Topic: Working Class Americans Protest Wall Street!!..

[ttomm46]

Fine individuals!!!...Ok, Maybe i'm stretching the truth a tad..



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/01/500-arrested-after-wall-street-protest-on-nys-brooklyn-bridge/  

[IronDioPriest]

Yeah, if that's the "working class", then I'm not sure what that makes me. But it sure as hell ain't that.

[ttomm46]

Yeah, if that's the "working class", then I'm not sure what that makes me. But it sure as hell ain't that.

   

[charlesoakwood]

Working class people were saying get the gd hippies off the bridge.

[IronDioPriest]

Working class people were saying get the gd hippies off the bridge.

Exactly. On their way to... work.

[jpatrickham]

Days of Rage, Hours of Opportunism

Sunday, 02 October 2011 07:06 Daniel Greenfield

 
"The last time I passed the Days of Rage protesters in downtown Manhattan, amid their litter of expensive camping equipment, iPhone chargers, mobile hotspots and handwritten cardboard signs, they reminded me of people who walk up to you in bars pretending that they just discovered a new brand of beer they want to share with you. Those people are plants, so are the people with torn cardboard signs surrounded by a few thousand dollars of equipment.

There are people who have reason to be enraged at Wall Street, but they rarely show up at rallies. They are too busy working a second job in their seventies or sitting outside a factory that was shipped off to China. And the people who do show up at rallies invariably have nothing to do with Wall Street and are financed by billionaires who made their money, directly or indirectly, in the stock market.

The paradox of Wall Street financed radicals protesting against the Street makes as much sense as a dose of class warfare from Warren Buffett. But the Street is a devious place, which makes money by betting against itself, and whose favorite politicians denounce it around election time. The cynical game of broken expectations is played here like nowhere else and the entire economy is on the table.

Obama poured money into Wall Street before denouncing it, and like Kerry, he was against Wall Street, before he was for it, before he was against it. At luncheons in exclusive restaurants, his allies are still explaining to hedge fund managers that Barry doesn't really mean it. He's just trying to get elected.

Democrats sometimes like to take off their Harvard jackets, loosen their club ties and try on a little populism, but it never sticks. They're always against NAFTA, before they're elected, and for it once they do. At towns with the rusted steel of lost manufacturing, they pledge to stand up for American industry, and then fly off to a fundraiser thrown by the outsourcing firms who have the actual money.

The belated crusade against Wall Street is even more pathetic as it is coordinated by groups who wouldn't exist without men like Soros, who made their money from deals that make the Street look sparkling clean. It's class warfare as a cynical jab at the populist center, the people who mutter to themselves that the Street is full of crooks and so is Congress.

They're right and the Days of Rage protesters, who usually have a trust fund at their back and a degree in creative arts on their shelf, would never admit it. They're not here to protest against power, but for those in power. Or else why target Wall Street now, long after the bailouts and the fizzing outrage over Corporate Personhood.

The Days of Rage are an Obama election rally, coordinated ahead of time to coincide with Obama's own descent into class warfare. Which makes them a pro-government rally.

The yuppie ragers may try for comparisons to Tahrir Square, but they're more like if Mubarak had thrown a rally blaming the whole thing on international bankers. It's equally pathetic and desperate. And if the media had any credibility or ethics left, they would be doing something other than covering a disguised election rally as if it were the new Battle of Seattle."

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011100214625/editorial/rsn-pick-of-the-day/days-of-rage-hours-of-opportunism.html?

Where are the "Hard Hats," of the late 60's or early 70's when you need them?

[Thresherman]

Where are the "Hard Hats," of the late 60's or early 70's when you need them?

Perhaps they realize that their IRAs, 401Ks and mutual funds are invested in what these boneheads are demonizing.

[ttomm46]

The One with the red star on his back looks like a San Francisco faggot.

[Libertas]

Faggots, hippies and basement-dwelling twerps...

Working class?

More like non-working class!

 

 

[LadyVirginia]

Yeah, if that's the "working class", then I'm not sure what that makes me. But it sure as hell ain't that.

You're the "rich".


 

[IronDioPriest]

Oh, she's dead serious. WHo wants to wager that Rosanne Barr's personal wealth is somewhere around the ballpark of $99.9M?

Roseanne: Rich Should Be Beheaded If They Don't Give Up Wealth

“I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

“I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability to pay back anything over $100 million [of] personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of $100 million. And if they are unable to live on that amount of that amount then they should, you know, go to the reeducation camps and if that doesn’t help, then being beheaded,” Barr said with a straight face."

