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I stand with the protesters.
Lee Adler explains WHY he is standing with the OWS protesters. I concur with his reasoning, and am glad to see that people in our country can get together to make a public and long overdue statement about the corruption that occupies the top. ~ Ilene
Courtesy of Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner
I stand with the protesters.
My mother and millions of other senior citizens are among the victims of the game that policy makers and those who empower them are playing. Their life savings are gone because Bernankecide, the financial genocide of the elderly, forced them to spend their principal. Now the government is indirectly confiscating 8% of my income because I must support my mother. That percentage is likely to grow as her health deteriorates.
Millions of other boomers are in the same boat. They are forced to pay this immoral hidden tax because Ben Bernanke decided that the innocent must pay for the sins of the guilty. While Bernanke’s ZIRP goes on allowing the banksters to continue to collect their fat bonuses, it steals the savings of millions of Americans, eliminates their disposable income, and cuts the spending power of millions of others who must now support those rendered destitute. The guilty benefit, and the innocent are punished.
Bernanke knows that, yet he continues to side with the criminal bankers in support of the financial genocide of the super elderly, and their children, the baby boomers who must increasingly support them.
Among the OWS protesters are those calling for forgiveness of student loans. They may be acting in their own self interest, but it is a just cause, and must be a part of the cleansing of the system. The student loan thing is a long running racket that preys on the inexperience of children and young people just starting out in life. When I was 20 years old I trusted the system (wrongly). What did you know at age 18 or 20?
The fact is that the people’s “savings” that funded those loans, including the fake savings backed by phony assets that have yet to be written down, are already gone. These loans cannot be repaid. Bond holders must get wiped out. Then we’re all going to have to take a haircut. The student loans can’t be repaid because these kids either can’t get jobs at all or can’t get jobs with pay high enough to pay the loans. These loans never had any backing. They were fake from the moment they were issued. But the issuers didn’t care. They got their fees up front.
The student loans are the tip of the iceberg. Bankers have made and sold trillions of dollars worth of loans that they knew, or should have known, could not be repaid. That’s fraud. It must be prosecuted. Today, central bankers and governments are refunding those loans, knowing that a substantial portion of them cannot be repaid. Worse, they are buying them above par because of today’s fake low interest rates. Then they guarantee them by obligating us and future generations to repay them. This is criminal.
I figure that at least a third of our deposits are worthless because they have no assets behind them. Those running the scam know that. Those investing in the scam know it. But they don’t care because they get to collect their fees off the top. That is a system that institutionalizes theft. It must be changed to a performance based model. If you don’t earn a positive return, you don’t get paid. Instead, governments have taken over the scam while transferring wealth to and protecting the criminals who built the system.
If you are blaming the protesters, or are mystified by them, then you just don’t get it. Denial is part of the problem. Too many people have yet to wake up to the fact that they have already been victimized. They are playing along with the dishonest shell game of extend and pretend that the Fed and other central banks and governments are running. It’s time to get real, wake up, and face the music. The longer the game goes on, the worse the consequences for the 99%, and ultimately for the 1%, whose ranks will be decimated at some point, and probably not peacefully if this scam is allowed to continue for much longer.
As long as we continue to avoid cleansing the system of the fraud, as long as we refuse to put the fraudsters in jail, they will continue to bleed us dry. If those in charge of administering justice, like President See No Evil Obama and his worthless AG Eric Holder, refuse to do their jobs and seek to punish the guilty, our society and our culture could spiral into chaos and mob rule. Those in the top 1% who are responsible for this fraud, either directly by running it, or indirectly by supporting it financially, must ultimately be brought to justice or society will perish. There’s no way out other than reform, or revolution, or societal collapse. Those are the choices I see. We had better take the first one, and take it now.
So stop worrying about yourself, and start worrying about the future of your children and grandchildren. The government practice of constantly doubling down in support of the fraud is only digging a deeper and deeper hole. Demand reform of the system now. End the fraud now. Make the guilty pay. Instead of rewarding the bankers, prosecute them. They knew, or should have known, that the loans they were making and selling to others could never be repaid. But they did not care. They only cared that they got their fees up front, and their bonuses in the end.
