-'progressive'-'lets all drive sail cars powered by unicorn farts' kind of world will never work.... In a FREE society.


Everybody is pissed off because the world is coming inside out. Perhaps its time to examine the way the world has been tilting the past century. More and more central planning. More and more government by overeducated and underwise people. More and more BOOMING industries that thrive on regulating the regulations. (Whats the best economy in the US? Washington, DC?)

"A Republic, if you can keep it." Massive central authority never has lead to freedom or prosperity. It just can't. People are too different.

"Faction is to liberty as fire is to air."

[wombat2u2004]

[wombat2u2004]

OK... So most people agree with the protestors.

What do we do about it? Seriously.... Whats the answer?

Sacrifice a virgin ??

[phesina]

Yesterday on early morning local TV news, the announcer said some people were organizing a march for later in the day in downtown Detroit to a nearby park where they would set up camp. He then expressed a vital question regarding the event: "Where are these people going to go to the bathroom?"

This morning there was a report on the march and the camp, showing tents set up in Grand Circus Park as well as some of the campers in the cold rain. The announcer said there are some specialized areas, even a medical tent, but the above question was not answered. Then again, this was a different TV station.