Wall Street Protests

I hadn't paid much attention to them, and to be honest, I didn't even realize they were still going on. Personally, I hope the police arrest the whole bunch of them for something or other. But that's not nice, is it?

If I'm hearing correctly, these people are enemies of capitalism. But they don't know what to replace it with. Of those interviewed, I've not heard even one well thought out argument for their position. I imagine most of them have gotten onto the wealth redistribution and the hate the wealthy bandwagon. I wonder how long it will be before the entrepreneurs finally have had enough of being the wicked haves and either shut down or take their business elsewhere. Personally, I don't believe these protesters have a clue.

I've heard of the protests a couple times on the news. I wonder why these 4,000 people have all this time to hang around in New York. Why aren't they out looking for jobs?

At first, they tried to pass these people off as Tea Party folks. That was Quickly proven wrong when they showed up in masks or with scarves over their faces to hide their identity. The next major fact to discount this illusion was the protesters are almost all kids...Tea Party folks are mostly mature adults. Then there is the MESS they are scattering everywhere they go. The Tea Party Rallies are always neat and clean. The truth of this Protest, as it never did develop into a "RAGE" like it was supposed to, is that it is left wing spoiled brat kids who want all the "freebies" from the Government that they can get. They are being backed by a private group and the 'Re-born ACORN Group', as well as PA folks. The story about this coming up was running on Al-Jazeera for over a month before any mention in the States. This was supposed to take place in 16 states simultaneously with Wall Street. Then the other states were supposed to have their "Days of Rage" starting in Oct. I doubt this will happen since the first one 'totally flopped'. They expected 10,000 left wingers to take over Wall Street the first Saturday...They still do not quite have 4,000 after almost 2 weeks and none of the other states panned out. Of course, Hussein O censored the news, which has kept the Wall Street stuff out until they arrested 80 folks the other day.

This was in our paper today with some pictures. It seems people are getting exasperated with the protests because the protesters don't have any specific demands and don't really know what they want. I guess they will have to think something up or have Michael Moore think something up for them that they can parrot.

The protest?In my country its hard to know all about this protest thing.Its not about no protesting its about blocking the news.

Some of what your probably aren't hearing is that there's probably a lot of influence by what went on (and still may be going on) in Greece. The country defaluted, and suddenly, benefits that were promised to many, have went up in smoke. These can also include people who are tired of illegals taking US jobs, and not being given an honest wage. For New Yorkers, how expensive is it to live there. I saw an article on Yahoo, about a super tiny place, where the woman woke up, and she was very close to the ceiling, and she initially would freak out. I've heard rent being thousands of dollars in New York, and I know, when I was in California, that things were steep. Look at how much (or little) you get paid. Look at the costs of food, gas, rent, and utilities. Look at how much money your Congressmen get, and their stellar health care. I've a friend, without any health care, because he wasn't at the job long enough, and had to go to the ER. All they did was give him pain pills, and send him on his way...and then sent him a few bills for a few hundred dollars, each! Next, let's take a look at the wars in The Middle East. Bush was the one to start them, not Obama. If anything, Obama is just carrying on Bush's wars, and adding a few of his own. Left or right, conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat; virtually the same deal. Each promises to end the war, and "do what's right for the American people," but I haven't seen much of that. These are the people who are exercising their rights to protest and address grievances, like a few of the ones I've mentioned. If you choose not to, that is your right, as well. These people are sick of being stonewalled, and have the guts to tell the government "No!" Maybe, they are being inspired by the Founding Fathers, who were fed up with Britain's antics, but instead of trying to start another, bloody revolution, like you hear about in some far off African country, or riots in Greece on London, they are trying to do so peacefully. Sounds something like from the 60s, maybe inspiration by MLK Jr.

It seems to ge growing and it reminds me of the 60's and 70's also. At first, if I recall they called the kids protesting the war, spoiled brat left wing hippies etc. But things mushroomed and pretty soon large parts of America took to the streets. Only time will tell if this is the same thing but it certainly looks like a grass roots protest that could mushroom.

The only place I have heard about this is on MyLot. I heard about it when it started on the national news, but nothing since then. I also haven't heard anything about any other protest.