Occupy Wall Street: The Movement Grows

[Big Fitz]

So... Friday the Occupados descended on Minneapolis. I drove past their infestation in front of the Government plaza and realized a few things rather quickly.

1. This is a social event, not political for most of them. I watched so much 'coffee clutch' activity in the time I had to watch, if you put it in a church basement with food, it'd be a Lenten pot luck.

2. Nobody not involved or with friends there was taking them seriously, and rolling their eyes as they walked past.

3. The most obnoxious messages (which is equitable to stupid messages) were held by obvious professionals who actually WERE believers in the cause.

4. They chose a VERY poor spot to protest. They're protesting WALL STREET corruption, yet protesting in front of a government building and all their solutions were big government based. SO protesting there made what cohesive point again?

Needless to say, this movement is short lived. They can't keep up this halfassed fervor forever. I mean, there's so much liberal 'pot luck' good feelings can sustain.

 

[Dot Com]

you know who's side Orrin Hatch (R) is on

 

[Dot Com]

If Goldmann wasn't so entrenched in our Treasury, Justice could go after the pukes

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI--LdhdIBg&feature=related]Lloyd Blankfein doesn't want to answer Senator Tom Coburn's question - YouTube[/ame]

 

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If Goldmann wasn't so entrenched in our Treasury, Justice could go after the pukes

Lloyd Blankfein doesn't want to answer Senator Tom Coburn's question - YouTube

And how many of those Executives are DNC Supporters? How many play Golf with Barry?

 

[Dot Com]

If Goldmann wasn't so entrenched in our Treasury, Justice could go after the pukes

Lloyd Blankfein doesn't want to answer Senator Tom Coburn's question - YouTube

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And how many of those Executives are DNC Supporters? How many play Golf with Barry?

Yep. Its on both sides of the aisle but the Robert$ Court has raised the money pedaling for influence to the nth degree with their ruling.

 

[Trajan]

the only thing growing at these 'demonstrations' is fungus.

 

[boedicca]

OWS 'Splained!

 

[Trajan]

If Goldmann wasn't so entrenched in our Treasury, Justice could go after the pukes

Lloyd Blankfein doesn't want to answer Senator Tom Coburn's question - YouTube

solyndra execs wouldn't answer questions other, they took the 5th, hello...

 

[Intense]

Google is known for innovation in technology -- but taxes?

It turns out the Silicon Valley giant also excels at exploiting tax loopholes. By employing tactics such as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich," Google has saved $1 billion in annual taxes and reduced its effective tax rate on foreign profits to just 2.4 percent.

The complex strategy that sends overseas income on a circuitous journey from the rainy shores of Ireland to the sunny island of Bermuda has cut Google's tax bill by $3.1 billion over the last three years, according to an analysis by Bloomberg News.

Although legal, Google's tax-saving strategy is raising eyebrows at a time when both the US government and many European nations are fighting furiously to close record deficits.

Such strategies -- also employed at Microsoft, IBM and soon Facebook -- reduce the amount companies pay to overseas countries and allow firms to lower their US tax rates by shifting expenses to countries with higher tax rates, experts said. Those expenses are used to cut their tax rates here.

But the process has been condoned by the Internal Revenue Service, which granted Google the right to license its offshore search engine and other intellectual property rights to an offshore subsidiary in 2006, according to Bloomberg.

The subsidiary, Google Ireland Holdings, employs about 2,000 people in Dublin and gets credit for almost 90 percent of Google's overseas sales. It then offsets that income with billions in royalty payments to an Irish entity, whose management is based in Bermuda.

Read more: Search: Tax breaks; Artful dodger Google saves $3.1B in 3 years - NYPOST.com

Let's Add this to our List of Grievances.

 

[freedombecki]

I guess sanitation has become a stinky problem for protesters.

 

[Si modo]

I guess sanitation has become a stinky problem for protesters.

After just opening that link, I had to spray Febreeze in my office. What pigs!

Pooping on NYC cop cars? What sort of pig is that????????

 

[CrusaderFrank]

OWS: The movement grow disgusting

 

[freedombecki]

Didn't I hear them wailing the other day, "We're all in this together..."

 

[boedicca]

Didn't I hear them wailing the other day, "We're all in this together..."

That big communal sleeping bag must be pretty danged skanky by now.

 

[Trajan]

I guess sanitation has become a stinky problem for protesters.

After just opening that link, I had to spray Febreeze in my office. What pigs!

Pooping on NYC cop cars? What sort of pig is that????????

give him a break Si, he thought he was home....

 

[freedombecki]

Didn't I hear them wailing the other day, "We're all in this together..."

That big communal sleeping bag must be pretty danged skanky by now.

One of the pictures showed trash piled on top of a queen-sized dirty mattress and reminded me of photos of the last garbage strike in the city. (70s - 80s?)

 

[Trajan]

did anyone post this yet?

About 200 people attended the event. U.S. Congressman John Lewis even stopped by for about half an hour.

Several demonstrators held signs showing their frustration with Washington’s relationship with big business. Many people voiced general frustration. One woman said she was there for changes for animals. Another attendee said he didn’t think either party represented his feelings.

Congressman Lewis (D, GA) was ready to talk to the group, but they didn’t give him a chance to speak.

“I was going to say, I stand with you. I support you, what you’re down,” said Lewis to the media.



Michelle Williams was excited to attend the event and no longer wanted to be associated with the movement, citing how Lewis was treated.

“I am angry because this is not what democracy is all about. This is Marxist more Stalin like. Your movement, you’re just riff-raff. You’re an organized mob,” said Williams.

Occupy Wall Street protests come to Atlanta - CBS Atlanta 46


Looks like the 'movement' is racist too

 

[boedicca]

did anyone post this yet?

About 200 people attended the event. U.S. Congressman John Lewis even stopped by for about half an hour.

Several demonstrators held signs showing their frustration with Washington’s relationship with big business. Many people voiced general frustration. One woman said she was there for changes for animals. Another attendee said he didn’t think either party represented his feelings.

Congressman Lewis (D, GA) was ready to talk to the group, but they didn’t give him a chance to speak.

“I was going to say, I stand with you. I support you, what you’re down,” said Lewis to the media.



Michelle Williams was excited to attend the event and no longer wanted to be associated with the movement, citing how Lewis was treated.

“I am angry because this is not what democracy is all about. This is Marxist more Stalin like. Your movement, you’re just riff-raff. You’re an organized mob,” said Williams.

Occupy Wall Street protests come to Atlanta - CBS Atlanta 46


Looks like the 'movement' is racist too

Clearly, the problem was that John Lewis was not escorted by Nancy Pelosi and her Giant Gavel.

 

[boedicca]

Has The Noodles Restaurant Revolutionary showed up yet?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBJY6djZ044]America is NOT now, nor will bow, to the evil that is Socialism - YouTube[/ame]

 

[EriktheRed]

This whole thing could fizzle out next week, but if it's so insignificant, why does a conservative magazine's assistant editor feel the need to engage in provocation himself?