It’s time to reset and start over. We will all pay a price in the short run, but the longer we wait, the steeper the price will become. Reform and reset now is the only way to begin a real recovery. Stop the fraud, return to the rule of law, prosecute the bankers, punish the guilty, figure out what our assets are really worth and pay us a fair return, and most importantly, return basic standards of fairness and ethical behavior, something that many in society must relearn. It must be done. There is no other way, no other reasonable choice. Failure to act now will consign us to a future in hell.
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The face and backing of the occupy wall st is the communist party.
It's allegedly funded by Soros the Ultimate Pigman and it's the Argentinian/Venezualan model they are trying to implement.
The objective is majority dependents who vote like that or no elections in 2012.
Below are their ludicrous list of demands from http://occupywallst.org/ :
http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-s...
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
Bullsnort... another clueless author that believes populist 'feelings' are sufficient for analyis
Responding to the poster that says we need a complete reboot of the system......This sounds quite Cambodian vintage 1975. Not that I disagree.
When I went to the Killing Fields in Cambodia, I didn't understand the level of hate that could precipitate that. I think I do now.
Ok, first we had the TEA Party rising up over a number of individual perceptions. These included the destruction of the Rule of Law by a President and his political party by negating the claims of small, mom and pop, bondholders of Chrysler and General Motors; destruction of the United States Constitution where Congress unilaterally declared that it possessed the right to demand individual American Citizens to purchase a product from a private entity; and that trillions of taxpayer funds were used to benefit political donors in the form of Unions, Banks and Wall Street.
While the origins of the TEA Party were organic, politicians of the Republican Party rushed to place their personal charisma, such as it were, over the mass. Then they worked to divert goals of the TEA Party into personal channels of power, position, and political ambition.
Many believe that the Republicans were successful.
Now we give rise to another protest, again with a number of individual perceptions. These include the demand for jobs, education, direct democracy, removing money from politics, ending the Federal Reserve System, raising minimum wage, and a host of other competing themes.
And again we see Politicians, this time Democrats, rushing to place their personal imprint on the movement in an effort to channel demands to meet political ambition.
Many believe that the Democrats will be successful.
My advice: Avoid Politicians. They serve their own interests, Republican or Democrat, and their interest is to be reelected. To be reelected they rely on large, lump sum donors such as Unions, Banks, Wall Street and other Mega-Corporations. You, as an American citizen, are less than peanuts in the scheme of things.
It would seem there are some common points that shared by both the “Occupy X” and the TEA Party. Chief of which is that our Congress is bought. They are merely employees of the Banks, Wall Street and Mega-Corporations.
No one will get radical solutions from those that are merely employees. To get relief you have to go to the root; to the ultimate boss.
The root here is our monetary system. Our monetary system is mathematically designed to extract from the least of the 99% to benefit the 1%. There are many online articles and videos that make in-depth explanations of the phenomenon. Suffice to say that, under our current system since 1913, for every $1 produced, $1 + X must be returned. ‘X’ indicates interest payment. And if only $10 produced, where does the extra ‘X’ come from?
And the Big Boss is the Federal Reserve Bank. And the Boss should be the target of all activists, left or right, before any meaningful talk of resuming citizen control of our Government can begin.
Expect vicious resistance against killing the Federal Reserve System. But once that nest of vipers is eliminated all else will work itself out.
America was propagandized to always fall for the Hegellian dialectic.
Why's it always gotta be us or them?
The fucking criminals are at the top. Put there because of their willingness to Betray and Compromise their fellow citizens. The attorneys betrayed our legal heritage going back to The Magna Carta and stood by while activist fucks murdered The Constitution.
Fucking boo-hoo to me about Steve Jobs? Think that fuck didn't betray America and hire all the smartboy fucks to lobby for new legal veneer that would enable Apple to become what it did?
It ain't personal. They all Betrayed you and me for the money. Not even real money. The gold ended in 1933 and the silver in 1964.
