Wall Street Protests - Page 23

ZenGum · 10-24-2011, 11:35 PM

Maths is a liberal plot to take away your freedom. Addition is just a theory, and subtraction is a sin. Now, multiplication ...

Spexxvet · 10-25-2011, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Maths is a liberal plot to take away your freedom. Addition is just a theory, and subtraction is a sin. Now, multiplication ...

...is biblical.

tw · 10-25-2011, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Maths is a liberal plot to take away your freedom. Addition is just a theory, and subtraction is a sin. Now, multiplication ...

Religion tells man to multiply without doing the math.

Lamplighter · 10-25-2011, 09:49 AM

and divide is to conquer

ZenGum · 10-25-2011, 07:52 PM

And money is the square root of all evil!

HungLikeJesus · 10-25-2011, 08:13 PM

I think who ever started the Occupy movement was very clever in picking 99% vs. 1%. If it was 90% vs. 10% they wouldn't have nearly the support that they do.

classicman · 10-25-2011, 09:13 PM

like 9x less?

SamIam · 10-25-2011, 09:47 PM

I think it comes out to 9% less.

classicman · 10-25-2011, 09:50 PM

Undertoad · 10-25-2011, 10:11 PM

9.0909090909 percent

Trilby · 10-26-2011, 06:42 AM

according to Colbert, the 99% are at least half of all Americans.

HungLikeJesus · 10-26-2011, 07:51 AM

I think that there's a large segment at the bottom who are unaffected by it all (say 33%), a middle segment that is doing all the work (33% to 66%) and the top third is mostly just moral support.

SamIam · 10-26-2011, 12:11 PM

How do you figure the lower 33% is unaffected by it all and the middle 33 - 66% is "doing all the work"? The US has plenty of people who fall into the category of the working poor. Living where I do, we have lots of working poor around here.

Among other things, we will most certainly be impacted by the decisions of oil and gas and coal company execs (and uranium), since they are major employers out here. If the government cuts things like food and housing assistance, its not going to be pretty in western Colorado, and, I suspect, the rest of the country.

I was talking about this with two friends - a retired coal miner and a Native American from Montana. We figure we could raise enough interest here in the 4-Corners to have an occupy "Cortez protest" in front of the town's largest bank.

The Native Americans around here are pretty upset as their second class citizen status continues over the centuries. Native children are still removed from their homes on the flimsiest of pretexts and given to white foster families. Next door in Utah, the Mormons continue to illegally adopt Navajo kids and raise them in the Mormon faith without ever exposing them to their true heritage.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says:

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Occupy Wall Street has captured the imagination and passion of millions of Americans who have lost hope that our nation’s policymakers are speaking for them. We support the protesters in their determination to hold Wall Street accountable and create good jobs.

We are proud that today on Wall Street, bus drivers, painters, nurses and utility workers will join students and homeowners, the unemployed and the underemployed to call for fundamental change.

[Trumka says the labor movement] “will open our union halls and community centers as well as our arms and our hearts to those with the courage to stand up and demand a better America.”

Both AIM and the unions have joined hands with Occupy Denver and Occupy Wall Street among others.

These are just a few examples. Oh, the lower 33% is impacted alright.

@ Classicman - What's the matter? Got a headache?

Lamplighter · 10-26-2011, 12:56 PM

Sam, I realize what you are discussing is not a laughing matter, but...
ever since New Hampshire started it's state lottery I've thought the
greatest irony of gambling in the US are the Native American casinos.

They should add a line to their logo:
"500 years of indigenous resistance"
.."50 years of ingenious resistance"

SamIam · 10-26-2011, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Sam, I realize what you are discussing is not a laughing matter, but...
ever since New Hampshire started it's state lottery I've thought the
greatest irony of gambling in the US are the Native American casinos.

They should add a line to their logo:
"500 years of indigenous resistance"
.."50 years of ingenious resistance"

Well, if you can't have a sense of humor, you might as well go off and die somewhere.

We have several casino's near here, too. What interests me is that about half the people you see gambling are native. Sort of misses the point, doesn't it?

10-24-2011, 11:35 PM	#331
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Maths is a liberal plot to take away your freedom. Addition is just a theory, and subtraction is a sin. Now, multiplication ... __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

10-25-2011, 07:52 PM	#335
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	And money is the square root of all evil! __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

10-25-2011, 08:13 PM	#336
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	I think who ever started the Occupy movement was very clever in picking 99% vs. 1%. If it was 90% vs. 10% they wouldn't have nearly the support that they do. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

10-25-2011, 09:13 PM	#337
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	like 9x less? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-25-2011, 09:50 PM	#339
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	__________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-25-2011, 09:49 AM	#334
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	and divide is to conquer

10-25-2011, 09:47 PM	#338
SamIam Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Not here Posts: 2,655	I think it comes out to 9% less.

10-25-2011, 10:11 PM	#340
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	9.0909090909 percent

10-26-2011, 06:42 AM	#341
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	according to Colbert, the 99% are at least half of all Americans. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

10-26-2011, 07:51 AM	#342
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	I think that there's a large segment at the bottom who are unaffected by it all (say 33%), a middle segment that is doing all the work (33% to 66%) and the top third is mostly just moral support. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

10-26-2011, 12:56 PM	#344
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Sam, I realize what you are discussing is not a laughing matter, but... ever since New Hampshire started it's state lottery I've thought the greatest irony of gambling in the US are the Native American casinos. They should add a line to their logo: "500 years of indigenous resistance" .."50 years of ingenious resistance"

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