where are the homeless going to hang out at and get drunk and pee all over the place? this park is their home.

probably your yard

“President Barack Obama referenced the nationwide demonstrations Thursday and called them a sign that voters are upset with Republican leadership, who he accused of blocking efforts to spark job growth”. Yea I’m sure it’s got nothing to do with you mister president, after all your perfect.

The fact you choice to ignore the majority of people that were there that had concise messages and edited your piece, ignoring the fact that once that girl and her friends acted out We, the assembly responded and removed them. They were disrespectful, Occupy Sacramento acted to protect you and preserve the peace and non-violence. Rather than acknowledge the spirit and respect the general assembly showed you by policing ourselves you chose to paint us in a bias and negative light.

A bunch of angry hot headed leftists. They are so angry, they don’t know what they are protesting about! LMAO!

I WALK AROUND TO SEE…..THESE GROUPS HAVE A CHANCE TO CHANGE THINGS IF THE ISSUES ARE WHATS WRONG IN AMERICA…FIRST…. BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME,SECURE THE BORDERS, THE THREAT IS HERE IN RADICAL ISLAM TWO…CORPRATE AMERICA NEEDS TO BRING OUR JOBS BACK,ITS OUR MARKET OUR ECONOMY,IF NOT TAX THEM %100 DUTY ……THIRD…NO FREEBEES YOU GET A JOB WITH LOW HOUSING…..FOURTH STATE AND FEDERAL WORKER DO NOT GET OUT RAGIOUS SALARIES AND BENIFITS…FIFTH TERM LIMITS FOR POLITICAL OFFICES… FIVE REASONS TO START

Greed is indeed ruining this country. Greed of the lazy and underachievers thinking they have a right to what others have created and earned.

Isn’t this what Obama was after, “share the wealth”, “redistribution of the money”. Remember Joe, theplumber. Wouldn’t surprise me if Obama’s operatives were behind this .

We’re here to protest….something. Tomorrow we’ll have a meeting and find out what our orders are once we get our talking points from Obama and SEIU union reps. Until then, we’re gonna protest our lib hearts out about stuff.

Amen! How true how true. Also, these so called protests have Obama’s fingerprints all over them. This is what community organizing looks like.

Translation: My life sucks and I need to blame someone. Let me go out and protest corporate “greed”. Then I’ll go home and use all my corporate produced products that make my life easier. Nothing more than useful idiots in the continuation of the socialist instigated class war.

Christopher is a good little comrade. A mush-head looking for a leader.

They’re there because Soros told his employee, the Kwisatz Haderach, to ramp it up. This is what was meant by implementing change. They’re using the same script the Bolsheviks used ninety-four years ago this month.

Any corporation that took taxpayer bailout money deserves these stinky protesters.

“Why are you here?” “Duh…………..”

Could it possibly be similar to the late 60′s when (as we now know) about 90% of so-called “war-protesters” were only there for the party. Plus, the guys learned quickly that burning a draft card was a powerful “chick magnet”. Guys were burning them by the dozen.

Or yours…ever think of that?

Ahhh the little Marxist puppets. Just waiting to be told what to say..

Rich people bad blah blah blah wealth is bad blah blah blah bad rich people blah blah blah lots of money bad bad bad blah blah …

I find these protests extremely humorous. It is as if one uneployeed twit said “Come on, let’s protest” to which another asks “why” only here. “I don’t know, but we can make up. Reason sometime whilst we sleep and poop on the sidewalk”. Let’s fence them in and make a zoo out of them. How about they expend that energy doing something productive.

Many were compelled to take the money. Which they have paid back. With interest. If only the Federal Government was so careful with the money it takes. Oh that’s right. My Social Security taxes are in that lock box just waiting for me to go get them.

This is Obama’s re-election army on parade. It reminds me of the fascist takeover of Italy in the early twenties.

Seriously? You can’t be that ignorant. “Tax them 100%.” Riiiiiight. Because folks will stay in business to operate at a loss (because recall, you’re also denying them your undefined “out ragious salaries and benifits (sic).” You’re right about securing the borders and the threat is Islam, but based on the rest of your comments I don’t think you’ve spent a lot of time looking at the larger picture, or at least the true picture not presented on MSNBC, et al. If you really want change, vote all the Dems (and a few Reps) out in ’12.

Everyone is to blame except Obama. Of course no one mentions that Van Jones is the ring leader with backing from Soros.

( I’ll try to rewrite. But this is quite a run on sentence. )

The fact that you CHOSE to ignore THAT the majority of the people that were there had concise messages and edited your piece, ignoring the fact that once that girl and her friends acted out, we, the assembly, responded and removed them. They were disrespectful, Occupy Sacramento acted to protect you and preserve the peace and non-violence. Rather than acknowledge the spirit and respect the general assembly showed you by policing ourselves you chose to paint us in a BIASED and negative light.

(Now a re-write)

The fact is that you CHOSE to ignore THAT the majority of the people that were there had concise messages. You edited your piece ignoring the fact that the assembly responded immediately by removing that disrespectful girl and her friends once they acted out. Occupy Sacramento acted to protect everyone and preserve the peace in our non-violent protest. But rather than acknowledge the spirit and respect demonstrated by the self-policing general assembly, you chose to paint us in a BIASED and negative light.

( NOW, my comment )

I still don’t have any clue as to what the movement is about. It seems that these people are protesting because everyone else is protesting. As someone was quoted while advising younger protesters “It doesn’t matter what you are protesting as long as you are protesting.”

Now, If you want to know why we are in this economic mess, look toward Washington. Look toward the President. Toward the Democrats who controlled congress since 2006; the Democratic party has veto-proof senate and controlled the house and the White House for two full years 2009, 2010. So they implemented whatever they wanted and we are now reaping the results of their big-spending “stimulus” programs.

The Democrats, led by Obama and Pelosi, STOLE from eveyone. Notice how Obama’s golf buddies get 500 M loans that we are on the hook for. Notice how Pelosi had a 60% increase in her personal wealth in 2010. Interesting how her husband’s business did so well under new regulations and projects. In fact, just last week, another Solar company received over $700 M in loan guarantees (and it is just a coincidence that Pelosi’s brother-in-law is a partner in the firm).

@ ROBERT: Bring our soldiers home….OK, I’m good with that. Secure the borders….uhhh, better talk to the current administration about that one…seems they don’t intend to do that or allow the states to do it either. Corporate needs to bring jobs home…..better talk to the current administration about that one too. Current federal regulation, combined with union demands have DRIVEN corporations to open overseas operatations. You get a job with low housing…? I’m not even sure what that means. How about this: You get an education, then get the best job you can get, go there and do that job and work your way up the ladder to better jobs…buy your own damned house…you don’t GET housing of any kind! State and Federal workers do not get outrageous salaries……that’s apples and oranges. Federal employees are paid and pensioned by the federal government. State employees are treated according to each state’s whims. I happen to work for a state government…been here for 8 years, I got one 5% raise 6 years ago and one COLA. I currently make less than $36K per year….and I am in I.T.! Benefits? I pay for my own damned retirement and insurance! Term limits….I’m good with that one. So, as I see it, your 1st and last requests are reasonable….everything in between is bass ackward. You may want to protest the unions that are standing in the streets with you…they are there for THEIR benefit, not that of all Americans.

Yeah greed is a huge problem.

Greed is trying to take what someone else earned. These people are weapons grade stupid!!

Robert says, “CORPRATE AMERICA NEEDS TO BRING OUR JOBS BACK,ITS OUR MARKET OUR ECONOMY,IF NOT TAX THEM %100 DUTY ” Now that sounds like a plan…a plan to drive business COMPLETELY out of the US.

No, my friend, the answer is to REDUCE the highest corporate tax rates in the world, give them as break if they bring their money and their jobs back to the US. As it is now, we cannot compete with countries that have a far friendlier business climate. Business and corporations are not your enemies. They are agnostic and will go where they can make the most money….even Obama’s friend and supporter, Immelt of GE. Jobs gone, plants closed here and gone to China.

AMEN!!! This is how HITLER created the Third Reich. By controlling the ignorant youth and the lazy dead-beats. No wonder Obama supports them. His buddies, e.g. the unions, are sponsoring this. Talk about greed!

I’m protesting. It’s like my First Amendment right and stuff. Who cares if the underlying reasons I’m protesting are absurd. The fact is I know about my right to free speech. Now I’m practically qualified to teach Con Law.

Of course they are…MoveOn.org, the Unions? What more do you need.

Where’s the outrage for our government’s waste of taxpayer dollars?

We are in the process of trying to be fooled by the lefiest. They did the same thing in 1968. Seems like the Chicago way is alive and well, where is Jerry Rubin???

right here!

Bunch of incoherent losers is what I see….aren’t you greedy union tenured teachers proud of what you have produced?….what a joke, these are typical Obama followers….( psst..the tents were made by corporations,idiots)

it would be funny but that this is exactly how bad things start. They don’t even know what day it is, and Obama is fanning the flame. The BO must be pretty intense there, by the way.

Bunch of idiots…egged on by a gonna be one term president trying desperately to shift focus of his failures on the Republican Party by encouraging these social misfits…what a country we’ve become.

Best way to get the country working again is to elliminate Unemployment insurance. Everyone would go back to work and start contributing to society.

It seems to me that the only candidates that want to SECURE OUR BORDERS are on the Republican side. I’m for Mr. Cain. I hope you are too.

To bring our jobs back, corporate America needs to be INCENTIVIZED instead of demonized. Get rid of onerous regulations. Eliminate Dodd bill and Durbin tax. Allow for domestic oil production. And approximate Cain’s 9 + 9+9 plan … it will never pass … but 9 + 18 would work even better.

In other words. if you want change, VOTE REPUBLICAN ( actually, vote conservative but right now republican will do ).

Leader: WHAT DO WE WANT?
Crowd: CHANGE!!
Leader: WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
Crowd: NOW!!

Student: Wait, didn’t we vote for change back in 2008?

Union thug: Just keep shouting kid or I’ll break your kneecaps.

At least the one old guy had it right and was honest about it, “I heard this was anti-Capitalist demonstration, I’m a Marxist, a Communist.” Thats why the commie loving unions and so many Demorats love them too.
Enough Said about this George Soros/Democrat organized so called grass roots movement.

This is a national “Cake eaters convention”. They want jobs, so they say and are angry at “corporate greed”. Companies need to make money keep their employees, keep them happy, invest in the company’s future (R&D), etc. If the cost of labor hadn’t gotten so ridiculously high due to UNIONS many of those jobs would still be in the US. So, instead of attacking the people who are trying to keep jobs in the US and pay people for their efforts why don’t you be intellectually honest and admit that the fingerprints of unions are all over this bad economy. If you can’t admit that then you’re worth any further discussion.

They are angry because they were told to be angry. And like the little liberals they are, and since they can’t think for themselves, they obeyed.

If anyone was serious about the “fat cats”, they’d fight for a flat or fair tax with NO loopholes for their foundations and other hideaways for the rich. Why do you think Gates & Buffet & Soros are backing this movement? They know they won’t be paying more tax.
It’s corruption NOT capitalism you need to be fighting; corruption from all sides.

That is really funny. I laughed out loud. Love the Con Law reference! We know who taught that and, apparently, you need no qualifications to do so!

Anyone notice all those nice pre-printed signs? You know, the kine everyone can make at their home and bring in. And the bullhorns. Now isn’t that real “Grassroots”. I never saw those at the Tea Party Rallies. Oh wait, the Tea Party rallies are not real grassroots, right?????

Which group is the REAL astroturf?

This is your brain on drugs…

No, wait, you left out something…

When I get bored, I’ll text my mommy and get her to pick me up some fast-food on her way to pick me up. THEN we will go home to my parent’s house, where I will play video games all night.

“Who cares if the underlying reasons I’m protesting are absurd.”. Nuff said.

RIGHT ON!!!! Lenin and Mao, 101…right out of our colleges and universities.

Don’t complain about not having a job. GO TO WORK. Don’t complain about someone else being rich. They came up with a good idea or a plan that someone is willing to pay for. I keep hearing the word GREED thrown about. When someone says someone else is greedy, what they actually mean is “He is smart enough to make something of himself and I’m not so I hate him”

Liz, I thought the same thing but figured I wouldn’t go there. No expeience necessary! LOL!

Hey CBS!! I’m not seeing a lot of support for these “Occupiers” on this site. I guess we’re not all Californians.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…what a bunch of idiots. They are like lemmings following each other off a cliff and don’t have a clue why.

What’s so hard to understand … the message is clear … Corporations are greedy … so give it all to me … give me all of their profits … they are greedy … so give it to me … gimme … gimme … gimmee …

Wow. Are they all high or just stupid? The American public school system is a complete and total failure.

It’s sad there are so many substance abusers in Sacramento. That girl couldn’t even get out a coherent sentence, and the ‘organizer’. … If they only knew who he was would they really have showed up?

You are right Jimmy. The flame fanning from the Left and Obama and Biden and Nancy is getting out of hand. They are creating an atmosphere where people are going to get hurt. I’d like everyone to take a breath and think before adding to the insanity.

wow. Teaparty BAD. Thes nuts good. God Bless AmeriKa

Alan Greenspan commented (on CNBC this morning) that the “Occupy” protestors do not understand what’s going on, but are full of “angst.” That about sums it up I think. These misguided folks organize their socialistic protests on computers and smart phones, broadcast their anti-corporation message via satellite, and then drive home in their petroleum-fueled vehicles. Misguided, clueless, and dangerous…

suggest they march on Beverly Hills & homes of the Hollywood radical left elites, and homes of Al Gore. Pelosi, Boxer & Feinstein…plenty of targets on the left coast

I am absolutely SHOCKED!!! Am I really reading SANE comments on a CBS website? Moreover, a CBS website out of California??? I guess northeren California does have some normal, sane people, eh? Thanks for restoring a scintilla of hope that all is not lost in the golden state!

After all of the stupidity we see in that video, look how the newscasters at the end still try to give it some positive spin, and also a “hat tp” to the NYC protest, which is “much more organized”. Yeah, they really got their $hit together up in NYC. hahahahaha! LOL!!

Quick somone roll up in a bus and tell these sheep your offering rides to the ‘new protest objective”.
Then drive these morons to Stockton. Should take them the rest of their lives to find their way back.

These groups are political arms of the Democratic party and their community organizer, Barrack Obama.

If these “occupiers” did any homework at all they would find the objects of their protest (Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street Banking entities) were 7 of the top 20 political contributors to Obama’s 2008 campaign. GE, who paid zip in FED taxes on $5.1 billion in 2010 oprofits was another.

They would also know that Exxon, Mobil, Phillips and every other major oil company receives NO FEDERAL SUBSIDY. That was repealed 36 years ago by congress and signed into law by President Ford. The only subsidies are risk/rewards that are paid to oil companies INDEPENDENTS who do the drilling to find new oil. They employ over 4 million US workers.

Ah…kids today have sure gotten stupid and gullible since my generation protested in the 1960′s.

Wouldn’t be surprised if this Marxist in the White House doesn’t attempt to incite riots with his rhetoric. What an absolute DISGRACE to the Office.

Their cause (and the labor unions cause) can be summed up as “gimme sumpin fo nuttin!”

Corporate greed? Like at Apple Compouter, or General Electric – two huge Obama financers? How ya’ gonna fix that with Mr. Telep[rompter running out of money for his campaign?

Wow, give women special rights and this is what you get. Notice how that blond was in full control with her empowerment (shhhhh-lol). Sorry, but the US is a bunch of IGNORANT feminized morons today. Have a wonderful day, id10ts.

Come on Bobby, don’t confuse all of the emotion with facts….

What do we want?: WE DON’T KNOW, BUT WE’LL LET YOU KNOW FRIDAY!!

When do we want it?: NOW!!!!

When you can’t even answer a simple question as to why your protesting, or what you are protesting, your only there because someone told you to be there, this is crazy nonsense.

They have to call a protest and then get together and figure out the reason as to why they are there? We have a bunch of zombies that have nothing better to do. How about going out and actually looking for a job, I’d be willing to bet that most of these people have not even looked for a job recently.

This is what we have here, a bunch of mindless idiots, who cannot even think for themselves, the need and want everything handed to them by the government, they have absolutely no intentions of working for a living, they want cradle to grave support from the government.

Exactly where do they think the money comes from to support their unrealistic ideals? They can’t even answer that question.

Like I said a bunch of mindless idiots.

Have you ever thought that Obama and crew WANT the kids to riot in the streets?

Watching them try to put a sentence together is better than watching Jay Leno on the street.

This is what Stupid sounds like…

The American Constitution allows you to become rich and poor. Without this right we all become equivalent and interchangeable in a authoritative society.

good news for the rest of us who are working. while these people are protesting, more jobs should be available for the unemployed. they can’t even get there stories straight about why they are protesting. They sound like my kids when the get caught doing something they shouldn’t.

There are two choices that will stop this madness. Remove Obama from office and get the country moving again or split the US into at least two other countries. The Corporations and productive workers can live in one country and the do nothings will have to live in the other country. Of course the border to the productive country will be closed and protected.

