"The edible fare is simply exquiste... just like our servants used to prepare before I went off to university."
Occupy Wall Street Fail
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"The edible fare is simply exquiste... just like our servants used to prepare before I went off to university."
It is nice to be cynical when something you believe in is falling apart. But fall apart it must and will. Don't hold on to you shyte too tightly. Your asshole might explode.
Wall Street: Follow the Money
Wall Street: Follow the Money
Why not pester them? The OWS crowd doesn't care if you're a big corporation or not; the fact that someone is earning money - money that the OWS folks obviously can't generate - means that they are 'owed'.
It looks like the business in the YouTube vidoe is a local coffee shop, I suppose that their gourmet kitchen only serves high-end food and not coffee.... It makes perfect sense that they would want a decent cup of java after their caviar and truffles.
It is too bad you guys don't get what is going on here.
The Doors - The End (1967) - YouTube
The old world order is self destructing. All you see is chaos, but order always comes out of chaos.
The Doors - The End (1967) - YouTube
The old world order is self destructing. All you see is chaos, but order always comes out of chaos.
I guess you just missed the whole point.
But then again, 75% of the protestors have missed it, too, so you're not alone.
'private businesses'
What did you think 'wall street' is?
You are really quite clueless on this matter, not a huge surprise really.
Former Financial Regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street A Counter to White-Collar Fraud - YouTube
So Colpy, are these Jews anti-semitic?
The group said on its Facebook page, "There is no more important time than right now to be present, really present, in the streets of the United States to decry the injustice of those who are suffering under crushing debt, foreclosure, lack of healthcare; to decry the injustice that the one percent who brought the economy down are still in their offices 'earning' bonuses while the other ninety-nine percent of us are trying to figure out how to make it to the end of the month."
PressTV - Jews celebrate Sukkot at 'Occupy Los Angeles' protest (VIDEO)
What do you expect from them. They are greedy and they want what other people have earned.
Just like one of the Occupiers said...
"F*** bosses... I don't want to work for anyone."
I expect these spastics to do whatever the unions, 'activists' and other backers say they do. Jedi Mindtricks. It's a social trollathon man.
But even these dolts will awake soon enough from being manipulated. Unless they're Hale Bopper's. ;-)
Doesn't seem to be a lot of independent thought. Repeat after me...
Well, expect for the toe-sniffer up here in Toronto. :lol:
Occupy Wall Street: The Right Focus
Pro: A Growing Disparity
Economic inequality has been growing steadily for three decades. According to the most definitive data, assembled by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, the top 1 percent received 10 percent of all U.S. income in 1979. By 2007, just before the Great Recession, that share had risen to 23 percent.
What most Americans don’t know, however, is that before the late 1970s, inequality had been falling for five decades. The Golden Age of capitalism—the 30 years from the end of World War II through the mid-1970s, when gross domestic product, wages, and incomes grew faster than at any comparable period in American history—was marked not by financial excesses and widening inequality, but by equalizing growth and broadly shared prosperity.
Of course, not every Occupy Wall Street protester has reviewed the hard data. But the thread running through the range of grievances voiced at occupations around the country is anger over high and rising inequality.
Few measures would help the long-term health of the economy more than reducing the economic and political clout of Wall Street.
The financial sector exists to connect savers with investors and to do so at the lowest feasible cost and risk. In a sensible world, we would view the financial sector as nothing more than a transactions cost to be minimized along the way to producing the goods and services that the economy is really about.
For all the counter-culture on display, Occupy Wall Street is pushing us exactly in this sensible direction.
Con: An Unrealistic Goal
Here’s the difference between opposing the outsize gains reaped by financial-industry companies and demanding an end to “unequal income distribution.” The former is justified anger at a specific abuse of taxpayers by politically connected financiers. The latter is a fool’s errand.
No society has come close to making wealth distribution equal. The great egalitarian experiments of the 20th century proved this, as attentive readers have known since the 1957 publication of Yugoslav dissident Milovan Đilas’ The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System, which revealed shocking disparities in quality of life in the “workers’ paradises” of Eastern Europe. China gave the world a horrific double-shot of rural poverty and (relative) urban wealth; it is only since the country joined global trading markets that it has seen provincial poverty decline.
At the same time, income inequality in China has grown, as it does in every rising economy. Growing wealth disparities are in fact a sign that overall prosperity is increasing in a competitive marketplace. The economist Gary Becker recently described how this works: “It would be hard to motivate the vast majority of individuals to exert much effort, including creative effort, if everyone had the same earnings, status, prestige, and other types of rewards. Fewer individuals would engage in the hard work involved in finishing high school and going on to college if they did not expect their additional education to bring higher incomes, better health, more prestige, and better opportunities to marry.”
