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Old 11-05-2011, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Right now in western North Dakota there's a massive boom going on in the oilfields out there. At this time there are over 10,000 positions open, averaging $70K per year. In many of these positions, no experience is required and relocation, per diem, and housing is included. If the losers in these occupy movements you support really wanted high paying jobs, they'd be heading to North Dakota in droves.
-By the way...Even McDonalds is paying $15/hr out there due to a massive lack of workers in the area.
You bet there is. My hubby makes frequent trips to the area around Bismarck - the place is booming. You still wouldn't find any of these entitled trust fund babies and lazy free loaders heading that way.
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Old 11-05-2011, 09:18 PM
 
Location: Fort Myers Fl
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I don't support Communists, Marxists, violent union thugs, radical Islam, terrorist organizations, etc... . Apparently you do.

» The 99%: The Official List of #OccupyWallStreet’s Supporters, Sponsors and Sympathizers - Big Government
Spent a little time reading some articles in this website. That's the kind of crap I use to read when I was a die hard Republican and believed every word they said. Glad I finally woke up and realized it was nothing but right wing propaganda supporting the people who have screwed up our system. And I am not a liberal or Obama supporter. Just a person who reads a lot and questions everything I read.
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Old 11-05-2011, 09:20 PM
 
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I wasn't playing to win and since you already have your token A.A. you won't need (or hire me) because there will never be two of us hired at one jobsite. But you and I can jockey around the semantics till the cows come home. The system is broken. The system is not sustainable. The system had to be threatened. I don't want to be a roughneck. America is creating thousands.. of blue collar niche industry opportunities at a time when millions of red, white and blue collar opportunities are needed, in every state of the union. Deny that.

H
What economic system creates the exact job you want in the exact place you want it?
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Old 11-06-2011, 12:02 AM
 
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I certainly don't think a person unwilling to do oilfield work is a loser, but I'm just giving an example to all of you "protesters" that high paying work is still easy to find in the USA. If you'd rather protest instead of putting money in your pocket, fine; but don't hold your hand out and ask for any of my hard-earned money. It's not my responsibility to provide you and your ilk with free housing, free food, free transportation, free college, or free medicine simply because you want to "steal" it from the hard working taxpayers of this country. Do yourself a favor...Get a job.
Whoa. You seem to equate the protesters with people on welfare or some such. Not a equation I draw. And since I'm not asking you or anyone else for anything, I'll do what I damn well please. And I heartily disagree that there are plentiful high paying jobs out there. Maybe in the most god awful wintry corner of our nation, but not where people actually live.
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Old 11-06-2011, 12:04 AM
 
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Spent a little time reading some articles in this website. That's the kind of crap I use to read when I was a die hard Republican and believed every word they said. Glad I finally woke up and realized it was nothing but right wing propaganda supporting the people who have screwed up our system. And I am not a liberal or Obama supporter. Just a person who reads a lot and questions everything I read.
Attack the messenger but each organization on the list is sourced a number of times. Nice attempt at deflection. I am not a die hard Republican so you fail on your attempt at a personal attack.
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Old 11-06-2011, 03:01 AM
 
Location: My little patch of Earth
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I don't support Communists, Marxists, violent union thugs, radical Islam, terrorist organizations, etc... . Apparently you do.

» The 99%: The Official List of #OccupyWallStreet’s Supporters, Sponsors and Sympathizers - Big Government
I'd like to see this list cross-referenced with the WH visitor logs (both copies).
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Old 11-06-2011, 03:05 AM
 
Location: My little patch of Earth
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The Occupy Movement has gone way beyond where it can be discredited by the filming of a video depicting fake "head-hunters" who can't dress picking out the obvious drifter in an OWS encampment and offering him a chauffer's job. More informative are the comments. If that is what some people think of the occupy movement the country is indeed in trouble. The wealthy have more than doubled their wealth in half my lifetime. What happens when they double it again? Where will any of you be in a country where the 1% have all the wealth? Support Our Protesters!

H
And yet the leftist media can spot every 'racist bigot' with NO problem (or agenda) at TEA Party rallies.

Pathetic argument.
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Old 11-06-2011, 04:24 AM
 
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You bet there is. My hubby makes frequent trips to the area around Bismarck - the place is booming. You still wouldn't find any of these entitled trust fund babies and lazy free loaders heading that way.

How would unemployed people without money or cars get there? Presumably they could get a job at McDonald's except they wouldn't be able to live anywhere near their job, which means they would have to commute from God knows where, except without a car that wouldn't be possible, at least this time of year.
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Old 11-06-2011, 04:31 AM
 
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Interesting that you think that Reagan destroyed capitalism in America.

I think she's saying Carter destroyed it.
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Old 11-06-2011, 04:35 AM
 
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The Occupy Movement has gone way beyond where it can be discredited by the filming of a video depicting fake "head-hunters" who can't dress picking out the obvious drifter in an OWS encampment and offering him a chauffer's job. More informative are the comments. If that is what some people think of the occupy movement the country is indeed in trouble. The wealthy have more than doubled their wealth in half my lifetime. What happens when they double it again? Where will any of you be in a country where the 1% have all the wealth? Support Our Protesters!

H

Maybe the top 1% have a secret website? doublemywealth.com

(sorry too many cheesy radio commercials lately)
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