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Posted on 10/05/2011 7:47:16 AM PDT by Beckett08
New York (CNN) -- As the Occupy Wall Street protesters rally for a third week, social media sites such as Twitter seem to be spurring similar protests in other cities.
A Twitter account called Occupy Boston mentions a citywide college walkout there Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Nurses Association says hundreds of the city's nurses will rally with the Occupy Boston protesters on Wednesday. The association says the protest will be part of the opening day activities for a national nursing convention in Boston.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
When I say “reasonable people out there” I’m talking about the general population, not the protesters!
Will there be tazers and night sticks? Otherwise, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ......
I wonder if these union votes are rigged...
WHERE are the DEMOCRAT politicians in the congress on this? Why aren't they praising the "revolution?"
Silence. Why is that?
From what my sister told me, most of the RN’s voted no. There were a few that were for it, but most of them weren’t.
So it certainly does sound like they are rigged. The RN’s were pissed off about it.
I told my sister to cross the line and go to work anyway. Her union rep said she could, but once the strike was over, she would be fired. Any RN who didn’t go along with the strike and went to work would be fired once the strike was over.
Once unions take over, freedom goes out the window.
maybe but many are happy including many of their parents who made money from wall street as does the left..
For a laugh look at their demands, they’re really funny and just shows why parenting has become lazy.
LOL!
These idiots are protesting themselves!
It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Has Wall Street successfully turned the public mind to blame unions for the current recession? You betcha.
Unpatriotic Teamsters Hoarding Mounds of Cash
According to an LM-2 report filed earlier this year, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents truck drivers and some school employees, ended 2010 with $108,608,477 in the bank. That’s a whopping 24.9% increase in net assets over 2009, when the union reported $86,942,076 in assets.
In contrast, the Teamsters reported $88,371,439 in liabilities. So if the union could afford to go without any new revenue and still meet its obligations for well over 12 months.
There is a trend in the union’s growing net assets. The Teamsters ended 2009 with $86,942,076 in the bank, according to that year’s LM-2 report. That’s an even more impressive 33.4% increase in net assets over 2008, when the union reported $65,148,734 in assets.
http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2011/09/08/unpatriotic_teamsters_hoarding_mounds_of_cash
more typical union hypocrisy
Must be a bummer for Obama to know that he can’t exactly join this movement against “the man” because he is “the man” now, and he bailed out the same Wall Streeters they are protesting against.
I admit since the 70s I was gung ho on Wall Street and believed it was a credible investment. I’ve come to see it more as a casino where primarily the club, globalists, insiders and dealers benefit. Because they’ve come to control our politicians, they encouraged the 401Ks and IRAs in the 80s that resulted in the almost 20 year bull market that benefited Wall St along with the millions of boomers who were indoctrinated into the investment class which has since become more a game of musical chairs.
Not that long ago equities and Wall St were a relatively insignificant part of the USA defined benefit pension plans. That was before baby boomers were encouraged via 401Ks and IRAs to put their life savings into Wall st in an effort to make the casino owners and dealers/money changers absurdly rich, instead of allocating and utilizing this capital to create real industry.
Pension plans used to invest in government and corporate bonds as a major portion of a secure portfolio, with also real estate and other allocations. Today they are hooked on risky global equities.
Obama and Hoffa got their wish. They are now spreading it to college campuses. The uprisings are going to get ugly. We need to throw obama out with the trash. At this point, I don’t care which candidate does it. He must go. The country is in dangerous times.
Instead they are letting them sleep in the streets and disrupt traffic, business, increase the crowd and passively take threats from Van Jones.
Bump
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