When our educators start believing random nonsensical claims about “corporate greed” we are in big trouble. These journalists are practically inept. When someone claims “corporate greed” they should zero in – “Which corporations are you talking about.” “What form does their greed take?” “How much did that greedy corporation earn last year.?” “How can greed survive in a competitive marketplace?” I would love to hear the answers to those questions.
Our educational system is so poor that graduate haven’t a clue as to how our economic system works. That system is the only advantage this country has left. Our population is so poorly trained, and so poorly educated that corporations have to go overseas to find competent workers.

Serial malcontent parasites… every one of them.

I wonder if these professional anarchists, declare the financial support they get from Soros, and the unions, on their tax returns. OOOps, i forgot that their parents still use them as a deduction, since most are unemployed career “students.” But be assured that as soon as the “Workers Party of America”, figures out what to say to reporters, they will send it out on an app, that, the useful idiots, can get on their I-Phones, that were developed and created by that terrible corp, Apple.
POWER TO THE PIMPLES, oh I meant people

If you told this group that there was “free weed and Xbox’s” a couple of blocks down the road then they’d all take off. These kids are the end result of liberal parents that sent them to liberal public schools. This is the new generation of entitlement kids. They want everything for nothing and they want it NOW. I bet NONE of them ever took an economics class. I bet they all were below average in math. If they even went to college for a semester, then it was most likely to major in philosophy or women’s studies or some other liberal arts.

Uppity College Students Unite!

I find it insane that the Tea Party gets criticized to such extremes while these looneys are running around spouting nonsense and getting aggressive with people who ask about their ’cause’. How fitting that these moonbats don’t even know why they’re there! Got a problem in your life? Come on down and protest!

I want to know why 100 protesters protesting for Obama’s objectives are given more air rime than all the thousands of tea party people who are trying to say that the country is on the wrong track. There were close to a million people at one Washingron D.C. event and there was no coverage at all. Is television biased or what? The Freedom of the Press is at stake here.

Joe, I could not have said it better! Thanks very much for your response. The Tea Party participants could always give the reason why they gather together, but not these Wall Street peeps. Also, the last time I checked, Tea Party people do not get arrested, do not incite riots with police, or do not make Anti-Semitic remarks to Jewish people.

Piece of advice for the event organizers. Next time, don’t recruit people riding the short bus to be your protestors

20 years of The Simpsons and 10 years of Sponge Bob Square pants…the dumbing down of America sheep, add the MSM and this is the output. Obama zombies.

@ TJZ

Quite simply because the media recognizes the threat the tea party poses to them and their continued political meddling.

morons

OK kids, go home to Mommy’s house and complain about your dinner being cold.

Lenin once said “Students are useful idiots” I agree.

Yeah – I agree. The libs ( including a lot of indoctrinated students) have been given their marching orders to make this look like some big grassroots movement. In reality the press is going out of it’s way to imply the movement and numbers of protestors are much larger than reality. Also – most are there just for the thrill of a little action – but are not really protesting anything very specific. The numbers are pale compared to Tea Party events. See ya all in November 2012 !

They are there to collect a paycheck from Soros\MoveOn.org.

The headline says protesters “lash out”. Where was the lashing?

These utter blithering morons could not be more STUPID. The point of a “protest” is to get noticed and generate publicity. All these worthless losers are doing is joining the crowd because it looks cool. They are obviously uninoformed, dimwits just hanging out. Democrats out there, if you want these people as the face of your party and the symbol of what you are doing, go ahead. The adults in the world have better things to do. What an embarassment.

Obama is a fcuking moron. He is a little immature boy who wets his pants. He doesn’t have intellectual maturity because he has been coddled all his life. He has been coddled because he has defrauded those that would take care of him. Now he has been exposed as a useless piece of debris, and there fore making noise to create subterfuge and deflect his numerous weaknesses. He is a hemmorhoid on Americas ace.

Stop getting your information from the STATE CONTROLLED MEDIA. CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, Reuters, AP, NYT, LAT, etc.. are NOT legitimate, unbiased news sources. Their agenda is decidedly UN-AMERICAN.

Absolutely right ! The lame stream press are in bed with this farce, and most of us know it.

… and 30+ years of demoralization in our public edjumakayshun system learning Amerika = Bad; Complaining = Good. Shameful to see all this ignorance and entitlement mentality in a state that has been so blessed with opportunity and prosperity. I’d love to hear exactly how “Corporate Greed” has personally touched the lives of the protesters… What ever happened to “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” I don’t sense a spirit of Service in these protesters, just a big fat sense of outraged entitlement.

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They are attending because they received a letter from their local union urging them to do so. it is clear the labor unions have started this and continue to call their ranks to participate. Losers line up and protest. we’ll get back to you on what your demands are later.

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This is nothing but a bunch of brainwashed spoiled brats.

The same punks that were protesting the Iraq War just have new marching orders.

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Label these imbeciles under: Where am I? Who am I? How did I get here? And, where is the free lunch?

I think it is time for the Silent Majority to protest !! Reasons would be government corruption, Elected Elitism,too much government regulation ,unions,energy independence through drilling,mining and refining our own resources.
Government regulation and unions have done more to stifle growth and send jobs overseas. This needs to stop. America has more coal than anyone,why aren’t we developing coal gasifacation? Why has steel and aluminum factory left ? High energy prices and unnecessary environmental regulation. Why are we shutting down power plants ? Unnecessary regulation. This list can get longer.

I think the problem is that the Tea Party is known to be a bunch of mindless idiots, while the jury is still out on the “Occupy” crowd. It’s odd that the Tea Party folks would be miffed by these protestors, since they are essentially after the same things – less government involvement – no more bailouts. Of course I am assuming the T.P. folks are against corporate welfare.

California has plenty of of Constitution-loving, law-abiding, family-oriented people with common sense who understand that 2+2=4 and want the government to stop OVERSPENDING and our citizens to embrace PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. We go largely unnoticed as our vehicles are unadorned with bumper stickers, we bathe and groom ourselves, and we don’t whine and stomp our feet in anger that the government isn’t doing more to redistribute your money into our pockets. We may not be the silent majority in California, but we are here and both disguested and sad at our state’s death-spiral. We vote, but are out-voted by the useful idiots championing their own demise (not to mention all the dead and fake registrations thank you Acorn).

Uh, morons.

Any random person at a Tea Party rally would be able to clearly state the reasons why they are there on any given day. No need for message groups to tell the other 20 people there what they are supposed to be saying

The protesters and their “Duh???” responses to questions about their purpose are the laughing stock of the nation. There they are, brought to the very heights of mediocrity by their K-16 re-education camps, gathering like sheep to the slaughter. Useful idiots, supported by mommy and daddy’s money, they will forever be remembered as the clowns of the lefty radical movement.

The truth hurts doesn’t it. Look at the responses here. We all know this is a liberal farce, so tell it to the bartender not us. You’re in the minority – big time. Look at those small number of protests occuring around the country. Mostly college students looking for some kicks. It’s embarassing ! Now go back to watching Sponge Bob.

I would say to the protesting morons to be very careful about what you are demanding or you just might get it. The equal distribution of poverty. Then again that is just what they want in the Soros/Move On communes.

Just give them all a “Blunt” They’ll settle down.

To be fair, Obama’s folks hadn’t told them what to say, yet, so you can’t blame them!

Have you been paying attention? They aren’t protesting FOR Obama’s objectives – why would they be occupying Wall Street and protesting corporate greed and government bailouts when Obama has been Wall Street’s biggest supporter since day one? Look at his cabinet, for crying out loud, it’s like a who’s who of financial crookery. Don’t let Rush or Sean fool you. This movement is about preserving and saving the middle class in this country, not something Obama has been trying to achieve.

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You have to love the people of California! All of them have no plan but they just know that something is wrong because other cities are doing it! Typical CA! They don’t want to be left behind and lose their “cutting edge”. Too bad all of these protesters in all of the cities are protesting at the wrong spot. If they’d have taken something substantive in colleges like Finance, Politics, History they would know that it is government’s 160,000 page tax code and Unions that drive businesses out of the US + Federal Reserve (fiat money that they keep printing which devalues what little we get to keep thanks to the tax code) + zero accountability for government’s specious accounting practices + no respect for the Constitution that has gotten us into this mess.

Seems hilarious that these ‘protesters’ don’t have the strength of any real conviction on anything.
Don’t talk to the media? Rather difficult to get a message out that way, is it not?
Paid to protest? Oh ya. Real conviction there.
“Message team”? You’ve got to be kidding. The don’t know why they are there yet, but they promise to figure it out by Friday. Sounds just like Obama!

So mixed in with a bunch of commies is this group of ……….. intellectuals. Yup! Batting a thousand in Sacramento.

They are waiting for Team Obama and the DNC to provide their message team with the message.

I wonder how many of these “protestors’ are wanted by the police/ Why did they not agree on a reason to protest before actually starting to protest/

Just the small number of comments to this article speaks volumes about how little concerned real Americans are about these Socialist led children/adult wannabes.

Our #OccupyIndianapolis movement is being hijacked from our grass roots people by the SEIU union operatives. In 2008, Obama raked in the largest share of Wall Street campaign donations and today is their stooge, their puppet.

No effort at all is being made to reach out to the grassroots tea party people in our state, many of whom know the real enemy is the Federal Reserve cartel of bankers and international banks who extorted taxpayer bailout money for themselves leaving The People with the debt.

The SEIU is being used because they will keep work to keep the people divided rich vs. poor.

There is one thing these monsters of The Fed, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, etc. fear and that is the orange jumpsuit and the people UNITING together across party lines (which are fake anyway).

Everyone should be concerned that tea party grassroots leaders are not being looped in. The tea party is not the enemy, the tea party is a friend of The People.

They want rule of law applied equally to all. And the reason the financial mess escalates is because the rule of law (justice) is not being applied to bankers and Wall Street insiders.

I thought Yoko was the one who said that.

NOT TRUE.

“President Barack Obama referenced the nationwide demonstrations Thursday and called them a sign that voters are upset with Republican leadership, who he accused of blocking efforts to spark job growth.”

This SOB president of ours is deliberately stoking these protests while his own party is the one blocking a vote on the bill Harry just use the “Nuclear” option to prevent the vote, all because he did want his senators to have take embarrassing votes, because he knows that they don’t want to pass obama’s BS “jobs bill” which is nothing more than political ploy for his base. These democrats are manipulative, dishonest, and immoral, and these useful idiots who are out around protesting (funded by soros money and supported by moveon.org and other democrat front groups) are tools who don’t even know what they hell they are talking about.

I can’t believe that they allow people like this to vote! They all sound brain fried from drugs.

That’s right, you’ve got to hand it to the tea party folk, they are well rehearsed! Most people call it being brainwashed, but you’d need a brain for that.

I watched the reporter ask the so-called leader what was their point and the dipwad said, they were still trying to figure that out…….not quite clear on the concept of disconnected.

What the hell do you clowns take in your sack lunch?

Do I understand Obama correctly?- When Democrats took control of Congress in Jan. 2007, unemployment was 4.7% and GDP growth was 3+%. Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid and Senator Obama started passing their agenda, not the Bush/Republican agenda. In just over a year we were looking at rising unemployment and approaching a recession. But they had NOTHING to do with that. But now, after 10 months with only a Republican House, the Republicans are responsible for the inability of those same Democratic policies to produce jobs? Either someone is really dumb, or someone thinks the people are really dumb.

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I’ve been paying attention, Sean, since 1968. The simple truth is that these idiots don’t know what they are protesting. Just like the student rioting at Ohio State in 1970 went up and down High Street smashing car windows. Who owned the cars? Other students. What was the point then? Who knows.

If you think these simple minded brats are trying to preserve “the middle class in this country” then you are as stupid as your post makes you seem.

While not a big Tea Party supporter, at least they had concrete, thoughtout reasons why they were organizing and protesting. Reduce big debt, reduce government spending, reduce government interference in person rights, Health Care reform, lack of government accountability. These Wall Street “protests” appear to be just a bunch of people with no real understanding of reasons for being there other than someone sent them a Facebook request or a union organizer called. Unfortunately the biased media will play this up into some grassroots campaign and union thuggery will use hard working members money to start busing in 1000′s like they did in Wisconsin to make it appear the whole area is behind their staged event. Why don’t these people protest at White House where the president has completely failed to generate jobs or improve the economy. Or maybe because his cabinet is loaded with persons such as Summers and Geitner that caused the financial meltdown. Or maybe because his #1 campaign contributer is Wall Street firms. All that and yet no protest in DC?? Huh, almost like they were a bunch of staged Democratic rallies.

The island of misfit toys.

Yeah! Just show up and you will be told specifically what to complain about later on. It is the Nancy Pelosi approach to learning what is in a bill. Useful idiots is right. These people are too obtuse to be embarrassed about their own stupidity.

Obama has been deliberately destroying the economy so that he could get enough unemployed people to show up at his staged Marxist protests and make it look like a “movement”.

Sure way to increase jobs is to tear down the corporations that provide the jobs. That will definitely work. I know that my company closed its doors 10 years ago because of the EPA, corporate taxes, and unions. Now I work for 30% less as a self-employed indfividual with no benefits. Yeah I really think these protesters are on to something.

Why didn’t one guy at least tell the truth and say, “I’m just hear to pick up stupid chicks.”

Some of these people are legit, confused but legit. The rest are just another example of the lefts hands out ideology. You voted for it, you got it America!

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Everything will be cleared up in moment. Here come the teleprompters…..

I could not have said it better.

No, most of us have been sitting on the sidelines for too many years, and when we finally figured out that we have people in government actively bent on destroying this country, we want to do something about it.

I would ask for a refund of what was paid for your education, if I were you!

I guess the group didn’t get Pelosi’s memo. She said the occupy groups had a “focused” message. Too bad they don’t know the message.

I would just like to remind everyone of the fable of the “Golden Goose”

Just remember these are Obambies and they need not know anything to vote for Obama. That’s how Socialist come to power and destroy everything good in the world. These nut balls do vote.

Ha, Ha Californians – these losers typify your state and are sucking your tax rolls dry by being self-indulgent, non-working, sycophants. Until you man up and rid yourselves of these dirtballs, you have no one to blame but yourselves for supporting these bozos. A recent study indicated that nearly 40% of those of working age in CA don’t work. Enjoy your anarchy!

They are not rehearsed answers Seth, they are called beliefs. I know that is hard for certain types of persons to understand that people could actually have things they believe in that are provided to them by their faithful leader. These Wall Street “protests” are nothing more than union/Democratic party organized events to make non-thinking drones believe Obama is against Wall Street. You know Wall Street, the place where he got his largest amount of campaign contributions. You know Wall Street, the place where he gathered large numbers of his cabinet and advisors from (e.g. Summers, Geithner)

Or to clarify Sean’s statement, no matter what the response of the tea party, Sean will determine its wrong. Also, since he is unable to actually refute any of their statements, he will go with the tried and true “they stoopid” that has worked so well in the past.

“We’re here, we’re mad as hell and we’re not leaving!”
At least not until we get REALLY hungry…or if it gets too cold. I mean really, there’s no reason take chances sleeping outside just before the onset of the flu season. Oh yeah yeah, then there’s the the Incubus concert on the 11th. Your a corporate pig if you thik I’m missing that. Oh dude did I tell you, I met this stupid hot brunette a few minutes ago. She and her “girlfriends” (right?) are going down to her parents’ private beach house in Monteray next weekend and she asked me to come. How stupid awesome would it be if I hooked up with all three of them?

Oh yeah, like I said we’re here, we’re…hold on gettin a text………Dude I gotta go. L8r.

This begs the question as to why no one mentions George Soros? Isn’t he the wealthiest man in the world my now? I mean he has 11 TONS of gold, which is probably only about 20% of his total worth? So why isn’t anyone demanding that this Nazi sympathizer that sold out his own people give up some of his BILLIONS?

Dan,

They would be on to something if they were angry at the right thing.

END THE FED!

I mean really, it’s a great idea to have a private bank print money and then loan it to the American people via the Dept. of Treasury at interest. Here is where greed begins. I like corporations myself but when some (and it really is only some) crawl into bed with the three stooges (Obama, Geithner and Bernanke) then they should be hung out in the wind to twist. GE is a good example of this as they just kill American jobs every chance they get.

END THE FED!

Yeah, let’s destroy corporations and business’! Good call – that way nearly everyone of us us unemployed because you people want to be ‘cared’ for and somehow think of gov’t control as ‘liberty’.

These people will be the first to cry if they ever got what they really want!
No wonder obama supports them – they don’t make any more sense than he and his idiotic failed policies.

Right on. You can’t take away from the fact that there is a real cause for this movement. And it does have everything to do with corrupt banks and corrupt government – because they were the cause of the crisis (FACT). But, just like in the case of the tea party, there are organizations trying to co-op this grassroots movement and call it there own. The GOP co-oped the real tea party movement, and now the left interests are trying to do the same with OWS. Don’t let them! Unfortunately there are a lot of pro-Obama people out there, who I guess forgot he got the most corporate donations and wall st. support out of any candidate. Not to mention his admin is full of wall st.

It seems to me that what we are seeing is in large-part due to the strategy adopted by Obama in fomenting class warfare as a means of explaining his failed economic policies. The economic system does need corrections as witnessed by the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the issuance of loans that could never be repaid. Perhaps, the nation is witnessing the inherent socialist strategies of Obama; demonize the “rich,” however that is defined and blame the “rich” for everything. Obama is of course, one of the rich.

