Oakland (Read 14911 times)

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Re: Oakland
« Reply #20 on: October 29, 2011, 04:44:24 AM »
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It's not about anti-government sentiments, but economic justice. There is a tiny percentage of the population that plays by a different set of rules than the rest of us and now the world economy is starting to shut down because there is nothing left for them to steal. The only reason you aren't supporting the protestors is because you still believe the fiction that you can become one of the rich guys some day if you play by the rules, but with every passing day the middle class that made this country great is withering away and the fantasy that the networks have been spinning will be exposed for the naked lies that they are. One day soon you will come to accept this. Until then feel free to call me all the names that you want, because the more shrill your attacks on me the more reasonable I sound. I'm in no rush. Time is on my side.

What the heck is economic justice?  Half my paycheck to taxes??  If I where so called richer, more than that even?  I know some guys who own businesses, successful ones, and they play by the rules all their life, they are getting hammered by taxes, regulation, and bullshit!  This is the exact reason that they cannot expand their business and hire people, that is why  there are no good jobs.  What good is it to be successful if you will be penalized.  Don't lump folks into this fantasy that all rich are somehow criminals.   :wtf: 
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you still believe the fiction that you can become one of the rich guys some day if you play by the rules
  This is entirely possible, but only for one problem, It takes a LOT of hard work, intelligence, stamina, and perseverance.  Intelligence to look at what the rules are and use them to your advantage, the stamina to go to the job you love and pursue it day in and day out sometimes with no breaks for years on end, and perseverance to continue on until the ends, that one wants, are achieved.

Now what do these protesters want to achieve?  Who the hell knows?  They cannot even come up with a coherent set of demands!  If these jerkoffs, that are costing US, the tax paying, hardworking, Americans millions to cleanup after, would just go out stop blaming others for there own laziness, crying about how hard their life is here in our great nation, would go out and spend some time looking for a fucken job, they could be a part of building our nation back up to the world power we once where, instead of trying to defeat it.  Then we could all reap the benefits of success.  And that means ANY job that is available!  If your degree has no job openings at this time, then go fricken work at McD's!  Keep looking for the job that you have studied for, or go learn something new...

These guys must not have traveled anywhere else on this globe, they should see what the hell goes on in other countries on this planet. (your link to the Bosnian guy should have opened your eyes on that one)  I've seen some shitholes out there, and these protesters seem to want to follow that model, well I say fuck that! 

 You seem to be the one that is buying into fantasy.

Cougar8045

Re: Oakland
« Reply #21 on: October 29, 2011, 11:31:03 AM »
Economic justice is nothing more than the newspeak term for what we used to call socialism.  All this talk about the eroding middle class and how the top 1% has the system rigged, and nobody can succeed in America anymore sounded better in the original Russian.  Victory for the proletariat!  Down with the decadent excesses of the bourgeois!  Viva la revolucion! 

There was an interesting news report I read a while back that talked about how immigrants almost always flock to the Democratic Party, except for one:  There's a fairly large group of immigrants who came here in the nineties and roundly reject the philosophy of class warfare and economic justice: Russians.  They interviewed a few, and the reply was all the same, they've all seen the end result of wealth redistribution, economic justice, etc, back in the motherland.  OWS is first and foremost, attempting to bring the finest portions of life in the USSR here to the US, and secondly, they're making a huge mess, disrupting normal peoples' lives wherever they go, and generally acting like filthy Woodstock hippies.  Which is why they're being cleared out one after the other, and I applaud that fact.
I'm just a fluffy white bunny rabbit who lost his way. 

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