Occupy Wall Street - Success

[Kraftwerk]

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

Capitlism would/should let businesses that fuck up go out of business. Occupiers should be railing against their government for allowing those businesses to be bailed out. America has been drifting further and further from what capitalism is. But the moron occupiers have a disturbing lack of knowledge of American history and understanding of political and economic theory.

Umm, are we both talking about the same Occupy movement? Because the OWS I've seen is against government bailouts of failing banks. Plus the system we have now isnt free market capitalism, nobody is allowed to fail.

[Messianic]

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

Umm, are we both talking about the same Occupy movement? Because the OWS I've seen is against government bailouts of failing banks. Plus the system we have now isnt free market capitalism, nobody is allowed to fail.

Most people are allowed to fail - just not automakers or banks.

[Dfn]

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

Umm, are we both talking about the same Occupy movement? Because the OWS I've seen is against government bailouts of failing banks. Plus the system we have now isnt free market capitalism, nobody is allowed to fail.

Yes. Look for my earlier posts about what I've seen at Occupy San Jose. Just this week I've had conversations with sign holders that said "The private sector has failed.", "This revolution won't be privatized.", and someone (cant remember his sign) wanting the government to provide all means of employment bc unemployment is caused by the private sector; they were advocating for MORE government involvement.

Maybe occupy sj is out of touch with the rest of occupy, I don't know. But the occupiers here are usually holding signs that contradict eachother, they are just too stupid to realize it.

[Maddox]

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.

This is great!

[Truth]

There are definitely more socialistic sentiments at an OWS rally than you would find at a Tea Party thing (read: none), but they are both manifestations of the same populist (slave) uprising. You're going to find dumbasses at any kind of political event because only a dumbed down population would twice elect the idiot son of an asshole and then a naked Marxist revolutionary.

[Maddox]

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[lordyamish]

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and thats why im proud to be a libertarian

[Hasbinbad]

Looks like Fascism wins in that picture..

[Aadill]

This being one of the fundamental issues of OWS, is a small victory of sorts. Even the CONSIDERATION of going to this stage means something may be happening in the political landscape. If this went statewide and CA, TX, NY, and NC followed, there'd be some force behind it: http://warisacrime.org/content/los-a...ate-personhood

[booter]

Corporate personhood isn't even the problem though, unfortunately. It's the unlimited corporate money in politics (which was slipped in with the Citizens United ruling).