The shills say Nixon betrayed the gold standard... BS! Americans couldn't own gold due to FDR's confiscation of 1933. The Usual Suspects were using France as a proxy to Loot American Gold in 1971/2. Only France was turning in dollars for gold at the Breton-Woods Window... Had there not been JFK, RFK, & MLK events so few years earlier; TPTB would have gotten rid of RMN, but they staged a coup instead... Few years later all the looting would really go in earnest.
All the shit is at the top! Milkin and junk bonds, Lorenzo and leveraged buy-outs, takeovers financed from defined plan lootings, revise the pension laws to favor 401k and self-direction. Most of the non-politically connected engineering firms went by the wayside. MBA smart-fucks and attorneys founded managed care to fuck doctors and hospitals. The consolidation of Big 8 accountancy practices yielded audit whores doing anything for a fee; case in point Best Of The Best Arthur Andersen...
Everything that could be looted has been; all facilitated by Congressional oversight who got their cut of the sweetmeat deals.
They've fucked us all; democrats and republicans. There ain't no US vs. Them; if you aint one of them, you're slated to be fucked-over and expected to die or learn to eat dirt...
The fucks put poison out as medicine. Heavy metals in vaccinations. Shit food. Won't even tell us the truth about Fukushima radiation.
All the legalities they've concocted are a lie and fraud.
America is run by The Hollow Men. TS Elliot was a banker. He Knew the drill.
Time to reclaim our Nation or die without as much as a whimper...
Not even real money. The gold ended in 1933 and the silver in 1964. The shills say Nixon betrayed the gold standard... BS! Americans couldn't own gold due to FDR's confiscation of 1933.
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Go back further-to 1922 and what happened in 1922 happened because of what happened in 1913 which led to the war that was "needed" for the so called "greater good of all" to have gold shelved for the duration of the war and when reinstated as was promised-Gold went to work immediately and caused a massive deflation-which is what Gold is supposed to do to nations foolish enough to get involved in foreign wars-
How was the deflation overcome?
By double counting the worlds Gold reserves and expanding the money supply by 100% with the stroke of a pen and it all happened at this little known about convention-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa_Conference_%281922%29
Her note: She can't afford a "traditional" family. If she wants children, we'll take her in.
freedom of speech is what makes this country so great.
blaming others for our mistakes makes us weak.
at the end of the day everybody drank the same kool-aid bankers and consumers.
bankers are being persecuted in courts and in public but what about "joe the plummer" that bought a million $ home knowing he couldn't afford the mortgage?
who's worst the dealer or the user?!
Contrary to your illusion that, "at the end of the day everybody drank the same kool-aid bankers and consumers", many did not. And those many will not pay a penalty for the imprudent. Most of this whole mess was created and propogated by 20-25% of the population, possibly less.
The criminals must all be equally prosecuted:
bankers
mortgage brokers
borrowers
appraisers
It was a criminal conspiracy.
bankers are being persecuted in courts and in public but what about "joe the plummer" that bought a million $ home knowing he couldn't afford the mortgage?
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Everyone that lost-needs to lose-
It's no secret (on an economics blog) that the availability of the money supply influences the psychological reactions of the masses-its always been that way-
10 years out-we'll have a responsible/aware society and 3 generations away from that-it will all be lost again-its always been that way-
You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet-
Every long journey begins with one small step-
This beats the hell of taking the point of least resistance-like was happening-
http://grooveshark.com/s/We+Are+The+People/32DjRi?src=5
The system must be eliminated. The system cannot be fixed. Why? Simple. Because predators are predators, and predators behave as predators. They do not change, they will not change. Since the predators are in total control of government and all large corporations, the system cannot fix itself. The only way predatory actions cease is when the predators are exterminated or caged. Period.
More and more people need to say NO. Hell no. No way, no how, no, no, a thousand times no. Do not accept the system, sanction the system, seek to solve the problems via the mechanisms of the system. The system must end. No more royalty, no more elites, no more fictitious entities with extraordinary powers like governments and large corporations.