Typical Liberal BS…can’t address the fact the protestors have no clue why they are actually out there…so instead attack the Tea Party…Donk!

what a bunch of nimrods…..let them protest, they DON’T EVEN know what they are doing lol.

Yeah…the trillion dollar bank bail outs, that were dreamed up and approved by the Democrat led Legislative and Executive branches of government, that didn’t help our economy. Funny, being a resident of DC, I don’t see a lot of protesters on Capitol Hill screaming about failed policies of this administration. I’m all for the 1st Amendment right to assemble but please at least do a little analysis and figure out where the failure started. By the way…I find it hilarious that these protesters are “anti-corportation” and yet EVERYTHING they are wearing, the mobile phones in their pockets and the laptops in their really cool Old Navy messenger bags (MSRP $39.99 at Old Navy) were all made by corportations. It’s your right to be a troll, but hopefully you have the balls to admit when you don’t know what you are talking about. I doubt it though.

These people are Communists CPUSA communist party usa. and SEIU union thugs! go to their web sites and see for yourself.

These are mostly nihilists, Marxists, Unionists and young people who have been propangandized by college professors. Many people with Green Cards
and others who want to stay in the USA because they are making a living and not whining like this group of vermin should be given citizenship and we should deport the Occupy Wall Street trash.

The protesters and Obama have one thing in comman they have no clue, and they Hate America!!!

No luck with the ladies, Mike? The men weren’t brainiacs either. And what special rights do women have? Speaking of ignorant, blonde is the correct spelling when referring to a female.

Corporations suck. They are only beholden to their shareholders. By a huge majority those shareholders are government agencies and foreigners. They need to be changed. Isn’t it conceivable to you that corporations could be abolished and yet some how businesses would remain and jobs would still exist? People still have to eat.

What about Barney Frank and how he pushed subprime loans through Fannie and Freddie? Bobbie, either you’re an idiot or you are naive. Go back and look up the TRUE facts on how we got into this mess. Look up COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT and how Barney’s initiative forced lenders to make loans to unqualified borrowers.

Actually, the banks have paid back the loans and the Treasury expects to make upwards of 20 billion dollars in interest. Yes, 20 billion dollar profit. How much return on the investment has the Obama jobs bills gotten. I guess if you own some “green” company and make big campaign contributions, it is the best thing ever. You take 10′s of millions of tax payer dollars, put a bunch in your pocket, file for then bankrupcty on the business and put hard working people out on the street. Now thats is a good use of tax payer money. LOL

Spot on!! But Obama’s minions will flood the streets with responses soon…then they can at least cover the same lame talking points…you know…Wall Street Bad…Millionaires need to pay their fair share…George Bush’s fault…GOP doesn’t want to cooperate…well, okay, at least the last one may be true…why would they want to cooperate with a POTUS hell-bent on destroying our country.

So if they think corporations have a lot of money, how come they don’t try to get a job with one of them? Kinda like asking a bonk robber, “Why do you rob banks? Answer: Because that’s where the money is”.

[...] middle of the road Americans who still have respect for law and order. The fact that many of these protesters don’t even know what they’re protesting or what their goals are makes it awful hard for [...]

Obama is NOT a President. A true president would be a unifyer and not a rabbel rouser that pits one American against another. Obama is a true disgrace and needs to be IMPEached immediately!

Shame on those who tried to portray the Tea Party as a group of violent, hateful, radical trouble-makers. As we have said all along, it is the leftist radicals who have always been and still are the violent, hateful ones. We are seeing proof of this as these “demonstrations” continue.

Impeach Obama! And if that doesn’t work, throw peaches at him.

Philip,
Are you another college grad with no idea of how things work? Who will hire you? Do you know what a corporation is? Have you any idea how businesses are structured? How can you possible be so dumb as to post a comment like yours?

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid the young are and how easily they are led. Oh well, they to grow up and pay taxas and learn the lesson we all have about Goverment.

What a idiotic group of SOROS/union funded, know nothing MORONS! What a perfect chance to clean up some of the gene pool!

The truth is… These protests are exactly the same as Obama’s campaign in 2008, a blank canvas onto which you can paint whatever you want. Only to find out later what you thought it was about was not what it was really about, and in the end it all meant absolutely nothing because there were never really any truth, knowledge, principles or convictions behind the whole thing.
Just an empty vessel, into which you could pour all your hopeless pointless lives and broken dreams in hopes that someone, somewhere would somehow save you from your own pathetic selves.

Wow – if anyone consider that to be lashing out, then I don’t understand how they survived grade school. The protesters may have been all talking at once and with each other, but there was no actual lashing out visible in that clip.

C’mom – if you’re going to try and sensationalize things, at least choose something believable to spin negatively.

While the protesters individually all have their own reasons for being there, there has been an underlying theme that underlies all of it: anger at profligate corporate corruption of the political process and a desire to end the idiocy of corporate personhood.

After fours years of experimenting with drugs, alcohol, and free love at college, they now owe the government huge amounts of money. The only way out is to get a job with most probably a large corporation. A viscious cycle that will never be stopped by drug and alcohol induced protesting. I pity them and respect their right to express themselves at the same time.

This is the ONLY honest answer I’d believe,…..because I went to Greatful Dead concerts for the same and ONLY reason!

So, Sean, let me ask you, if the Tea Party ralliesfeatured mass-produced protest signs, or home-made signs that were questinoably literate. If they mindlessly repeated chants and speeches led by others. If they stayed longer than an afternoon and completely destroyed the place in which they were protesting, leaving literally tons of trash to be cleaned up by others, defacated in nearby bushes, and didn’t shower for weeks on end. If they taunted and provoked the police. If they had hundreds of arrests. If they were not able to clearly define the reasons that they were there. If they resembled the “glory days” of the 60s featuring conformist stereotypical clothing and hair. Then you would have suppored them?

Or is everyone you disagree with by definition wrong? Start thinking for yourself, Sean, there are people with different ideas that might actually work. 2 people that intensely disagree can actually both have ideas that might work, just one to more or less of an extent that the other. Your future can still be bright if you take control of it yourself and not expect others to give you anything.

Seems to me a person should know what they’re protesting, and be gald to say it. If you don’ stand for something, yu’ll fall for anything.

Best advice–get jobs and pay taxes like the rest of us. Plenty of jobs everywhere, if you’re willing to do the work (McDonalds, Subway, etc.) And what about old fashion hustle and entrepreneurship?

Dude,
You need to take a class in Economics 101… These are Marxist / Democrat sponsored rallies and the peasants a re being used to futher Obama’s Marxist agenda

Wow, those people are complete morons!

Eli – nice revisionist history there. Bush and Geithner went to Congress insisting that the TARP bill be passed immediately, lest the economy collapse.

Really Kelly? I made a bigger point, yet you’re telling me I’m wrong and that the sky is blue. I don’t think anything I said contradicts your statement. OBVIOUSLY subprime mortgages had a lot to do with the crisis, In addition, those mortgages were allowed to be repackaged and sold as junk bonds while credit agencies gave them AAA. And guess what? The government allowed it ALL to happen, not only Barney, but Paulson as well. Because the government is in BED WITH WALL ST!!! This is the most important issue. You know what else contributed to the crisis? The repeal of Glass-Steagall (under Clinton) which allowed banks to play around with your money. This corruption goes way bank, honey. I can think of one current presidential candidate who voted against that repeal. Let’s just say that he doesn’t accept corporate donations and is running on the platform of liberty. Oh and his name is Ron Paul. Are you going to tell me that grass is green now?

Saul Alinsky sais to be successful you need to do the right thing for the wrong reasons, and have a short message that can be used as a rallying cry. Deep thinkers need not apply.

Barack Obama – whose 2008 campaign was funded by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley – sympathized with the OWS protesters yesterday while grandstanding as the man to bring Wall Street back in line, despite the fact that his own cabinet is full of former Wall Street executives and he is even more reliant on Wall Street for his 2012 presidential run.

No, they’re “protesting” because they’ve seen how much attention the media gives them and they’re all out for their 15 minutes. It’s obvious non of them can think for themselves and only parrot what others have told them.
But then, I guess every generation has to have its share of fruits & nuts . . .

i heard an interview with one of the ‘occupiers’ in Boston yesterday. This person’s issue was that he was promised (entitled) to automatic upper middle class status once he graduated from BC ($60k per year) He can’t get a job (executive position paying over $200K) so he’s demanding someone gives him one. This country is DOOMED!

Obama’s communist army strikes a blow for, uh, something.

Hey you fat cat billionaire corporate jet vultures who don’t pay their fair share — could’ja help a brutha out and hire some people before the next election? lol

Funny though it is Harry Reid that is blocking the president’s bill in the senate.
The Republicans tried to force a vote and he took filibuster power away from them.
Do nothing congress?
The house passed over 700 bills since the elections last year, the senate 17.
Republicans are the majority in the house.
The Democrats are the majority in the senate.
Who is blocking legislation again?

Corporate Greed?? Financial greed??
I wonder how many carry cell phones…. or have iPads or computers??
And how many companies who EMPLOY people to produce these items
provide jobs so their employees can EARN A LIVING??
These protesters are ‘schmuck putzes’ — obviously.

Duude we are here for the free food and the party dude.

Smoke em if you got em

I needed a little humor to lighten up what has been a long week. Thanks, CBS13!

Griff – When did that happen?
If I am wrong, I am more than happy to admit it, but I need something other than being called a regisionist to fall on my sword.

Don’t forget the car they drove in, bus they rode on, shoes they walk in, the food in their bellies and even the very protest sign they are holding!

They were all purchased from the United States of America Corporation.

The US government is a corporation, google it.

The US Government owns the majority of all shares in every corporation on earth, through pension funds and other vehicles.( READ THE CAFR’s) The government controls all corporate governance through majority vote for BOD selection.

Imagine how many government pensions would be wiped out if the USA really held BP accountable for the gulf oil spill… No wonder the USA is so eager to force immunizations, insurance, etc. on it’s labor assets (you).. Their pensions will REAP the profit!… Besides, they own the mortuaries too. CHA-CHING!

I agree, and I wonder how much the “retired educator” gets from the greedy taxpayers?

Why am I here? I am here because they are here. Like, something is going on and like, I’m here for that . Do you have any chips? I have the munchies.

Stonewall hit the nail on the head…..
So if I am following the protestors “logic” I am greedy because I got student loans and jobs for college and grad school, studied hard, got good grades, took non-paying internships, worked hard for years to get a senior level position where I make good money with good benefits. I guess because they got drunk and high all the time in college, dropped out after 2 years, live in their parents basement. got fired from multiple jobs for not showing up on time and play video games all day they deserve what I have. Who’s greedy in that scenario? I think other terms that may apply would be lazy and irresponsible. Get off your azzes, take a long look in the mirror and stop blaming everyone for the problems in your life that YOU created. Grow up and take some responsibility for your own actions.

It makes perfect sense…Michael Moore is so correct. Capitalism must go. This from a man who’s movies have earned $ 187,196,991. That equals 4040 average household incomes. Mr Moore and Maxine Waters want to spread the wealth. Maybe they be so kind as to start by sending me a check every month. Then I won’t have to work. Corporations are not brought into existence with success written on their business plans. It takes hard work. Steve Jobs died the other day. Do you think Apple would be where it is today if it had not been for the work of Mr. Jobs and the other hard working employees? Do you honestly think that corporations are going to spread the wealth they work so hard to get. Do you think Bill Gates wants to work hard only to have much of his profits taken away and given to someone else?

So obama sends his Alinsjy stormtroopers out to protest, then says the protesters are proof we have problems. Yes, sir, obama, we have a big problem…an anti-American president and his radical communist base of America hating unions and street thugs.
I hope the police have heavily weighted truncheons on the ready for the slightest infraction. Show no quarter to the trash.
Ron Reale
realetybytes.com

Hey Griff – Timmy the Tax Cheat wasn’t in the picture until AFTER Obummer was elected. How about YOU getting your facts straight.

Corporations did not just appear one day. They began as small businesses which then grew through free enterprise and hard work and sacrifice. Try it yourself…not only will you learn something; you might get somewhere in life. If you don’t like free enterprise, consider moving to North Korea.

Bobbie – You are absolutely correct with your points. The ratings agencies are a joke. The loans were repackaged by Wall Street crooks but the ROOT cause was CRA. I conceded that since it’s inception Wall Street has been crooked. But Banks were FORCED by our government to make bad loans, and then had to find ways to creatively put lipstick on a pig. If the ratings agencies had done their jobs then we would be in this mess. If the government hadn’t made entitlement laws then we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Is there any better case for raising the voting age to to 26?

CRY MOAR EMO KIDS

@ Lee: That is a terrible statement, are you saying you would like to see all those people murdered? SHAME ON YOU! Two wrongs do not make a right. Have some compassion man, most of these kids were brought up in the public school system and don’t know any better. Instead of flinging statements that could get you in a heap of trouble why don’t you educate them instead?

Yes, the people are angry and many do not know why exactly. It’s the FEDERAL RESERVE that has ruined this country by devaluing our dollar down to almost nothing since the Fed was created in 1913. You can look it up yourself.

Come on END THE FEDDERS! Get your butts out there and help educate these people at who exactly they should be directing their anger at.

See, I was hoping this guy would come back with a story from factcheck or scopes. Because they always have the best and least misleading information. Also, I know that when you call some of these guys out they just kind of dissappear.

Ask them to define “Corporate & FInancial Greed.” All this is really about is Marxism. Let’s make everyone poor, except the politicians. They want to remind us that SUCCESS is bad (unless it is them). Typical left wing politics; we don’t know why we’re here but will get back with yours soon as the communist party (Democrats) tell us.

OCCUPY EVERYTHING. EXECUTE CAPITALISM.

In the words of Bugs Bunny, “What an aqua- morron”

We can certainly tell that your education is sadly lacking as you must not be able to read a newspaper. Little Timmy the Tax Cheat was picked by Obama, not President Bush.

[...] and are also supporters of a political ideology that is at peace with Wall Street. In this, I am as confused as they seem to be.  Little wonder their “demands” are so [...]

Footnote 49 or Footnote 50. Footnote 49 reads: “Repayment pursuant to Title VII, Section 7001(g) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 using proceeds received in connection with the institution’s participation in the Small Business Lending Fund.” Footnote 50 reads: “Repayment pursuant to Title VII, Section 7001(g) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — part of the repayment amount obtained from proceeds received in connection with the institution’s participation in the Small Business Lending Fund.”

All of which is to say that these banks repaid cash owed to a program run by the Treasury Department by. . . borrowing from another program run by the Treasury Department.

Talk about your Rebels without a Clue…These must be the astroturf proetesters that Nancy Pelosi was talking about. And just a couple of hundred people are making all this media ruckus?

I could round up a vastly larger, more enlightened and sober crowd of people at any local bowling alley. ,

You can say this much for the Tea Party–they showed up by the tens of thousands, they reflected society at large, and everyone seemed to know what they were protesting. And none of them seemed like they were scavenged from a soup kitchen or an all night college frat party.

Oops…snopes not scopes. Better admit I hit the wrong key before the libs jump on me for not knowing what I am talking about. Funny how the modus operandi of these guys is to fixate on a typo or improper grammar instead of the message or intent of the post. Really, what I came to say initally was…

guy with a bull horn: WHAT DO WE WANT?????

#Occupywhatever: THEY HAVEN’T TOLD US YET!!!!!!

Of course they should be put down, they are a dredge to my country.

These people are idiots!!! I hope they don’t breed.

It IS astroturf. Our movement here in Indy was started grass roots, but I got an email yesterday from the SEIU union thugs urging me to attend and let “the rich” know they need to “pay their fair share”!

Exactly what is the fair share the rich should pay. Already 1/2 of Americans are receiving some kind of government subsidy and the poor are not paying taxes.

The SEIU is being used to divide Americans in class warfare. Don’t fall for it.

Hey No Koolaid….then how is it that we are trillions in debt if all the money is repaid?

Reporter: Why are you here?
Occupier: Ummmmmm
Reporter: Why are you here?
Occupy Organizer: We’ll have someone get back to you.

..and these are the malcontents Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama has given encouragement to?

This is what our government education camps have given us. Poorly educated losers with no intellect, a poor work ethic, and no understanding of anything. “We’re here, we just aren’t quite sure why”.

The great majority of comments here are conservative. Exactly /who/ is voting those politicians into office? Is voting in California really that corrupt?

Ha! Well said Playrighter. But we cannot count on these brains full of mush not being able to find the poling station in November 2012. As non-nonsensical and childish as they are, they will vote for Obama without fully understanding what they are voting for. Unlike the Tea Party, no one can seem to articulate a clear reason why they are there, give specific examples of how corporations are so evil and explain how Wall Street has “taken jobs away” from the middle class.

Since they can’t seem to find a unifying theme, I’ll give them one. How about, “Lazy underachievers, supporting the theft and redistribution of wealth from the achievers.”

I’m here to chew bubblegum and to kick some ass!!! And then play with my rainbows and lollypops …

LOL… now you see the general lack of intelligence of the pothead protesters, esp the stoned blond … you want to know how they can afford to just sit around and protest? Obama’s welfare and unemployment benefits! That’s now.

