Occupy Wall St

"Among the banners and flags are now discarded packets of condoms, cigarettes and bottles of spirits, while naked youngsters happily get together with just sleeping bags covering their modesty".

Cigarettes,, jesus what's next cigars, condoms eh isn't that showing some responsiblity, sleeping outdoors with "Sleeping Bags covering their modesty" Well last time I checked the best way to use a sleeping bag outdoors was to cover yourself with it, not much use hanging it from a fooking railing and starring at it" WTF (who owns that Newspaper???)

Next it will be "shock horror" OWS invaded by the demon drugs "pot", protestors openingly seen smoking pot, wow and if you research how pot was banned in US it shows why money should be taken out of politics.


“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”


I was down at Occupy Dame street most of sat/sun, starting to get org and good mix, from pensioners who lost all there money via banks, to students and a lot of ordinary joes, some protestors who looked like they had expereince but for the most part just folk like myself and yourself. Great reception from people just wondering what was going on, supprised a lot knew nothing about OWS

so go down and have a chat with them before you post your opinons on the folk that are down there.

Amerika wrote: »

I couldn’t attend the one Phila. With the poor economy and with cutbacks, I chose to put in extra work on the job... I guess that makes me part of the 1 percent?

And yet you have the time to post your idle ramblings on an internet msg board. :rolleyes:

BluePlanet wrote: »

And yet you have the time to post your idle ramblings on an internet msg board. :rolleyes:

Some of the people here are really missing the point. Yes, maybe some of the people protesting at Operation Wall Street aren't that elegant, but the bottom line is there are no jobs. Yes, to quote the queen of mean Carly "No one has a God given right to a job", yes that is true, but also no one has a God given right to the protection of their money, assets an inheritance either through natural disaster, technological changes, market crashes, theft or invasion. But we as a society have put together a pretty good structure, but unfortunately it seems to protect and cater to some more than others and society is financially out of balance. How is it that the top 300,000 Americans now enjoy almost as much income as the bottom 150 million. Do the math, that's 0.12% with as much or more wealth than the other 99.88%. Does that sound right? Absolutely not and don't tell me the 0.12% deserve it, do you really believe they work harder than the rest? No, it's just the unbalanced lines of our society and the same society that protects them and their money. The only reason the rich have so much money is because of technological advances - which most of them had nothing to do with, the hard work of many people being marginally paid and the government and the infrastructure around them that the taxpayers have financed. Why is it that Governments are so quick to bail out the likes of Goldman Sachs and Anglo Irish bank, yet others in our society are ignored? Certainly these bankers don't have a God given right to be bailed out after they fail! Why is it that many bankers and Wall Street employees who's companies were bailed out received large bonuses only a few months after being propped up with money from tax payers. Meanwhile many of these same recipients of bailout money protest at National Healthcare and criticize any type of social program and demonize it with the dirty word of Socialism. Yes, Corporations can move jobs abroad where labour is cheaper, but the savings isn't always passed on to the end consumer, since in many cases cheaper labour simply means bigger profits for a select few. What about the millions of people who worked for many of these large corporations - only to learn that their years of hard work and dedication is rewarded by their jobs being transferred to places like China and India not necessarily because the corporation needed to do this to compete, but in many cases because it would ensure greater profits for a select few. The balance of the world’s money has been shifting to a very small elite few and squeezing the rest of us for too long now and I’ve been wondering why people haven’t been protesting in the street about it, maybe things weren’t bad enough to push people that far and many live in a dream world thinking they too can be rich or hope to win Lotto, but reality bites and there is no tooth fairy and eventually there will be a revolution if the balance isn’t restored. Laugh all you want, but there are plenty of intelligent and educated people that are hurting, people that have worked hard all their lives and now because of circumstance have very little to show for it and they are angry and their voices need to be heard. All the elite few have to do is throw the rest a bone once in a while and once people get a little bit of security and when things aren't too bad, they become too preoccupied to protests. However, the elite few are very greedy and in the end that greed will probably be their downfall. This is only the beginning and if real reform doesn’t happen, there will be a financial revolution.