The closest model to the correct one is the USSR - it vanished, and the world is much better off for that. Now is the time for the USSA to vanish. The world will be much better off without the new evil empire too.
Just say no... to the system.
It's always easy to blame others for our own failure. Common sense dictates that a grand failure at such scale must have been caused by collectively national ill. Everyone is responsible. To say that someone can jam a house bundled with mortgage down your throat, or to say that someone can chase you into swiping your credit card on anything you lay your eyes on, is simply ludicrous. As a nation we under saved and over spent, both at personal level and sovereign level. Banks facilitated and encouraged, but honestly, did we not enjoy while it lasted? We can occupy any place we want, but we won't solve any problem if you don't face the painful truth. I know I am alone in the crowd, but it doesn't mean the crow is right.
Jubilee for the people. Back to sound commodity based currency. Glass-Steagall. Stop the WARS.
Of course, fuck all the responsible people who lived within their means.
i worry myself sick about the elderly who cannot make it with Z.I.R.P. .......... it's criminal, BERNANKE ought to be in prison for genocidal policies, OBAMA, too . OBAMA knows exactly what's going on ; i feel sick inside when i watch video clips of him lying . Methinks he was put into place deliberately just to pull the wool over the sheeple's eyes & we know what sheeple i mean, the black sheeple .......... they will blindly follow him into hell because he's black. yes, i said it. & you know it's true. this is the cruelest joke of all on the black population. the whole situation is a sick & cruel joke on all of us. p.s. help others who are hungry if you are able to share.
im all for a reboot of the USA but do you really want Obama in chargeif it happens - a communist at heart! its a plan and we are only pawns. be careful out there...
What happens after this? You all do not realize that after the Occupywallstreet movement is ignored by the powers that be, and it effects NO political, or economic change whatsoever, the next step is outright anarchy by the 99% who have NOTHING left to lose. Better stock up on the BBB's bitchez. People will have nothing to lose soon, after losing their jobs, houses, and their 99 weeks of unemployment. Soon, they won't be able to feed themselves or their families, and they'll be coming to get some from you. Are you ready?
The ones with nothing left to lose are closer to 20% than 99%
What about the people who lied on their loan docs?
What about the community reinvestment act that actually FORCED banks to make loans to minorities in shitty neighborhoods?
What about the millions of people who haven't made a mortgage payment in 3-4 years? I pay what I owe that's fuckin bullshit they are living rent free.
If your're working at Mcdonalds you think you can afford a $500,000 loan? Think thats responsible to even apply for?
How come no one is protesting all the fraud that occured on main street?
because everyone is a fucking victim in this new world order
if everyone is a fucking victim, then we need big brother to care for us from cradle to grave
Great points.
Agreed. And how many students got their student loans and got a decent education? Most of them just partied for four years without a care in the world. Time to pay the piper.
Ilene, no protester has the slightest idea of what you are talking about.
This is a Dem Party project chock full of Dem Party dummies. When you say "I stand with the protesters" you simply say "I stand with the Dem Party and Nancy Pelosi."
Pelosi: "I support the message to the establishment, whether it's Wall Street or the political establishment and the rest, that change has to happen.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-occupy-wall-street-20111009,0,972806.story
You see, **she** is not the establishment; neither is her crony capitalist husband; neither is the Napa Valley winery they own; neither is her corrupt father, mayor of Baltimore; neither is the SF Dem machine; neither are the contributors to her re-elections ...
Oh look - a union or two -
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?CID=N00007360
I stand with the protesters? No I stand with my own analysis of who is corrupt and where the corruption lies. I don't need political party talking points to get there.
Whoops, when you said Dem Party, did you mean to say Communist Party?
This is nothing new but now the Granola munchers are starting to get smacked in the wallet for the hippified non consumption they did in the mall, buying hemp sandals to walk back to the $40,000 Subarus.
Bluecollar man, who actually built this city with the sweat of his brow,has been getting nailed for multiple decades by the Gov,Banksters and local reveneuers of the City,County,State or Unions who pretend to work for the actual PRODUCERS benefit, whilst only fattening their own wallet at HIS expence.
