Occupy Wall Street Baloney

[Norseman82]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1323334489' post='2347227']
funny, with all the comparisons between Occupy and the Tea Party, you would think someone else would have posted Ron Paul's(you know the founder of the tea party?) take on the Occupy protests?

[url="http://amherst.patch.com/articles/ron-paul-defends-occupy-wall-street#video-8518569"]http://amherst.patch...t#video-8518569[/url]
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Actually, it was a rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli that is considered the birth of the tea party movement:

[url="http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701/Rick_Santelli_s_Shout_Heard_Round_the_World"]http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701/Rick_Santelli_s_Shout_Heard_Round_the_World[/url]

[Nihil Obstat]

Weird. I thought there was some thing in Boston that was the start of the Tea Party. Shows what I know about American history.

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[Papist]

Someone gots to get these cops under control.

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[Nihil Obstat]

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[Papist]

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[Nihil Obstat]

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YES! The past generations must be destroyed with great vengeance!

[Jesus_lol]

euthanasia? from a catholic??? SCANDAL

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1323809352' post='2350587']
euthanasia? from a catholic??? SCANDAL
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Euthanasia? Perish the thought. This is warfare.

[Clare~Therese]

LOL @ the pictures!

I seriously lol'd. And my dad asked, "what's so funny?"

Edited December 13, 2011 by Clare~Therese

[Papist]

[b] Occupy: A Brit’s Perspective on the Movement[/b]

December 14, 2011 By Frank Manning


Yet again, the Occupy movement has attempted to [url="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-13/occupy-port-closures/51859954/1"]shut down ports[/url] around America, further damaging the economy and injuring port companies and their workers. While they did this supposedly to express ‘solidarity’ with various ‘martyrs’, the ‘leaders’ of the movement still deny receiving any [url="http://www.joc.com/labor/trade-union-rejects-occupy-move-ports"]endorsement[/url] from unions operating within the Northwest port area. As a Britain, I want to ask this question: how much further do Occupiers have to push before Americans stand up and say “enough”?

At a time when the worldwide economy needs all the support it can get, protests like these directly cost the American economy millions and millions of dollars in negative publicity and lost productivity which, in turn, hinders growth in the European economy. Therefore, I’m sufficiently pissed.

History will likely place the Occupy protests as a footnote on the global financial crisis. While the [url="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c2ce6cd4-24a3-11e1-bfb3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1gRIo9Xw7"]Eurozone crumbled[/url] and American [url="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c2ce6cd4-24a3-11e1-bfb3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1gRIo9Xw7"]unemployment soared[/url], a collection of socialists, environmentalists, anti-Semites, radicals, statists and progressives set up camps around the Western world to ask the government to give them something for nothing.

But the Occupy movement has been a blessing to Barack Obama and Democrats, allowing them the luxury of deflecting their own mistakes onto bankers and businesses rather than facing up to their own failed policies. But its not just American politicians that may be rethinking their support of the Occupy movement. The left-wing Labour party in the UK is also reconsidering their supporting role in the Occupy protests. European politicians used the same tactics to shove their failed policies off onto the banking industry and it is going to come back to bite them.

The simple ‘bash the bankers, soak the rich’ rhetoric has been given too much airtime by liberal media happy to attack a soft target. But not even the noble cause could maintain the high stature of the movement; it lost serious legitimacy when the world heard of the criminality occurring within the camps. [url="http://news.yahoo.com/sexual-assault-thefts-hate-plague-occupy-movement-200100603.html"]Sexual assaults, robberies, thefts[/url] and shocking examples of [url="http://news.yahoo.com/sexual-assault-thefts-hate-plague-occupy-movement-200100603.html"]hypocrisy[/url] ended any justification for the occupations. Civility was lost and positive attention fled the scene.

In the Occupy London protest, police used a thermal imaging camera to examine [url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8847357/Telegraph-evicted-from-St-Pauls-Occupy-London-camp-as-the-mood-turns.html"]the tents[/url]. The majority of the them, almost 90%, were [url="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053068/Occupy-London-9-10-tents-remain-overnight-St-Pauls-camp.html"]empty at night[/url]. These rent-a-cause protestors were hanging around the camp in the daytime then going home to their warm, capitalist beds in the evening. Hardly ‘solidarity’ at its finest.

The icy chill of winter will inevitably send the majority of protestors home, and it is likely that the entire Occupy ‘movement’ will end in a damp squib rather than a final conflict. The cost of policing and cleaning all of their camps will run into millions of dollars though, a cost which will be generously met by, you guessed it, the taxpayers of America.