So Philip, which “part”.

You seem to be so sure with your cute little copy and paste skills, which part of the funds were borrowed?

Well….we’re waiting…..

Only difference between them and the TEA Partiers is one word “My and Your”. The TEA Party signs say “I want my money” and the Dirt Partier signs say”I want your money”.
That and the Tea Partier want the country to succeed and the Dirt Partier want ME to succed.

ROTFLMAO….So the Wall Street Occupiers are now officially a ‘Communist’ movement now?

Obama Pal Bill Ayers Releases “Collective Statement” Of Occupy Wall Street Protesters…Bill Ayers

What follows is the first official, collective statement of the protesters in Zuccotti Park: Weasel Zippers and wordpress

I think all of the protestors nationwide should go ‘occupy’ Excremento. They could go to the place where out of control government has done the most damage to the economy and the people and blame the bankers from there.

Useless cops protecting corrupt bankers, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our rights:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama, vote for Ron Paul.
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ROTFLMAO….So the Wall Street Occupiers are now officially a ‘Communist’ movement now?

Obama Pal Bill Ayers Releases “Collective Statement” Of Occupy Wall Street Protesters…Bill Ayers

What follows is the first official, collective statement of the protesters in Zuccotti Park: Weasel Zippers and wordpress

I want some free money too. Then I can go buy, say. some gold and when it rises, I will pay the money back. After all, if it works for the bankers why not you and I?

Frito: I can’t believe you like money too. We should hang out.
`from Idocracy (2006)

These good for nothing PEE PARTIERS are a disgrace. You never saw this filth witth a Tea Party rally. Go ahead you morons keep protesting. We are becoming Venezula and you are too stupid to know it. Wait if you get your way see what happens. You think think things will be great …. WRONG. You will be standing in line HOPING food is on the shelves. Take a good look at what is going on in 3rd world countries this will be you. Then remember that you toted the line for Obama and he will throw you away like yesterdays garbage. How ignorant are you? You haven’t seen nothing until these elitist run the country and you live in poverty never to get out.

What a total sad representation of this movement. Sacramento people get your act together. This is horrible!! The message should be simple. Can’t you even give a one sentence answer? Or are you just bored?

“Useful idiots” Lenin

ROFL. These protesters need a swift kick in the rear.

Then start paying close attention to your spelling and grammar.

When your left-wing policies fail, incite violence. Always works

Holy cow, I’m all for civil disobedience, but this hardly qualifies…..I’ve seen so many interviews with these “Occupy” groups, and most if not all of their message has been vague and foolish.

What this really is is a bunch of indie hipster losers who think it’s cool to “organize” for “social revolution” using social networking to “make a statement” about the corruption in society. One thing that I’m definitely tired of? These “V for Vendetta” masks that are appearing in these crowds, most likely worn by people with absolutely no concept of why they’re protesting other than “because it’s, ya know, the right thing to do”.

As a true libertarian, I take offense to these idiots besmirching the concept of civil disobedience.

The main thing that no one sees to understand is that the politicians and bankers are the same people. If you look at the economic teams of any of the last few presidents you will see them filled with ex Goldman and JP Morgan Chase Bankers.
Stop fighting with each other and start fighting the real enemy.

Cesor Chavez Park? Only in California.

To the barricades, comrade! Down with the Proletariat!

Hey…everybody…let’s have Hank lead us in a rousing chorus of “The Internationale”!

Hey, Hank, stick it in your ear! Impeach Obama! Commit Ron Paul!

Whose ready to make a mint on T-Shirts with the words of former Reform Party VP Candidate James Stockdale who famously said in a debate: “Who am I and Why am I here?” Great slogan and chant for this group.

As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species. (Mike Judge, Idiocracy, 2006)

I find the “raised fist” on the Occupy Wall Street web page evocative of violence, something the left actually seems to be quite competent at. I’m still trying to figure out the whole socialism is anarchy thing, don’t they realize that the two are mutually exclusive? As for everyone thinking that they’re hypocritical idiots, well… This also answers my question as to where all of the “anti-[republican]war hypocrites are these days. If these folks really want to “occupy” organizations that are literally ripping them off, they ought to head down to their nearest state university, government building or union hall.

you mad, bro?

And people wonder why major employers outsource jobs to offshore locations or relocate their corporations entirely to other countries?

Kudos to reporter Tony Lopez for actually modeling what a reporter is supposed to do – report the WHOLE story. Nice. Hey other mind numbing reporters who pass on the Kool Aide when “reporting”, this is what a real reporter looks like.

He says with grammatical errors…

I think the organizer should go back to playing Dungeons and Dragons in his mothers basement. Would you hire any one of these trolls? Also the Marxist Communist should go live in N Korea he could stand to lose some weight. Lastly the President should be ashamed a lending credence to this movement. I hope he joins them in Nov 2012. Anybody but him his a good candidate.

What do you want?

“We want money! We want a house! We want free health care and food! We want a job that pays at least $100,000 per year anywhere, anytime, but we don’t want to work into it…it has to be there waiting for us! It can’t be too difficult, but it has to be interesting! We have to be loved and feel included while we’re doing it!”

What are you offering for these demands?

“A pulse and body temperature!”

He was head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank Tell me he wasn’t involved . Know your facts

At last we have all the LOONS in one place in each city.
Extermination is tempting.
It would reduce welfare claims and cement Ovomit’s defeat.

Some people don’t seem to understand that greed is universal; its manifestations are different depending on your social position. If you are rich it manifests itself as gluttony, if you are poor it manifests as envy. When you demand something for nothing or demand higher pay then your skills deserve, you are just as greedy as a corporation who charges more than a product or service is worth.

Capitalism is the “greed” to keep, socialism is the greed to take. Winners vs losers, makers vs takers, capitalism vs socialism.

The slogan for these protests…..

Losers of the world unite!

Philip,
You need to step away from the campus and get a dose of reality. I work at a “corporation” of 27 people. The company is “incorporated”, therefore, we are a corporation. We work hard, design and manufacture industrial electrical controls, and export 20% of our goods to the rest of the world, including China. If we continue to design and build good products at a competitive price, we will stay in business and possibly expand. If we don’t, we will go bankrukpt. The founder and owner is 78 years old and works 6 days a week inventing new products that allow other companies to improve efficiency and therefor there competitiveness. Our efforts enable each employee to support their family and of course the government. It’s all pretty simple if you care to do some homework. So, do yourself, your community, and your country a favor and work hard to contribute to this great country of ours.
Best Regards

It’s a shell game actually, nokoolaid4me. The banks got even more money from the Gov’t that was supposed to go for loans to small businesses. Instead, they turned around and paid the TARP loans back with this second round of loans. Good article in the WSJ yesterday about this shell game.

Precisely why badly run, non-competitive companies should be allowed to fail instead of bailing them out. The inherent problem there of course is that most of those companies are union and wall street buddies of the guy acting as president.

I was thinking more along the lines of Brick from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
“I DON’T KNOW WHY WE’RE YELLING”…”LOUD NOISES”

This is San Fran. The only thing these useless eaters understand is backdoor meat insertion. They don’t know why they are there? That should tell you something. While I wholly agree with the rage against corporate mind control, illegal money manipulation, and all, it’s been going on for nearly 100 years. They are there because they are stupid,liberal, drones following the directions of whomever tells them it’s ok to get aids,spread it, and infect the rest of the poulation. This would be a great opportunity to eliminate them while they are all in one place.

Today’s hippies are too lazy to even have a cause.

Great comment. As a nation, we are devolving, becoming a lower form of life that is less civilized, less virtuous and less capable. Our society, our economy, our prosperity and our freedom are suffering and degrading as a result.

Wow, how embarrassing for all of California. It would be appropriate to have a platform before you gather in protest. No wonder the rest of the country looks at us like we’re freaks. This proves it.

Anyone here have a kid protesting at one of these things? Are you proud to admit it? LOL

The reality that Obama and many others want to keep the people from realizing is that the financial collapse and the absence of any real recovery is the really the fault of the “Governmental Wall Street complex” – and not Wall Street alone.

Contrary to the popular myth, Wall Street is very heavily regulated and many of those regulations were actually designed to enable the very behavior that caused the financial meltdown.

Note that on July 21, 2010 Obama signed Dodd-Frank act. He, and the others promised us that the huge new raft of regulations would “fix” the problems on Wall Street. If so, why the protests? And if Dodd-Frank didn’t solve the problems, whose fault is that?

These protesters are being used by their intellectual betters on the left to shift blame away from politicians.

Face it: There is a financial sector elite that colludes and schemes with the highest echelons of our government. They can’t technically create regulations, but the politicians they contribute millions upon millions to can and do. Follow the money…

Together they have devised an incredibly opaque and complex financial regulatory web designed to enable and mask their greed and selfish desires for power.

The dense morass of legalese and financial gibberish that make up the regulations involved make it near impossible to see what’s really going on.
But you don’t need to. In your gut you know.

Hey look all the Trolls finally got off their grandmas computers and went outside, maybe that would explain the drop in ignorant comments in the blogosphere.

Agreed. It is refreshing to watch a *real* journalist in action. There are so few these days…

As a young man I protested. I can understand why these fleabaggers are protesting.

But, they are doing it wrong.

When I protested, it was as part of a group. We selected a speaker, someone who would study our issues to create debate points, and had the ability to speak coherently.

We dressed nicely to differentiate ourselves from the filthy hippies. Dark suit jackets, ties, dress shirts, slacks, and freakin’ polished shoes. If we planned on mixing it up, we’d wear light colored clothing, because in a black and white newspaper picture, the blood would really stand out.

Alinsky’s “Rules for radicals”? Pishah, we’d didn’t need no stinkin’ rules from the “Man”. Each and every one of us knew we had to keep our heads up, and be proud. Never back down, and be polite to the passersby’s.

These fleabaggers can’t even chant properly; thanks public schools for taking away the Pledge of Allegiance. By learning how to speak in unison, we were taught the basics of protest.

Whom does the Govt fear more, a bunch of these fleabaggers, or the well dressed sons and daughter of Middle America? A mob of rabble, or the young people that appears ready to vote against them?

Brian Williams, take notes!!

I want to go protest too! I can find some good weed from those people!

LMAO! Awesome dude!

lololol!!!

Brilliant! Well said.

OTHER QUESTIONS THAT A REPORTER SHOULD ASK!!!!

1. Are you being paid to be here or in the case of the school students did the teacher promise you a “A” to be here.

2. Do you know why you are here?

3. Were you here because you thought this would be a nice party and can meet girls.

Wah! I’m such a victim! I’m not responsible for my own decisions and choices! Give me more free stuff!
Jeesh, what a bunch of pathetic losers.

Rebels without a clue. “WHAT DO WE WANT!?” I dunno. “WHEN DO WE WANT IT?! Want what?

Nailed it 100%!

These clowns came to Houston and had no idea why they were even there. Basically they were mad that somone had more toys than they did, now gimme! All I needed to know about these knuckleheads was stated in the first few words of one woman who showed up and gave an interview…..”I’m 48 and retired”…..nuff said. Who the he!! retires at 48??? People who need to quit demanding to be supported by people who do want to work, that’s who.

Unless the protests are simply displays of leftist ideology without even an attempt at rational discussion, why not target the WH and Congress? The WH and the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress are the ones that “bailed out Wall Street.” We’re looking at a new profession – whining without knowing why.

This is Obama’s, Soros’s, Piven’s, et al America. Look and listen to the “Wall Street Occupy” groups that Obama gives his presidential endorsement. He condemns TEA Party folks while encouraging communists/anarchists and their anti-capitalist/anti-Semite rants.

Proving again the liberals are morons. Most likely AstroTurf for the Obozo administration. These are the same idiots who thought Hoax and Chains was a great slogan and the sock puppet behind it would make a great leader.

A bunch if liberal crybabies who need their diapers changed and want more candy.

This just goes to show that these protests are about selfish individuals that feel they are owed something for being alive.

WOW. What a bogus cherry pick hatchet job. LOL. We know why & so do the fools behind this bull.

“That message team will reveal that…uhhh…after they take another bong hit, man.”

Idiot punk. No idea how he got there. Has no idea what has occurred on this planet before he was conscious. How can he know where he is going in life, if he doesn’t know from whence he came?

You’ll go real far with your art degree. NOT. Maybe you can flip burgers or build bicycles.

“President Barack Obama referenced the nationwide demonstrations Thursday and called them a sign that voters are upset with Republican leadership, who he accused of blocking efforts to spark job growth.

“I think people are frustrated and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works,” Obama said.”

If there were an iota of common sense remaining on the left, these people’s frustrations would be rightfully directed at the system that failed miserably to provide them with even the most basic knowledge and understanding of the most basic tenets of economics and business – and with a president that is equally as clueless about how our economy works as they are.

Pelosi Galore!

The protestors’ ignorance of the facts is secondary to their agenda – a semi-hippy revolution where folks exist on love (and other people’s money). They are so clueless they think Obama represents majority opinion, totally unaware of the contempt in which they’re held,. Hell – it beat’s working.

Fruit pickers, picnickers an d$$k lickers…all typical california!

And Obama is the “Whiner in Chief”

What a waste of humanity. Talk about a bunch of brain dead useless people. The by product of public education – inability to formulate a thought or critical reasoning. Looks like a bunch of adult 2 year olds throwing a tantrum. I really like the mix of stupidity and Marxist which actually are the same.

They should be there to overthrow the federal government.

Perhaps you’ll be the one to tell us????

THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO LIVES. THOSE OF US WHO DO DON’T HAVE TIME TO PROTEST EXCEPT FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME. WAKE UP INDEPENDENT MODERATES! DO YOU WANT YOUR AMERICA TO LOOK LIKE THIS? I DON”T THINK SO!

They don’t know and neither do you.

OU 31 – Texas 21

‘member the frying pan?

‘da minds a terrible thang……

All these useless people in one place, sounds like an opportunity for the Police to practice crowd control on fleshy crash dummies for new recruits to the force. Mace them, beat them, herd them with dogs to an alley and then hose them down with fire hoses to reduce their hippie stench and then tell them to be back here tomorrow in the AM. We’ll have a new class to train. Thanks Obots, I always knew you were good for something.

A friend of mine lives in Portland, OR, and went down to the Occupy rally. He was unimpressed. They same tired group of leftists and professional protesters. People carrying signs like “Meat is Murder” and “Legalize Pot”. What does that have to do with Wall Street and corporate greed??

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

Useful idiots….Nothing more.

Hate to tell you this but your boy Obuma voted for and helped push it through.

The people protesting are from the shallow end of the intellectual gene pool and simply too stupid to see the real big picture as it is far easier for them to just believe what they are told by their masters, the socialist geniuses who programmed these dolts .

Obama’s plan all along is to destroy the financial and moral fiber of America. This is because Obama has always despised America and is now well in to his jihad against our Republic. Unless he and his administration are arrested, impeached and jailed soon he will declare martial law, halt elections and insert himself as supreme dictator with the democrat water bearers in tow. All this was made possible because our educational system was corrupted by socialist liberals to raise entire generations of lemmings too lazy to think for themselves.

Isn’t their mantra, “We don’t know what we want, and we want it now”?

These “protesters” are so f**king pathetic. Bunch of commie America haters.

[...] Occupy Auburn plans to hold its first “General Assembly” Sunday in Ross Square on the Auburn campus from 1-3 p.m. And you have to hand it to them—judging by their Facebook page, they certainly seem more sure of their message than their Sacramento counterparts. [...]

I have a friend in Seattle who is gaga over the Occupy movement. She chooses to blame Wall Street for her financial predicament other than the fact she got into a relationship with a pothead felon, who lounges around stoned and refuses to support her or her daughter. I can’t understand why she continues to waste her time with the loser other than that he is a parasite and she is infected.

I suppose it is easier to create a bogeyman than look in the mirror…

They learned their protesting from Nancy Pelosi. She said we have to pass the bill to see what’s in it, they say they will have the reason for their protests some time later. Pitiful.

“WE WANT WHAT WE WANT AND WE WANT IT WHEN WE WANT IT!!!!” — Silly Fleabagger liberals

Goerge Soros via the Cloward and Piven Strategy. Soros.org. Perhaps you should get educated.

Occupy Sacramento! Free iPhones and Happiness and Rainbows for everyone! Huzzah for not working! Hurray for taking people’s (usually) hard-earned wealth!

That is the EXACT term I thought of here….useful idiots. What a sad, sad time in these people’s lives. They would protest against toilet paper use if the left told them to.

Why aren’t people more upset with thhe price of electricy, gas and other forms of energy! Heck you want to jump start the ecomony lower the price of gas to $2 and drop electricty back to pre BO days! My electric bill has gone up 20% plus since 08…. I couldn’t give a rats A$$ about an extra $5s added to my bank bill! I care about the extra $25/tank it cost me per week per car….. now that is something I would line up and protest about…

Brian; Actually you’ve left out a part of this process. After you get the big money, hide it, then file for bankruptcy, but further on you hold a fundraiser at 25,000 dollar per plate, and give back the big money to the campaign. Hard working people…ya know who cares they get shovel ready jobs after all.

