Occupy Wall Street

[The Annoyed Man]

Apparently, the commies are not above a little healthy capitalism:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R4 ... Categories

The irony abounds. Half of the unwashed are wearing T-shirts with corporate logos, from Dairy Queen to Apple Computers. Capitalist products carried them to the protests. Their jeans, underwear, shoes, iPhones, and backpacks are all products of capitalism. The food they eat (they are incapable of producing their own) is a product of capitalism. The homes and apartments they live in are built by capitalists. The parents who support them are employed and paid by capitalists. The taxes which pay for road maintenance for their Prius and paramedic care if they are injured are paid by capitalists.

And these ignorant hypocrites are also perfectly willing to raise money by selling products on eBay......

.....so what's their beef?

[Thomas]

The beef is that they're occupying the wrong place. They should be occupying the Capital or the White House. It's mostly failed economic policies that put us in this mess than corporations.

[Middle Age Russ]

Also, where were these people when the financial institutions they are protesting against were doing shady deals to the ultimate detriment of not only the market, but also these same companies? They sat silently by watching their paper profits and enjoying the ride, rather than questioning the business ethics and sense of much that caused those short-term paper profits. When it all vanished, though, here they are protesting in the streets. If you are going to trust other people with your money, the results are simply a risk you run.

[74novaman]

The greatest answer to the question of "What are they protesting?"

"Growing up"

The good news is I have zero doubt these wall street protests will soon be over. The first good cold snap that hits new york, they'll scurry back to their moms basements and vw buses. The ones in LA might go a bit longer, but the NY protests should be over in a month or less.

[karder]

To add to what TAM is saying, I wonder how many of these protesters are drawing unemployment, social security, or social security disability. There seems to be a whole lot of people in this country that forget that government entities don't generate money. They take money in the form of taxes from citizens and businesses which earn that money via the capitalist system. I feel that we have a whole generation out there which does not understand that. When they protest capitalism, they are protesting the source of the wealth they are so eager for the Federal Government to redistribute.

[Thomas]

The greatest answer to the question of "What are they protesting?"

"Growing up"

[Tass]

I went to their website and one of the 'wants/needs' they had posted was for people to come down to the park, pick up their dirty laundry, wash it and bring it back to them.



Tass

[RPB]

I went to their website and one of the 'wants/needs' they had posted was for people to come down to the park, pick up their dirty laundry, wash it and bring it back to them.



Tass

I hope they don't require store-bought soap for the laundry ... some corporation probably made it, shipped it, sold it

[tbrown]

I went to their website and one of the 'wants/needs' they had posted was for people to come down to the park, pick up their dirty laundry, wash it and bring it back to them.

It makes perfect sense. Their moms usually do their laundry and they don't know how.

[sugar land dave]

I went to their website and one of the 'wants/needs' they had posted was for people to come down to the park, pick up their dirty laundry, wash it and bring it back to them.

It makes perfect sense. Their moms usually do their laundry and they don't know how.

I was going to ask "Where's Mom?"

My Mom taught me to cook for myself and do my laundry when I was just 6. I needed a stool to stand on, but I could do it! The kids these days.....

[XnTx]

If the system doesn't work, what's wrong with going outside the system? So they didn't join the Tea Party, but started their own party. Does that makes them juvenile or commie? They are disaffected just like the rest of us. Not all of them are snot nosed kids living on government handouts while mom does their laundry. Some are dual masters in chemistry and bio-chemistry trying to make life work in a wheelchair while receiving no government assistance and can't catch a break. Cliches, slogans, and dogmatic diatribes are not solving the problem.

[apostate]

If the system doesn't work, what's wrong with going outside the system? So they didn't join the Tea Party, but started their own party. Does that makes them juvenile or commie?

Not at all.

What makes some of them juvenile is their own actions. Rather than behave like adults and respect other people, they act in a childish fashion. When they interfere with vehicular traffic, or intentionally block pedestrians, they show the emotional maturity of a spoiled brat throwing a temper tantrum. And deserve as little respect.

What makes some of them "commie" is their opposition to capitalism. If they want to force other people to pay off their student loans, they're socialists (and/or robbers) no matter how they spin it. Further, I don't think it's too far off the mark to label someone "commie" if they want an even more inequitable income tax structure to redistribute wealth, instead of supporting a flat tax so everybody pays their fair share.

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." - Alexis de Tocqueville

[Thomas]

If I were to protest for a week or so, I would go home every night, take a shower, not leave fecal matter on police cars, clean up after myself, etc

Nothing discredits a person like being a hypocrite. "I'm mad at these people for their lack of ethics, so I will protest, I just hope they don't notice my lack of ethics in the process."

[anygunanywhere]

Cliches, slogans, and dogmatic diatribes are not solving the problem.

Neither will socialism.

They would be better served by protesting the government and doing something about it.

Big government is not anyone's friend.

If they had a real taste of socialism in its purest form I doubt thay would be wanting that either.

Anygunanywhere

[comp73]

Then there are these kids, which continue to give me hope.....