Protesters to remain on Wall St until Monday

[Dot Com]

PhotoBlog - Protesters march in Manhattan, criticizing Wall Street, getting arrested

 

[bitterlyclingin]

I saw this Associated Press photo of the demonstration near Wall Street and thought: That’s what conservatives have been saying: DEBT= SLAVERY.

Nothing else from the left comes closer to stating — even if she fails to understand the full meaning of that statement. Without economic freedom, no one is free. If you are indebted to the state for your meals, then you are not truly a free man. You are not self-reliant. Despots often rise to power on promises of free bread, occasionally throwing in a circus or two. This costs money. Generations of parliaments and Congresses around the industrialized world have put those free meals on the credit card. Now the bills are coming due.

What to do?

Apparently governments are hiding behind protests. Just a few days ago, billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg warned of an uprising. Son-of-a-gun if he did not get one.

But what is the difference between this and a tea party? Younger and better-looking demonstrators? True. But also the aim is at capitalism — the chief rival to today’s modern government. I would say to her, the problem lies not with the lender, but rather the borrower.

By the way, the tea party attracts larger crowds and no on gets arrested.


Photo of the day « Don Surber

 

[PoliticalChic]

What a display of national rage! Perhaps more than 100 people showed up! The very continent shifted from the concentration of human mass in one place! Oh, sorry, that was just Michael Moore...



Nothing more than a few clowns looking for a circus.

I'm sure they'd get lots more folks if Starbuck's wasn't open....

 

[initforme]

Wall Street exemplifies that in america big money controls everything. I would stake everything I have that there is more corruption per square foot on wall street than anywhere. Imagine all the crooked deals to hurt the working class. Scary. Probably better we dont know. We now live in a plutocracy.

 

[Dot Com]

You know some real shitty financial shenanigans when people are protesting in israel too Wealth-gap widening= legalized theft w/ the politicians, a lot of them, standing idly by or, in the case of Repub leadership, actively helping them funnel more $ their way

 

[Dot Com]

The Repub's most important donors:
Forget about stocks; the ultra-rich turn to art - Business - US business - msnbc.com

Art used to be known as an "investment of passion"; today for those who can pay, it is a form of haven. Demand for art, watches, rare wines, vintage cars, boats and wine expanded in 2010 as the world's super-rich rebounded from the 2008 financial crisis, according to a report by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch in June. A 300-bottle collection of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild sold at auction earlier this month in Hong Kong for $540,000, the highest value lot achieved at any wine auction in the world during 2011.

 

[initforme]

Why is the GOP balking Payroll tax cuts? They are the party of tax cuts correct? Talk about standing against the hard working middle class american. Easy to see.

 

[Dot Com]

These people aren't stupid. They see that Wall St is not producing anything of value yet they are able to take bath's in $100 bills

In New York, the protesters are largely educated, organized and their marches are planned, not spontaneous.
After hundreds of protesters were denied access to some areas outside the New York Stock Exchange on September 17, demonstrators set up a rag-tag camp three blocks away.

I just finished reading Taiibi's book:
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/176128/griftopia-by-matt-taibbi

Griftopia
Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Before that I read The Big Short by Lewis, a former Solomon Bros trader:
The Big Short - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It describes several of the key players in the creation of the credit default swap market that sought to bet against the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) bubble and thus ended up profiting from the financial crisis of 2007–2010. The book also highlights the eccentric nature of the type of person who bets against the market or goes against the grain.

 

[initforme]

I guess Wall Street is not available for those paying the taxes to maintain it to walk its sidewalks. Its like its own little world.

 

[CaféAuLait]

I wonder how many take issue with the fact that Canadians staged, backed and promoted this protest?

Vancouver-based activist media group Adbusters organized the protest but failed to attract the throngs some had hoped for. Instead, there are a few hundred people, mostly unemployed youth and college students.

Reuters: Wall Street now home to protest campground (2011-09-29)


I can't imagine what their reaction would be if a big insurance company decided to arrange a protest in Canada.

 

[Katzndogz]

Ohhhhhh Wall St. must stink by now! The street is going to have to be scrubbed with bleach.

 

[initforme]

Just think how hard the wall street big wigs are laughing...all the way to the bank. Thats ok they will make the middle class pay.

 

[Dot Com]

The non-ultra rich in this country are sheeple. BTW- how many here have financial lobbyists in Washington?

 

[JStone]

The non-ultra rich in this country are sheeple. BTW- how many here have financial lobbyists in Washington?

Stop whining, poor shit.

 

[daveman]

The non-ultra rich in this country are sheeple. BTW- how many here have financial lobbyists in Washington?

Poor Dot Com. Those evil nasty greedy rich people greedily refuse to give him any of their stuff, despite the best efforts of a bunch of unwashed people holding signs.

Have they dried drum circles yet? That's the ultimate in speaking Truth to Power.

 

[Dot Com]

The wealth gap is as far apart as it was in the 1920's yet Beck, oxyRush, & the guy who wrote a book about his dog (Levin) have you people believing that selling-out U.S. interests for short-term gain is good. When America is completely sold out, those people will simply depart leaving you poor slobs behind holding the bag.

 

[JStone]

The wealth gap is as far apart as it was in the 1920's yet Beck, oxyRush, & the guy who wrote a book about his dog (Levin) have you people believing that selling-out U.S. interests for short-term gain is good. When America is completely sold out, those people will simply depart leaving you poor slobs behind holding the bag.

Stop whining that you're a poor, lazyass shit.

 

[zonly1]

I wonder how many take issue with the fact that Canadians staged, backed and promoted this protest?

Vancouver-based activist media group Adbusters organized the protest but failed to attract the throngs some had hoped for. Instead, there are a few hundred people, mostly unemployed youth and college students.

Reuters: Wall Street now home to protest campground (2011-09-29)


I can't imagine what their reaction would be if a big insurance company decided to arrange a protest in Canada.

Protestors want the European socialist plan that's work out so well, but i guess they're missing the bailout crises and the last Fridays big sell off of gold and silver; looking for cash.

 

[Sallow]

I wonder how many take issue with the fact that Canadians staged, backed and promoted this protest?

Vancouver-based activist media group Adbusters organized the protest but failed to attract the throngs some had hoped for. Instead, there are a few hundred people, mostly unemployed youth and college students.

Reuters: Wall Street now home to protest campground (2011-09-29)


I can't imagine what their reaction would be if a big insurance company decided to arrange a protest in Canada.

Protestors want the European socialist plan that's work out so well, but i guess they're missing the bailout crises and the last Fridays big sell off of gold and silver; looking for cash.

You do know that the mortgage back security crisis was a world wide scam, dontcha?

And the Greeks were taking out loans to modernize it's military.

Great idea.

 

[Unkotare]

Liberals like Swallow can't resist a conspiracy theory.