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Nope. They constantly change their intent and agenda, they have no idea what they are protesting. Each week is a new "flavor". What they have been successful at is preventing or delaying other 99% 'rs from getting to work, destroy parks and property, theft, rape, disease and sucking up tax dollars as if they were meant to be wasted.
No. They aren't protesting what needs to be protested. Many of them just wanted to go away to an expensive college for the status of doing so and to get 6-figure cushy jobs and now don't want to have to repay their loans.
And many are just all sorts of malcontents without a common theme.
They've given people something to gripe about, and yell at each other about. I don't think that many of them have any real ideas on how to fix things besides tossing certain people into jail and somehow creating money out of thin air to pay for social services. Many of them seem to not be able to give a clear answer to anything besides "I don't know" or harass people talking to them...
The irony... what you've posted is applicable to government more than it applies to occupiers.
The Occupy movement loudly decries the power of corporate money in politics, a power amplified by the Supreme Court's interpretation of the 14th Amendment, conferring the free speech rights of people on corporations. Thus, in last year's Citizens United ruling, the Court, on free speech grounds, granted corporations nearly unlimited freedom to spend on election advertising.
This week Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern decided to try something drastic and most likely futile to stop the deluge. He called for a constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not people.
The “Occupy Wall Street†movement has been catching flak for its perceived lack of clear goals, but the protests have already put new energy behind one big idea: reforming the role of money in politics.
Advocates of campaign finance reform say the protesters in New York and elsewhere have, in recent weeks, brought the question of corporate influence closer to the front burner of national discourse, adding fresh momentum to their own efforts.
They are a drain on the general fund in each city they protest in.
Tax payer money is being spent on them and we get nothing in return.
It has hurt the average tax payer and the city's they live in.
It has cost the 1%"0" and the rest of us pay for it.
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