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Average working people are the ones that need to be protesting.
But we're too busy working to do it.
Ask those that are "occupying" places, for days at a time, just where they work.
I agree with you 100%.
However, the unemployment/underemployment rate for young Americans is over 50%. Young Americans are the ones most affected by the recession and Young Americans were largest groups represented in the protest.
Protesting in the streets is why I'm able to respond to your message. My parents and grandparents had to march and protest so that I could be considered an equal.
Currently, protest, boycotts, and marches are the reason the LGBT movement has so much momentum.
As far as the rest of the paragraph I have no idea what your talking about. Elaborate.
What the hell are you talking about? The LGBT movement has momentum in COURT, not because of protests in the street, and city data allows you to post here because THEY MAKE MONEY by doing so, not because of protests your parents took part in.
What the hell are you talking about? The LGBT movement has momentum in COURT, not because of protests in the street, and city data allows you to post here because THEY MAKE MONEY by doing so, not because of protests your parents took part in.
Calm down soldier. WE were protesting in the streets before all of those court decisions were made. You just didn't hear about it. Courts didn't just decide one day to tackle the marriage issue. Know what your talking about.
And if it wasn't for the protests and marches of the Civil Rights movement blacks might not even be able to use the internet. Or maybe we'd have our own internet!
That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Do you teach your children to be greedy? The tech industry grew through a bunch of liberals, maybe you should thank liberals for thinking these things up. Did greed get us to the moon as well?
Money makes the world go round.....
Do you work? Do you get paid? How much? Is that too much? Have you ever been offered a raise and turned it down? If not, then you're 'greedy'.
Calm down soldier. WE were protesting in the streets before all of those court decisions were made. You just didn't hear about it. Courts didn't just decide one day to tackle the marriage issue. Know what your talking about.
And if it wasn't for the protests and marches of the Civil Rights movement blacks might not even be able to use the internet. Or maybe we'd have our own internet!
Now your twisting the OWS protests into racial protesting? That is quite a leap. Good work. What next?
I'm starting this thread a year after the Occupy Wall Street protest sprang up around the country. The movement has taken a lot of turns since its beginning and I'm starting a new discussion about the effectiveness of Occupy Wall Street.
The grassroots movement was intended to raise awareness about Unethical Wall Street practices and how corporate greed was ruining American's way of life. Protest spread from New York all the way across the country to the West Coast and many major cities in a matter of months. The protest started in September, and by the end of the year had received national attention and taken over the political discussion in this country.
By the beginning of the year nearly all of the protest had ended and the movement was blacklisted from the mainstream media. Police brutality and corruption along with the enforcement of current laws and the passing of new laws ultimately lead to the end of the Occupy Movement. Protesters were arrested for peacefully protesting and many were held indefinitely in jails around the country. Truth and lies were intertwined about the movement whenever the mainstream media reported on incidents. The movement was strategically dismantled by the powers that be.
I'm arguing that we need the protesters back out in the streets. Whether its Occupy, Independents, bi-partisan groups, or a completely new movement,... we need people back in the streets. Politicians need to know that they can't get away with anything and the corporate elite in this country need to be reminded that money does not hold indefinite power over humans.
Its time for Americans to start doing something about the situation we're in instead of expecting the government to bail us out. Politicians need to know that no matter who gets elected, Americans will be holding everyone accountable.
Thoughts?
It's not like America doesn't have enough deadbeats already,...enough trash everywhere,...enough noise without the drums,...enough repetition without the "mike check",...and enough childish behavior without the occupiers.
Occupy is irrelevant because they were idiots,...demanded a "free college education",....a universal single payer healthcare system,...a "guaranteed living wage regardless of employment",..."across the board debt forgiveness for everyone",...trillions spent on infrastructure and environment without a clue to financing it,...open borders migration throughout the world, and a pro-union stance that was not popular with the general public. At one point they had public support, public sympathy, and public financing but they proved themselves incompetent to handle it.
We need protesters back because obviously Americans still haven't woken up!
No.....lot's of American's have awaken. They realize that life aint fair, that they aren't entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They've realized that you have to work for those things as opposed to saying "Mr. Wallstreet exec makes $X and that's not fair because I went to college, got a degree in liberal arts and I should make $X to!"
Seriously, the only people that care about the occupy movement are the one's wasting their time sitting in filth and not taking a shower.
Owning something that makes a profit is smart. Trying to own everything is greed. There is a difference. The small business generally works in an open market free of distortion. The latter uses size and power to eliminate the market and replace it with a monopoly or some price distorting variant. I support market based business and am forced by necessity to deal with the monopolists at their price.
Actually we need both the original TEA party and The OWS protesters back. The original TP was concerned with very high taxes on working people but was taken over by the RW (Koch Bros et al) and turned into another political lobbying and propaganda sham of its former self. We need the OWS guys back because Wall Street is still a den of lying thieves stealing America’s savings for profit and power.
We really do need to shift the tax burden onto the top 10% and regulate the thieves and monopolists out of business and Wall Street.
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