Hey someone tell the POS that the LEADERSHIP (supposed leadership) is DEMOCRATS.. they hold a MAJORITY in the SENATE and HE’S the president THEREFORE unless he and the senate DEMOCRATS have CHANGED parties HOW can the people be fed up with the REPUBLICAN leadership? this man’s not SMART enough to be PRESIDENT ..must be WHY he’s calling his DOGS out to protest now he KNOWS he’s GONE in 2012.. ANYONE out there protesting are DUMBER THAN A BOX OF ROCKS.. they haven’t figured out the POS is a WALKING LIAR.. BTW someone ask them WHERE Obama gets people to pay his $35K a plate fund raising dinner prices..I am sure they don’t anyone who can afford to go therefore that leaves BANKERS.. WALL STREET EX.. AND THE CORPORATIONS..

Slow down now… Not all stoners are leftist morons. Some of us have full-time jobs, pay our taxes, have college degrees in something other than “the arts” and are up-standing citizens in society.

They just “revealed their first demand:

1) Evil corporate pig Dominos must pay for it’s sins to the people of this nation, and bring free pizzas down here until our Occupy Sacramento committee decides they are no longer needed..

Sean……… isn’t that a gay name?

JUST SAYIN’!

Sean: I challenge you to prove your otherwise baseless assertion that Tea Party folk are “well rehearsed” and/or “brainwashed”. If you *really* believe that and are not just lashing out that which you fear from a presume safe place, then you should be able to provide solid, clear, linkable proof.

Otherwise you came to believe something about the Tea Party without requiring any proof whatsoever. And that Sean, speaks volumes about you.

Just an FYI we retired at 48 because my husband and I lived way below our income since we were in our 20′s. We worked blue collar jobs without a college education. We paid for our kid’s college and are not on any hand outs from the government. So it is possible, if you are willing to pay the price when you are young. We saved when others bought new cars, homes, partied, went on vacation etc.

The amazing thing is that the very companies they are protesting were some of the biggest contributors to Obama. (JPMOrgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Dow, Monsanto).

These kids took the small bus to school…. if they even went

An unknown writer said it best. “We are witnessing the birth of the FLEA party. The parasites are organizing.”

M Theory? Do you have any clue on how the economy works? That statement alone tells me NO, go back to school.

The President, by backing violent groups who have no message except they hate the wealthy, is breaking our country apart. And he’s doing it right out in the open, blatantly, with no qualms. He’s the greatest domestic menace that faces the Republic of the United States of America today. Bar none.

the most clever part is your name….. Buck O’Fama…. good stuff.

any idiot knows the president has ZERO control over energy prices, except you apparently. unless that is, you’d like to dramatically expand the powers of government, something most repubs staunchly oppose. so, which is it? you should’ve paid more attention in econ 101…

The fleabaggers should be at pelosi’s million dollar winey in Kalifornia!

Pathetic is a good description of these people, no matter the city they congregate in.
These people are ignorant beyond belief!
Without Corporations, I wouldn’t have been employed for the past 35 years! Thank you Corps.
Without Banks, I wouldn’t have been able to buy 3 homes during my lifetime, working our way up to a nicer home each time.
I wouldn’t have been able to purchase new automobiles for me and my wife.
I wouldn’t have been able to buy a boat.
I wouldn’t have been able to buy a tractor for my little farm
Frankly, if these idiots had 2 brain cells each, they might be able to figure that far from being a bad thing, Banks in this country are a good thing…they allow people like me, simple, hardworking, honest and reliable to purchase things which otherwise we would have to wait for decades to obtain.

When the Banks go out of business, and these loser’s live in cardboard boxes, then maybe they will have an inkling of what they protest against.
When they can’t get a job because they vote in politicians who tax the Corps to death, and they and their children are starving because the Corps are gone offshore, then the gnashing of teeth and wailing of parents watching their children starve will be heard throughout the land.

If you want energy support oil and gas drilling and coal mining. Support the oil pipeline from Canada and opening ANWR. Do not vote for democrats.

I want my free Obama money! I am a liberal parasite too frickin lazy and too much of a coward to make anything of myself. Where do I get my Obama money??

Man I worked so hard and smoked so much dope the last 8 years getting my political science degree from my Marxist professors and still cannot get anybody to reach out to me and give me a job!

Oh me poor pitiful me!

Violent Anarchist thugs and violent Union Thugs whose only program is to smash windows, steal TVs, and burn the town.

Smash them. Break their heads. Throw them all in GITMO.

Why can’t KOOLAID explain if all that money isrepaid then why every single American’s fair share of the debt has risen $35,000 under Obama?

Obama is funded by Wall Street and the Unions. FACT.

The SEIU is being positioned now to hijack Occupy movement.

I’ve read a lot of the comments here and most are the sort of divisive sort from
ignorant people who don’t undertsand that the occupy protests are a reaction to the
betrayal of the capitalism these commentors apparently love. MOST of you promoting the
bootstraps philosphy of OUR country are not the 1%. And to clarify why thats important
is that in 2008 the 1% were found to have invested in fraudulent & predatory financial gamblings
of working people(pensions and mortgages of yours) and it was a daft erosion to our
system and because of it the system crashed. This 1% then went and lobbied to be let off
the hook for the debt .

This was the big banks bailout known as too big to fail.

The debt relief was payed by the taxpayers of this country and debted to ALL our children as per the fed reserve
which purchsed the debt. This defining event to which they were let off the hook by our fed reserve
is a stunning betrayal of capitalism. In capitalism you run the risk of failure just like you are
capable of great success. This equality of risk is a cornerstone of a
free market – Hopefully understandable to left and right alike.

The occupy protesters have a varied agenda as do all people but what I wrote above is the heart
of the issue that has driven the collective to form these protests. It is a vote of no confidence
in our elected officials exploitation of their stewardship of our economy and society. It is a vote
of no confidence in our current system of leadership shone to be purchased as if by auction in
elections to preserve an unfair system. I hope i have explained it well enough to help people not fall
into the likely divisiveness of political affiliation, employer/employee dichotomy or us or them issue other
than what is factual and evidential.

We do not want wealth redistribution we want fairness redistribution(risk equality). If the latter
should bring the former it is to the benefit of us all.

“Change”, here we see the confusion of the useful idiots who have been brainwashed and demoralized by the years of communist influence.
They are zombies who will be used to put the real Obama communists on power and then executed when they realize the change is not what they thought it was and they try to change it back.

Amen. These dummies don’t understand too that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are millionaires who hide their money in Switzerland, etc. Pelosi is owns a cannery for Starkist Tuna on American Samoa island and got a special tax exclusion just for that island when Speaker of the House a few years ago. Look it up. Reid was a struggling attorney in Nevada and worked for the Gaming Commission there and then……boom! Millionaire. Dodd got a sweetheart deal with Countrywide (Bank of America) before the housing bubble bust which was never explained and then wrote the Dodd/Frank Financial Reform Act of 2011 signed into law by Obama. Wow! They really do care for the little people and unions.

You are wrong. The president has MUCH to do with the price of energy. If only the dems would allow us to obtain the energy we have in this country, prices would definitely be lower. You should pay more attention to what’s going on in your country. It’s the dems/libs/enviro wackos who are holding this country hostage and apparently you’re okay with that. Sad.

The bailouts were lobbied for they werent iniated by the government. And No all the bailouts were not repaid . Also what about confidence in a system that should apply risk to all? Kool aid I think you’re a bit turned around you should actually be one of occupy. I doubt you actually would agree with a release from risk for the top 1% investment accounts.

Lower regulations, that will loser energy costs.

Ba you are the idiot, the president does have the say so on cutting restrictions so we have more acess to energy resources, YOU DUMMY!!!

When he caps drilling, then he effects prices

Actually a president by giving the power to the EPA to regulate coal out of business the president does have the power to control the cost of energy. Coal is cheap and is the fuel of choice for many if not most electric power plants. Ba you should really do some research before spouting that which you do not know. Obama handed the EPA Carte Blanche to bypass the congress in creating environmental regulation. “Under my cap and trade plan electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket” Candidate Barack Obama 2009.

OBAMA LIES LIES LIES LIES…THIS IS FAR FROM REPUBLICANS FAULT…OBAMA ACCEPTED MORE $$ FROM WALL STREET THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY…NO HE IS SAYING HES AGAINST THEM? WHAT A JOKE…ANYTHING FOR VOTES…DEMARATS AND “OBAMA” ARE THE PROBLEM NOT WALL STREET “NOBAMA2012″

A buddy of mine in England sent me an email and set up an international challenge as to which country has the most embarrassing, stupid, clueless leftist protesters, England or America.

I’m not proud to say that “Occupy Wall Street” by virtue of their on-camera antics, inability to even guess as to why they are where they are and of course, their unsanitary antics has shot America far into the lead.

Take that England!

Did anyone bother to ask them where they bought their clothes, the supplies needed to make and print their signs, the ipods and cell phones they use to organize. I wonder if they even realize that the companies they protest produce all the materials that go into making virtually every product they have in their dorm rooms, class rooms and vehicles? We really need to privatize public schools and rid the classroom of unions, allow teachers to be graded on their merit and fire those who don’t measure up.

I would not say all liberal arts degrees are useless. The study of philosophy should help you learn to reason. The study of history should help you learn from the past. Let’s be careful when we label all these kids as liberal arts majors who know nothing.

Got pepper spray??? Use it.

Sad Amerika society. Lost brain washed people. Amerika land of bums!

Typical hippie morons. Have no idea why they are protesting. Just there because other hippies are there and smoking dope. They want in on it. Oh yeah, and they want to re-elect Obama too. Cuz he’s helping the economy and jobs and stuff to man.

as Marlon Brando said in ‘The Wild One” when asked what he was protesting…”What do ya got?”

You want to know the truth of what is happening (for those of you who prefer facts be used to draw conclusions) then tune into #1 alternative media in the world…..www.INFOWARS.com

Be informed.

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Bologna! The truth is, you don’t know what you want. Talk to 10 protesters and you will get 11 different answers. I was listening to an NPR reporter’s intereview with one such protester in New York and he said he wanted ALL College tuition loans to be forgiven. I thought, why stop there..let’s forgive all mortgages…heck when you go into a store EVERYTHING SHOULD BE FREE!

The protesters most likely drove to the protest in a car made by a corporation whose union workers pension is invested on Wall Street carrying signs crated from products that were created by corporations. They use their cell phones made by corporations to call and brag to their friends about being at the protest while drinking water bottled by a corporation. They open up their laptop computers made by a corporation to sign on to their Internet Service Provider which is also a corporation. They long on to the local news website to see how they are being reported upon by yet another corporation. For dinner tonight they are ordering pizza from yet another corporation. Corporations who for the most part are public entities whose stock is traded on Wall Street.

They are there because Soros told them to do it. The man who just a few weeks ago attempted to crash our currency. The man who is personally invested in the financial failure of the United States.THAT’S why these idiots are attacking our country. They are the mindless puppets of Soros and this is all about lining his pockets. They are truly useful idiots.

You wonder why our children can get a decent eduction. In reading this story there is a quote from a ‘retired teacher’. She says, “I’m here because corporate greed and financial greed are ruining this country.” I guess she isn’t bright enough to realize that the vast majority of her pension fund is invested in the stock market. Therefore if you kill corporate profits and financial profits, her pension will go out the window. Then she’ll be out demonstrating about loss of her pension and not realizing she caused it. Dummies!!!!

Nader/Chaz Bono 2012-Real Change

you f*cking reject – there is nothign biggoted int ehre you broekn record lefty mange ridden parrot

The idiots are using their iPhones to Tweet that they hate huge corporations. IDIOTS

@just one: “in 2008 the 1% were found to have invested in fraudulent & predatory financial gamblings of working people(pensions and mortgages of yours)…”

Poorly revised history. A September 11, 2003 New York Times article shows that President Bush proposed “the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.” His proposal: ‘An agency within the Treasury Department to supervise mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Fearing that mortgages would no longer be available to people who were unable to pay them back, Democrats eventually killed the proposal.’

Fannie/Freddie dictate the rules for offering mortgages they back and they back over 97% of all mortgages in America. The rules put in place by Democrats and enthusiastically enforced by Fannie/Freddie lowered the standards of income to payment ratios and down payment percentages that had worked for many decades.

So, banks (and so the mortgage lenders they funded) were forced by government regulatory requirements under threat of punitive action to make more and more loans to borrowers who under prior standards would have been considered extremely high risk of being unable to repay the loan.

So, banks were forced to lend money and meet govt quotas on very high risk loans – *yet* banks were still held to the same reserve requirements and other regulations and were therefore put in a regulatory vice.

Banks were going to die quickly and needed something to help them meet the government mandated loan requirements – so CDSs (Credit Default Swaps) were created and supported by Fannie/Freddie…

And the rest is history as they say.

Capitalism is not the problem. Capitalism makes a person like Steve Jobs want to get out of bed in the morning and work to create something!

The problem is that our justice system is corrupted. Rich people can buy justice and the rule of law does not apply equally to all.

If Occupy wants success they need to identify the criminals and their crimes. Publicize the crimes of specific people and demand justice.

The only thing the criminals on Wall Street (and the criminals infested within our government) fear is the orange jumpsuit.

Wall Street gives far more money to the Democrats. But don’t let the facts get in the way of your hissy fit, kids.

Yep!

Sorry, but that attitude is one which is causing America a great deal of grief!
Liberal Arts degrees are worthless, not useless.
Technology is king, has been for 30 years, and that is where the good jobs are.
I work for a very large company who brings engineers from India and other places in the world because American Education isn’t producing enough qualified engineers. Many times I attribute this to Teachers who are less scientific and math able, but they do know liberal arts.
Teach a child reading, writing, arithmetic, and sciences.
They can learn about Liberal Arts after they have a solid, good paying job.

And you, you tea party bigoted cretin, I suppose you make up your thoughts by your little own lonesome self. Or do you march to the drone of Lush Limburg, Bill O’Really, Sean Insanity, and Glen Trainwreck??? Or do you get your orders from the deep pockets of the Koch brothers???? PLA –EEZZZEE!!! Give us all a break. We all know that these people and Haliburton are out for themselves. To loot the nation. They are worse than the 19th century robber barons. You – you tea party clowns are the useful idiots!

Can You Say Community ORGANIZER!!!!!!!! That was the one and only job the current occupant of the Whitehouse ever had.
For those who don’t believe that his hoiliness obama isn’t organizing these protests with his brain dead zombies , they too are on their way to being obama zombies.

Thes kids have been decieved. The Socialists/Communists have duped them to believe that THE GOVERNMENT is the Answer and Commerce is evil
Hey kids you’ve been brainwashed by the New Age educators from the Alinsky model to destroy a nation. You will regret this day the rest of your lives once you learn about REALITY! Obama has cut off our domestic energy supply- given money to HIS CORP friends like his solar energy liar investments. Blame the Dems liar progressive party. BUT the truth learn about realiy – people do not wnat to live in Cuba. I pray Obama will resign .

@just one — Regarding what the protestors are protesting: “It is a vote of no confidence in our elected officials exploitation of their stewardship of our economy and society. It is a vote of no confidence in our current system of leadership shone to be purchased as if by auction in elections to preserve an unfair system. ”

Then why are they not protesting at the White House and the Capital building????

The truth is that the financial collapse was not the fault of “Wall Street”. Most of the people that work in the finance sector are good Americans just trying to earn a living. (and as a side note, due to Dodd-Frank, tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of them will be losing their jobs over the next three years…) .

And contrary to the myth propagated by the left, Wall Street is very heavily regulated and many of those regulations were designed and put in place to enable and mask the actions that raped our economy and led to the financial collapse and are continuing to hold the people and their economy back.

The financial collapse was caused by the “Financial-Elite Governmental complex” comprised of a relative handful of the financial elite and government elite who colluded and conspired to create a morass of regulations that hurt the elite’s competition and enable them to funnel vast sums of money to themselves, and their bureaucrat cronies.

Follow the money: Do your own research on who received the greatest number of dollars in campaign funds from the highest echelons of finance (Goldman Sachs is a good place to start).

How appropriate that they are protesting in Cesar Chavez Park? It’s hard to comprehend that in this country there is a community that would dedicate a park to a communist.

Yes he was in the picture and has been there a long time. He is part of the agenda. Geitner’s Daddy was the head of a non-profit organization called the Asia Company. They helped export our jobs. The Asia company is operated under the leftist Ford Foundation, which is no longer affiliated with the Ford Company. It was Obama’s mother who developed the Asia Company. Obama and Timmy have known one another since they were kids. All true!

If you love art history or philospphy by all means study that. But if you go 100K in debt for a BA in art history you’re an idiot.

I really admire the way you have made wise decisions to live within your means. Unfortunately, the woman in this particular clip still had responsibilities and went on and on about how tough it is to send kids to college and various other financial burdens. Not the time to be retiring if you ask me. I’m 48 and working my tail off to pay for my kids’ education….I wish I were as disciplined as you guys.

Q:Always wondered what happened when Burning man ended here in Nevada………….A:Occupy LOL!

Theyre just mad because now they got to grow up and get jobs.
Its called the real world.

The point is… you can’t get a REAL job with an Art History degree. Majoring in English is not gonna get placed in the private sector.

Wake up.

