Wall Street Protests

[Aliantha]

I don't know for certain what the ratio of legitimate gripes is to supposed gripes in this whole protest thing, but it's probably fair to say there's a reasonable number of both.

People who don't want to pay their debts annoy all of us, but there are some pretty serious social issues going on in the US atm, and I think a lot of people have a pretty good reason for protesting about where money is spent etc.

Surely no one can disagree with that?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I don't know for certain what the ratio of legitimate gripes is to supposed gripes in this whole protest thing, but it's probably fair to say there's a reasonable number of both.

People who don't want to pay their debts annoy all of us, but there are some pretty serious social issues going on in the US atm, and I think a lot of people have a pretty good reason for protesting about where money is spent etc.

Surely no one can disagree with that?

I don't. But again I harken back to the WTO protests. It is nothing more than an amalgam of unemployed people (completely legitimate), anarchists, socialists, and disaffected youth, with a huge smattering of aging hippies, with the same anti-capatolistic gripes. No central theme other than people and corps with money are bad, and we want it. Or we want to send it to the gobberment so they can waste it.