| Author | Message | ||
     Ft_bstrd |
 Should be shouting for joy that one of the "1%" have died and the Federal Government is going to get at least a third of his assets if not more. That's one third of $8B of wealth redistributed. | ||
| Boltrider |
Lol, such an ass-backwards march. I can't make any sense of it. At what point does it become a health hazard? Are they using evil corporate bathrooms to freshen up? Or are they doing their business on the sidewalk?  | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
It's what happens when the progressive policies of the administration elected by the 18 year olds entering college are proven to be failures for the same kids at age 22 when they have graduated to find no jobs. Spoiled brat kids who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. | ||
| Fahren |
I believe the gripe is with Wall Street, not with Main Street. And I share that gripe as well. Where was the "loosening of credit" that was supposed to "flow" from bailed out banks to boost business and jobs on Main Street? It stayed in the bankers' pockets. They suck dry the life blood of the global economy. These "bankers" break laws, perpetrate fraud, make billions on the crimes, and pay absurdly small fines as "punishment." | ||
| Fahren |
A more accurate analysis of the protests, seeing true libertarian ideals espoused: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/%3F-older-pos ts-libertarian-wall-street-protesters-demand-end-f ed | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
If their complaint was with the bailouts, they should be protesting in Washington not on Wall Street. Like most useful idiots, they fail to grasp who the real enemy is. | ||
| Fahren |
Only idiots believe the power resides in Washington. Follow the money. | ||
| Chauly |
But Washington is where they print the money! | ||
| Blake |
Right, the president has no real power, riiiiight. Power to the people man. Banks have been begging me to take out a loan. Don't know what Fahren is talking about. | ||
| Blake |
Of course the best way to get folks to lend their money is to demonize them and threaten them with higher taxes. Bailout loans have been repaid. Solyndra blew their Obama mandated gov't loan on helping it's favored fat cat investors escape the consequences of bankruptcy, putting the half billion dollars default on taxpayers instead. Straight out of Atlas shrugged. | ||
| Aesquire |
So, a living wage, no matter if you have a job or not, is libertarian? I love that the web site Fahren posted is sponsored. He's right though. Where DOES George Soros live? His groups are in on the protests. I especially love how "moveon.org" a group formed to defend Clinton is now a "respected" member of the Communist revolution in America. These "protests" are well paid for. After it turns violent, will we ever know who set this up? "cough" (Reichstag Fire) "cough". ( was that too Hank Williams Jr.? ) | ||
| Tankhead |
+1 on Atlas Shrugged. Creepy similarities.... | ||
| Pwnzor |
Came home last night to find yet another stack of credit card offers in the mail. My credit union in California is currently competing with my credit union here in Georgia for the opportunity to loan me money for both a car and a motorcycle. I've been imprisoned by The Man, and now I'm a homeowner with stellar credit again in just a few short years. Yes, I took a beating on my last house, but doing just fine with this one... and it's more than twice the size, in a beautiful location. Yes, down with evil corporations indeed... let me just grab my cardboard sign and my iPad so I can join your protest.... NOT Instead, I think I will take this morning off and sit down to breakfast with my government mandated 2.3 kids, so we can eat our government issued scraps of moldy bread and drink turnip juice. Those kids squatting on sidewalks are f**king morons. | ||
| Crusty |
Ah; who gives a shit, anyhow? | ||
| Pwnzor |
They do, Crusty... they do. | ||
| Xdigitalx |
Of course, some of them paid for xxx dollars in college education but can't find a job... and Will NOT work unless it suits their career path or pay rate. Other's may have to leave college because they can no longer afford it. They are demanding the fall of the fed so all of us can join the fun. Yet they want the Fed to take over tuition payments so they can continue their education? Sorry, I could not resist: http://youtu.be/yJj0rs4xCQE | ||
| Fahren |
One of Tea Party founders discusses principles relative to OWS: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/#44810746 And follows up with a written elaboration: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=195434 | ||
| Thumper74 |