As Ed said at HotAir, "Imagine if anyone had said anything remotely like this at a Tea Party rally about socialism and socialists, even in jest."

Imagine. Again, I point to A Deadly Double Standard".

[ToddF]

Never understate what a teachable moment that Carleton retard represented.  The boy was literally raging against the bank taking away his parents McMansion.  Literally saying that just because you have a worthless degree or two, it is society's responsibility to provide you with a half million dollar house.

http://www.trulia.com/property/4277414-3813-Fairway-Dr-Woodbury-MN-55125

Gimme my sh*t!

[Glock32]

As an aside, when we look back through the comfortable detachment of history at truly awful events, like the blood-orgy of the derailed French Revolution, the rise of fascism, or more recently the "cultural reformation" in Mao's China and the killing fields of Cambodia, we tend to wonder, how could such events get off the ground in the first place? Well the answer is that people like Roseanne, herself rich, have already in their own minds dehumanized certain people. What follows occurs with the approval of their own consciences, and that is how all atrocities begin. The only missing ingredient now is the breakdown of basic day-to-day order, and that can't be too far behind, especially since people such as these professional malcontents are doing everything they can to make sure of it.

I have news for people like Roseanne and all these Marxist grubs: I've been doing my own bit of mental dehumanizing.

[LadyVirginia]

Gimme my sh*t!

This attitude is prevalent at all economic levels.

My husband and I noticed this a couple decades back when house hunting.  No one wanted a "starter" house any more.  Friends of ours were buying houses the kind my parents and their friends saved for decades to buy (if they even did buy up).  They wanted to live the same lifestyle they had as children.  No saving and sacrificing for them!

Our agent would take us to developments in our price range and they would small houses designed to look like huge houses.  The master bedroom and bathroom would be huge and the kids rooms would be tiny.  The kitchen would be huge and the other rooms would be miniscule.  We just wanted a normal house to raise a family in and not make a statement of our worth real or imagined.  But many of our friends were buying "real" mansions not these little wannabes.  We couldn't figure out where the money was coming from.  Sometimes in our young married life I wondered what are we doing wrong? Then we found out many of them were carrying credit card balances and borrowing from family. 


We finally found an older home with property.  We love it.  It's pretty unassuming and not very impressive.  I know by the looks some friends/family think we're not as "rich" as them.  That's ok by me. 

As an aside, when we look back through the comfortable detachment of history at truly awful events, like the blood-orgy of the derailed French Revolution, the rise of fascism, or more recently the "cultural reformation" in Mao's China and the killing fields of Cambodia, we tend to wonder, how could such events get off the ground in the first place? Well the answer is that people like Roseanne, herself rich, have already in their own minds dehumanized certain people. What follows occurs with the approval of their own consciences, and that is how all atrocities begin. The only missing ingredient now is the breakdown of basic day-to-day order, and that can't be too far behind, especially since people such as these professional malcontents are doing everything they can to make sure of it.

I have news for people like Roseanne and all these Marxist grubs: I've been doing my own bit of mental dehumanizing.

The problem with people like this woman is they don't know any history so while she thinks she's on the cutting edge of the special few who "get it" she will end up just like the people who thought that at the start of the french revolution   

[jpatrickham]

Oh, she's dead serious. WHo wants to wager that Rosanne Barr's personal wealth is somewhere around the ballpark of $99.9M?

Roseanne: Rich Should Be Beheaded If They Don't Give Up Wealth

“I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

“I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability to pay back anything over $100 million [of] personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of $100 million. And if they are unable to live on that amount of that amount then they should, you know, go to the reeducation camps and if that doesn’t help, then being beheaded,” Barr said with a straight face."

As Ed said at HotAir, "Imagine if anyone had said anything remotely like this at a Tea Party rally about socialism and socialists, even in jest."

Imagine. Again, I point to A Deadly Double Standard".

Roseanne Barr should be beheaded! Because, it is the only logical thing to do with IT. Trouble is, I am afraid the head would grow a new body, and the body would grow a new head, and two of them is not acceptable!

[ttomm46]

 

[Libertas]

 

Can't lose what you never had...

 

[ttomm46]

 

Can't lose what you never had...

 

[LadyVirginia]

but why do they never change their mind???

[jpatrickham]

but why do they never change their mind???

Because they are all sharing one. They can't figure out who to do it!