Since the OWS movement has started, the conversation has shifted from the debt and deficit to JOBS and income inequality. Even the unctuous little twerp, Eric Cantor and the Budget Munster, Paul Ryan have been discussing income inequality. That can only be seen as a victory for the OWS movement.
Another victory for OWS comes from Bank of America who have decided NOT to charge people a ridiculous fee for using their debit cards.
Keep the pressure on!!!
And you are dim enough to think a bunch of smelly squatters shitting in public is going to do a damn thing about "income inequality"? Really? Just think -all it took was the spoiled offspring of the richest people on the planet -who are actually IN that 1% given the fact Americans are in the 1% who live better than the other 99% of the WORLD - sitting around doing nothing but creating a health hazard for anyone walking through the area; pretend they are a nation unto themselves by encouraging the victims of the increasing level of crime to not report it to police and thereby give the criminals a free pass and another day to find new victims; and so full of themselves as to believe that in spite of not being able to put together a coherent sentence when interviewed, think they are accomplishing more than than the previous three generations combined. Now THAT is some unearned arrogance. These are pretty immature people with a poor grasp on life, and in reality don't understand how the real world works and immature enough to believe they can remake the entire species to suit their unrealistic, idealistic fantasy instead. If they REALLY understood what was going on -they would be protesting outside the White House and in D.C. If they SO despise Wall Street, they would be protesting the President who is beholden to Wall Street having received 58% of all donations coming from Wall Street businesses and banks last election. They would be protesting the fact our Congress, deciding it could do a better job than the free market, would play god and determine the winners and losers for itself, re-direct money away from those who earned it to those who didn't. Our Congress FORCED banks to make loans to people they knew could never pay back and threatened to use the power and force of government against the bank unless it did so. Our Congress forced banks to give loans to people who LIED on their applications about how much they made in order to "buy" houses they knew they could not afford at all. Then our Congress allowed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to sell their high risk mortgages by hiding them in bundles of safe ones -and then pretended outrage when the other banks that got stuck with them passed them along too! They would be protesting the major role our own government had in creating this entire house of cards. These squatters are in reality pretty damn ignorant about how things work and why, blame the wrong entities and people as a result -but have no problem terrorizing the people who work in these businesses along with their children. The threat of violence from this ilk is very real and it is only a matter of time before they resort to violence.
These are in reality a very poor quality citizen in the same vein as the temper tantrum throwing ilk of Greece who believe torching private and public property will result in suddenly having money to pay for all their unsustainable entitlement programs too in their own quest to be handed what others worked to create but without doing the work themselves either. Violence from these squatters is just a matter of time. But oh sure, its the totally non-violent, zero arrested Tea Party people who cleaned up after themselves and worked within the system to bring about change the leftwing lapdog media found so scary, right? ROFL The squatters aren't trying to work within the system -they want to bring down the system. And don't kid yourself otherwise. The problem is these people got nothing to offer after that -except a more "equal" hell on earth for millions and millions of people. In their vision of the world as they would make it, it is preferable to have more people "equally" suffering than have as few as possible do so. They know how to destroy, tear down, torch, stomp and rip -but they don't know how to create. Don't kid yourself that these people are the ones with any answers -because they got nothing except complaints, bitches and gripes. But not one ******* constructive and realistic idea. Not one. But aren't you just MOVED to tears watching them mindlessly chant and beat a makeshift drum? And then take a shit on the sidewalk. Oooh, me too. LOL
If you think these people are all there because of "income inequality" of all things, you should get down there and spread the word -because most of them when asked can only spit out a vague, garbled idea of why they are even there but usually includes the word "fun". Although I did hear one couple tell a reporter they were willing to use violence to take what others have earned for themselves and lay claim to it themselves. Many of these people are ones who want what other have -but without having to work for it. Please don't tell me you think everyone should be earning the same amount regardless of the effort, ambition, creativity and innovation they bring to their job. Are you a communist who is dumb enough to believe that if given one more chance surely they can make THE most inhumane, brutal and murderous system of government work and want to give it a shot here? Because 99.99% of Americans would have a real problem with that one honey.
BTW -don't kid yourself, these people had nothing to do with Bank of America deciding not to impose the $5 monthly debit card charge.
Their CUSTOMERS did that -the ones who can affect their bottom line. Not a bunch of squatters sitting and shitting in the park. That is how the REAL WORLD works. Just like it was their own customers that got Netflix to rethink some of their ideas. Your own words show you don't even understand why B of A even came up with that charge -people were paying it all along in their transactions using that card. Banks exist to make money so the people working in them remain employed. Government forced banks to take a MASSIVE loss by forcing them to eat the cost of debit transactions entirely. Meaning it is a service they provide at a total loss to themselves. Except banks aren't a charity outfit, are they? They don't exist to make your life easier by giving you a hunk of plastic so you don't have to carry around cash. But they still have to pay the people who handle billions of debit transactions, they still have to pay the people who put the cash in ATM machines and the people who handle those transactions as well. Banks answer to their shareholders, not the squatters and a massive loss to their bottom line means they cannot offer their customers the same level of services for free they used to. They have to make up the loss by raising fees and imposing new ones -and they will. Just not this one. Forcing banks to provide a service at a total loss is a good idea in whose book I wonder. What makes anyone entitled to a service that in reality costs millions to provide? I actually had no problem with changing it from a hidden fee to an open one -because at least when the fee is upfront I can choose whether to accept it or not with my own behavior and choices. But I don't have that option when the fees are hidden. The banks MUST come up with a way to pay for that service and now the odds are very high that what they will come up with will either be hidden from me or forced to pay even more for other services instead. YOU go ahead and applaud -but you are clearly stupid if you believe you gained a ******* thing here because you didn't.
Oh just watched the news. I guess what you really meant to say is the squatters are finally getting around to what they intended all along and everyone knew was just a matter of time before they did -VIOLENCE.