Without realizing it, the Occupy movement has been used by everyone. To the media, they are a quick story they can stretch out for months. To Republicans, they are an example of modern-day entitlement culture, young people who expect the moon on a stick and refuse to work for it. To Democrats, they are useful idiots, taking media attention off Obama’s diabolical ratings.

[b][url="http://thecollegeconservativedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/frank-manning.png"][img]http://thecollegeconservativedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/frank-manning.png?w=230&h=300[/img][/url]Frank Manning [/b]// University of Nottingham (UK) // @billymanning

Edited December 14, 2011 by Papist

[i<3LSOP]

Peter Schiff nails Occupy Wall Street People


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y28yFxLydzU"] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y28yFxLydzU[/url]

I don't think there is anything bad in this video.... but seriously watch it.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='i<3LSOP' timestamp='1324046527' post='2352246']
Peter Schiff nails Occupy Wall Street People


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y28yFxLydzU"] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y28yFxLydzU[/url]

I don't think there is anything bad in this video.... but seriously watch it.
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Did you know that Peter Schiff was well aware of the housing bubble back when nobody would even consider the idea of a recession? There's a video that's been on Youtube for a long time now, it's a compilation of all the times that he was on business analysis shows on news channels. He'd get laughed off the program by the hosts and other guests every single time, as he was telling them exactly what happened a year or a few months later.

[Winchester]

But Austrian economics is unscientific! It does not use aggregates and complex equations!

Your sad devotion to that ancient cult has not helped you conjure up the impending crisis...oh, wait.

[4588686]

[quote name='Winchester' timestamp='1324151311' post='2352842']
But Austrian economics is unscientific! It does not use aggregates and complex equations!

Your sad devotion to that ancient cult has not helped you conjure up the impending crisis...oh, wait.
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As I pointed out the last time I complained about the lack of rigor in Austrian Economics: Keynesian Economists predicted the housing collapse too and not all Austrians predicted the collapse.

If you want to prove your point this way then you need to contend with all the mainstream economists who regularly predict economic phenomena.

[Winchester]

[quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1324153988' post='2352871']
As I pointed out the last time I complained about the lack of rigor in Austrian Economics: Keynesian Economists predicted the housing collapse too and not all Austrians predicted the collapse.

If you want to prove your point this way then you need to contend with all the mainstream economists who regularly predict economic phenomena.
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Which Keynesian predicted it? Krugman? Some recognized a bubble, but to what did they attribute it?

The prediction is rather built in to Austrian economics. Recognizing inflation as an evil and the real source of economic growth is quite an advantage. The Keynesians, and Freidmanites have brought us perpetual monetary destruction, and debt. They are imbeciles. "Animal spirits" A term to account for the fact that people are not particles.

[Socrates]

[quote name='Winchester' timestamp='1324160809' post='2352898']
Which Keynesian predicted it? Krugman? Some recognized a bubble, but to what did they attribute it?

The prediction is rather built in to Austrian economics. Recognizing inflation as an evil and the real source of economic growth is quite an advantage. The Keynesians, and Freidmanites have brought us perpetual monetary destruction, and debt. They are imbeciles. "Animal spirits" A term to account for the fact that people are not particles.
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Please Winchester, enough of your ignorant, unscientific Austrian croutons.

We just need to give Keynesianism a chance!
The problem, of course, is that our miserly government just isn't printing and spending enough money (all because of the undue influence of all those extremist right-wing ideologues in the government, of course). I mean, we're only $15 trillion in debt. Once we get up to $50 trillion or so in debt, the economy will be saved, and there will be wealth and prosperity for all!

Hey, my computer assured me it would work.

[add]

the 99% shop at wallyworld are to blame for this mess
[img]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d160/wisper3/wallmart.jpg[/img]

[Jesus_lol]

Honestly, with WalMart's practices, it is much more the fault of the company than the consumers. it is the company that pays its workers dirt cheap, that moves into town and purposefully drives all other competing shops out of business, and makes themselves the only game in town.

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1324900320' post='2357622']
Honestly, with WalMart's practices, it is much more the fault of the company than the consumers. it is the company that pays its workers dirt cheap, that moves into town and purposefully drives all other competing shops out of business, and makes themselves the only game in town.
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hey man, that's the glory of capitalism!!!

[Jesus_lol]

OOH RAH