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View Poll Results: Do you support the Wall St. protesters?
Yes 157 51.48%
No 148 48.52%
Voters: 305. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-07-2011, 12:33 PM
 
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No.

A bunch of whiny, middle-class professional protesters who are organized by a neo-Marxist group called "Adbusters". I see little for me to support.

Only thing I agree with them is that the bailout should not have happened.
Which is a rabidly anti-Semitic Canadian group. Does anyone else see the possibility of them being tied to muslim groups?
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Old 10-07-2011, 12:33 PM
 
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with a bachelors degree in anything you should be able to get some kind of job say perhaps counseling or teaching trade school or selling hamburgers and working for management. You are just not being innovative enough, obviously they don't teach that in college.
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Old 10-07-2011, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Fairfax, VA
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The only one saying that is you.



In case you forgot, Obama's actions towards Wall St have been to increase regulation. This week, he made a statement in support of the OWS protesters. Explain your bootlicker comment, if you can.



And it doesn't bother me now because that Wall St cash doesn't seem to have bought them the influence with Obama that they seemd to think it would.

It is being reported that the streets are full of dirty diapers.
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Old 10-07-2011, 12:34 PM
 
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I do agree that Wall Street and big government have too much power; however, like the anti-war movement (I have always been against the Iraq war), I will not join with anti-Semites, communists, anarchists, etc. F em.
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Old 10-07-2011, 12:34 PM
 
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See that's your corporate greed is talking. Why are you so greedy when kids are starving?
Because I'm a greedy bastard.
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Old 10-07-2011, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Old Bellevue, WA
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Do I support the protesters? Well, I doubt that many of them have private sector jobs, so the answer is undoubtedly YES.
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Old 10-07-2011, 12:36 PM
 
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Occupy Wall Street is a staged event funded by Soros and organized by labor unions. The participants are socialists, communists, deadbeats and losers. I wouldn't hire any of them.
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Old 10-07-2011, 12:36 PM
 
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The only one saying that is you.



Obama's actions towards Wall St have been to increase regulation. This week, he made a statement in support of the OWS protesters. Explain your bootlicker comment, if you can.



And it doesn't bother me now because that Wall St cash doesn't seem to have bought them the influence with Obama that they seemd to think it would.
I hope you don't have any or know anyone who has a retirement savings plan or pension. Most have exposure to "Wall Street" investments. The unintended consequences by the useful idiots have not been well considered.

However, the organizers wish everyone to be completely broke by crashing the system and people losing their life savings. Only then can Marxism swoop in to save the day for the now broken and willing to be dependant.

Odd that the far left Progressives only want to tear down people when fiscally responsible Conservatives wish to build up so that everyone has a chance to succeed based on their own individual initiative.

Look at what Steve Jobs was able to accomplish. Instead of parking his backside on a sidewalk at the age of these college protestors Jobs was in his garage creating what would be one of the greatest Wall Street corporations. One that has inspired and employed Americans and others.

If the protestors would go out and create rather than destroy what a wonderful country this would be indeed.
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Old 10-07-2011, 12:38 PM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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No one should expect anything better from a corporate bootlicker like Cantor. He's probably just reading a prepared text directed to him from K St lobbyists.

He's a good boy. He'll do as he's told by his masters.
Pretty much.

As for where he was during the TEA protests - he was right in the middle, egging them on.

I do not for a second condone any destruction of property or any other illegal behavior, but, for Cantor to suggest that these people do not have a right to protest and to say that they are 'pitting Americans against Americans' is pretty rich considering how he was encouraging the TEA protestors to 'take back America.'
From whom? From their fellow Americans, of course
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Old 10-07-2011, 12:42 PM
 
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I wonder how many of these people that are unemployed are willing to go down to Alabama seeing how they are starting to suffer from worker shortage
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