The cops aren't wearing riot gear.
You're really a loser when you have a riot and the cops don't think you're a threat!
Populists = PARASITES
99% = The Flea Party
Mike
I couldn’t make up the lists these people made of their demands. “Two time felon needs money”, “Can’t work, need to stay in someones basement”. Unbelievable!
Occupy Wall Street: The new Commies and their useful idiots.
These people make some points, but their anger is directed in the wrong direction, which will be their downfall. With the way our country was raped with TARP and all of the bailouts and the way the Federal Reserve has trashed the dollar and urinated on the middle and upper-middle class with our own tax dollars and debt, they have a right to be angry with Wall Street. Heck, I am angry. Where they lose America (aside from their ridiculous set of demands) is where they paint the “rich” with a broad brush. I am from Newport News, Virginia. The “rich” around here are the doctors, lawyers, and successfull small business executives that work their asses off 80 plus hours per week to ensure they produce their goods and services to the greatest number of people for the lowest possible cost. Granted, their annual income would probably be an insult of a Christmas bonus to a Wall Street executive, but they are still well over Obama’s “rich” threshhold and they still create a vast majority of local, non military jobs. Hosing these local “rich” people isn’t going to help anyone. The problem is, and in large part because Wall Street has its tenticles all over government, we don’t have free market capitalism. We need more capitalism and less regulations and bureaucracy, not socialism.
.......of the countries socialists, communist, union thugs, and freeloaders. They're 99% of the nations lowest.
Yeah. I agree. The protests have managed scrounge up about about 99% of them.
1. E Pluribus Unum?
2. Thou shalt not covet.....
3. Mediocrity vs. Diligence.
4. Same old hippies.
5. Get another hobby.
The cops aren't wearing riot gear.
You're really a loser when you have a riot and the cops don't think you're a threat!
I’d like to go down to city hall in Austin and be a counter protester here today, but I have a JOB.
I have pointed out many times here on FR that the democrat party have always had a strong Populist contingency since their days as the Confederate democrats. It was the Populist (People’s Party) of the Confederate South that had combined with the Progressive movement and merged into the democrat party.
If you look at the platforms of the populist movements of the Confederate South they are not much different than platforms of the democrat party today or the positions of their base. Anti-Wall Street, pro-Union (workers not army) and anti-corporate.
“Populism not corporate fascism.”
This slogan is listed in the article as being from the Wall Street protesters but it is not accurate as to the stance of the protesters. The protesters only are against certain aspects of fascism (bail outs to banks and corporations) but not against bail outs for workers, or a host of other means whereas government and business may get into bed with one another. Most of these protesters would love to have government running the majority of businesses being they feel individual owners are too greedy. Thus they fully support fascism or all out socialism or communism even.
Sorry. I meant for that last post I made to be a response to the OP. It was not directly intended for you.
This country has historically experienced an outburst of anti-banker populism on a fairly regular basis. (Andrew Jackson, William Jennings Bryan, FDR’s New Deal banking reforms, etc.)
We are long overdue for the next one.
They are tapping into the same anger that gave rise to the Tea Party (bailouts with taxpayer money to Wall Street firms and large banks). However they have a totally different solution.
“Those institutions now owe ME, and it’s time to collect MY bailout!”
Do not underestimate how seductive that line of reasoning will be to tens of millions of voters. Particularly when the banks are stone-dumb enough to keep picking at the scabs with stuff like a $5 ATM card fee and forged signatures on foreclosure documents.
This could become really, really serious.
...To conclude this piece I come to my third and last heresy. My third heresy says that the United States has less than a century left of its turn as top nation. Since the modern nation-state was invented around the year 1500, a succession of countries have taken turns at being top nation, first Spain, then France, Britain, America. Each turn lasted about 150 years. Ours began in 1920, so it should end about 2070. The reason why each top nation’s turn comes to an end is that the top nation becomes over-extended, militarily, economically and politically. Greater and greater efforts are required to maintain the number one position. Finally the over-extension becomes so extreme that the structure collapses. Already we can see in the American posture today some clear symptoms of over-extension. Who will be the next top nation? China is the obvious candidate. After that it might be India or Brazil. We should be asking ourselves, not how to live in an America-dominated world, but how to prepare for a world that is not America-dominated. That may be the most important problem for the next generation of Americans to solve. How does a people that thinks of itself as number one yield gracefully to become number two?