If the occupiers had any sense, they would've immediately confronted the union dogs--who showed up like flies to a picnic-- with this: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=228390&perpage=6&pagenumber=1
"Wall Street Protest Spurs Online Dialogue on Inequity" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/nyregion/wall-street-protest-spurs-online-conversation.html
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/28PSnCwCMp4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Seperate Business and State. A simple message. The second half of the video is outstanding.
I disagree. I make low 30k income we are raising 2 children just fine. We have no debt and are on track to buy a house in three years with a 20% + down payment. We live within our means and are patient when it comes to things we would like to have. Most people think they need a 1800 sf home and a 30k car now, regardless of reality. A little time spent with poorer people from other countries would fix some off these misconceptions on what is needed to live a happy life for many spoiled Americans. And these protesters are idiots. They need to be cut off from their welfare and forced to get jobs.
My apartment is considered cheap and small, but my standard of living when it comes to hygiene, food, and shelter from the weather exceeds that of KINGS from most of history. Everyone has a smartphone now that would have made the CIA jealous 20 years ago. I can drive from California to New York in a week if I want. We have lost our minds and need to grow up as a nation.
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You nailed it on the head. I try to tell some liberal friends this, that there will always be that "1% of 1%" no matter how high the standard of living gets. The reality is, EVERYBODY (I suppose besides the out and out homeless) is lightyears ahead of John Rockefeller's living standard - and that was just 100 years ago!
Mark Ghuneim, founder and chief executive officer of Trendrr, said the Twitter conversation was producing an average of 10,000 to 15,000 posts an hour on Friday about Occupy Wall Street, with most people sharing links from news sites, Tumblr, YouTube and Trendsmap. ---------------- Numbers like this should help generate massive advertising dollars and of course, accumulating data that corporations can use to target buyers, yada yada. I wonder if all these anti corporate protestors are aware they are feeding the "machine". yea, it's a big movement all right, a big bowel movement,