“I’m here because corporate greed and financial greed are ruining this country,” said a retired educator.

If we were looking for accuracy in reporting this guy should have been referred to as a “retired socialist propagandist” not an educator.

But according to some of these protestors, everyone should be paying for their college education because otherwise they will graduate with debt – and that’s just unfair, ‘ya know. /sarc

[...] Gateway Pundit: CBS Local [...]

What I said is the truth. Look it up. You just responded with insults, like a “tolerant” liberal always does. Use a fact in your argument and i might be impressed. Insults are just the refuge of the weak-minded. Go away little girl, you add nothing. Oh and Soros’ balls are getting a little dry. Back to work you go.

LOL!! The best comment yet about these gatherings. Seems it’s more about the herd mentality than anything else.

Occupy a Port-a-John

I drove past this demonstration yesterday.

It’s the usual street urchins walking with signs provided by “organizers.”

Typical for Sacramento. They probably got $10 or $20 for their trouble

If these protestors, with their foggy goals and tenuous-at-best grasp of this nations history are the future of America, I weep for my country.

And you Gerri,
Please move to the nearest communist paradise. I’m sure they would let you immigrate.

Gerri you stupid fleabagger clown. Did George Soros or the SEIU pay you to post in here today? Every american that holds a pension or a 401k is invested in wall street. The CORPORATION that made the computer you’re typing on is traded on wall street. The Internet Service Provider you are connecting with is most likely traded on Wall Street. Fleabaggers liberals like gerri are terminally stupid thanks to public education.

Wow, Gerri, really? Um, have you heard of a book called “Confidence Men” by Ron Suskind? Wake up and get smart. Don’t fall for the false left-right paradigm. Ron Paul 2012. Infowars.com

Solyndra…

So says the person who has never actually attended a TEA Party. As for the “bigoted” comment; did ya happen to notice that TEA Party favorite Herman Cain has taken a SUBSTANTIAL lead in the most recent Zogby polls? Yeah, there’s “intolerance” for ya: the TEA Party is BACKING AN INTELLIGENT BLACK MAN FOR PRESIDENT. Unlike the SEIU/union thugs protesting around the country; who back a black man who thinks there are 57 states in the union.

As someone who has actually attended TEA Party events, my only question is: who are the Koch brothers? I’ve never had anyone give me “marching” orders – it was always grass roots involvement, ALWAYS.

So who’s the idiot? What do you think the side effects are when the Prsedent shuts down drilling in North shore of Alaska and off the coast of Floirdai/La/Ms etc….. are you really that stupid? Or how about the EPA forcing out local electric coops to add 500million$ worth of scrubbers to their coal plants when the air coming out is cleaner than what is there today?

Aaahhh…The incoherent ramblings of the Obama liberal moron. The worlds largets most corrupt corporation is…wait for it….The United States Government.
Get a life you idiot. Without corporate America there is no America.

Come on Gerri, you really don’t mean that do you? If you are just a student, then I can understand, you’re living in a Liberial bubble and can’t help it. If you’re unemployeed, then get a job you bum! If Fox news is so bad, then let’s compare them to MSNBC. Olberman, Madow, O’Donnell. These three alone are the worst when it comes to being one sided. Even in school they teach you to respect the debate, yet these three refuse to debate with real hard facks. Look, I’m no friend of corperate America, but then again I could have been born in Cuba! I bet you have NO CLUE why you are really support these people in NYC. If it were the banks, then try to live without them, China does! If it’s because you don’t have a real job, then find a new one. I for one, am sick and tired of people living off my hard work. I say stop the gravy train NOW!!!! No more money for anything but SS, MC. This country was fine for almost 200 years not giving away other people’s money just to get reelected. Shame on you for being so closed eyed about the Tea Party. I bet not a single person could stand a chance debating anyone of them! Guess it’s time you grow up!

You can’t legislate against human nature. You can legislate one part of human nature against another part. But human nature will ALWAYS override legistation.

Otherwise, we could simply write a law that says, “You must be good” and have done with it.

The only reason corporations have an incentive to corrupt government is because government has the authority to tilt the mechanisms of capitalism in favor of one corporation over another.

It then stands to reason that there are two possible solutions; remove capitalism from the equation all together or remove the authority of government to influence the mechanisms of capitalism (or at least curb such influence).

If we remove capitalism all together, we are left with an oligarchy. History has shown over and over again that the likelyhood of an oligarchy being oppressive is excedingly high. As a matter of fact, that part of human nature that causes corporations to corrupt government in the fist place, the problem we are trying to solve, namely greed, would be consolidated in a select few with absolute power and the problem would actually be worst.

BUT, this is what the protesters are asking for; A governmennt with SO MUCH authority, the if the government felt like it, it could punish the greedy corporations. The problem of course is that once the government has this authority, what incentive would it have to carry OUT these punishments? If the governmnet had this authority, then corporations would have an even greater incentive to corrupt government. If government can’t keep from being corrupted NOW, what makes these protesters think that with MORE authority, the governmet will be able to avoid it?

The other solution is to remove the authority of government to influence the mechanisms in favor of any given corporation, thus removing the incentive for corporations to corrupt government. This can’t be done completely of course, but it can be curbed. AND with a smaller government, there are less shells for the government to hide behind.

Although not a perfect solution, reducing the authority and size of government will actually accomplish what the protesters actually ultimately desire … a more fair playing field so the American dream can be achieved by the greatest number of people.

The reporter asks a sarcastic question and the protester respond by sayng “Exactly Correct”. This makes the protester hostile to the media? Grow up Tony Lopez and either go back to journalism school or get a job in a field more suited to your skills. You’re certainly not a reporter.

Yes…???

I’m not defending Sean, but wow.

Useless degrees? Wow. I guess humanity should only consist of doctors, lawyers, and scientists then. Other studies have never helped us as a species progress.

I’m not any of those things you describe except for my useless B.A. in political science. I’m not a socialist, actually I’m a conservative. But tea party members like yourself are what bring us down unfortunately. Your points are missed because of your useless uneducated ranting.

there’s no crime against being stupid but it sure does bug me these dummies can vote. hopefully they’ll be shopping for new birkenstocks or braiding each other’s underarm hair on election day and forget to vote…

The most depressing thing about these protests? These are supposedly college grads and students. They haven’t been educated, they’ve been indoctrinated. Not one of them demonstrates any real world knowledge, but they sure are down on the talking points and sound bites. Yet they can’t tell you what they mean until they get their cheat sheets tomorrow. Very depressing.

Obama blaming someone else once again, couldn’t be that people see him as a terrible leader, lousy politician, and no clue what the hell he’s doing —nah that couldn’t be it.

Occupy a shower. And who is paying your bills while you guys play victim? Grow the eff up.

“So you guys are in the process of forming the reasons why you are here?” asked CBS13 reporter Tony Lopez.

“Exactly correct,” Bondi said.

–No need to comment on that, except to say it made my day.

Come up with something original! Like this, the problem with our society here is not Capitalism it is Crony Capitalism, where certain companies/industries use their lobbying clout to get regulations, tax credits, etc. passed that tilt the playing field in their favor. Both parties play the game but the tea parties have risen up to hold the Repubs feet to the fire. Who is holding your party responsible? Seems you Libs are the biggest fools of all because your leaders sell you this progressive line during the campaign but once they get into office do the bidding of these very multinationals you detest. Obama has launched more drone strikes than bush in half the time, look up how much one hellfire missile costs, thats going into the pockets of the most evil corporations out there arms manufacturers. The war in Afghanistan is still going, as well as Iraq, Guantanamo is still open. The Insurance corporations were 100% behind his healthcare reform because it makes everyone buy their product! Who do you think Wall St. gave more money to during the election, yep Obama. The largest mutinational in the world GE firmly in Obamas camp, GE has sheltered billions of dollars offshore to avoid paying US taxes a tactic used by another big Obama supporter Google. Meanwhile the Fed prints money to prop up Wall Street, at the cost of higher gas and food prices, and ridiculously low savings rates at the bank. Look what happened once the Feds QE programs ended. Stocks tank, commodities tank.

Most great civilizations decay from within, our culture promotes vanity, and the pursuit of material goods. Now we are reaping the harvest, instead of trying to take from the wealthy we need to promote a society where Virtue and empathy for ones fellow man are glorified. Since our inception this country has been about the individual, now as the individual regresses we see our society regress in turn. Unless we create more virtuous citizens, who can balance country and the common good against their own needs the decline will continue unabated.

And why do we have to be so rude to the other posters? You have more in common with each other than you do with the leaders that you defend/attack, remember that, right and left.

So they did know why they were there and were just feelin’ shy?

DUFUS IS as dufus does ???? Duhhhhhh!!

s per the liberal fish wrapper he NYT -for all of you libs thta spout off nonsense about TARP without checking the facts
Congress authorized the Treasury Department to use up to $700 billion to stabilize financial markets through the program — a step that inspired widespread public outrage, helping to fuel what became the Tea Party Movement, and, in the mind of most economists, one that played a crucial role in pulling the global economy back from the brink.

The Treasury never tapped the full $700 billion. By the time its authority to spend the money expired on Oct. 2, 2010, it had committed $470 billion and disbursed $387 billion, mostly to hundreds of banks and later to A.I.G., the car industry — Chrysler, General Motors, the G.M. financing company and suppliers — and to what has been, so far, a failed effort to help homeowners avoid foreclosures.

At that point, the Treasury reckoned that the “overall lifetime cost” to taxpayers of the program will be $50 billion — an estimate that assumes that A.I.G. and the auto companies will remain profitable and that Treasury will get a good price as it sells its corporate shares in coming years. In November, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the final cost at roughly $25 billion, counting another chunk of A.I.G. stock that did not figure in Treasury’s calculations.

In a report released in October, the administration said it expected a $17 billion loss from its investments in General Motors, Chrysler and the auto finance companies, as well as a $46 billion loss from housing programs like the mortgage modification program known as the Home Affordable Modification Program.

Well, its a good point to mention Solyndra. News Media is too busy covering these protests, blowing them up to make them look huge. They are too busy to report on Solyndra, Fast And Furious Operation, and Justice Department Racism (throwing out black panther voter intimidation case). They won’t touch those topics, but they will report on Rick Perry going to hunting camp where the “n” word appeared on a rock. That is relevant news comparatively.. right?

You’re assuming this crowd has thoughtfully contemplated the public policy elements…they see larger government as a path to easier attained entitlements. Kids…you have to work your way to middle/upper class, no one hands it to you.

Lessee…which party still controls 2 out of 3? ObaMao is no smarter than these whining hoards.

Griff….you need to check your facts.

On January 26, 2009, the U.S. Senate confirmed Geithner’s appointment by a vote of 60–34.[37][38] Geithner was sworn in as Treasury Secretary by Vice President Joe Biden and witnessed by President Barack Obama.[39]

Geitner was NEVER with Bush!! He was appointed by your boy Obumer and he and Obumer solely own their breathtaking failure!! Stop blaming Bush for Obumer’s ineptness!!

Looks like YOU are the revisionist!!

Amazing the older man said he was a communist thats why I out here. Yet most had no clue. They look like some where drugged up others were there because???? And heres CBS news they seem to have a message of greed. why doesn’t CBS come out and agree with the older man CBS is pro COMMUNIST… They try to make something out of this stuff when there nothing society rejects at best. But CBS Sacramento has to make a case to some degree for them PLEASE CBS get a life. you stand for nothing

Well stated. Anyone who has read Atlas Shrugged understands this process.

“I think part of people’s frustrations, part of my frustration, was a lot of (lending) practices that should not have been allowed weren’t necessarly against the law, but they had a huge destructive impact” said the president at a midday news conference October 6, 2011.

But Mr. President was it now you who sued Citibank forcing them to make such bad loans July 6, 1994 under CRA

Case Name
… Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank Fair Housing/Lending/Insurance
Docket / Court 94 C 4094 ( N.D. Ill. ) FH-IL-0011
Plaintiff’s Lawyers include Obama, Barack H. (Illinois)-co-counsel
FH-IL-0011-7500 | FH-IL-0011-7501 | FH-IL-0011-9000

Don’t belive me then feel free to Google, ACORN, OBAMA, CITI-BANK, CRA at the same time.

Good news is that there will be no lost time from work from these habitual protesters…

ONS! Occupy numb skulls…

I have facebook friend posting photos of the protests. When I posted a link to what seemed to be a mission statement and then a separate link to proposed “demands” (eg. forgive all debt world-wide), both posts were deleted without explanation. Mind you, this person is a doctor with a supposedly complete education. I guess trying to discern the true point of the protest is a bit sensitive. Supposed to just go with the vibe. But I agree with the posters who feel sad for the shovel ready mindset these folks are trying to process the world through. And hopefully we’ll learn how many are paid shills. Unfortunately, most of these folks are probably earnest.

What is your problem? You can’t be that stupid. WATCH THE VIDEO THAT IS ATTACHED TO THE STORY. All kinds of stupid and sarcastic responses from the protestors, but nothing coherent or substantive. The reporter was right, and you’re in denial.

If these attention-seeking buffoons are simply ignored, they will slink away back to their collective flop houses in no time. Or at least when the welfare checks are in the mail.

They don’t know what they’re protesting. They have to be told after the fact. They deserve to be mocked. The stupidity of their protest should be pointed out. We don’t care if you think it “sends the wrong message”. It is the truth.

The older gentleman looks like a lab experiment from the 1960s gone bad.

Its the idiot sp!ring

THAT VID IS LIKE A LIVE RECORDING OR SEQUEL TO THE MOVIE IDIOCRACY FOR SIMILAR ENTERTAINMENT IN THE FORM OF IGNORANCE PLEASE VISIT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVR9Nv43J4

These people are at the “protests” because they are being PAID to be at them. Maybe this is where some of the missing Solyndra or “Stimulus” millions went!! Just look at the NYC Craigslist ad: http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/2618821815.html

Organizer Anthony Bondi said he has what he referred to as a “message team” working on the primary goals of the local protests, which he admitted “was kind of vague.”

“That message team will reveal that tomorrow [Friday] morning,” Bondi said.

“So you guys are in the process of forming the reasons why you are here?” asked CBS13 reporter Tony Lopez.

“Exactly correct,” Bondi said. This pretty much sums it up as, just another red herring from Obama’s propaganda minister.

I am here because I got nothing better to do and wall street mistreats me they want me to look for work doh

Their student loans still had to be paid and they weren’t immediately hired at six figures the day they graduated. Damn Shrub Fat Cats Rich White Christians!

Skulls full of mush…

Part of the reason there’s 9.1% unemployment in this country. Too busy protesting to be working.

Eli is partly right. Bush went before a Democrat controlled Congress to make his case. Bush was no fiscal conservative and we know how the Dems love to spend other people’s money.

that’s cold comfort if you actually lost your home or your job.

I represent ALL LIBERALS and I’m not leaving here until someone gives me a new house and money to live off of until I die … you see my mom died on my 46th birthday, and I was evicted from her basement. Why else do you think I can play on the sidewalk for 3 weeks. LOL

absolutely untrue! I know the memory hole is in full effect in our society, but if you remember the initial Tea Party protests in 2009 it was the same kind of free for all. That was before the movement was co-opted and folded into the GOP. remember that?
also interesting to remember it was covered in exactly the same way. first the Tea Party was ignored, then the MSM would cover the protests with a focus on the wackos and bigots.
we might actually get somewhere if we could disable the partisan filter and realize that some of the concerns are the SAME!

We’re stupid and smelly and covered in tattoos and body piercings, and far more concerned with finding things to complain about around the workplace rather than actually contribute anything productive, but it’s the Republicans fault I can’t find a job.

[...] mere existence of corporations and has trouble articulating any coherent policies they support, or even why they are there at all.  The organizer of a similar protest in California couldn’t even answer the question: [...]

I’m 39. I’m guessing you’re a middle aged person too.
These young folks are waking up to the reality of crushing student loan debt and meager employment/retirement prospects. Are they unsophisticated? Sure, but disaffected youth can be a very formidable demographic. It’s best to LISTEN to them instead of insulting them.

HAHAHAHAHA!!! We were supposed to be so impressed and all people are doing is pointing at them and laughing at how ridiculous and stupid they are. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Probably guilt-ridden trust fund babies whose Daddy’s earned their money on Wall Street. They don their expensive clothes, carry the most expensive water brands in their , better then most, backpacks, and when tired of their fun and games, return to their hiking, kayaking, do nothing lives.

Uh. Geitner was appointed by Obama. Revisionist much?

c’mon man! Either the OWS protests are at the behest of the Democrats or they aren’t. It cant be both.
Personally, I doubt they are. After checking out the Occupy Los Angeles protests, one of the main beefs I saw was with ‘money in politics/corporate capture of the country’ which one might read as ‘crony capitalism’ and the bank bailouts. Strangely similar to what first animated the Tea Party in 2009.

Class after class of ugly, ugly children

Uh, citizens exercising their Constitutional Rights!

Geitner was the President of the NY Fed while Bush was President. However, his being there wasn’t Bush’s fault.

No John I checked the link. They are being paid. 350 to 650 a week:

“FIGHT TO HOLD WALLSTREET ACCOUNTABLE NOW! MAKE A DIFFERNENCE GET PAID!” – from the ad

(the misspelling of difference is a direct quote)

So why the name calling?

