Occupy Wall Street - Success

[Dazen]

Originally Posted by vaylorie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The federal government announced today that it has decided to succumb to Occupy Wall Street demands. Occupy Wall Street leaders were happy to hear the news and said that their hard work has paid off and that they will resume normal showing and general personal hygiene attention. Due to this, the following laws are now in effect.

• Capitalism is a crime.
• All people regardless of job, longevity, performance or amount of work done now make the same wage.
  *****This includes those with the job ‘homeless’, ‘hobo’, or ‘neckbeard’.
• College education is now free for all people.
• All debt is wiped off the books and forgiven.
  *****Including credit cards, mortgages, home equity loans, student loans, personal loans and that $5 that I owe John.
• Government health care is provided for all people
  *****All those in the insurance industry have been reassigned to be janitors at local high schools
• All forms of border constraints have been removed and anyone can travel anywhere at any time. Immigration is no longer a consideration as citizenship now means nothing.
• All elections will be done via paper ballot and counted 35 times by ‘trusted’ officials.
• All drugs are now legal and encouraged to use.
• All exports and imports are deemed evil and are banned permanently.
• All campaigns are publically financed
• The military is now disbanded
• 1 Trillion dollars in immediate spending for public works projects
• All property is now community property.
• Oil and natural gas is now banned from use. Solar and Wind energy are the only acceptable forms of energy generation.
• Any company with more than 5 employees is considered an evil corporation and will be dismantled.
• Shopping and consumerism is forbidden, the government will distribute food and supplies to all people in an equal and just manner.

Effective tax rate for all people are now 95.2% and the last act of the military is to round up all people with more than $1M of net worth to be jailed indefinitely for crimes against humanity stemming from having possessions that others do not have.

This is a resounding success for all OWS suppors everywhere but a special thanks goes out to the Communist Party USA, Black Panthers, Revolutionary Communist Party, American Nazi Party, Hezbollah, Government of North Korea, Communist Party of China, Hugo Chavez and Ayatollah Khamenei for your dedicated public support.

Well said

[vaylorie]

I don't get it.... why all the trolling... this is what all the OWS folks wanted right? I thought you would be excited at the thought that all of the things you wanted as a collective movement came to fruition?

It's just based on the signs, interviews, lists of demands, etc. from occupy gatherings around the US..

/shrug
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[Dazen]

They are just a bunch of douchebags

[Klath]

Originally Posted by vaylorie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

this is what all the OWS folks wanted right?

No, that's what you want them to be about because it makes it easy for you to ridicule them. It's intellectually lazy but you'll continue to do it because making fun of dirty hippies always gets a chuckle.

Matt Taibbi had a pretty good write-up on OWS in RS.
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests

[vaylorie]

Originally Posted by Klath [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No, that's what you want them to be about because it makes it easy for you to ridicule them. It's intellectually lazy but you'll continue to do it because making fun of dirty hippies always gets a chuckle.

It's intellectually lazy to assume that the protesters want what they claim to want? What I posted (with included levity) was straight from the horse's mouth. Instead of looking at what they are saying they want and seeing it for what it is, you are adding into what they are wanting to find some deep meaning and/or just ignoring a large percentage of the protesters and dismissing them as not part of the group. What I posted is literally straight from interviews, signage and submitted 'demands' from various groups throughout the country.

Also, I didn't once call anyone a 'dirty hippie' in my post but I did indicate (factually accurate) that the ones camping out aren't necessarily following generally acceptable personal hygiene expectations.

Again, it's lazy to assume that what someone says they want, they actually want?

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by vaylorie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Again, it's lazy to assume that what someone says they want, they actually want?

it's lazy to assume the movement is homogenous. do all republicans want a complete abolition of abortion or a flat tax? do all democrats want to ban guns? are all tea partiers complete loons? you can find members of each party that have said these things, to assume that they represent the movement as a whole is absurd.

[Klath]

Originally Posted by vaylorie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's intellectually lazy to assume that the protesters want what they claim to want?

What is your source for this list of demands?

[Convict]

Originally Posted by Klath [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What is your source for this list of demands?

lol get this bro

Originally Posted by vaylorie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is a resounding success for all OWS suppors everywhere but a special thanks goes out to the Communist Party USA, Black Panthers, Revolutionary Communist Party, American Nazi Party, Hezbollah, Government of North Korea, Communist Party of China, Hugo Chavez and Ayatollah Khamenei for your dedicated public support.

Basically Glenn Beck found our beloved R&F

[Aadill]

http://news.yahoo.com/house-aims-ax-...110149426.html

“The [public funds] are only relevant if you don’t want to win the presidency,” La Raja said. “It’s just not enough money.”

For example, in the 2008 general election, GOP nominee John McCain took the $84 million in public funds. Obama, who opted out of the taxpayer money, went on to raise about $350 million for the general election.

It was created in response to the Watergate scandal as a way to limit corruption or the appearance of corruption in presidential elections.

I am a member of Occupy Raleigh and I firmly stand against the idea of private donation. It is a shilling of the system. I did not vote for Obama and I will not vote for him this coming year. I firmly stand against this maneuver by the house. I firmly stand for FORCING public funding ONLY. There should be no under-the-table deals and lobbying should be thrown out the window.

I also stand for the following:


*eradicate many of the tax loopholes that currently exist except for standard deductions for individuals/families and standard corporate deductions WHEN APPROPRIATE (I believe there is currently a percentage deduction available). These deductions set a fairly hard line for determining benefit to tax ratios. They are currently off as had been mentioned in another post on these boards in the sense that if you make less than $54k/year you're sucking money out of the system more than you're contributing. With this I would say, lower the standard deductions and rescale the tax code or remove the deductions altogether.

*have short term (I'm talking 10 years short term) approach to bringing jobs back to the US via tax credits. a service based economy is putting a lot of skilled workers out of jobs forcing them into lower service jobs such as retail or high stress commission based jobs such as telemarketing. (I am not in this situation but seriously I know people with engineering degrees that are flipping burgers.. it's ridiculous).

*overturn Citizens United vs FEC. fucking no brainer, seriously.

*reinstate Glass-Steagall (as Volcker rule was a paper tiger). the last time banks were allowed to invest and lend the Great Depression happened. Glass-Steagall was revoked in 1999 and since then the economy has shit itself multiple times.


*limit lobbying to the socialist constructs we currently have that are beneficial to human society such as the EPA (if it weren't also corrupt, this needs fixing) so there are government interests somewhat similar to the New Deal in terms of maintenance of infrastructure, public works, and national parks. I also believe there should be some Federal level of FDA (again hopefully in a non corrupt or at least less lenient capacity). Corporate lobbying should be limited or denied.

*re-institute the Fairness Doctrine that Reagan threw out in favor of private business over the FCC-regulated radio/television airwaves (fair and unbiased news media on publicly available news networks i.e. antenna or rabbit-ear television, public radio etc.. I am NOT referring to cable or satellite radio).

*limit defense spending to just that: defense of our country (defense includes research into technologies that have benefited the public as well as security measures)


What do you stand for, vaylorie?

[pickled_heretic]

http://www.justplainpolitics.com/sho...for-child-rape

Tea party endorses child rape!