The Occupy Wall Street kids are protesting corporate greed on Wall Street – evil bankers and whatnot. They also love President Obama, and think he’s doing a fine job in office. Shhh! No one tell them that Wall Street donated twice as much money to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 as it did to John McCain’s. It might shatter their fragile illusions.
Seriously, these people are clueless. They call themselves the 99%, as in the 99% of Americans that supposedly agree with them and their ridiculous “demands.” Right. Small gatherings of unwashed white college students camping out day and night is indicative of the political environment in the United States right now. That must be why the GOP dominated the 2010 election across the nation.
Some commentators have likened Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party. That’s quite the stretch, considering the two groups have zilch in common. The Tea Party says, “Leave us alone,” while Occupy Wall Street cries, ‘Take care of us!”
It sucks to be drowning in debt for a college degree that isn’t actually a magic ticket to a dream job. Or when house payments go up because someone didn’t understand what an adjustable rate mortgage was when they put 0% down on a house they qualified for thanks to some clever accounting. Or when you have to move into your mom’s basement with the cats.
But that’s life. No one can control what happens to him or her, but everyone can control his or her reactions to life’s curve balls. The Tea Party people show up for rallies on weekends and evenings, because they’re busy working, taking care of their families, or pounding the job-searching pavement during the day. They don’t set up camp at city hall and refuse to budge until the minimum wage is $20 per hour, regardless of employment status.
In over two years of existence, the people of the Tea Party movement have not been responsible for anything more violent than mailing bags of Lipton to Congress. The Wall Street goons attacked the police.
The press and Liberal leaders in Congress have vilified the Tea Party. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called the movement Astroturf. Senator Barbara Boxer called us an angry mob. Vice President Biden stooped so low as to liken us to terrorists. What do these same people have to say about the Wall Street crowd? Ms. Pelosi says, “God bless them.”
God bless them? They are sitting around on their hineys, demanding to be taken care of on the taxpayers’ dime, threatening and actually attacking the police, and generally whining about life, and all Nancy Pelosi has to say is, “God bless them”?
All I have to say to the Occupy Wall Street hooligans and the democratic leaders that support them: Keep it up. Elections are only 13 months away.
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Jaga, just like the same comments about the tea party rallys. There are racist, old white men, tea baggers, ignorant, terrorists, and they should go to hell?? These are jsut some of the comments from the commenters and theStir bloggers.
So far Jenny has been called hateful, stupid, ignorant and other names. And yet, the same people calling her these names, are the same ones that call the tea party names, and ask for civlity. Where is yours??
Agree with witchkiss. The 99%, by the way, represent the staggering disporportionate wealth in this country, and not everyone there supports Obama. Do ANY, I mean ANY, of the writers here fact check? AT ALL?
billsfan - I was talking about how she implied the Tea Party was nothing but good hard working wonderful people. Sorry, not true. I'm quite aware the Tea Party isn't 100% racist old white men, and christian terrorists but they are out there. Sure there are unemployed white college kids at these protests and I'm sure some of them even like Obama but it's not all of them and posts like this point out just how little she understands about it. She's spouting off ignorance. And once again, this is not a democrat/republican issue unless you make it out to be. She lost any credibility at "They also love President Obama, and think he’s doing a fine job in office."
O and bills? Why is it okay for Jenny to call people hooligans and goons ect but it isn't okay for anyone else to call her out?
While I don't agree with some of the bashing in this post, the general message is on the mark and I've been wondering the same thing. The very same people who have been bashing the Tea Party for the past two years are now cheering (or joining) this "movement". Someone said they are protesting the Bailouts... Well, so was the Tea Party!!! Where were all these protesters then? Why weren't they at Tea Party Rallies???
And my biggest question is why these people are protesting on Wall St? Why aren't they at the capital?
Really, nothing is going to change until both sides can come together in this country as "The People" and stand up against career and corrupt politicians. In order to do that, we have to find some middle ground and work together.... but we're all so busy bashing each other I don't see that happening.
Butterfly- How is that link any more hateful than anything you will find if you google "Tea Party violence"... since the only violence you can find there is "threatening signs"!!! haha!! Seriously, those people actually wrote that stuff and expect people to not make fun of it? "We pay 18k in debt every month and only have 100 for food! WAAHHH!" Hilarious. "I live in my mom's basement and can't afford to feed my cats because food stamps won't cover it".... I just... It's just too much. If that is the "99%", then I'm not with them.