Thinking About … Occupy Wall Street

BC

How can you support those losers?u00a0 They’re a bunch of socialists / communists & grifters??u00a0 Idiots.u00a0 Get a job!

Anonymous

Why is it bad to protest against an industry that was saved by taxpayer dollars due to reckless investments however has had no one held accountable for the repercussions of the bad investments?

yankeepizzabaker

I agree with you.u00a0 Obviously few of them hold regular jobs.u00a0 They are getting exposure through the media and get off on that.u00a0 Wall Street is not the only entity that factors into our financial crisis.u00a0 Congress, Cruption and Greed!!!!!! Age old combination of problems that brought down many great empires.

yankeepizzabaker

No problem with legitimate protest.u00a0 Why are these people not protesting outside of the White House and directing their anger and frustration at the “enablers”……B.O., Congress, etc.u00a0 Why not direct the anger inward……they voted for them…..I damn sure did not.u00a0 The liberal politicians drop kicked all of us in the gut!u00a0 Republicans too.

BC

Aside from the fact that they’re not taxpayers and they voted for the liberal democrats who came up with and votedu00a0for the bailouts in the first place?u00a0 nThe OWS protesters have no rudder.u00a0 No ship either.u00a0 To even compare these shiftless douchebags to the Tea Party is laughable.

Anonymous

Thank you!u00a0 Didn’t we previously have a strong nation?u00a0 Obama’s administration made sure to change that!u00a0 Does anyone in the mainstream press not demonstrate the connection between the white house and wall street?u00a0 Out of one corner of his mouth, the Prez lectures the financial industry, while the other side is making sure that the money-train for his agenda continues at our expense (the approx half of us getting stuck with the bill to support the other half).

yankeepizzabaker

Absoultely.u00a0 One would have to be blind, deaf, and dumber not to see what has happened.u00a0 You don’t reverse indebtedness by going further into debt.u00a0 What happened to one of the main prinicples of economics????? You don’t spend what you don’t have!u00a0 There is much talk about a “new revolution.” Well if that is the case, then those who revolt should be those who have carried the brunt of financing the welfare system in this Country for decades.u00a0 The sorry, lazy, worthless,u00a0leeches who have bled us dry have no reason, or cause, to revolt.u00a0 They will be content with contributing nothing to society as long as we continue to reward them.

Chris@TTP

By support, we mean free assembly. u00a0These cats aren’t organized and we had a good time clowning on them. u00a0nnWhen Kanye West shows up to parade around in his designer duds and 5 grand in gold it’s clearly not a movement but a sideshow. u00a0nn

yankeepizzabaker

Your humor is not lost on me.u00a0 I enjoyed it, also.u00a0 Any credibility the protesters may have laid claim to was shot to hell and back as the “sideshow” began to unfold. Somehowu00a0 I managed to miss the well proportioned chick you mentioned.u00a0u00a0 That might make a second glance at some of the clips worth the bother.

Repuglicrat

China is the problem.They put 25% tariff on all our imports,manipulate their currency,and violate all copyrights while stealing all intellectual rights of other countries.all the while blocking any sanctions against Iran and other terrorist countries.We need fair trade,not rigged trade with other countries.They destroy us,while greedy corps rake in $$ there and get tax cuts here.Wall Street and corps bribing Congress just add to the problem.Screw the Teabaggers and big spending Dummycrats.Both are at fault.Cut spending and the 30 yrs of tax breaks for the rich,get real fair trade worldwide,and keep Obama in office to replace the crooked Repugs in the Supreme Court,who said corps are people so the rich can keep buying elections for the Repugs and the banks…get a clue and don’t fall for the Fux news BS.

Guest

1)u00a0 The first TRILLION dollars of bailouts were signed into law under BUSH.u00a0 This included the bank bailouts AND the automaker bailoutsn2) You are correct, comparing the OWS protesters to the tea party is laughable.u00a0 After all, they aren’t racist, uneducated, evangelicals who scream that Obama is a socialist/fascist (despite the two being opposite on the political spectrum) while riding in their Rascal scooters demanding an end to medicare.

Anonymous

While the current congress is a bunch of laughable tools who have demonstrated that their gerrymandered districts are more than enough to keep them in office and aren’t helping the situation, the spending is not the problem.u00a0 Macro-economic practice shows that the two most successful ways to end a recession/depression are 1) Spend your way out 2) Fight your way out.u00a0 Of course fighting the way out only works if the countries that are being fought are liable to repay you (see Japan 1946), so there goes the two wars in terms of helping.u00a0 So spend it is. And for large governments, spending on borrowed money is not actually inhibitory to the economy over the short term (5-10 years without paying anything off at all), and only a mild inconvenience past that.u00a0 While it is certainly cute to go on about ‘balancing the checkbook’, the simple fact is that microeconomics (personal/small business finance) does not follow the same rules as macroeconomics (world gov’ts).u00a0 And likewise what is perfectly logical and straightforward in one system is not necessarily true in the other.u00a0 Trying to use a metaphor from one and applying it to another is at best inadvertently misleading and completely inappropriate.u00a0 It would be stupid and worthless to describe the motion of Jupiter (astrophysics) with a wave function (Quantum Mechanics), the same goes for micro/macro-economic principles.