Occupy Wall Street

The main problem with Occupy is that they seem to want to destroy their own movement. They have major health issues (as in nastiness..), and they seem to like to rape/murder their own. It's being targeted from within by sicko's who don't actually want to protest anything, but cause as much trouble as possible.

Besides all that, the seem to miss the whole point about how wealth distribution and killing capitalism won't work in a country this large. Look at Europe.. I know! They should all just move to Europe and get a taste of how awesome their ideas are. I vote to send them to Greece for 3 months.

Terry

If Greece had any sense or say in the matter they would default on the debt and leave the European union.

I am not sure how your comments about destruction of Capitalism and what is going on in Europe are linked. Could you explain in a little more detail please?

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Reading the forum on the left it says Terry Long has 9 posts. Click on his user name link and there it says he has 8 posts. Clicking on that link and it lists 9 posts.
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Completely OT, possible server bug or data corruption.
Reading the forum on the left it says Terry Long has 9 posts. Click on his user name link and there it says he has 8 posts. Clicking on that link and it lists 9 posts.

Indeed they should, I am so glad that we don't have sustained high unemployment so they all can get a job easily. Oh wait....

Best sign I've seen at an Occupiers rally: Get a job and Occupy a DESK! Of course that was a counter-protester. Lol

Terry

Indeed they should, I am so glad that we don't have sustained high unemployment so they all can get a job easily. Oh wait....

Best sign I've seen at an Occupiers rally: Get a job and Occupy a DESK! Of course that was a counter-protester. Lol

Terry

You think it's going to help them get a job if they sit in a park for 2 months holding signs, shooting up, murdering, raping, and generally being pricks? Probably not.

Terry

This 84 year old woman being interviewed also represents the Occupy movement. She was pepper sprayed by the Seattle police and is one of those "punk kids" out on the street.

I remember Goebbels

True enough, especially if these are two strikes folks, long term unemployed (there are a LOT of them now), plus unwilling to work minimum wage in order to maximize corporate profit.

I do find it interesting the number of folks in flat out dismissive mode regarding the issues OWS has tried to bring to the table. It is a level of denial that suggests thinking similar to the 18th century royalty of France.

I have no issue saying that some of the reasoning OWS has to protest is legitimate. I've said that since it started. It's the way they have went about it that is actually not correct. You don't set up tent cities in public places. If the government had them do that it would be called a Concentration Camp. The health issues, crime rate, things such as that have hurt their own cause. I'll never believe that the rich should pay the poor's way. Doing so would finish this country off. Of course then I suppose Mr. President would be happy....

Wall St. is full of corruption, it always has been, I'll not say any differently. It is a real reason to go out and protest. However... So is the government in general. If they wanted to effect real change they would have been protesting in the beginning in Washington, DC. I honestly believe Wall St should be closely monitored, however that being said, the amount of regulation actually kills SMALL businesses. Those businesses are the backbone of the entire country. The majority of all jobs in the US are at small businesses. All the regulation has people not willing to start one anymore, and those that have one would rather shut it down than keep losing money.

There is a better, safer way to protest than how they have went at this. It hasn't been organized enough. I've never seen a protest in all my life that actually need to police it's own people to this extent. However it isn't the worst.. Someone should have driven a CAR through the Westboro Baptist Church protests at some point. I've seen some call OWS the most hateful bunch of protesters in US history.

Now I'm not supporting how they've went about doing the OWS protests, they've clouded their own purpose by how they've done it. However Westboro are the biggest bunch of idiots we've ever had protest, besides maybe KKK/racist protests in general (yes this includes the Black Panthers, two groups of idiots don't make a right..).

In closing, whether I believe it to be right or wrong (in it's entirety..), OWS has a legitimate reason to protest, but not all of their reasons (or what they want) are correct. Some of them are Anarchists, lazy as hell, drug users, or just don't know why they are there. They are however correct about Wall St. being crooked. This won't change the minds of any die-hard supporters of it, and it wasn't meant to. Thanks for your time. :D

Terry

If you can't beat them, join them!

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/occupier-gets-wall-street-job-165758406.html

Tracy Postert no longer has to answer to cries of “Get a job!” from people who passed by the Occupy Wall Street protest.

I used to say, “I’m trying!” she told ABCNews.com. Postert doesn’t have to try any longer.

The New York City woman, who split her time between Occupy Wall Street and having her “nose in the computer looking for work,” now has a job, thanks to a little marketing savvy and an executive who happened to pass by at just the right time.

Armed with 800 copies of her resume, Postert held a sign that read: “Ph.D. Biomedical Scientist Seeking Full Time Employment.”

Although Postert was looking for work in academia, she had all but given up.

Her sign caught the eye of Wayne Kaufman, the chief market analyst for John Thomas Financial Brokerage — a firm with a prime Wall Street address.