I just had a pissing match with one of my sister's friend on Facebook who has a 4 yr degree in Social Sciences and can't find a job. She and someone else were trash talking laborers and skilled trades... Saying something to the effect that the 'losers' had jobs. I pointed out that these loser plumbers, auto techs, soldiers, etc. don't have 60k of student loans. I'm 27 and so many of us were told the college was the answer, computers, etc. were the future. I've put 10 years in doing automotive work and I make more than most college graduates and then some. We have a generation of video game addicted losers with useless degrees who don't know the value of a dollar, can't rotate their tires, change their oil, unplug a drain and have a undeserved sense of accomplishment for getting all of the accomplishments in Halo 3 | ||
| Darth_villar |
I take offense to that Thumper. I'm pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering, I do all my own work on my vehicles and then some. And most importantly, I play LOTS of video games (well, as much as I can in between homework/life). I do not believe there is a correlation between playing video games and being useless! Most business majors I know are TERRIBLE at video games! In other news, that is a joke, only with factual information (in a sense that it is an opinion rather than fact :P) | ||
| Fahren |
Thumper, I agree with you that many "kids these days" aren't equipped mentally or physically to work. I wish that were the only problem. College and computers are not the only future, by a long shot. College is great, but there are an awful lot of young folks who would do well to learn a trade and be proud of it, and earn a good living doing it well. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I always LOL @ teh f417z0rz who can't find work when they are surrounded by available jobs, because they don't feel like doing that job. These same people who can't change a tire or the the oil in their cars... hell, they don't even know the oil is supposed to be changed... these are the people who also haven't a clue how to operate a firearm. Take from that what you like. | ||
| Thumper74 |
I've played COD with FTBstrd. I'm going for Electrical Engineering myself, but not full time and it's a useful field that has HUGE potential... | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I'm a business major and will school you in FPS video games.  | ||
| Reindog |
"Occupy Other People's Stuff" (OOPS) is a great way to meet and impress girls. Getting a job and excelling isn't as much fun. This is going to look really silly in ten years. | ||
| Blake |
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=195434 He nailed it! How do we fix it? How do we get our gov't to actually implement the fix? Short of revolution, I don't see it. I really hope I'm wrong. | ||
| Slaughter |
The really cool thing about leftist causes is the chicks are so available and OBVIOUSLY gullible. | ||
| Blake |
Fahren, Thanks for posting that link!  Do you agree with Karl's analysis? That is what the tea party is all about, getting rid of gov't meddling in the free market. So are you now with us? Queue the inevitable bleeding heart emotional arguments? | ||
| Fahren |
Blake, I agree wholeheartedly with the principles. I also agree that Obama promised to do away with money influence in DC politics, and it didn't happen. Far from it. I also agree the the Tea Party promised the same, and it didn't happen. Far from it. Both the above have become twisted and corrupted all out of recognition from their original stated intent. This is why I posted the link, to show the ideological roots I believe would be imperative for protesters to plant. I do not have any faith in government's ability to turn itself around and right the situation. In fact, government is more likely to clamp down on any attempt at real change that would upset the moneyed interests behind the fiasco of modern US politics. Goodbye to rights, to freedoms, under Bush and Obama alike. I do not hold my breath for moneyed power to give up its hold on "the system" willingly.
That is a correct statement, IMHO, and one with which I would therefore agree. | ||
| Reindog |
Thanks, Blake, for that enlightening article. The underlying problem is in plain sight and you guys are blind. I am of German heritage and there is a fundamental reason why Germany rebounds time after time after time. I pay for stuff only when I have the cash to cover it. This is a German principle. The exception is housing and I put every PENNY I made to pay off a 30 year fixed mortgage in a little over nine years. I am a bad American, I guess. I tend to do without because I know that I don't NEED most of the stuff I think I do. The protesters still think they can get something for nothing. Not gonna happen. You want jobs? Lower corporate taxes, stop demonizing corporations, toss 0 out of the White House, reduce the Federal Government by 10%, listen to Herman Cain with his innovative plans. | ||
| Fahren |
Reindog, Although I applaud your fiscal self-discipline, you have revealed your narrow-mindedness in your post above: since I am sure you have conveniently labeled me as a left-wing nut job, you obviously did not bother to read the link I posted six posts above Blake's. It was a link to the same article Blake later linked to.
Indeed. |
