Occupy Wall Street

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I think what these protestors will need to remember is that their conduct in this event will say considerably more than their words.

Sorry, but Conservatives actually realize most businessmen are victims just like the rest of us. Wall Street is just being used as a scapegoat.

Small businessmen might be victimized by larger corporations who want to consume a higher rate of profit but stock traders but other financial firm folk certainly are not victims of anything and if they ever do lose money on their risks, the government bails them out. They figure out how to make a short term profit with the bailout money so everyone says "the government made money on that" but what about t long term?

I think we will see more financial crises in the future.

If you look more closely you'd find the people that got the bailouts were buddy/buddy with certain politicians, the ones that weren't got hosed just like everyone else, so again the protest is in the wrong city, it should be parked outside the White House front gates.

Now if you are looking for a really horrible company, I know of one that I've recently complained to the BBB about.

That's the point. The corporations are buying the politicians. It's so corrupt. Protesting the white house doesn't do any good so why not try something else?

lol @ Bernanke and Soros feeling "sympathy" for these protesters. If that doesn't tell you anything, I don't know what will. If these protesters were smart they would be protesting the Fed.

And who advises the fed and the white house? Why, it's Wall Street. It's the big bosses at Merrill Lynch one of whom wrenched his way pretty high up on the totem pole, just to name a few. Then you got AIG and Goldman Sachs, all big players in politics. They ARE the ones running it.

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lol

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in ... t-protests

This goes way beyond party politics.

Ron's a really nice guy. I support their right to be their too and there are so things nominally that I agree with some of the protesters but it appears to be going the other way now. I wish this did go beyond politics tho but much like the Tea Party, the establishment forces(unions, Soros groups, Bernanke, and probably eventually the DNC) are moving in to co-opt this "movement" and hollow it out. People are too stupid, misinformed, and easily manipulated to effect change through grassroots it seems. Whenever a protest movement springs up, they get infiltrated and turned on it's head so they end up supporting what they were protesting in the first place. These protesters appear to differentiate between Obama and Wall Street and that is a fatal mistake. Both the Republicans and Democrats are corporatists, there is no difference.

Yeah, from what I've read, it does appear that unions and their main political supporters are moving into the Wall Street protests. I'm guessing this could turnout similar to what happened in Madison, WI - from a protest stand point. Not all that surprising, and not sure if much will come from this. Banks, states, and the Federal government are broke.

"Unions, Dems Back “Occupy Wall Street”

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/ ... ll-street/

I hope this movement doesn't get subverted by the Dems like the Tea Party did by the Repubs.

"Occupiers vs. Teabaggers"

It just doesn't have the same appeal as Autobots vs. Decepticons, does it?

It would be more interesting if Occupiers had a spicier/sexier name but, historically it seems like conservatives aren't as sharp-tongued or creatively crass. Call it misplaced priorities.

Occultists? Occupuffers? I'm sure someone can think of something, then again I could still care less - are they going to come up with a similarly populist message that gets the tea partiers looking at them like Scots and Irish on the battlefield in braveheart, throw down their weapons and sing Kumbaya together over horns of mead and mutton chops? I'm sure the instigators would be throwing up in their mouths a little but sometimes it just takes realizing - if there is a 'man' he wants people divided on artificial lines on the real issues.

It was initially organized by Adbusters and Anonymous; does that help?

They are free to protest as long as they don't become violent, but I will say Ron Paul is an idiot, and it wouldn't surprise me if this "grass roots" movement is actually being organized by the Obama Campaign or Soros. That would be a typical democrat tactic.