What do you think the Occupy movement is about ?

[The Buddha]

Title says it all.
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Buddha.

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its about taking back our country from the corrupt corporate/military/political system.

[The Buddha]

Reload - You been to one of those protests ?
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Buddha.

[tialloydragon]

It is about a bunch of entitled, little suburban douchebags trying to protest a nameless, formless concept (Wallstreet) so they can become famous for 30 seconds on YouTube after they get arrested and start crying because they dropped their inhalers and their cuffs are on too tight.

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Reload - You been to one of those protests ?
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Buddha.

nah i haven't. the word is that they are a bunch of unorganized hippies. i'll have to see for myself one of these days.

did you make your way out to one? if so how was it?

[PachmanP]

Saw the one in DC last week. More of the signs I saw were anti-war than anti-wallstreet. I think it's mostly people who are angry cause they don't have jobs and have too much time on their hands for the same reason...

[gs500e]

So....
I wrote about two pages worth of ranting.

I'll spare the details and cut to the chase:
It is about whining and crying about self imposed delinquencies and then expecting to rely on others for a solution thereby further imposing self imposed delinquencies.

When the people rise up we won't need the media to sensationalize it.

...and other shazam.

[Cal Price]

I doubt that it will be going away anytime soon.......................

People are frustrated, rightly or wrongly, that's not for me to judge. They can see that street demonstrations have bought down some ugly governments and others are very concerned, "Arab Spring" being prime example. They might actually end up with a worse monster but I suppose it will be their monster.

Of course street demos will attract other groups, anti-war, anti-personal hygiene, anti-peace etc as well as the nutters who just want a bit of a barney

I still think that lot will be around for a while, It'll get bigger before it fades.

[The Buddha]

Charlotte just started - wall street may have the nutcases, charlotte is all nutcases ... they marched to BOA headquarters though, so atleast they have their priorities straight. Word on the street is that someone BOA people were recognised in the protest so they have been infiltrated, and they will be repoing the houses, cars and what not of those protesters @ 2 X the regular pace. Matter of fact one guy's van was repoed @ the protest cos he was 9 hours late on the payment.

That's the word on the street and I made it ... I mean heard it. Pass it on.

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Buddha.

[VegasRider]

Lets face it though. Wall street owns our government. The bail-out gave people bonus' while others struggled to find new homes. The government should of tried to refinance those screwed up mortgages and install new regulations so that no one gets bad loans. Mortgage backed securities screwed wall street and they deserve it.  The movement just needs to focus on certain aspects of the government. First thing to change should be those Damn financial regulations.

[ojstinson]

Why are they not pissed at Obama, why are they not marching on the white house, it was Obama that bailed out the banks---Obama is the king of wall street.

[VegasRider]

Obama definitely not but the treasury which is run by former Goldman Sachs employees is definitely the reason for a lot of things

[The Buddha]

Why are they not pissed at Obama, why are they not marching on the white house, it was Obama that bailed out the banks---Obama is the king of wall street.

Keep dreaming there OJ. And keep listening to Rush/Sean/Faux nudes.

Obama didn't bail wall street, obama was just the patsy that released the last piece that actually didn't go to goldman, Goldman got their money out of the 200 billion AiG bail out arranged by Bush and paid for by thr protesters.  Get your news straight, then you can start on the opinions.

Treasury is run by ex GS, but he was put there by bush, of course that guy was moved to a new position by Obama. Well qualified he may be, but he still was the wrong guy to start with.

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[ojstinson]

Big Picture---Obama is the president, has been for years and the country has gone to sh It, he has done nothing but blame and complain---the man doesn't have a friggin clue. Do you honestly want 4 more years of this ? How can you get away with keeping the past administrations policies and people in place and then blame everything on them. Where is the hope, ( I definitely see the change ), where is the transparency, where is the lack of rampant corruption?

BTW, where is Cindy Sheehan keeping herself, we are now in 3 wars and haven't heard a peep out of that hypocritical shrew.

Gotta give the Oman credit, he is big time bombing the crap out of them ferneners.

Fox news?-----you don't have to watch anything to realize this guy is an empty suit hooked up to a teleprompter----a mindless pawn controlled by super wealthy socialist. You can always tell by the degree of bashing who the left is most afraid of----that's the only transparency you can attribute to them.

[The Buddha]

Big Picture---Obama is the president, has been for years and the country has gone to sh It, he has done nothing but blame and complain---the man doesn't have a friggin clue. Do you honestly want 4 more years of this ? How can you get away with keeping the past administrations policies and people in place and then blame everything on them. Where is the hope, ( I definitely see the change ), where is the transparency, where is the lack of rampant corruption?