Society has Actual producers and parasites (The man who gives the producer a ticket on the way home for a cracked tailight).
A parasite feeding from a producer.
How many actual producers in the USA? Inventors,Artists, Engineers,Mechanics, innovators?
When they are gone it is just a Cage/Slave fight. Done! Story over.
Devolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCpxSzacbyc
The Art is that good now. Sad shit and few know.
...one FACT of these protesters is they did not listen or accept what people like most vets of Zero Hedge were telling them long before they ended up in the street. There were a few of us watching for years leading up to this and we were telling people that they would end up in the street. We told them when Favorite Nation status was given to China, and NAFTA and GATT happened. We told them about the gold standard. We told them about the commerce tax only system. We told them all this and much much more but, people called us crazy. Some of us were even dealing with the deadly bastards personally and even lost their lives. So if you are not a young person in your mid 20's and below, and NOW you are in the street, jobless, lost your home etc..., don't you dare bad mouth the ZH people or their likeness. We are capitalists, we love freedom, liberty and independence and justice for all and we know the corruption of the Great Wal Mart of China and the socialist bastard behind the global new world order bullshit. We can resolve the issue at hand, if you will listen this time. You can have the universal healthcare and a living wage priced into the commerce tax only system and remain free and independent, or you can just remain in the street bruising your heel on your own ass. We are the leaders you did not follow .not the one's that have failed up to this point.
You have been lied to by the corrupt media, the banks and the government and you must not let them continue to distract you from doing what you need to do to overcome what they have sewn on behalf of their global bullshit. Your vote is worthless in this system. Eveytime you buy sell or trade this market you are voting against your own interest. Your labor is devouring you. STOP, just STOP! The Commerce Tax only system must be set in place and at the point of purchase in your town, your state, your country, that is where your vote buys your freedom first. Only then will the inflation beast be kept at bay through the election cycle, because when corruption rises the balance of the budget in your town, state and at the federal level,, rises too and will be reflected at the point of purchase, which is your first vote, when you set the law(s) to insure that it does. When you see the price is too high, and you go to elect the people, it will not be a surprise to see that the field has ''changed'' from the old corrupt slush. They will be forced to earn their pay the OLD WAY, in a market by which labor sets the standard and debt is not hidden and used to control labor. Now is the time to do this. If it does not happen now, what is about to happen is well defined in history, as a global mark of corruption of debt and war, which now will lead to a greater global slaughter, and that is the reason why your dusty asses better now be in the street in every city on the planet. If you fail to put in place the security we are telling is required to be put in place now, your religion and your market model, your labor, they will not matter. You will be crushed by tyranny of the moral hazard and those that become violent as a result of the same pathetic principle.
I don't stand with these protestors. I agree with Lee Adler, "no one told them to go to college." I bought a house and signed loan documents promising to repay the loan which I did. I didn't go whining in the street and deficating on police cars or urinating in the street screaming to make others pay my loan or forgive the loan. These adults are in for a rude awakening. No austerity measures have been brought against them, and for them to be squealing about events that happened 3 years ago is laughable. In the mean time, tax paying people are getting ready to go to work tomorrow and pay pay pay. These protesters are what I call cocoapuffers - they can afford to buy cocoapuffs and all I get is oatmeal. Why aren't they calling for Obama's impeachment?
they need obama around to give them the free lunches
Lee Adler said: Among the OWS protesters are those calling for forgiveness of student loans….What did you know at age 18 or 20?
No one forced them to go to college. No one forced them to take out loans to go to a college you couldn’t afford. The “banksters” didn’t come to your house and sell you a vacuum cleaner. You went to them under the false assumption that college (at it’s inflated prices due to government intervention – more on that later) was a good investment for your future. I’m afraid to say that many people who are going to college or tech schools are not prepared to succeed and do not belong there – it’s a waste of their time and money at these prices.
