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Old 11-05-2011, 06:27 PM
 
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Yeah, I'm sure... My friends are surviving.

And come on, you think Mitt Romney would have a house there if it weren't? The Occupiers should go protest at his house..
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Old 11-05-2011, 06:47 PM
 
Location: SoCal
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I agree with some of what they say, but not all of it by far. Still, I'm delighted they're demonstrating. I was hearing about nothing but right-wing obstructionism and wackiness for so many months that I was feeling entirely disenfranchised by the media. Even KPBS was leaning so far backward to appear "fair" (in reality, nothing like fair) that I wasn't hearing anything close to my ideas from them. And where have the Democrats in Congress disappeared to? At least the Dems are more in my direction, even if they themselves have drifted to right of center.

I'm glad that the protestors have given the rest of us back a voice!

And score two more for Bank Transfer Day!
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Old 11-05-2011, 07:06 PM
 
Location: SoCal
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I like the message too. We closed a sizable saving acct today at BOA and noticed a lot of others doing the same. While we are fortunate to have good jobs (heck any job) and savings there are so many people who work just as hard, if not harder, that were not treated real well by BOA because they are lower income or fell on hard times (but BOA execs rec bonuses). Very happy to be back with a credit union. When we moved out here my husband was in a hurry to open an account and just did BOA out of convenience. We were glad to have the incentive to switch back to a credit union.
Can't rep' you again, darnit.

When the government had to bail out the banks, we were thinking, "Any bank that's too big to fail is simply too big!" but we didn't do anything about it at that time. We have now used this incentive to switch to a credit union.
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Old 11-05-2011, 07:09 PM
 
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I've had two friends involved. Both middle aged to older. Both female. One is a teamster and very active in the Democratic party and Unions. The other is a person who helped establish the Women's Studies program at SDSU in 1969 and went on to be Executive Director of a local non-profit. The second woman to told me it was great to be around intelligent progressive activists, so that was her take on the group. I've haven't spoken with my teamster friend since she went. Will be interesting to hear what she has to say.
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Old 11-05-2011, 08:35 PM
 
Location: Mission Hills, San Diego
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I've had two friends involved. Both middle aged to older. Both female. One is a teamster and very active in the Democratic party and Unions. The other is a person who helped establish the Women's Studies program at SDSU in 1969 and went on to be Executive Director of a local non-profit. The second woman to told me it was great to be around intelligent progressive activists, so that was her take on the group. I've haven't spoken with my teamster friend since she went. Will be interesting to hear what she has to say.
glad to hear another side of it which I suspect is an accurate portrayal of the majority of the group. Too many local media outlets portray the activists as losers going to the bathroom in the streets.
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Old 11-05-2011, 08:58 PM
 
Location: East Fallowfield, PA
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I've had two friends involved. Both middle aged to older. Both female. One is a teamster and very active in the Democratic party and Unions. The other is a person who helped establish the Women's Studies program at SDSU in 1969 and went on to be Executive Director of a local non-profit. The second woman to told me it was great to be around intelligent progressive activists, so that was her take on the group. I've haven't spoken with my teamster friend since she went. Will be interesting to hear what she has to say.
Thanks for the update, I agree that more than likely the majority are true progressives along with folks just plain fed up.
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Old 11-05-2011, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Due North of Potemkin City Limits
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Yeah, I'm sure... My friends are surviving
Surviving ain't exactly prospering. From what I've seen here, homeowners barely have a pot to **** in for lack of a better analogy. There are exceptions, and those exceptions usually become my customers....But they're few and far between in this neck of the woods, that's for sure.
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Old 11-06-2011, 01:14 AM
 
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Occupy San Diego = Ridiculous. Asked a good few of them what they stand for and not once, did I get a straight answer.
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Old 11-06-2011, 01:24 AM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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Well it may have started out with good intentions by people that are truely clueless. They should be sitting in front of the US Capitol and state Capitol buildings where the crappy laws that have Forced/Allowed Wall Street to do what they do.

Fanny and Freddy were where the bailouts were spent, not on shovel ready jobs as promised. It was Washinton that bailed out Wall Street with our money.


Nope, these kids are clueless idiots soon to be replaced with others that want to vandalize and distroy for no reason but to loot and Obama and his ilk support them.

This video is Pretty self explanatory...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhrvO...e_gdata_player

You have to really love stupid

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Old 11-06-2011, 02:06 AM
 
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Guess it depends on the lens one chooses to look at the world through, doesn't it? A lot of Americans seem to have short-sighted, brown-tinted lenses apparently. Who's responsibility is that? Exactly.

To the detractors of the people taking to the streets, I'd only ask, well wtf are you doing about it other than complaining about the people who are trying to get out and make themselves known?
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