Oh yea he's been for years ... 2 1/2 years to be precise, and like I said before - car, no oil blow up, then get out and 1/2 hour later say haven't you fix it yet ... hurry up ... yea that analogy. Speaking in simple terms, Obama isn't to blame, Cheney is, Obama isn't doing anything to fix, cos it is unfixable. Simple, wrecked beyond repair. We need to get ourselves a better country and start from there, maybe.

BTW, where is Cindy Sheehan keeping herself, we are now in 3 wars and haven't heard a peep out of that hypocritical shrew.

Yes however we are just watching and playing referee in Libya (I presume), and the othe r2 wars were started by Cheney by lying to the people. Cindy Sheehan is probably in front of cheney's house cos that is who gets the blame for the 2 un ending wars. Once again, car run with no oil for 20 mins = blow up. 30 mins later when its being towed, dont ask if its fixed yet, and dont say hurry up ... not fixable - maybe.

Gotta give the Oman credit, he is big time bombing the crap out of them ferneners.

This is libya I presume again, and of course that works well wiht haliburton oops sorry blackwater wink wink ... Cheney couldn't have done it better dont'cha think.

Fox news?-----you don't have to watch anything to realize this guy is an empty suit hooked up to a teleprompter----a mindless pawn controlled by super wealthy socialist. You can always tell by the degree of bashing who the left is most afraid of----that's the only transparency you can attribute to them.

Faux news.
Teleprompter in suit, and sadly that is a good definition ... however it is better than being Cheney's hand puppet cos Cheney was liar, corporate whore, religious nut hypocrite and general a$$hole incarnate.

In short ... no one is protesting Obama cos he's not done anything. No wars under false pretences, no bail out to goldman, "no corporations are people too" nothing.

The extreme far far far far right - the tea party has hijacked the political establishment for big business and uber wealthy. The rest of the 99% of the populations are just crying about it feebly. That is it. Obama has no part in either of it.

Protesting against Obama is the easiest thing in the world, everyone knows where he is ... just show up there with signs ... has it happened ... OK I rest my case.

Obama is a useless president in your eyes OJ for reasons that have nothig to do with the performance he has put in. That is it, end of story.

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Buddha.

[VegasRider]

Thank you for pointing that out.

[ojstinson]

SOS, Excuses, Excuses, and blame Bush.  Is that the best defense of this idiot that you can come up with ? Every single thing you have come up with so far in based in the mantra of Blame Bush. The guy is 4 more years of Bush, and in addition double the joblessness and quadruple the debt. America is fed up with empty promises, lies, and excuses---anyone but Obama, even a decent democrat.

[The Buddha]

The blame is proportional to the crime.

Cheney blew up the country in his 8 years, and it may take 4 years to fix it, may take 8 ... may take 40, may take 400 ... and we're 2 1/2 years in, and that is with someone who is working in that direction, Obama can do nothing and be better than Cheney, Obama has to be a good superman and work for years to bring it back on track ... and he is neither.

Obama can do nothing and be way better than Cheney.
Obama can toil hard and the entire congress be behind him and still be @ it for decades before it is better.

Obama is somehere between the 2 and the congress is back in the Big business and uber rich's pocket and country is worse off for it.

Once again, I will take your car drain the oil and get on the road. 20 min later car is dead. Then I call you ... you call a tow truck. Then I stand around and say is it fixed yet ... when will it be fixed ... That is what you're doing. I can say, the car is on the tow truck ... or we're waiting for a tow truck, it may be hours before we even know what is blowed up. Sadly we are @ that point now. taking stock of what may have happened.

End of story. Cheney blew it up, we may need 100 years of someone who is superman ...

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Buddha.

[ojstinson]

A bonified dyed in the wool consumer of Obama Kool Aid, come 2012 they are going to need a lot more of you and the rest of the--We believe not what we see, feel, and know to be true, but what Obama tells us to believe and feel---crowd.

You need to ditch that playbook before it's too late---you need to look behind that curtain at the clueless frightened little man.

[The Buddha]

No play book ... not a obama fan at all. Just dont expect the 8 years of cheney to be fixed in 2.5 years of any one. Worse yet, I get to watch the financial industry from the inside, I work @ banks for the last 10 years. The Cheney white house was seriuosly flush times for the banks. Till in 08 the house of cards collapsed.

Anyway, Put Ron Paul on the republican ticket and you get me as a republican. Put Romney, Cain and I stay away. I like Romney care, maybe I should vote for him just for that ... but then again its a copy of Obamacare and I could just sit it out and have the same end result.

Put any of the others and I turn blue.

I am a great proponent of "Dont vote, it just encourages the bastids". Unless the bastid in there is so bad he needs a active discouragement by voting for the other guy.

I also listen to NPR or as you might know of it - Liberal Public radio, and not watch any other TV or listen to radio really.

Seriously man, dont vote, it just encourages the bastids.

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Buddha.