Get a What? A Job? 70% of Occupy Wall Streeters are Employed, Compared to 56% of Tea Partiers.

Nice spin.

wait so 40% of the Tea Party is employing 75% of the Occupy Wall Street? Is that what you are trying to say?

I knew I was forgetting a name or three.

Wow, OWS must be good people.

My problem with OWS is lack of leadership and lack of goals. Without the two it's just a group of people bitching about random things.

the lack of leadership is it's strength and why it is not going any where.

read up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization

Lol. Somehow I don't actually believe that 75% of the tent people shower, shave, and leave the park to go to work each morning. Not that it's NECESARILY their fault. Unemployment did nearly double in those two years from 2009-2010 when the democrats controlled the senate, the house, and the presidency. So maybe they are just victims of failed democrat policies in the last few years, but I don't think 75% of them are working.

And I see we are getting closer to getting some goals...

I found this on occupywallst.org just now....

• Widespread deregulation that has eliminated common sense regulations that have insured long term prosperity and protection from predatory business practices
• A Tax code that is cumbersome and rife with loopholes and language that favors an economic minority at the expense of the majority of wage earners
• A Supreme Court decision that has put into place the unprecedented concept of extending first amendment protections to political donations
• Jeopardizing the future of social security through investiture and privatization schemes
• By reducing funding to our education system our future generations are provided a lesser education that previous generations received because of increased class size and reduced resources
• Because of decreasing funding individuals are saddled with higher student loan debt
• A political system where even the most perfunctory tasks of government are partisan battles

I can get behind all of this. But they need to clean it up, slim it down. Instead of calling this "Occupy Wall Street" they need to call this "The Workers Right Movement". Then instead of bitching about Wall Street they need to target the root of the problem - Which isn't Wall Street at all, it's Washington.

Truly terrible spin. Being retired is not the same as being unemployed.

Par for the course with OWS though.

Exactly. Also, how is it that simply by referring to someone else's blog, whether that blog is validated information or not, suddenly make what you are saying valid? You still need to validate the source which is not done here.

Hey a nice graphic that looks professionally done, it has to be true.

Interesting data. This is a bigger and easier to read version.

Tea Party is about wanting responsibility in government
Occupy Wall Street is about?

Giving more power to government so they can bail out their banker buddies easier.

Sad but true. the OWS useful idiots have been duped by the very same people they claim to be against. They are doing the bidding of the big government crony capitalists.

yeah for the pup tenters..... uggggggg

"Workers Right Movement" is your idea? That sounds kinda socialist to me...



I believe that the OWS protests are in part a reaction to the control that Wall Street exerts over the politicians in DC, and that the protesters are targeting both Wall Street and the RepubliCrats, whom are the simply the agents (proxies) of the Plutocrats that are manipulating the puppet strings.

Basically, we need political leaders that work for the 99% or 100%, and not politicians that simply look out for the top 1% (except when it is politically expedient to do otherwise), which certainly seems to be the status quo.



#OccupyEarth (with Peace and Love),

ADG

Are the OWS people accomplishing anything? Other than give some politicians new people to align with?

I've been watching it for the past three nights, pretty fucking good documentary. Complete waste of 58,000 lives. Here's another good one to check out.

Some of it sounds good, until you consider how it's actually worked when it was tried, or until you do some basic arithmetic.


Regulated long distance telephone rate: 51 cents per minute
Deregulated rate: 14 cents

Regulated airline ticket: $842
Deregulated ticket: $408

Let's regulate more so more things can cost twice as much. Every time it's actually tried, we find that government regulates our money into the pockets of their friends.

So they are in favor of getting rid of all the tax loopholes and the billions spent every year on accountants? You want a simple tax system that's fair? I agree. Then they'll love the simple flat tax and the fair tax, both being proposed by current republican candidates.

What the hell do you think the first amendment is for, if not to protect your right to get your voice heard politically? That's the while friggin point of the first amendment, to allow us to be involved in the political process. Read a book without superheroes in it before taking a position on Constitutional law, please. If you really hate contributions to political organizations, though, you can start by demanding that Soros stop funding OWS.



Jeopardizing? There's no risk or uncertainty here, folks. We KNOW how many 52 year olds there are. It's called the "census". We know that in ten years, those 52 year olds will be 62 and start drawing social security. We know we're screwed. Private retirement funds aren't a proposal to fix SS, it's a warning that you better have your own funds because social security is mathematically fucked. 2 + 2 doesn't equal 8 no matter how much we want it to. Social security isn't jeopardized, is over in a few years, because we KNOW how many people will turn 62.


Our parents had virtually no higher education funding and they had no debt. You have debt because you took out a loan dummy.

2009 - 2010 one party controlled Washington. They controlled the house, they controlled the senate, and they controlled the presidency. There wasn't any partisan battles going on with the democrats in complete control for the last couple years. How has that been working for you?

Yeah . . . . it is weird watching your teens on the History Channel. Brings up a lot of emotions.

I'm sure they'll figure it out one day.

Maybe Soros should just come out and tell them what he has them there for rather than playing like he's not running them.

And this was from surveying them on the streets? Ask 100 unemployeed bums if they have jobs, at least 50 will have enough pride to lie and say yes I have a job.

Curious if there is anything Soros isn't supposedly funding?

You are suggesting its a made up fact by making up a fact? ;)

Yeah, that does sound lame. I'm not the most creative person in the world. Someone else can do better....

Sorry . . . what?

How do people in OWS have jobs and never go to them without being fired? Aren't they "occupying" city parks and living in tents and setting up committees and other things?

I would assume that if they had a job in this rough economy that they wouldn't be dumb enough to lose it by not showing up to work everyday?