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Posted on 10/23/2011 8:15:01 AM PDT by jakerobins

Edited on 10/23/2011 11:04:31 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Even in Zuccotti Park, greed is good.

Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank, and donations continue to pour in -- but its reluctance to share the wealth with other protestErs is fraying tempers.

Some drummers -- incensed they got no money to replace or safeguard their drums after a midnight vandal destroyed their instruments Wednesday -- are threatening to splinter off.

“F' Finance. I hope Mayor Bloomberg gets an injunction and demands to see the movement’s books. We need to know how much money we really have and where it’s going,” said a frustrated Bryan Smith, 45, who joined OWS in Lower Manhattan nearly three weeks ago from Los Angeles, where he works in TV production.


TOPICS: US: New York
KEYWORDS: ows; zuccottipark
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To: jakerobins
the Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em...
22 posted on 10/23/2011 9:13:06 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Zarro
If the vandal(s) were destroying the drums....how come no one heard .....?

Probably thought that someone was practicing.

23 posted on 10/23/2011 9:15:53 AM PDT by spokeshave (Obama's ratings are so low...Kenyans accuse him of being born in the USA,)
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To: sinanju
“The other day, I took in $2,000. I kept $650 for my group, and gave the rest to Finance. Then I went to them with a request -- so many people need things, and they should not be going without basic comfort items -- and I was told to fill out paperwork. Paperwork! Are they the government now?” Smith fumed, even as he cajoled the passing crowd for more cash.

If paperwork is not kept in order, at some point someone will claim that money was misappropriated, usually with a strong implication that it went into someone's pocket.

This has happened repeatedly after natural disasters. If the government distributes aid rapidly and efficiently, IOW without a lot of paperwork to establish qualification, by definition some (or many) of those who get it won't be qualified. Criticism ensues.

If careful procedures are followed to make sure all rules are implemented, distribution is by definition slow and inefficient at getting to those who need it NOW. Criticism ensues.

But the critics never seem to recognize there is a direct tradeoff between procedural exactness and efficiency.

Same thing applies in business and life, BTW. If you follow all the rules and document them meticulously, the odds are you won't get much of anything else done.

24 posted on 10/23/2011 9:23:01 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: jakerobins
Bryan Smith, 45, who joined OWS in Lower Manhattan nearly three weeks ago from Los Angeles, where he works in TV production.

Bryan Smith, 45, useful idiot # 143,975,854.

Repeat after me, Bryan: "Comrade Stalin, save me!", you'll be needing to memorize that.

25 posted on 10/23/2011 9:24:40 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: Iron Munro

I’m betting that the slickster law students, PR types and “organizers” you see out with the megaphones and giving press conferences and interviews to all the TV camera crews and cable shows already have visions of career sugar plums dancing in their heads.

If they simply had everyone punch a time clock and lined them up for a payday every morning, this could last forever but my educated guess is they want to glom as much of this cash as possible to set themselves up in business as their own newly-fledged power-lobbying, rabble-rousing outfit-for-hire and ride this cow to brilliant careers in the radical lefty firmament.

Betcha they’re already putting the paperwork together and polishing their resumes while spending nights (in their hotel rooms) editing footage and writing their first draft and designing their stationery and business cards in between fielding calls and emails.

That’s what I think is going on behind the scenes. OWS is dying because the “Finance Committee” have turned their interests to themselves. But that’s not exactly news for some of us.


26 posted on 10/23/2011 9:25:41 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: spokeshave
4. They threatened to "splinter" off.

Reminds me of this scene from MP's "Life of Brian"

27 posted on 10/23/2011 9:47:53 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: jakerobins

Write Soros a very sternly worded letter.


28 posted on 10/23/2011 9:55:50 AM PDT by onedoug (lf)
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To: jakerobins

LOL Oh the irony!So thick it can be cut with a knife.....


29 posted on 10/23/2011 10:06:44 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: jakerobins

Are they going to file a 501(c)3 then? Or get a business license? What about the cooks? Do they have Health Department inspections like all the other businesses do? And then they get graded - A, B, C. If they don’t have to, why not? Do the cooks have to wash their hands before they cook? Do they have signs in the PortaPotties to remind them? Why not?

And when cholera breaks out, or typhoid, or e coli, do we the (’f—k the rich’) taxpayers have to pay for THEM? What about public health threats to the greater population, or are they only polluting their own nests? I thot those laws were meant to keep civilization sanitary?

Some animals are more equal than others, I guess. And the laws only apply to the (’f—k the rich’) suckers who are funding these hapless fools?


30 posted on 10/23/2011 10:14:23 AM PDT by bboop (Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? St. Augustine)
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To: jakerobins

Are they going to file a 501(c)3 then? Or get a business license? What about the cooks? Do they have Health Department inspections like all the other businesses do? And then they get graded - A, B, C. If they don’t have to, why not? Do the cooks have to wash their hands before they cook? Do they have signs in the PortaPotties to remind them? Why not?

And when cholera breaks out, or typhoid, or e coli, do we the (’f—k the rich’) taxpayers have to pay for THEM? What about public health threats to the greater population, or are they only polluting their own nests? I thot those laws were meant to keep civilization sanitary?

Some animals are more equal than others, I guess. And the laws only apply to the (’f—k the rich’) suckers who are funding these hapless fools?


31 posted on 10/23/2011 10:14:43 AM PDT by bboop (Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? St. Augustine)
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To: jakerobins

Hope they are not holding that $500,000 in back packs on the streets. Do you think that they put it in the (gasp) big bank?


32 posted on 10/23/2011 10:21:26 AM PDT by Guardian Sebastian (If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it. Mark Twain)
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To: jakerobins

Huh? They want lice of the octopi? That’s just crazy; they already have lice!

:p

Cheers


33 posted on 10/23/2011 12:35:16 PM PDT by DoctorBulldog (Cain will slay Unable!)
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To: spokeshave
"1. Did the vandals take the handles?"

And what about the flagon with the dragon?
Or the vessel with the pestle?
Or the chalice from the palace?


34 posted on 10/23/2011 12:44:02 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Secede?! Y'all better just be thankful we don't invade ...)
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To: sinanju
This is priceless. Priceless! The anarchists are falling out over money! We're getting a micro-lesson in governance and corruption.

Yeah, and it ain't the Wall Street folks screwing them over!

35 posted on 10/23/2011 1:26:51 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Sherman Logan

Yep. The old software development rule goes: You can have good, fast and cheap.

But you can only pick two.


36 posted on 11/06/2011 11:04:24 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (I have a job; therefore I am in the 1%.)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

Absolutely.

Not being a software guy, I ran across this adage only recently. But it applies to the same extent in my field, and I would suppose in all others.

A client recently insisted that the projected time for a project was too long and he needed it done in about half the time. He then got incensed when the revised proposal was a LOT more money. And I would assume he’d be at least equally outraged if we attempted the faster completion for the same money and did a crappy job, which is of course what would happen.


37 posted on 11/08/2011 3:02:17 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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