Tea party, Occupy movement vastly different

The Morning Call ^ | November 22, 2011 | Tom McFadden

[2ndDivisionVet]

Many in the media and some well-known politicians have characterized those demonstrating against Wall Street and big business as a spontaneous grass-roots movement similar in purpose to the tea party. Well, nothing could be further from the truth.

Let's start with the important differences.

The tea party movement is universally consistent in its emphasis on the return to the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence and eager for the restoration of constitutional governance. The tea party protests are intended to bring attention to the unrestrained compulsion of our elected representatives toward boundless growth of the government and display a total disregard for any kind of fiscal responsibility. They also criticize those businesses that reject free-market capitalism in favor of persuading government officials to enact laws and regulations that favor their industry and reduce their competition. (These businesses are inappropriately referred to as "crony capitalists" when there is nothing about free-market capitalism they embrace.)

Compare these objectives to the Occupy Wall Street crowd.

The Wall Street demonstrators make no distinction between free-market capitalists and crony capitalists and thus want government to control all profits, executive salaries and health care. They demand a living wage and free college tuition at public colleges and universities and forgiveness for all student loans. Ironically, they complain about the freebies given to businesses but demand the government grant them all their freebies. They would effectively destroy our capitalist, free-market system and transform this country into a socialist totalitarian state as well as jeopardize our God-given personal freedoms. This cornucopia of government largesse, of course, would come from the redistribution of wealth...

[Berlin_Freeper]

OWS takes the right to protest and makes it abusive.

They have the right to protest, they do not have the right to occupy.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sure goes to show how lefty the local governments in the “occupied” places are — shoot, they have all but rolled out red carpet. I don’t know why the targeted institutions would even want to stay there, with the locals having been shown as treacherous as they are. Wall Street would be more in its free market element in a redneck state.

[Jonah Vark]

Tea Party Schools Occupy On How To Deal With Riot Police
This is what the America Loving, Peaceful Tea Party does when confronted by Riot Police:

The Tea Party and the Occupy movement are Nothing alike....
The Tea Party loves this country and wants to Restore it to it’s Constitutional roots. Occupy hates this country and wants to bring down the system, utilizing the rights in the Constitution, in order to totally change the system.

It’s Restoration vs Destruction and Reconstruction.
Which side are you on?

http://www.poedpatriot.com/2011/11/tea-party-schools-occupy-on-how-to-deal.html

[VaConstitution]

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