Merged Occupy Wall St.'s drumbeat grows louder

Macgyver1968 said:
I heard somewhere that their protest permit expires very soon..I wonder what will happen after that?
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I don't think they have a protest permit since the park is private property. They just took over the park and it seems that the owners are either confused as what to do or are working quietly with the NYPD as how to resolve the situation.
 
Alt+F4 said:
At least there were out-houses at the workhouses. The freaks at Zuccotti Park just go in public....or use the bathroom at a nearby McDonald's (damn corporations and their flush toilets!).
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I don't think many of the protestors are really anti-capitalism.

I think the protestors are upset about the growing percentage of the country's wealth going to the super-rich, many of whom were responsible for the current economy. I think their argument is that Wall Street banks have behaved so poorly and so stupidly that not only did they have to take handouts from taxpayers so that they didn't drag down the entire economy (instead they just dragged down most of it), but they also don't seem to care all that much about the people who lost their jobs and their houses as a result, seem mainly interested in how they can take advantage of the situation to benefit themselves financially, and don't seem to have any desire whatsoever to make sure it doesn't happen again.

But I can kind of see how being upset about that might come across as anti-capitalism.

-Bri
 
Wow, some on the left start a grass-roots protest, wanting to right what they see as wrong with the country, and some on the right condemn it as un-American.

I guess "taking back your country" only counts if it's the side you agree with. I would think many in the the Tea Party would be pleased with this, since the basis of all the protests is fiscal responsibility (naked chicks in lower Manhattan optional.)

Michael
 
Neally said:
No jobs anywhere, doing anything? Rather than finding out what it takes and making the connections to find a job, let's just sit around banging the drum!
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Your disconnect from the unemployment rate is noted.
 
Macgyver1968 said:
I heard somewhere that their protest permit expires very soon..I wonder what will happen after that?
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Apparently they can stay as long as they want:

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Can Stay Indefinitely: Bloomberg

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday that he'll allow the Wall Street protesters to stay indefinitely, provided they abide by the law, marking his strongest statement to date on the city's willingness to let demonstrators occupy a park in Lower Manhattan.​

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/occupy-wall-street-protes_n_1003731.html
 
Krugman, on the rattled rich:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/opinion/panic-of-the-plutocrats.html

It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent.
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Bri said:
I think their argument is that Wall Street banks have behaved so poorly and so stupidly that not only did they have to take handouts from taxpayers so that they didn't drag down the entire economy (instead they just dragged down most of it), but they also don't seem to care all that much about the people who lost their jobs and their houses as a result, seem mainly interested in how they can take advantage of the situation to benefit themselves financially, and don't seem to have any desire whatsoever to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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Hmmm, weren't the Tea Party folks complaining about many of those exact same things in the early part of 2009?
 
Corsair 115 said:
Hmmm, weren't the Tea Party folks complaining about many of those exact same things in the early part of 2009?
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Before it became co-opted, pretty much, yeah. That's also the problem with these movements, it's very hard to put out a coherent message because they're very diverse groups with diverse goals.
 
Corsair 115 said:
Hmmm, weren't the Tea Party folks complaining about many of those exact same things in the early part of 2009?
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Some members of the Tea Party complained about the Wall Street bailout, but more in the context of the deficit and not so much in the context of the discrepancy between the rich and poor.

I think the Tea Party folks were complaining mostly about taxes unless it was pointed out to them that Obama had actually lowered -- not raised -- taxes. They also complained a lot about the deficit unless they were asked what programs they would cut (a large number of Tea Party members were retirees and didn't want to cut Social Security or Medicare).

-Bri
 
As noted, the Republicans seem almost universally to not "get it". They seem to be either dismissive or contemptuous.
 
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