Regarding the cost of higher education, you can’t blame the Fed for that, you have to blame Congress and the intervention within the admission standards at universities and the federal grant system that fully pays for minorities and underperforming “poor” candidates. These long-term policies operate within the law of supply and demand. When the demand (number of applicants with government money in hand) outstrips the supply (openings for incoming freshmen) the prices will necessarily increase. Don’t blame Wall Street, this one’s on big government.
Lee Adler said: Make the guilty pay…They knew, or should have known, that the loans they were making and selling to others could never be repaid.
What the bankers did was immoral, but it was not illegal. Big government made it legal. In fact, big government forced these banks to make the subprime loans under the Community Reinvestment Act. Jimmy Carter started the program to get people with No Income, No Jobs or Assets loans (NINJA loans) and Bill Clinton expanded it and encourage Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to customize their bundling and securitizing operation to handle these unusual loans.
Lee Adler said: It’s time to reset and start over…punish the guilty…Failure to act now will consign us to a future in hell.
Free lunches for everyone! “Please big government absolve us of our credit sins of the past and allow us to suck from the teat of your welfare bosom with a clean slate.”
Be careful when you punish the guilty for you will not be found without guilt. Loan forgiveness is a rather recent Christian virtue. Before The Enlightenment, anyone who did not pay back a loan was thrown into debtor’s prison. Under the godless big government that wants to privatize the banks, debtors prison might be your fate.
If you really want to know what a living-hell-on-earth is like, spend a few years in Venzuela, Cuba, or North Korea and see how many days your able to stand with Occupy Caracas, Occupy Havana or Occupy Pyongyang. Protect the American way. Become a 53% instead of a 47%.
http://the53.tumblr.com/
Parody of an earlier post.
Ok 60 something. Your Chris Christy fat, having consumed corn and low fat margarine hydrogenated and trans fat laced food all your life because your government told you to. You are the ones that enjoyed all the inflation in your lifetime sending your house price from 20,000 to 450,000 in less than 40 years while supporting every other politician and their inflationary magicians. You still think that if someone gets a job and buys a house that they will have a better life than you do, but you are too dumb to understand that in order for that to happen, that house would have to appreciate to a value of $5,000,000.00 over the next 30 years. Obviously, thats not going to happen. You cheer when they send the neighborhood kid to jail for smoking marijuana and then label him as a criminal his whole life, while sucking down your scotch every evening and reminising about how you were able to pay your house off in 5 'back in the day' because you enjoyed a doubling of your wages at your union job. Your entitlement check comes the 15th of every month and you regularly use it to visit the 'coin shop' that recently opened in your town after driving past thousands of young people with signs that say 'End The Fed'. The 1st of the month rolls around and you of course collect your union pension check even though its payment was determined to be un sustainable and you earned more than your fair share your entire life.
The good news, is this, that a life of consuming grains, hydrogenated oils and TFAs have clogged your arteries and when you wake up 2maro, take two steps and collapse from a heart attack at least your entitlements will end.
Let's see here. I'm not "60 something" but I am 60-something but I didn't want you to think your post went to waste, so let's see how it applies to this 60-something:
1. government never told me what to eat except when I was in the military.
2. my home is worth 50% of what is worth in about 2007, hardly more than I paid for it 28 years ago.
3. never thought I was inferior when I rented, don't feel I'm superior by owning.
4. don't smoke dope and don't drink scotch (anymore). Don't give a shit about the neighborhood kid or what he smokes or drinks.
5. haven't had a union job since I was in my 20s.
6. I don't get a pension and I won't get one. My retirement will be funded by what I have saved and what I was forced to put into the SS ponzi.
7. don't even know where a coin shop is.
8. my ateries are fine, I'm not overweight and I have a family genealogy that suggests I'll be around for some time to come, outliving my savings but still able to collect SS, thanks to you!
Lets see Soros is funding this and most all of these people are communists and unions and Obama supporters.
I dont stand with them.
Besides there in the wrong place they should be occupying the White House not Wall Street. The problem is not the banks its the government letting them do whatever they want and being in bed with them. Get the government under control and you get the banks under control. This whole thing smelled fishy from the beggining and now it stinks to high heaven.
