Posted by tecwrg on 10/15/2011 7:34:00 PM (view original):

Saw some of the Occupiers this morning camped out in Hartford.  My wife leaned over and started honking the horn to them.  A few cross words went her way from me for doing that.

Yeah, they looked like hippies.  The ones I saw needed haircuts, showers and some clean clothes.

That cant be true. Left wing talk radio is saying they are all college professors and returning Gulf war vets. They are even people that are tired of the Tea Party and have turned their back of the Republicans.

What a joke!

Shouldn't college professors be, you know, professing in college right now?  I believe that schools are in session.

I might have second thoughts about the schools my children were attending if I found out that their teachers were living in tents living out some half-assed hippie wannabe fantasy.

Turn on your sarcasm meter.  

Hold your horses there, chief!

Are you saying that everything we read on teh interwebz should not be taken 100% literally?

Hoo new?

Posted by MikeT23 on 10/15/2011 7:42:00 AM (view original):
Economic Justice means "Give me some of what you worked for while I sat around smoking dope on welfare".

There is some of that to be certain.

However there definitely is injustice going on, when the govt. hands out OUR money to bailout a company and the company takes the money and doles out millions in bonuses to their bigwigs.

If you needed a gov't. bailout then you didn't do a good enough job to have earned a bonus. Especially when many of these bonuses were more money than many many hard working honest people make in a year.

As for a solution. I would say you could start by eliminating the whole fundraising part of politics. Then you eliminate the ability to buy politicians, well, it at least makes it a bit harder.

I would venture to guess that many politicians start out with good intentions, but very soon realize that they need to pander for money in order to have any shot at re-election.

I'm sure it wouldn't solve everything, but I think it'd be a step in the right direction.

1 Almost all of the "Bailout" money to the banks was repaid. That was not a gift.

2 How are you going to eliminate fundraising from politics?

This whole idea that Politicians are being bought by the rich is a left wing talking point that has no basis in fact. Almost every politician keeps the same views he started with. How could he be bought? What happens is companies look at everyone running and give moeny to the guy that supports their views, just like every person in America.

Bailing out the banks was a necessity.   Let them go under and there's a revolution.   As for how the money was dispersed, the government should play a major role in any bailout situation.    Not sure that's better but since we can't fire bank management, we can elect new politicians.  So the people have a say.

As for the political process, eliminate consecutive terms.    Out go the career politicians pandering for money and votes.

But, back on point, "Economic Justice" is a nice way to say "socialism".   Take from person A and give to person B regardless of merit.

I started to take a little more interest in what all this nonsense was about over the weekend, after I actually saw some of these bozos camping out in Hartford near the state capital on Saturday morning.

It seems that they want change in the current political process, among other things.  Yet I also read that in a survey of the original OWS group in NYC, 55% did NOT vote in the 2010 mid-term elections.

So what it comes down to is that they are, in essence, protesting against their own apathy in affecting change in the federal government.  Shame on them.

But what I also think is going on is that the mass majority of these idiots actually have no clue about what they are doing.  They have no leaders.  They have no agenda.  They are demanding "change" but have no concept of what they want to change to or how to get there.  I guess it's all supposed to magically happen, maybe with the help of some rainbows and some unicorns.  It's all empty rhetoric, and they are all just political cause wanna-be's with no real direction.

Would you equate them to PETA protesters caught eating a bacon double cheeseburger while marching?

The Occupiers are real, powerful and are growing.

The Tea-Baggers are a racist tool of the Right

This.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/occupy-portland-protesters-sing-f-the-u-s-a/

**** the USA!

They have that right.

Sort of pointless.   And they appear to be real winners. 

Posted by wiener12 on 10/17/2011 10:25:00 AM (view original):
**** the USA!

They have that right.

Sure, they have the right. 

But it kind of points out how they're really not sure what kind of message they're trying to get across.  Other than "****, YEAH!!!  LET'S PROTEST SOMETHING!!!"

Only a complete 'tard says "IT'S THEIR RIGHT!!!"

We know that because they're not being tazed at the end.   The point is they have no message, no direction, no point.   They just look like losers screaming obscenities.   I can see that at pretty much any bar after midnight.