Occupy movement - I'm in the 100%

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

The key word there is The Tea Party gathering versus those occupy gatherings. Nad I keep saying the Tea Partiers should be out there riding this wave. The two sides have more in common than they have in difference and if they could just stop fighting each other and aim the animus at the corruption and fraud and illegality we might make some headway.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Of course there is an occupy DC. THere was a gathering planned for DC BEFORE the occupy wall street got started...

http://occupydc.org/about-us/

 

[goldtopper]

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So if you aren't supposed to dismiss the protests, you have to agree with them? They can moan all they want, because we are a civilized country with freedom. Civilized countries do have rules, such as no camping in a public place, no dumping on peoples doorsteps because they own a business you don't agree with and most importantly, listening to the police and doing what they ask. It's a protest, we get it- but because it's a protest doens't make you suddenly immune from laws and ordinances.

We're lucky, in Minnesota, they will go home- hopefully to the warmer places mentioned. We're used to that though- most of our urban campers (bums) migrate south in the Fall anyway.

 

[Royd]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

The key word there is The Tea Party gathering versus those occupy gatherings. Nad I keep saying the Tea Partiers should be out there riding this wave. The two sides have more in common than they have in difference and if they could just stop fighting each other and aim the animus at the corruption and fraud and illegality we might make some headway.

We are riding the wave. We are doing it legislatively, and it's obvious that those we elected have heeded the call and warning, not to stray from the mission.

OWS is so wrapped up in everyone's voice being heard, that they can't get on with the main objective, whatever it is....Sort of like asking a thousand people to stand up and say what they are thankful for, at Thanksgiving dinner...By the time they get done, the turkey has developed salmonella.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I know they are in a Atlanta park

But Atlanta is pro gun..

 

[Royd]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

Of course there is an occupy DC. THere was a gathering planned for DC BEFORE the occupy wall street got started...

http://occupydc.org/about-us/

Are websites like corporations? They are people, too. I just haven't seen any pictures of ODC in front of the White House.​

 

[redhen]

I'm confused,(as usual), what is the point of these people? What are they trying to accomplish? I dont get it..

 

[Royd]

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They all missed Woodstock and the 60's so they are working on a redux.

 

[FourPawz]

>It is NOT communism to say we have some responsibility to one another. It is NOT socialism to say we need ENFORCEMENT of some regulation because the market is NOT free if there is no property and contract law. It is NOT capitalism if the government bails out those that fail and stick the rest of us with the bill for their failures!! <

Communism is forced "responsibility" via the elimination of personal property, that denies society's achievers while rewarding society's unachievers. Socialism does not mean regulation via property and contract law, it means that industry is removed from the hands of private owners and transferred to the workers equally. Marx himself saw socialism as a step toward communism. History has shown that socialism ultimately leads to totalitarian governments, and the means of production do not stay in the hands of the workers in the long run.

Capitalism is not without its faults. Regulation, in moderation, can be positive on business. Child labor laws transformed countless lives for the better, as do laws concerning safety. Laws prohibiting pollution of water and the air have done much to clean up our environment, but taken to extreme, can and will do far more to lower our standard of living. I'm speaking specifically of Cap & Trade, and of laws that penalize our present, cost-effective energy sources in favor of so called "green" energy that must be subsidized with confiscatory taxes. Moderation and balance are the key in keeping our economy stable.

 

[redhen]

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They all missed Woodstock and the 60's so they are working on a redux.

I'm serious though...
What exactly ARE they doing? What is it that they "want"? I cant figure it out...