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Re: Well, I've always rejected the idea that all Tea Partiers
Hear, hear, Raye09!
I have attended the Occupy Wall Street one weekend and certainly have never been a druggie. I would have attended a Tea Party rally if the times and locations worked for me. Before the partisan attempts to co-opt or discredit their respective movements, they were both strongly anti-partisan and held a wide variety of views of what needed to be done. The main point of both movements is that BOTH the Democratic and Republican Parties have refused to listen to the people and have, indeed, acted AGAINST the people. The Tea Party attacked the Political end of the Financial-Political Complex, whereas the Occupy Wall Street movement has attacked the Financial end.
What we have is that Complex saying, through the main stream media and the political parties, saying "Be quiet. Get a job, even if you have to move across the country, and be happy with the pittance we pay you. Pay your taxes. Respect our wealth and positions of power. Bail us out when we screw up, screw you or both. When we move your industry to India or China, lay you off and foreclose on your home because of the mortgage loans we used to hyperinflate the price of housing, take all the lies we say about you as gospel truth. You are lazy and undereducated, despite your post-graduate degrees, and expect everything handed to you on a silver platter, even though you have spent eighty hours a week working and travelling for your jobs. Go back home, if you still have one, and tell your children to do what we say in the government-controlled indoctrination centers we call schools, for which you are expected to pay, so that we can issue a diploma to them which means nothing but a chance for you to overpay for student-loan-inflated college and for them to end up with a degree and student loan indebtedness which is several times your salary. When they graduate and there are no jobs for them, tell them that they are lazy and undereducated since they should be able to figure out how to pay back hundred thousand dollar student loans digging ditches. If they are so fortunate as to know someone who can get them into a job which might pay them enough to pay off their student loans, then let us call them millionaires and tax them to kingdom come."
Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party and the people do have a single, unified message in response to this: "No".
posted by
cpklapper
on November 22, 2011 at 9:50 AM
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My grandmother often had to deal with squatters at her rental. They are such a pain. This movement has become many times worse.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 18, 2011 at 9:56 AM
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Sam444
As thousands are moving along under union groups permits in Los Angeles people are closing their businesses in fear. Now what do they think of military. They are not even in combat with a reality but with themselves. It will get violent. Union has a history from it's inception of violence.
posted by
Justi
on November 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM
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I agree totally.
posted by
Justi
on November 17, 2011 at 2:11 PM
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I am not in favor of this movement because they seem to be squatters without a purpose! When they were interviewed in my town they couldn't say what they intended to accomplish, just that it was taking time to get their camp organized! I am fed up with the violence associated with this movement, too! sam
posted by
sam444
on November 17, 2011 at 1:52 PM
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I can't imagine me and mine squatting and occupying. When one is brought up with a work ethic it seems to stick.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 17, 2011 at 12:11 PM
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Well, I've always rejected the idea that all Tea Partiers
are greedy, racist and anarchists. My Dear Mother, a successful, hard working business woman still on the go in her seventies and a proud American agrees with many of the T.Party ideas and she also supports the basic premise of the Occupy movement. Because both at least started with the idea that the middle class is under attack and needs a response before the majority is in deep and tragic poverty (she sees this in her financial situation; investments once solid now are just a part of the reckless gambling on Wall St.; her pension slashed, Soc. Sec. and Medicare threatened, yet the money for corporate welfare keeps flowing and the wars and their outrageous expenses never end, no matter the proclamations by Mr. Obama.) She has been present at both movement's gatherings and she was not the only retired citizen, especially at the Occupy meeting -far from it - therefore sweeping and generalized statements about Occupy being composed of only young, lazy and drugged people is plain and simply wrong. Not that this will stop those who seem to feel frightened by folks exercising their First Amendment rights. Of course violence in any circumstance is not acceptable.
posted by
Raye09
on November 17, 2011 at 8:36 AM
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I agree 100% with you! In addition, I had to deal for months with a cousin squatting on family property. We had to clean up after code enforcement planned to charge $2300/day until it was cleaned, had to call the police repeatedly to get dumpsters filled while she rage that "nobody cared about her". Get a job, keep a job, work with your mouth shut, then no one will have to carry you!! This is the small scale version of the larger group/problem!!
posted by
Dr_JPT
on November 17, 2011 at 6:50 AM
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i wonder how long it will take for people to realize what we were brought
up to understand....one must work hard at something...even if it isn't paid work. or the job you felt that you deserve. Sigh.
posted by
Kabu
on November 16, 2011 at 8:01 PM
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