Occupy WallStreet

[meade916]

i didnt read ANY posts from here so forgive me if its been brought up........but that ridiculous "occupy" shit came here to sacramento this week and it didnt look like ANY of those people were contributing members of society. It looked like a bunch of washed up hippies that are mad at the government because they didnt get anywhere in life. The ones i saw on the news looked like a cross between a hobo, living by the tracks, who hasnt shaved in a year and someone who sleeps on the sidewalk in a tent waiting for the new Star Wars movie to open.

Seriously, there will always be people with more then others and thats usually because they WORKED FOR IT.

by the way, the protests will do nothing except make a mess which city workers, who GO TO WORK will have to clean up. COPS, which they appear to hate, will be on overtime making even more money. The jails will get fuller from these retarded protesters being "peacefully arrested" and then guess where the money goes (if they had a job and money to pay the fine)? Thats right.....keep protesting and making fools of yourselves.

[MrSkippyJ]

memphis, but I need someone better spoken than me to start it. I would get picked apart to easily if someone were to argue against me.

Don't let that stop you. Most of these unwashed idiots involved in this come off as complete morons when they are interviewed. They don't know why they are there or what they want....Now the unions are involved and paying people to stand around with signs....the looting, fires and violence are not far behind. This MIGHT have loosely started as a rejection of Wall Street corruption, but now it is mostly manufactured outrage and college students who don't think they should have to pay back their student loans.

No see, you didn't understand me. I will not become someone who just speaks what ever happens to be on their mind. I am FOR changing what we have today, which everyone seems to agree, doesn't work. What doesn't work is up in the air. Things get tossed around by politicians, media, attention seekers, etc...that derail the real problems. We now have a country that is violently split over things such as immigration, sexual preference, animal treatment, POLITICAL VIEW and so on. None of these things are so immensely important that you would have to hate another human being over them, yet people post hate messages, hold rallies and generally/genuinely hate another person for it. The countries priorities are all out of whack and that needs to get fixed. We all need to somehow get past how and why we are all different in this country and take back control of our government. It is running wild and out of control. For the people, of the people and by the people right? Not so much anymore.

I haven't read much into this occupy wall street thing so I can't debate with you on what it is about. The idea of it though, to stop the out of control government, I agree with. How they are doing it and what their goals are I can't speak much of. When I have time I will read into it and see what it's all about.

[JEMT8]

Everyone talks about change but most people do nothing about it. When was the last time anyone contacted their representatives about issues they felt strongly against, or even just participated in your town or city politics. How can you expect to be heard if you don't make any noise?

[JeremyN]

i didnt read ANY posts from here so forgive me if its been brought up........but that ridiculous "occupy" shit came here to sacramento this week and it didnt look like ANY of those people were contributing members of society. It looked like a bunch of washed up hippies that are mad at the government because they didnt get anywhere in life. The ones i saw on the news looked like a cross between a hobo, living by the tracks, who hasnt shaved in a year and someone who sleeps on the sidewalk in a tent waiting for the new Star Wars movie to open.

Seriously, there will always be people with more then others and thats usually because they WORKED FOR IT.

by the way, the protests will do nothing except make a mess which city workers, who GO TO WORK will have to clean up. COPS, which they appear to hate, will be on overtime making even more money. The jails will get fuller from these retarded protesters being "peacefully arrested" and then guess where the money goes (if they had a job and money to pay the fine)? Thats right.....keep protesting and making fools of yourselves.

none of these people that are protesting against the corporations that make jobs or the investors that invest in the company's to allow them to hire people .. seem to realize that capitalization is the thing that made America the greatest country on the planet ..... the " occupy people " need to stop looking for a hand out and take a shower. IF YOU DON'T LIKE AMERICA GET THE FUCK OUT

[BassJunkie]

Not gonna read through this but initially when I heard of "Occupy Wallstreet" I thought hell yeah. I don't like how the stock market is used as an economic barometer that controls peoples spending and saving. I then dug a little deeper into the subject and looked at their demands and all I can say is EL OH EL! Now I think its ridiculous, they don't even know what they're out there holding signs for by the looks of their demand LIST...thats right LIST...they don't want one thing they literally want 20 things, let me know how that works out.

If they come to my city I'll be the only one standing on the other side of the street with a sign stating GETAJOB!

[dcofer]

Not gonna read through this but initially when I heard of "Occupy Wallstreet" I thought hell yeah. I don't like how the stock market is used as an economic barometer that controls peoples spending and saving. I then dug a little deeper into the subject and looked at their demands and all I can say is EL OH EL! Now I think its ridiculous, they don't even know what they're out there holding signs for by the looks of their demand LIST...thats right LIST...they don't want one thing they literally want 20 things, let me know how that works out.

If they come to my city I'll be the only one standing on the other side of the street with a sign stating GETAJOB!

I normally avoid political arguments because I make my opinion off common sense nit just my base beliefs.

But this protest is retarded. Their demands fuck the economy up even more. One example is clearing debt, htf do you fix a deficit if you dont collect?

And a fixed living wage no matter your work status? Where is the incentive to work or work harder then anyone else?

The job market is hard and you might have to work for less then youd like to but do you wanna get raped by taxes on top of that?

Should the system be fixed? Yes most definatly but is it as simple as hitting reset? No if you reset a system it will destroy the country.

I love this country but no offense but the people here just piss me off both rich and poor. The super rich take advantage of EVERYONE and the poor the middle class go into mob mentality and Often don't even understand the underlying reasons.

If I had my way I'd eliminate all the social bull shit programs, I can barely support myself comfortably AND save and I'm making $40k+ a year right out of college. For me it's not the people that need it that bother me but the larger group of people that abuse it that make me feel this way which IMHO is extremely unfortunate.

This is my only post so bash it all you want. I'm out.

[BigPimpin91]

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/07/the-just-world-fallacy/

[JEMT8]

^that is a very good read. It definitely makes a lot of sense. I clicked a few if the links they provided and found even more good reads.

[n8ball2013]

[n8ball2013]

i was laughing like a maniac at work today when i saw that. people were staring.