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Old 10-09-2011, 08:49 AM
 
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No, I do NOT believe they represent the majority. I do believe they're a fringe incited by this misguided movement.
Every movement has a fringe, even the Republican party. RE: "Tea Party"

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I do like how you took the only goof part of my hypothetical paragraph where I used other symbols of corporate greed and you ignored EVERYTHING else...and still had that one thing shot down too. That's pretty funny.
Oh OK it's a goof paragraph now. Great. The reason I singled it out was because of your inference that the protesters are being hypocritical. Which is clearly not the case. So glad you were being goofy and really didn't mean it . Next time be more specific?
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Old 10-09-2011, 08:50 AM
 
Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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I'm not particularly interested in corporate America. It is what it is.

I've watched things erode over the years, not because of corporations breaking the law (They do it sometimes, but it isn't an epidemic.), but because the laws allow it.

I'm much more concerned with governments that are non-functional. There is a lack of jobs. It's known that companies are sitting on money & not hiring. This happened in the 70s & people who were unemployed couldn't get hired until the feds passed a law that gave them a tax credit for hiring the unemployed. Now the president has offered a similar plan. Why didn't he say that this has worked in the past? Why are the Republicans sitting around with their thumbs up the a$$es?

It's not corporate America as a whole & it's not unions as a whole. Yes, there are examples of bad corporations & bad union locals, but they are not bad as a whole. The problem is with legislators with agendas on the extreme right & extreme left.

Add in individuals whose personal greed helped to cause the current mess.

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Old 10-09-2011, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Ayrsley
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Old 10-09-2011, 09:02 AM
 
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I'm pretty sure they're not protesting corporations, so that photo is meaningless and has nothing to do with the discussion, and serves simply to distract and discredit their legitimacy. It would be like saying the "Tea Party" is for anarchy and no government. Just isn't true.
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Old 10-09-2011, 09:14 AM
 
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I'm pretty sure they're not protesting corporations, so that photo is meaningless and has nothing to do with the discussion, and serves simply to distract and discredit their legitimacy. It would be like saying the "Tea Party" is for anarchy and no government. Just isn't true.
I think the point was that we are so embedded in corporate America that we fail to see it on our own backs.
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Old 10-09-2011, 09:34 AM
 
Location: Near the water
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Who is Eric Cantor? Not being rhetorical. I don't recognize the name.

He is an arrogant member of the US congress.
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Old 10-09-2011, 09:52 AM
 
Location: The 12th State
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Who is Eric Cantor? Not being rhetorical. I don't recognize the name.

I saw the name and thought he the weather guy on the weather channel. (Its not Jim Cantor) oops

Time for coffee.

carry on.
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Old 10-09-2011, 10:24 AM
 
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i'm pretty sure they're not protesting corporations, so that photo is meaningless and has nothing to do with the discussion, and serves simply to distract and discredit their legitimacy. It would be like saying the "tea party" is for anarchy and no government. Just isn't true.
+1

Hair dye by Clairol? LOL...

Does this mean that everyone who pays taxes approves of the job Washington is doing? This photo suggest the same thing... I guess if you are alive and breathing you approve of every tax, law, vote, budget etc that passes since you are functioning within our society.

How can one oppose Tarp or Government mismanagement of funds, laws, job losses, taxes if they still live in America?

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Old 10-09-2011, 10:37 AM
 
Location: Some got six month some got one solid. But me and my buddies all got lifetime here
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Every movement has a fringe, even the Republican party. RE: "Tea Party"



Oh OK it's a goof paragraph now. Great. The reason I singled it out was because of your inference that the protesters are being hypocritical. Which is clearly not the case. So glad you were being goofy and really didn't mean it . Next time be more specific?
Bottomsup..for the sake of you credibility, stop trying so hard. You're making Felt and NS look like geniuses.

And could you provide proof of what you said in remarks to Tober's picture? You said you were pretty sure, I'd like to see some basis for that.

I don't buy into everything the tea party stands for. There are a few things here and there that I do buy into the democratic party for (albeit very, very, very few). I don't buy into msnbc, I don't buy into fox news. I don't buy into (R) and (D).

I do this radical thing called forming my own opinion.

Steve Jobs WAS a member of the 1%. As much as many of us hailed Steve Jobs for what he did, he was VERY MUCH a member of the greedy capitalist world that the occupy movement is supposed to be against. Why is there no #occupycupertino? Because he provided a product that people enjoy so he gets the pass, even though the could dry himself off after a shower with rolls of thousands?

Bill Gates? Nobody bothering to #occupymicrosoft? Or is it because it's a product you use every day so he gets the pass too.

No #occupyprosports? No #occupygeneralmotors?

You guys are saying that politicians are being taken by corporate America. Where's #occupywhitehouse? Oh wait, I'm sorry...that's your guy in office. White House gets a pass.

You guys are for capitalism so long as you're benefiting from it. As long as you're sitting in your house and getting your raises and being able to spoil your kids, it's okay. When times were great you guys weren't protesting jack. Now we all have to step back, think out of the box and come up with something new. But the best you can do is protest.

You don't take down companies by standing outside with signs spewing gag inducing rhetoric. Your masses should just stop buying into Apple products. Stop buying into GM cars. Stop buying clothes at Macy's and big overpriced department stores. Start affecting bottom lines as opposed to protesting against corporate greed and then use a product they supply when you're done. You can't have this one both ways and if you try, you distract and discredit occupy's legitimacy. All you're doing is sacrificing your time and nothing deeper.

You guys go fire up an iPod and protest while posting from a laptop running Windows 7 and go preorder the iPhone 4s when you're done. Keep buying into corporate greed while being against it at the same time. Lets see how far this gets you.
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Old 10-09-2011, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Some got six month some got one solid. But me and my buddies all got lifetime here
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So let me make sure I have this one right...

A successful way to protest and take down corporate America is to buy the products which helps lines the pockets of the 1%, yet take to the streets about how evil they are.

That sum it up?
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