Thread: Citizens occupy Wall Street

Protestors picket the 55 Wall Street building, chanting "We are the 99 PERCENT", in reference to the top 1% of the rich, who hold more wealth in this nation than the bottom 95% combined.
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/...-more-wealth-/

Wall Street wealthy mock protestors by drinking champagne on their balcony:

WOW! I heard something on the Weather Channel but it was a small 20 second segment which made it look like only 20-30 people were there. Since the media is owned by the corporations, it's no wonder this is not being reported on tv news. It is pretty inflammatory when you see champagne drinking well-to-dos (deserved brunch break or not) mocking protestors chanting 'We are the 99%'.

This is not going to end well.

At least they did it on a Saturday so they didn't have to call in sick to their day jobs. Let them eat cake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

In Chinese culture, there is reputedly (according to one book citing an oral source) a similar story that involves rice and meat, instead of bread and cake: "an ancient Chinese emperor who, being told that his subjects didn't have enough rice to eat, replied, 'Why don't they eat meat?'".

Originally Posted by burrocrat

At least they did it on a Saturday so they didn't have to call in sick to their day jobs. Let them eat cake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

more rep (when I can) for the French Revolution allusion. Unfortunately, this will give me nightmares tonight unlike the globalization protest during G8/10 meetings.

Originally Posted by malyla

this will give me nightmares tonight

you should try buproprion, it won't take the nightmares away but it makes them more like just dreams, plus mostly everyone is naked in them.

Originally Posted by burrocrat

you should try buproprion, it won't take the nightmares away but it makes them more like just dreams, plus mostly everyone is naked in them.

Well, since I couldn't find any buproprion at the drug store:toung:, I stayed awake and surf the web to some of my more interesting blog sites. Matt Trivisonnos was good, but then I found the newer blogger that speaks to me (bookmarked it this time)-Garthright and was blown away by today's summary of America's Class Warfare. Brilliant history lesson - please read it through. Diamonds are a girl's, and America's, best friend!!!

http://garthright.blogspot.com/2011/...f-history.html

Peaceful female protestors on Wall Street are suddenly surrounded by police,
put inside nets, and sprayed with chemical weapons by the police without reason.


Let them eat cake?

The Mayor of New York is correct- I think there is going to be rioting
in the streets over the wealth hording by those richest one percent.

The 1st Amendment right of peaceable assembly is essentially gone.

It lives only in the minds of the powerful who define it in the way
that makes it only work for them.

Wall Street protesters arrested during march through New York

By Ray Sanchez
NEW YORK | Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:50pm EDT

(Reuters) - Several hundred marchers wound their way through the streets of lower Manhattan on Saturday in the latest of a string of protests over the past week against what demonstrators saw as corporate greed on Wall Street.

The demonstrations, participants said, were meant to criticize a financial system that they believed unfairly benefits corporations and the rich. They said the protests were inspired by demonstrations in Egypt and Spain.

The marchers carried signs spelling out their goals. "Tax the rich," one sign said. "We Want Money for Healthcare not Corporate Welfare," read another.

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The demonstrators were mostly college-aged marchers carrying American flags and signs with anti-corporate slogans. Some beat drums, blew horns and chanted slogans as uniformed officers surrounded and videotaped them.


more:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...r&dlvrit=60573

Originally Posted by James48843

Let them eat cake?

I prefer the rice/meat interpretation. Why don't they eat meat?

Because there is a deficiency in skill, desire, or effort that hampers the successful hunt for meat, so instead beg for rice. And then complain when they are not given enough.

Let them eat cake.

There is always freedom. But most times you have to get it for yourself. Only in recent history has it been different.

Originally Posted by burrocrat

Let them eat cake.

Either one works because it exemplifies the elitists inability to think the problem through. The elitist would wonder because it wouldn't occur to them that if there was a shortage of rice or grain, how would the little people (99%) be able to feed animals for meat. Plus, the little people don't have protected preserves to hunt animals. Civilization was made possible by farming and the raising of domesticated animals.

Whatever happened to "Noblesse oblige"? The realization that to top 1% made it there on the backs of the other 99%? No man is an island and no man made it by themselves. Edison, Ford, Carnigie, Gates, name any of the people who made it to the top and you will find thousands if not ten's of thousands of people that made them their riches.

Originally Posted by Aireman

think the problem through ... ten's of thousands of people that made them their riches.

Maybe there's two sides to this coin. Maybe the 'elitists' wonder how come the 'little people' don't carpe diem for themselves?

Let them eat cake is a call to freedom. Not an ignorant bewilderment at the problem, but a clearing of the path. Nobody is going to give you bread, neither is anybody is standing in your way of making yourself some cake.

How can ten's of thousands be happy making somebody else rich? And if they're not, then why do they keep doing it?

If you have a poor hunt I will share my table. But if you refuse to hunt, go beg somewhere else for your rice.

Why don't they eat meat?