Creating general equality of opportunity is among the greatest U.S. achievements. But creating equality of outcomes has caused misery everywhere it has been tried.
Occupy Wall Street: The Right Focus - BusinessWeek
Pro: A Growing Disparity
Economic inequality has been growing steadily for three decades. According to the most definitive data, assembled by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, the top 1 percent received 10 percent of all U.S. income in 1979. By 2007, just before the Great Recession, that share had risen to 23 percent.
What most Americans don’t know, however, is that before the late 1970s, inequality had been falling for five decades. The Golden Age of capitalism—the 30 years from the end of World War II through the mid-1970s, when gross domestic product, wages, and incomes grew faster than at any comparable period in American history—was marked not by financial excesses and widening inequality, but by equalizing growth and broadly shared prosperity.
Of course, not every Occupy Wall Street protester has reviewed the hard data. But the thread running through the range of grievances voiced at occupations around the country is anger over high and rising inequality.
Few measures would help the long-term health of the economy more than reducing the economic and political clout of Wall Street.
The financial sector exists to connect savers with investors and to do so at the lowest feasible cost and risk. In a sensible world, we would view the financial sector as nothing more than a transactions cost to be minimized along the way to producing the goods and services that the economy is really about.
For all the counter-culture on display, Occupy Wall Street is pushing us exactly in this sensible direction.
Con: An Unrealistic Goal
Here’s the difference between opposing the outsize gains reaped by financial-industry companies and demanding an end to “unequal income distribution.” The former is justified anger at a specific abuse of taxpayers by politically connected financiers. The latter is a fool’s errand.
No society has come close to making wealth distribution equal. The great egalitarian experiments of the 20th century proved this, as attentive readers have known since the 1957 publication of Yugoslav dissident Milovan Đilas’ The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System, which revealed shocking disparities in quality of life in the “workers’ paradises” of Eastern Europe. China gave the world a horrific double-shot of rural poverty and (relative) urban wealth; it is only since the country joined global trading markets that it has seen provincial poverty decline.
At the same time, income inequality in China has grown, as it does in every rising economy. Growing wealth disparities are in fact a sign that overall prosperity is increasing in a competitive marketplace. The economist Gary Becker recently described how this works: “It would be hard to motivate the vast majority of individuals to exert much effort, including creative effort, if everyone had the same earnings, status, prestige, and other types of rewards. Fewer individuals would engage in the hard work involved in finishing high school and going on to college if they did not expect their additional education to bring higher incomes, better health, more prestige, and better opportunities to marry.”
Creating general equality of opportunity is among the greatest U.S. achievements. But creating equality of outcomes has caused misery everywhere it has been tried.
Occupy Wall Street: The Right Focus - BusinessWeek
Yeah that repeat after me is pretty funny. Talk about indoctrination.
It is tough to organize stupid.
I saw that.
)I was listening to a talk show (NPR) last night and I only caught a potion of it. The guy was IMO and was unbiased. He was saying that the real problem is that corporations are sitting on their capital because they are unsure of the markets and stability. No question there is so much money under control of let's say the 1%. They just don't want to throw it away.
Occupiers just want them to give up that capital or take it from them.
The head of the TD Bank offers his advice to protesters:
http://www.thestar.com/business/com...canada-must-tackle-tough-issues-bank-ceo-says
"Q: Do you have any advice for the Occupy Toronto protestors?
A: My main advice is stick to your guns. When people say, ‘You don’t have a solution,’ say, ‘Of course we don’t. If there was a solution, don’t you think people would be doing it?’ To ask the people who occupy Wall Street or Bay Street to have a full answer is absurd. They’re doing their job which is to say, ‘If you think this [system] is working for everyone, it’s not.’
Now they have to figure out how not to get captured by special interest and keep the pressure on. We need people to talk about these problems and how we’re going to solve them."
http://www.thestar.com/business/com...canada-must-tackle-tough-issues-bank-ceo-says
"Q: Do you have any advice for the Occupy Toronto protestors?
A: My main advice is stick to your guns. When people say, ‘You don’t have a solution,’ say, ‘Of course we don’t. If there was a solution, don’t you think people would be doing it?’ To ask the people who occupy Wall Street or Bay Street to have a full answer is absurd. They’re doing their job which is to say, ‘If you think this [system] is working for everyone, it’s not.’
Now they have to figure out how not to get captured by special interest and keep the pressure on. We need people to talk about these problems and how we’re going to solve them."
They may stand a little better chance up here but it's more than grim down south. Unfortunate too.
You listen to NPR?
What's wrong with you?
Laughing here. Yes I do listen to NPR quite a bit. Perhaps just to say
"F********** youuuuuuuu"
...to the radio.