Posted by moy23 on 10/19/2011 4:53:00 PM (view original):

Posted by philogenemay on 10/19/2011 4:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by crazystengel on 10/19/2011 2:23:00 PM (view original):
Right.  And the people who are unemployed and underemployed in this economy have only themselves to blame.  Saying it might be related to economic policies/Wall Street corruption is just whining.  Pull up your bootsraps, *******, like old Works Smart Not Hard!

What is their "solution"?

The reason I started the thread is because I DO agree with some of the ideas coming from the more serious and more well thought out aspects of their outrage.

But the tea-party had one central driving message Taxes Enough Already.

They have concrete ideas. Less taxes and FAR less spending. 

I am very open minded, and although there are aspects of the occupy movement that makes sense, I am still at a loss as to what their central message really is. Besides the fringe which screams "capitalism is bad" and seem to want a socialistic type of redistribution of wealth. Which I certainly can not support.

Agree.

Can't seem to find a central message. Bout the best I can get is that the OWS people are mad at the banks because they took government bailout money and the rest of the USA is mad at the government cause they gave the banks bailout money. Isn't this one and the same issue - government bailouts? Everything else I hear out of OWS is moronic gibberish... and I mean moronic.

Posted by raucous on 10/19/2011 4:36:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jonas1102 on 10/19/2011 4:26:00 PM (view original):
For godssake.   If you hate black people, you are probably a Tea Party supporter.  If you're an out of work hippie, you're probably a OWS person.  But that does not mean that everyone in the Tea Party is racist and everyone who supports OWS is a hippie.  Try to focus on the god damn message instead of the lunatic fringe that get the media attention in attempt to distract you.

...and this is why Cain leads the polls by a large amount with Tea Party members.

I did not say that if you are a Tea Party supporter you are racist.  In fact, I said if you are a racist you are in the fringe of the Tea Party.

But I am surprised that Cain has the support he does.  Not because he's black, but because he's the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve in Kansas City.

Every side has it's fair share of morons.

Posted by jonas1102 on 10/19/2011 5:41:00 PM (view original):

Posted by raucous on 10/19/2011 4:36:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jonas1102 on 10/19/2011 4:26:00 PM (view original):
For godssake.   If you hate black people, you are probably a Tea Party supporter.  If you're an out of work hippie, you're probably a OWS person.  But that does not mean that everyone in the Tea Party is racist and everyone who supports OWS is a hippie.  Try to focus on the god damn message instead of the lunatic fringe that get the media attention in attempt to distract you.

...and this is why Cain leads the polls by a large amount with Tea Party members.

I did not say that if you are a Tea Party supporter you are racist.  In fact, I said if you are a racist you are in the fringe of the Tea Party.

But I am surprised that Cain has the support he does.  Not because he's black, but because he's the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve in Kansas City.

Back in the days before Greenspan and Bernanke.  So it actually meant something.

Posted by raucous on 10/19/2011 11:47:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jonas1102 on 10/19/2011 5:41:00 PM (view original):

Posted by raucous on 10/19/2011 4:36:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jonas1102 on 10/19/2011 4:26:00 PM (view original):
For godssake.   If you hate black people, you are probably a Tea Party supporter.  If you're an out of work hippie, you're probably a OWS person.  But that does not mean that everyone in the Tea Party is racist and everyone who supports OWS is a hippie.  Try to focus on the god damn message instead of the lunatic fringe that get the media attention in attempt to distract you.

...and this is why Cain leads the polls by a large amount with Tea Party members.

I did not say that if you are a Tea Party supporter you are racist.  In fact, I said if you are a racist you are in the fringe of the Tea Party.

But I am surprised that Cain has the support he does.  Not because he's black, but because he's the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve in Kansas City.

Back in the days before Greenspan and Bernanke.  So it actually meant something.

Posted by MikeT23 on 10/20/2011 7:54:00 AM (view original):
If you're 70 and broke, you fucked up.    Plain and simple.

A good percentage of people effected by the Madoff scandal had no idea their 401ks/mutual funds/hedge funds were tied up with Madoff. 

Now the people that were managing their money may have known what was going on, but just like the sub-prime mess, they ignored what was obvious and really didn't give a **** about any consequences.