When you have a grievance over a product you don't want to deal with low level employees. To get real results you want to deal with the ultimate boss.
The ulitmate boss here isn't Congress and it isn't the President. Nor is it Unions, Banks or Mega-Corporations. The ultimate boss is the one that provides the funding.
The Ultimate Boss is the Federal Reserve Bank.
OWS needs to focus on a single target, and the ultimate culpability belongs to the Federal Reserve.
Take out that single nest of vipers and everything else will shake out on its own.
Pandering to weakness should be the first and foremost rule of fightclub!! Fuck this shit...........................................................................................................................................
It's over...All that's left are the pieces the MSM Vultures will pick apart which was the plan all along after they were 'eyewinked' to begin with...Never go against your instincts, never forget that even if they're wrong...They NEVER LIE!!!
Liberals, you can occupy Wall Street and scream at everyone else all you want. You can blame Palin, Beck, Bush, Limbaugh, Nixon. But YOU voted in the very best the Left had to offer and now look - nothing is working. This America-hating Marxist Community Organizer has broken everything he's touched. Go yell at him, not us.
TPTB control both sides, so it is very foolish to blame the lefties, just like it is silly to blame those on the right. Both sides of the electorate get played, but some don't wake up no matter how many times it repeats itself, no matter how clearly it's laid out for them.
Trying to paint the protesters as liberals is weak: even in the piece above, Obama and Clinton were clearly amongst those blamed. In fact, I'd say it's part of the establishment's psy-ops to try to divide this into a left-right affair, when in fact the protesters are rebelling against the same thing the Tea Party originally seemed to rebel against: the fact that the people are not represented at all, that politicians on both sides are BS artists, actors and fakes.
Fuck Off Pussy.
Real: fuck off for real, you don't know what the hell you are talking about....
First of all, if you are going to make a post about about ZH readers being "not to intelligent" you may want to proofread your post for spelling and grammar errors. When you start a sentence with a conjunction, or use the word "to" instead of "too", you lose all credibility. Secondly, you're making the OWS movement out to be something far more grand than it is. Nothing is going to come of it. As soon as the cold weather hits the northern hemisphere this movement will essentially be over. There's no guiding principles behind it - it's just a bunch of frustrated college students. Lastly, when you describe the opposition as hateful and racist you make yourself look like a complete ass. That's such a worn out claim that only morons resort to using it.
Speaking of proof reading......"not to intelligent" is in YOUR sentence. I'm guessing this is what the person is talking about.
I agree with him about the numerous dumb-asses, but I still find the articles here on ZH informative along with the occaisional post.
time to load up on the tampons
Well F^@# you buddy! Just kiddin.. Seroiusly, were all shittin a brick cause we as a Nation are loosing our Soverignity. Go put on your big boy pants and suck it up, were all in this shit together and people know somethings wrong. Animal Instinct if you will.
oh please? is this the part where we start being emotional ????? go back to them. tell them valdez is coming........
I'm with them too. I stopped by the protest in Chicago and spoke with one of their leaders, Seth, to share with him the 9 legislative points necessary to the reformation and restoration of America as a precursor of the "New American Revolution: The Constitutional Over Throw of the United States Government", that will be out in early November. Things always seem to take longer than you think. When the book is in print, I promised one to Seth, but I thought it was important that the young people on the line should start to be exposed to a list of demands that would bridge all Americans into a collective action. A lot of people have been giving these young people a hard time because they haven't come up with a clear manifesto and a course of action, so I thought I should share with them my observations and conclusions. I know its a lot to declare, but once the book is out, and if people give it half a chance, I think it will bring the clarity of purpose to the action required to 'front run' the revolution that has already started, but hardly noticed, here in America. I'd explain it more here, but I'd have to write a book, which I have done, it just needs a final polish and 2 weeks to get from the printer.
http://www.thedailybell.com/3053/Russia-Today-RT-Interview-Raises-Intere...
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Hey Ilene: thanks for deleting me on your last thread "Update on Wallstreet" from yesterday...And you wonder why we come down on you so hard...Stop guessing!!!!