Wall Street Protests

[TheMercenary]

"I am the 99%"!

Who are not wasting their time thinking that the current protests are going to change a God Damm thing....

[DanaC]

That's right Merc. You are part of the 99%. You're the part who colludes with a (small 'p') political movement whose sole function seems to be the political and economic disenfranchisement of the majority of Americans.

Practically everything I see you say in this thread is exactly the same as what i hear from Fox News. I understand why they take the stance they do. You, however, baffle me.

[Trilby]

Dana - merc does NOT see himself as part of the 99%.

He is deluded. He thinks he's rich. He's also afraid somebody is going to take his hard-earned money away from him. His position in society is so precarious that he screeches his fear and hate at shadows. He's convinced there isn't enough to go around and, like a dragon guarding it's gold, hoards his little piece of the dream. If anybody gets something he feels like it is taken from him, specifically, and it somehow diminishes his life.

It's weird, I know.

[ZenGum]

IMHO, this is the danger of group think.

According to the police, earlier protesters had thrown bottles and rocks at them.

Therefore anyone in the protest is fair game.

What we see here is just uncalled for.

[Aliantha]

I saw that on the news tonight. I was shocked.

[Trilby]

typical jack-booted thug mentality.

[DanaC]

They appear to have been taking lessons on policing methods from the London Met.

[Stormieweather]

So Merc, if these protests won't change anything, does that mean everyone should stay home, keep quiet, suffer in silence and be a good little minion?

You do realize that millions are suffering, don't you? The voiceless, the overlooked, and the powerless...

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”

Haile Selassie

Criminal actions by corporations, politicians and wall street need to be brought to light. If nothing else, these protests are helping to do that. What are you afraid will happen? Why does this disturb you and so many others?

And seriously, we all have the right to speak up about any damn thing we want to...or at least, that's what I grew up believing.

[sexobon]

Flash mobs flash dancing to flashbangs sounds like the makings of a Broadway hit! Off Broadway on Wall St., not so much. The numbers of participants would have to be much greater; or, their organization centralized under an effective leader to make the movement work outside the electoral process. At this stage, within the process they may achieve goals as has the Tea Party by organizing their priorities, actions, and getting accountability of their numbers. Then they can take to the streets as necessary to increase their numbers. For now, they're just marking time as the dog and pony show that is reality TV. Waste not, want not.

[Flint]

Ya, but...

The boogeyman.

[Undertoad]

That's merely Mr. Wolff's opinion, and in my previous post I took his last sentence behind the barn and shot it, and then quartered it for the dogs to eat.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

(Also, these numbers are for households instead of per-capita, which is misleading, as the household income may be a household of one, or an extended family.)

Ok, respectfully, what's your point here by breaking out the per capita numbers? Are you trying to illustrate the idea that in the high earning households that there are multiple earners? Or that in a per capita illustration, the amount that the high earners make is not as much? Both are true of course.

[infinite monkey]

Whether they are the 99%, the 1%, or this arbitrarily stupid 53%, about 75% of all of them are still uneducated, uninformed, and irrelevant morons.

[Undertoad]

I'm saying that I think the original graph producers decided on households because it shows a wider disparity. This stuff is hard for us laymen to figure.

[classicman]

Easy Sam ...
I just thought his was an interesting tale. Primarily BECAUSE of when he went to school. (president at the time irrelevant)

I can associate with him on a couple things. I too went back to school that year and graduated in 2000 with 2 degrees. I worked 3 jobs to support my family and pay my own way at the time. Yet here I sit day after day looking for a real job and trying to figure out wtf I did wrong.


ETA - thanks for helping to support me Mr. noideawhoyouare.