The protestors are mostly temps hired by Working Families Of America. They are paid. That’s why they don’t know why they are there. Always follow the money.

Isn’t is amazing when you actually see in your face blatant stupidity!
They could not even articulate why they were there!
Like deer caught in headlights!

OK, so let me get this straight, we’ve got all these, basically and essentially, O’BUMMER SUPPORTERS and voters staging demonstrations and near or actual riots in various cities. Most of them have no clue why they’re are there or what they’re even supposed to be protesting. Those who claim to know, are there to protest the very organizations who finanaced O’BUMMER’S rise to power.

And these brainless minions are being bolstered by O’Bummer’s union, MoveOn.Org, and who-knows-what-other political cronies of his.

Sounds like exactly what it is – The New O’Bummer Civil Disturbance Show.
If you fall for it and more people join, then it gives O’Bummer and his bums in Congress THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY to clamp down further on civil liberties. This is no spontaneous protest. These are instigated by the highest levels of the administration, and you can BET they are designed to help keep him in the forefront for next election.

They could be fascist anarchists for all I care. It still wouldn’t change the fact that I don’t have a car.

Idiots protesting for free money.rob

Its 1PM on the west coast and the group here still doesn’t know what they are protesting for. The committee still hasn’t decided. What a joke. And the Dems (moveon.org and the unions) are paying people to be there. They are so stupid.

Sounds like they feel effort is for losers. It’s all: my loans aren’t paid and I don’t have a great job. As if it all should just be given to them because they are present and they want it. You are not owed. And if you are, what do you owe me? Give me yours. You have more than me. THAT’S a greedy spoiled baby.

Interesting ad…sounds familiar. Can you say ACORN??

‘Occupy Sacramento’ Protesters are not going to endear themselves if they keep acting like this to the News Media.

“I’m here because corporate greed and financial greed are ruining this country,” said a retired educator. you left out union greed…the reason you can just hang out with these people is because of 100 % taxpayer funded healthcare and pension plans…i have no use for any of these union teachers economic opinions. they’re just more of the minions on the public dole…want to balance your local budget? cut public union workers pension contributions by 50%…shouldn’t they contribute half? after all, isn’t it really just about fairness?

Chavez Park, how appropriate.

This is blowing up in their face. Too many people pointing out the stupidity, the lack of a specific message and the fact that these are temps.

If only they would descend upon Frank and Dodd. if only they would beg Obama to lift the wet blanket(s) off the economy.
No..they will double down on stupid and continue as Obamabots and hope to scare the job creators into creating jobs..if they even want them. Meanwhile job creators are going to look at every applicant in these folks’ age group and wonder if they want to take a chance on infesting their shop with this mentality. Or they will look at this as yet another troubling sign and decide only an idiot would try to expand their business under these clouds of uncertainty. Good going folks! Way to make a “DIFFERNENSE”!

Name ONE “sector” of ANY human society that is without corruption?

You are not a conservative. And yes, those degrees are useless. ESPECIALLY when they complain their degree in minority womens studies is ignored by CEOs. (actual signage from the protests) Your liberal arts degree does not mean much to most Fortune 500 companies. Yes, that is a fact. Sorry it makes you sad, but it doesn’t make it not true. And if I were a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, I definitely would not want to hire some pagan who rails against the rich fat cats on Wall Street. Because I’m not stupid or masochistic. Their pictures are all over the Internet now attached to their rants against the evil corporations they hope will hire them. Dumb.

Yeah they should be smart like these guys and not know what they’re doing there.

Really?

I’ll listen to them instead of insulting them when they return the favor. They jnitiated the conversation with this BS. They are getting back what they give. People mirror you. Good lesson for them to learn. Also they should learn to know the issue they are so passionate about. People might ask you why you’re protesting. You should know. If you don’t, then you don’t have a point, you just like being part of the mob or you are a follower just doing what you’re told without question. .

A bunch of greedy slobs who want taxpayers to pay for their every desire are protesting corporate greed? Talk about hypocrisy!

I stopped halfway. That blond chick is just waaay to high for a conversation. IWHI, for sure. Dibs on the blond hippy!

Legalize it, cover it and these morons will shut up. That’s all they really want anyway. To pleasure themselves through life without any personal responsibilities or effort getting in the way..

You hit the nail on the head, sir. Hats off.

Stupid fleabaggers can’t even tell you why they are there. LOL, what a bunch of maroons as Bugs Bunny use to say.

They met at Cesar Chavez Park. Figures. Cesar Chavez, like obama, was a community agitator and never picked a grape in his life. I know, because I was in Delano when it all went down. His efforts were such a dismal failure that the teamsters ultimately stepped in. If you visit Delano today, the overall living standard of the farm workers is as dismal as it was when Chavez was parading around making an ass out of himself.

Until I read this article, I did not know that Sacremento, CA has a park named after a mass murderer. I am shocked!

Seriously I’m sure they look up to Karl Marx, Obama…..Afroman. Pot.

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[...] morning to kick off the Occupy Sacramento movement, and they did not take kindly to the the presence of a local CBS reporter. They also couldn’t agree on why they’re [...]

These people remind me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry starts screaming, then Newman looks at JErry and starts screaming (though he’s not quite sure why), and then Kramer walks in, looks at Jerry and Newman screaming and regardless of true reasons, he starts screaming ONLY because Jerry and Newman are.

These protesters appear to be the Kramers of the world. “NO clue, but dammit, we’re going to act anyway…against somebody…for something…we’ll get back to you on who and what.”

Proof that liberal sheepleness is alive and well. They’ll jump and hump on command. You should see the video of the clueless Hispanic guys protesting in DC. I think they trucked them in straight from the border, and no, I’m absolutely not being facetious. DC, Hispanics, anti-establishment…makes me wonder if the UUs are involved in this.

Anthony Bondy looks almost as dumb as Michael Moore. He is the self appointed leader of this assembly and he can’t articulate why he’s there. So he’s put together a “message team” to try to figure it out and lend some credibility to his occupation of public property. This almost as funny as obama’s appointing czars to fix the economy. Why does the press give time to such stupid people. At the Tea Party knows why they exist and they are able to articulate their message clearly. And this is the crowd who is going to support obama in 2012. God help us.,

I spent an awwwful lot of money and don’t got no job. Greedy fat cats! Take their money!

ever hear of “useful idiots?” I present to you, for your amusement…

Ceasar Chavez … not Hugo Chavez … duh

My God. No there can string together a coherent sentence, let alone a coherent message. I see these people and it makes me sad. They’ve never been taught to thinking critically, and instead live in their own little pot induced worlds. “We’re protesting! But we don’t know why!!” Because of corporate greed! I would then ask, name a specific example? They couldn’t, but let’s say they named GE, for example and their billions in profit. I would ask, where did they get the money? After an incoherent answer, I would say be selling products. And then I would ask who bought those products? The answer, is of course, the PEOPLE! Americans have voluntarily given GE and other company’s their money because they in return receive products that make their lives better. Freedom.

To all those outside of the Sacramento area please understand that most area residents are embarassed by these local bullies. Please be aware that when they were told it was going to be a “liberal grass root” protest … they thought it was supposed to be a pot party … which is why most looked stoned in the clip … and the reason they were so mad is because the “free grass” wasn’t made available.

Back when the government gave 18 year olds the right to vote, most of them were educated enough to understand government and politics. Now, we have the dumbest people in America voting and THEY are the ones that influence policy in this country. These people protesting don’t even know why they are out there and GUARANTEED every single one of them vote for the Democrats. Just like in sports … you’re only as good as your weakest link. Now we are all as dumb as our dumbest voter…and judging from these people, that’s pretty dumb.

So true. +1000

So, anyway everyone, it was Paulson (Tres Scy), Geithner (Pres, NY Fed) and Bernanke (Fed Chmn) who were pitching TARP to Congress in the fall of ’08. When Obama was elected, he made Geithner Treas Scy and kept Bernanke at Fed. The initial pushback came mostly from Republicans, but they voted to approve in the second round vote after Paulson and Bush convinced them it was the best thing. Nobody liked TARP, but it made (and is still making) lots of $$ for the Treasury and taxpayers, and probably did save the confidence in the banking system in Oct ’08. Protesters don’t want to hear that part, though.

Flea Baggers…..Awesome! I may steal that one.

The unions are the BIGGEST crony capitalists in this country. The get more access to the White House than any other group. Most of the Obama regime are bought and paid for with UNION $$$. I am a union employee, one that does not contribute to politicians. So, how can the unions back a movement that is essentially protesting what they stand for: GREED, CORRUPTION and CRONYISM??? Someone please tell me. Oh yeah, last time I checked, about 99% of job creating companies are traded on Wall Street. Time for these protesters to go back to Mom’s and Dad’s basement where they can do no harm and don’t look foolish on TV!!!!

Did little tax cheat timmy work for W?

And, this is for Sean, who refuses to believe that the unions are attempting to co-opt the Occupy movement. Wake up, buddy…

thanks for that. I’ve been trying to post but I guess the mods don’t want to hear me because I’m not a screeching partisan.
If people can’t even remember that Paulson and Bush originated TARP, then how can we trust their opinions generally?
Although TARP is making money, how’s that help you if you lost your home or job as a result of the 2008 meltdown? Are people not important?

We will soon find out what frustrated socialists, including Obama, are capable of doing when they realize their words no longer have any effect.

Socialism is unchecked force and intimidation. Always.

Eventually socialists build walls, towers, razor wire and searchlights not to keep people out…but to keep them in. In Obama’s America our ‘walls’ are violent union goons, anarchist rent-a-mobs, snitch websites and unaccountable bureaucratic apparatchiks.

Obama has already spoken of the need for a ‘civilian national security force…as strong as the military’. That was not an idle comment.

thanks for the shout out, but yes, you too are a screeching partisan. just depends on your perspective, doesn’t it? TARP has nothing to do with homes and jobs, per se, it had to do with banking confidence and all that implies. there have been a ton of jobs and housing related stimulus programs, how are they working?????? people need to get it through their heads, the government is incapable of “creating” jobs, period, and they need to stop taxing the employed to continue the failed Keynesian efforts to do so.

also, I posted a video of union leaders meeting to cajole their troops to go attend the Occupy protests, thot you’d enjoy that…

Very accurately put Thank you

The blond chick need to pace herself a little on her drug intake. You could almost see her brain struggling to put a simple noun,verb and object together into a three word sentence. On the other hand, she was hot in an unwashed kind of way. Somebody (somebodies) are likely to get lucky later tonight!

partisan, maybe, I have opinions. screeching? no.
my response was aimed at the tired trope of, ‘TARP money’s all paid back and it made money for taxpayers’. I’d say that’s cold comfort for those who lost their jobs or homes because credit markets seized up.
Its important to note that TARP was NOT the only option at the time. Its the one we chose, or should I say was chosen for us by Mr. Paulson, whose own conflicts of interest in the matter have never been fleshed out fully.
thanks for the thoughtful response. I’m not the same Sean that you’re responding to about unions and OWS, but I hope you remind folks that when Cain or Romney or Whoever starts talking about job creation that govt is incapable of “creating” jobs. I’ll do the same for the Obama supporters. peace

Why aren’t they protesting at Nancy Pelosi’s place? I heard she made a record 60 percent profit in the last year or so.

I went to the Occupy Los Angeles protest. Sure, the young people there are a bit unsophisticated, but who among you really knew the deal in your early 20′s? Yes, they’re all over the map when it comes to issues, but the Tea Party was the same way in early 2009. I saw all kinds of issues being protested/supported there but anger at the bailouts, crony capitalism, wealth and income disparity, and the plight and size of the population living in poverty seem to be issues that we all would like to address.
I suggest a bridge between Tea Partyer’s and OWSer’s not hurling insults at each other.

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Actually as I recall, because I thought it was odd at the time, bush called Obama in ( because he was the Dem candidate) to help devise the plan. then the totally Democrat Congress passed it. This was a liberal fiasco from the start.

As is always the case at these events, a lot of them are there because it’s a good way to get sex with college age girls.

The Tea Party stands for two things, smaller government and lower taxes. What liberals are are professed socialists. Unfortunately they do not have a clue about what socialism and communism really are.

NO it wasn’t. There was a problem at one of the rallys but it was the SEIU attacking black tea party members. Try reading something other than msnbc.

Some say they are protesting the banks and the corporations. OK, let’s shut down the banks and shut down the corporations and then only farmers will be able to eat. And I hope they are well armed enough to protect themselves from the unwashed mob.

Someone needs to tell Obama that the Democrats control 2/3 of it. But then math was never his strong suit.

obama is not a failure. he has achieved everything on his agenda to this point.if this occupation of town squares throughout America pays off for him he will declare marshal law and shut down this nation. we will then have our first half white american dictator.

Well..at least that’s an understandable mission You know..one a lot of guys can..err..get behind..

The TEA Party fights for individual rights and freedom. I’m still trying to figure out the core principles this mob is championing. Is it anti cronyism or anti capitalism? Is it anti-government or pro nanny-government…. If they ever manage to articulate a cogent message, maybe we can debate it.

Wow.

Demonstration of the brain-dead.

That Obama and Biden voted for.

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Hi my name is JoeAStroturf and I’m protesting them nuts. . Please don’t report me to Attackwatch it’s the dirty rotten Billionaire Koch brothers put me up to creating the tea party song. They only paid me a couple million dollars and I did the best I could. I’m lying about Obama’s healthcare how it will destroy the country. The Koch’s also are telling millions of other people to not hire workers to make Obama look bad. They also wanted me to say that the 30 year old girl that creepy George Soros was going out was getting sick to her stomach by being with him. The creepy part of that last sentence got me a thousand dollars from the Koch’s. I am truly sorry. They also have millions of other people blogging against Obama. If your reading this article and there’s a lot of bad things said about Obama or his gay friends Kal Penn and Ballerina Rahm it’s not true. Their being paid. I will have to go into hiding now.

Check out song called “teapartiers I can’t hear you” on youtube

Doctors are retiring earlier but we’re getting 17000 new IRS
This is how Obama creates health care jobs I guess
For 235 years this country’s been God’s blessing.
Now he’s following Cloward and Piven’s to bankrupt the country I’m guessing
If Obamacare gives Grandma and Grandpa a scare
Think how when their rationed and die earlier we’ll save on healthcare

is oboma really a moron and thnks he can use these kids for his benifit….careful the snake may bite you. And yes that is what Nancy, Reid, the VP and he are trying to do.

Does Soros think that eventually the kids will not know he has reaped all his money from sucking money out of the corporationa and not returing it?

Listening to the voices, I’d guess (aside from the guy who said he was a communist) that they are there to get high.

ummm, no, no he hasn’t…still hasn’t closed gitmo, still hasn’t brought our troops home….remember that promise…by the end of 2009, they would be home supposedly…not done yet…still paying for that war, as well as, get this the kerfluffle in Lybia…and why are we there? ……(crickets chirping)….Oh yeah, and although he got the healthcare bill forced thru, with it going to the surpreme court, since it IS unconstitutional, that’s one more strike against his record….all he’s done is drag us down further into debt, further into unemployment and further into hell.

Thank you Eli, this is exactly what I have been saying and I’m getting rudely cursed for it…there is no common sense….These people remind me of whiney toddlers. Guess what, they need to be spanked and put to bed. Whenever I bring up the governments part in this whole debacle, people are screaming back, why are you blaming the government, it’s the CORPORATIONS doing all this…well, who the hell gave the corporations the bailout? is there no freakin’ oversight when handing out massive checks? do they not follow up, set up certain restrictions on what can be done with OUR money (taxpayers) until the companies have fully paid it back? and what about Solyndra? are people so blinded by them being a “green” company, that they can’t see that they are a money making BIG BUSINESS who is there to make money? yet they took the money and RAN? and where are they now? we’re left footing the bill, once more….I place that squarely on BO.

really? what were the Tea Party protests about? in early 2009 I mean.

I thought the news report was shallow, focusing on one incoherent person instead of finding someone who was more articulate. The reporter should have done a better job identifying someone who could answer her questions. Instead the report took on an editorial air, I have gotten a better understanding of these protests from the printed media than I did channel 13.

It is so difficult for corporate media to understand the frustration of the “99%” of us who have been hurt by corporate greed, unemployment and city, county, state and federal governments out of touch with those they are supposed to represent. News anchors seem confused and because the protesters don’t have a clever sound byte or tag line, the media is marginalizing what may be a powerful national movement. Listen to the Canadian Broadcasting System for a more objective, in-depth perspective. Our media are part of the problem.

I so agree with you. The Canadian Broadcasting System aired an excellent discussion on the movement this morning and it was quite insightful, objective and in-depth. Too bad we can’t get that from our media.

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Your reporter did a fine job Thursday on the late TV news of presenting the protesters in a fair light, giving them a chance to speak without taking a cynical angle. Your reporting promotes democratic expression of viewpoints by grassroots movements that are not as slick as corporate and government voices. Kudos to you for not taking the cynical view that Fox News would have used with this story.

