What do YOU think of the Occupation in Wallstreet?

[Morpheus]

They are not making money while standing there and thats what they are partly complaining about. How about they get off their ass and work.

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[stuntman021]

They are not making money while standing there and thats what they are partly complaining about. How about they get off their ass and work.

cause there aren't a forgetton of jobs available? of course they've tried to find work (at least most of them), but guess what? there is no work. unemployment rates are higher than they were during the great depression and the average minimum wage hasn't improved since the 30s. meanwhile, the rich are getting increased salaries and lower taxes, while the banks that were lent money to help with loans aren't even using it for that.

[Davy]

ITT: People who haven't researched the protesters' cause.

[captain blue]

I agree that corporations should get out of government

I disagree that government should get into corporations

[Tom Gunn]

I'm Bumping this because it's relative to my interests.

Everyone attending the Protests is joining a sea of idiots who do not know jack stuff about the economy and only payed attention to Obamanomics in school. Evening out the wealth does not work people, get your heads screwed on straight.

[Jerkface]

I'm Bumping this because it's relative to my interests.

Everyone attending the Protests is joining a sea of idiots who do not know jack stuff about the economy and only payed attention to Obamanomics in school. Evening out the wealth does not work people, get your heads screwed on straight.

I like how you bumped this to make an invalid point.

[Tom Gunn]

I like how you bumped this to make an invalid point.

Is this some sort of form of condescending sarcasm you're trying to make here?
I bumped to point out that the ideals and what the protesters are calling for are stupid and uneducated. Sorry for insulting you if you are for those ideas but it's the truth.

[Solid]

it really annoys me how a lot of you in this thread have no idea what you're talking about, and post the first thing that comes to mind instead of actually thinking about and learning the true reason why these people are protesting

stop listening to your friends or parents or whatever you're getting this crap from, and think for yourselves

[Funkadelic]

I respect their opinions.

[Colten]

If they want something to change they need to start being violent and taking over company quarters and stuff

As of now theyre just something to watch on the news and no one truly cares about their cause

[Firecycle]

Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters' mothers should have taught
their children but obviously didn't, so I will:

1. LIFE ISN'T FAIR. The concept of justice - that everyone should be treated
fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nation was
founded. But justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick
Jagger said, "You can't always get what you want." No matter how you try to
"level the playing field," some people have better luck, skills, talents or
connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the
advantages in life but squander them, others play the modest hand they're
dealt and make up the difference in hard work and perseverance, and some
find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it
fair? Stupid question.

2. NOTHING IS "FREE". Protesting with signs that seek "free" college degrees
and "free" health care make you look like idiots, because colleges and
hospitals don't operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money
machine to tap for your meandering educational careers and "slow paths" to
adulthood, and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans owe you neither a
degree nor an annual physical. While I'm pointing out this obvious fact,
here are a few other things that are not free: overtime for police officers
and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property,
condoms, Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in
your makeshift protest kitchens. Real people with real dollars are
underwriting your civic temper tantrum.

3. YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan
debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in
others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to repay them. No one forces
you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that don't
require loans, or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you
to support yourself and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the
record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It's a
privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for -
literally.

4. A PROTEST IS NOT A PARTY. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad
dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn't
evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations: Most of you are
doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of
social and political change don't dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like
attendees of a Renaissance festival. You look foolish, you smell gross, you
are clearly high and you don't seem to realize that all around you are
people who deem you irrelevant.

5. THERE ARE REASONS YOU HAVEN'T FOUND JOBS. The truth? Your tattooed necks,
gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting.
Non-conformity for the sake of nonconformity isn't a virtue. Occupy reality:
Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4
percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It's not them. It's you.

[devildogelite]

I'm Bumping this because it's relative to my interests.

Everyone attending the Protests is joining a sea of idiots who do not know jack stuff about the economy and only payed attention to Obamanomics in school. Evening out the wealth does not work people, get your heads screwed on straight.

So you're telling me that trickle down economics is amazing? Because taxing people lower rates on basically gambling on the stock market less than people that live paycheck to paycheck is right? Also a lot of people here live in some delusional world where they are not part of the 99% and will grow up to be rich.  Poor people don't want higher taxes on the rich because they believe they'll be rich one day when its simply not true

[james4115]

people crowding the streets and interrupting business because they're not rich

[Becquerel]

Theyre idiots and need their faces bashed in hard