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The difference is that the vast majority of the Tea Party people are civilized, responsible working-class taxpayers with a fairly simple yet clear and coherent message: stop spending the people and the government into long-term debt by reducing the size and scope of government. Whatever anger they have is directed into positive and peaceful methods of protest and demonstration. OTOH, the “Occupy (fill in the blank)” crowd consist of a bunch of clueless, mushy-headed clowns who are more interested in blathering platitudes than articulating cogent arguments and positions, fleshed out by the usual miscreants, professional activists, and rent-a-mob types. In addition, while the Tea Party types have never been hesitant to criticize either Republicans or Democrats who they see as part of the problem, the Occupy types seem very hesitant to voice ANY type of criticism towards the same folks who were responsible for a large portion (not all) of this mess in the first place: Obama and the Democrats.

[Funny, being a resident of DC, I don’t see a lot of protesters on Capitol Hill screaming about failed policies of this administration.]

Of course not. These Occupy Whatever protests are pure political astroturfing, flushed out by the usual clueless idiots who can show up for these demonstrations on a moment’s notice simply by the virtue of not having real jobs…

You clearly mistake having a clue for being “well-rehearsed”. You sound like you are way too young to have much in the way of life experience, but people who have thought out and developed a real understanding of the issues can readily articulate where they stand, and why – as opposed to clueless children who believe that merely parroting slogans is the equivalent of understanding what they are talking about. Anyone can blather about “Wall Street”, et. al. It takes some brains and thought to come up with specific grievances, and present workable alternatives…

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Reveals what stupid uneducated mooks reside in this SAC region. These Gen Y tools dont even know WHY they’re protesting. Pathetic compared to NY Occupy and other cities.
Elites…go ahead and begin the depopulation program already. Maybe it is not such a bad idea with all the lowlifes here.

This is what you get when you have under qualified people ruining, I mean running the country.

In my early 20s I was a combat vet of WW II and out working my butt off for an education and work experience. I knew the deal , as you put it.

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Our One Clear Demand: TAKE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!!

Very simple. I didn’t say it would be easy. It is an extremely complicated and deep-seeded problem that will take time to fix. But if we can’t stop our corrupt politicians from being bought by corporations, we are headed for a financial disaster that none of us want to see. The government does not show signs of changing anything. Unless we remove money and business interest from politics, we will never have a fair system. We’ve been sold out.

Please watch this video. Dylan Ratigan is a really well spoken journalist, with a background in finance and a passion for what needs to be done to fix our “bought” government system. And in this video, with a ton of energy, he lays out exactly how it should happen.

SEPARATE BUSINESS AND STATE!!

Yet another out of touch comment from a silver spoon mentality. Isn’t nice that you had the opportunity to do what you did. You should consider yourself very lucky that you actualy lived aduring a time when opertunitys like this exested in great quanity.

What you seen to fail to see is that opportunity is the exact reason these young people are protesting. Most of whom posses collage degrees along with teh massive debt that goes along with paying for that education.

Unfortunately as a result of massive Wall Street greed the opportunities that so benefited you no longer exists today in any significant quantity.

Sure there are jobs, Jobs at Wal-Mart, Jobs at McDonald of course those jobs pay so poorly that the vast majority of their employees are forced to supplement their income with welfare. Kind hard to pay back a 130K student loan while working 30 hours a week at Wal-mart.

Heck those jobs pay so poorly their employees barely survive. many of whom have PHD’s and Masters degrees yet still need welfare just to survive. the facts speak for them selves. While the CEO’s and Investitures of these mega corporations are raking in billions in profits their employees are collecting welfare. Thats right 70 percent of wal-mart employees are also on welfare…

Talk about Entitlement mentalities, Well look not further then Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart seems to think its entitle to a tax payer subsidized work force. the fact is the Tax payer is subsidizing Wal-marts profits by subsidizing their employee base..

And heres the kicker. talk about double standards. While the hard core righties (tea-party) refuse to pay a single penny in extra taxes to support two wars they have no problem spending millions of tax payer dollars subsidizing Wal-Marts work force.

Hey “Fighting_the_oligarchy ”
You are out of touch with reality if you rack up $130k in debt for a college education. Maybe you have silver spoon taste and cheeseburger budget. Live accordingly.If you wanted more private sector opportunity, why did you vote Obama? Obama..Mr. “under my plan, electricity costs will necessarily skyrocket”. Mr. make the buisiness regulation/expense landscape as uncertain and unpredictable as possible. I guess all the Obamabots weer concerned with the historical moment, not the economic one. .I know you voted for him…if you were of age.

Uhh,Sean, The Tea Party is very specific in its goals: lower taxes, less government intrusion into our lives, and limited spending…and their faces are not covered, they all have jobs, they clean up after themselves, and they love capitalism. On the other side, the We Party is a bunch of sophomoric anarchists and Communists who envy success, want a handout, and worship totalitarian liberal power. I don’t think thest two groups will be getting together soon.

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Hey Rich nice try, but no cigar. Amazing how people like you accuse anyone who dissagrees with you as being a poor uneducated slob.

By the way 130K is nothing for an education , Apparently you haven’t researched tuition costs at Harvard or Princeton lately, After all we now live in a grand good old boys club where the only people who have half a chance of making it into the top 1 percent come from those exact institutions. While the graduates from local and state colleges are fighting for jobs at Wal-Mart the Harvard graduates walk right into high paying Jobs on Wall-Street.

I’m probably older then you. I made most of my money during the 60′s and 70′s when taxes where high and regulations was strong. This was long before the republicans destroyed this country by coddling to corporate America, Wall Street and the Money lenders the Bible so strongly warned us about.

I’m now retired and live fairly well. To bad todays youth won’t be afforded that same opportunity in any quantity. If the republicans get there way, the next generation of young Americans will be slaving away 80 hours a week working for peanuts with no retirement or health care.

Unfortunately we now live in a time where the top 1 percent achieve power and wealth by standing on the backs of the poor, where prejudice and intolerance are commonplace and where power and wealth is an end unto itself.

Fighting the oligarchy,
Great to see you are retired. Perhaps if you explain more how you made your money and who is paying for your retirement, we could discuss whether the overall economic landscape of the 60′s and 70′s is relevant to today.
It is still lame and reckless to hawk the necessity of elite silver spooner colleges. Maybe that’s true if you want a job on Wall Street. But I thought these protesters want nothing to do with that? Part of why a college education is so expensive is the cost of bloated bureacracies and an assumption of student aid. And oooh, those “money lenders”..per the bible, careful there, FTO. But student loans are put forth as a good thing..when students want them. I guess they weren’t considering the paying back part when they went to an out of state school or elite college. did they consider the marketability of their degree as opposed to the level? Many trades are hurting for employees…but perhaps turning a wrench is no longer acceptable.
You, and most Dems figure increasing taxes and regulation in a down economy will help them. Just like when you heard Obama talk about triggering skyrocketing energy costs, you thought that was a smart economic pilot that would help job creation. Between the Dems costly, uncertain policies and protests like this, job creators are going to continue the holding pattern that they have been in and hope the business climate here gets better.

e corporate thugs and one of the worst things I ever did was sellout to them. They took over my small chain and completely destroyed it.

They put leadership in place that focused on all the wrong things. It changed the soul of the company. It made a tiny percent at the very top wealth at the expense of the employees and customer satisfaction. It made criminals of honest men. It became a company motivated by the greed of a few men while customers satisfaction and concern over employees went out the window. Unfortunately this is all to common place in todays corporate controlled world.

You might think I became wealthy by selling out. The fact is after years of corporate attacks I barely got out with my retirement intact. The company that bought my business only held onto it long enough to drive unsustainable profits through the roof and create a dishonest and misleading portfolio. At which point they sold it for ridiculous profit to an unsuspecting buyer who was deceived by the misleading portfolio into believing that such profits were sustainable, And what was once a 35 year old very successful chain went belly up within a year of being taken over by

@ Rich R Not sure why that last post was cut off maybe to long so I will break it up into 2 parts

“job creators are going to continue the holding pattern that they have been in and hope the business climate here gets better.”

More rhetoric and lies. The claim that the wealthy create jobs is one of the biggest and most despicable lies ever perpetrated on the American people. Prosperity is demand driven, Unfortunately for main street and small business’s today Corporate America insures they are the only ones in a position to exploit that demand.

I have no problem telling you how I made my money. In the early 60′s I started out as a dishwasher and within 10 years owned 2 restaurants. Of course that was back when there were few corporate restaurants chains. Opening a small restaurant in todays corporate controlled industry would require huge sums of cash way beyond most peoples grasp.

I opened my last restaurant during the middle of the corporate take over of the service industry and it cost me nearly 3 million dollars before I turned a single dime in profit. Quite a bit of that money was spent in attorneys fees fending of corporate attacks. Corporate chains saw me as a great threat mainly because I paid my employees more then twice what they were willing to pay. Heck my busboys made more then their executive chefs.

Continue to part 2

Okay maybe try three parts because it wont let me post the rest

part 2

They put leadership in place that focused on all the wrong things. It changed the soul of the company. It made a tiny percent at the very top wealth at the expense of the employees and customer satisfaction. It made criminals of honest men. It became a company motivated by the greed of a few men while customers satisfaction and concern over employees went out the window. Unfortunately this is all to common place in todays corporate controlled world.

@rich R
part 3

You might think I became wealthy by selling out. The fact is after years of corporate attacks I barely got out with my retirement intact. The company that bought my business only held onto it long enough to drive unsustainable profits through the roof and create a dishonest and misleading portfolio. At which point they sold it for a ridiculous profit to an unsuspecting buyer who was deceived by the misleading portfolio into believing that such profits were sustainable, And what was once a 35 year old very successful chain went belly up within a year of being taken over by Corporate America.

“The claim that the wealthy create jobs is one of the biggest and most despicable lies ever perpetrated on the American people.”

Ah…so the protesters should look to the poor for job opportunities?

There seems to be no dispute that small to medium businesses create most of the jobs. Yet many small businesses feel the punitive uncertainties imposed by the current administration (cap and trade) and Dems (Reid/Pelosi care). I appreciate your entrepreneurial effort and success, difficult as it was. Coming from dishwashing, you may not have had a a Harvard education to do it. But I fear your experience has brought you to favor attitudes and policies that will only stifle the economy and job creation. Unless you feel every small business is doomed to hostile takeover, you probably have something to offer in the way of instilling an entrepreneurial spirit into these folks as opposed to demonizing the rich while complaining that they don’t increase jobs. but perhaps you are too scarred.
As for the banker/wall street failure, it would be instructive for these protesters to march in Barney Frank’s front yard. He and Dodd pushed and protected policies that played a huge part in this…yet they want to pretend to be the ones to fix it.

part 1
“Fear over Tax’s and Regulation is why business arn’t hiring”

This is yet another example of GOP fear mongering. Just like trickle down economics, the claim that regulations and taxes are the main reason why business are not hiring is a bold face self serving lie

The dept of labor as well as the dept of commerce have been tracking why business lay off employees and why they don’t hire. They have been doing these surveys for over a decade.. And the facts simply don’t match the GOP rhetoric. The truth is the main reason business lay off employees or don’t expand is do to lack of demand not fears of regulation or taxes…

part 2 dispelling the myth
“Fear over Tax’s and Regulation is why business arn’t hiring”

The facts are hard to argue with
Out of 15,000 small to medium sized business tracked.
Lack of demand accounted for over 450,000 layoffs

While concern based on fears of regulation and taxes accounted for merely 1200 lay offs

Yup the facts don’t quite jibe with the GOP rhetoric now do they!

Furthermore the fact that some of the most highly regulated industries in the country have seen sustained growth is further evidence that the GOP’s claim is nothing more then self serving fear mongering.

part 3 of dispelling the myth
“Fear over Tax’s and Regulation is why business arn’t hiring”

As a retired employer and restaurateur I can firmly attest to the fact that regulations and tax’s were never a hindrance or any serious concern. The bottom line is If I’m paying taxes it means I’m making money, yet if there’s no demand I’m not making money which means I’m not paying taxes. The bottom line is taxes would never prevent me from trying to make money. Furthermore it’s down right foolish to think anyone would give up on making more money simply because they had to pay tax’s.

As far as regulations is concerned, most ethical restaurateurs consider all the current regulations nothing more than basic common sense. We welcome the regulations simply because they level the playing field between the ethical restaurateur and the unethical restaurateurs who would jeopardize your health for profits.

Oops I originally posted this in the wrong thread.

part 3 of dispelling the myth
“Fear over Tax’s and Regulation is why business arn’t hiring”

As a retired employer and restaurateur I can firmly attest to the fact that regulations and tax’s were never a hindrance or any serious concern. The bottom line is If I’m paying taxes it means I’m making money, yet if there’s no demand I’m not making money which means I’m not paying taxes. The bottom line is taxes would never prevent me from trying to make money. Furthermore it’s down right foolish to think anyone would give up on making more money simply because they had to pay tax’s.

As far as regulations is concerned, most ethical restaurateurs consider all the current regulations nothing more than basic common sense. We welcome the regulations simply because they level the playing field between the ethical restaurateur and the unethical restaurateurs who would jeopardize your health for profits.

Really? Then how come the complaint that companies are sitting on so much profit?

As an employer, you need to have a sense of the total cost of that employee before you can determine whether you can afford them. We just saw the admin decide various preventative health care measures will be “deemed” mandatory with no copay. That will be a new cost passed on to someone. Will there be a new mandate this week? Wait and see. back door EPA cap and trade? Off the table for the moment..wait and see.

After all…we have a POTUS that said he’s skyrocket electricity costs if given the chance. Expand your production facility with that sword over your head? Maybe not. Wait and see.

These protesters somehow have nothing to say about Solyndra et al. Perhaps because they are all about the green.

Did your business suffer attacks because you went public with it?

Most of these people don’t know why they get up in the morning; why should we expect them to know why they are there?

this Proved my Point those idiots do no know why they are Protested,I tell you why because they don’t have nothing to do if Obama Put theme to at List Sweep the Streets for the Money he is giving theme witch is our tax money,they will not be destroying the City.Obama put those Lazy People to Work.

So when the retired educator went on strike sometime in their career for more money I guess that was not greed.

Do we really want to live in a country where we don’t have a chance to succeed, only a life of sameness? I still can’t see where taking away all of Oprah’s money by the government is going to enrich my life one bit.

[...] “Occupy” franchise might have some demands — or they might not — they don’t really know yet. They sometimes identify the problem, but then their solutions are always more of the [...]

Yes..well..restaurants are the same as any business/industry..right? Until your factory working patrons lose their job because of sheep following EPA regs. oops. Power to the (broke) people!.

[...] While the protesters in Manhattan, Los Angeles and other cities may think they are fighting The Man, the truth is they are in love with The Man, and The Man is in love with them. Their protest isn’t a protest, then, but rather a needed vehicle of the Democrat party and the Progressive movement to bring some excitement to a political party and a political ideology that has been cast aside by Americans in the run up to the 2012 elections. Maybe one day they’ll realize this, and then be able to answer the question – why are you here? [...]

That’s it in a nutshell–I worked for a Dem governor and one in the House of Reps in DC in 2000-2002 (back when I had no interest in politics and didn’t understand WHAT they were DOING until After I quit)! Anyway, I knew while I was working for them that what they were doing was WRONG and I personally know that Hillary Clinton is a LIAR and will take money from terrible people and further a terrible cause because her only intent is to GET RICH AND LEAVE THE US LIKE MY BOSS AND THE OTHER OFFICIALS TOLD ME THEY WERE GOING TO DO WHEN THE SH-T HITS THE FAN!! They want to get as much money as they can, they all own properties in Ireland and abroad and will not hesitate to leave this place when all goes down.
THE PROTESTERS ARE BEING BRAINWASHED BY COMMUNISTS–IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME, WORK FOR THEM AND YOU WILL FIND OUT!!

[...] morning to kick off the Occupy Sacramento movement, and they did not take kindly to the the presence of a local CBS reporter. They also couldn‘t agree on why they’re [...]

[...] Occupy Sacramento Protesters Frustrated At Media by Occupy Wall Street on October 14, 2011 in CBS 13 / San Francisco, Occupy Sacramento, Sacramento with No comments Tweet Source: CBS 13 / San Francisco [...]

That is garbage. They are there because there are millions of people just like them, and there are a million threads that make up the unifying theme of despair and disparity that are directly tied to the tiny thread of capitalist prosperity which has been guiding this country, and leaving the majority left out of any sense of power or security. You would get a million answers, a million stories, if you asked them each individually what is driving them, but there is no such disunion in the faction which has put them there.

Empathy, sympathy, poverty, disadvantage, racism, sexism, educational pursuit, health problems, ignorance, ignore-ance, exclusion, repression, abandonment, disjunction, induced apathy, powerlessness, ineffectualness, and the many other things that have kept people overwhelmed to the point of paralysis are much harder to express when the numbers swell to such incomprehensible numbers. “Profit” is much easier to understand, and much easier to numerically outline, than the value of utilitarianism, or pain, or justice.

The reason there is trouble to express the many different needs or wants of the protesters is because they are so diffuse, but at the same time united in purpose: deprivation. They/we are being deprived of so much, and from so many angles, that the only thing that has come to the forefront of that is the desperation that accompanies deprivation.

Too many of the problems expressed by the protesters arise from this deprivation, and resultant desperation, and that is not profitable. Thus it is cast aside by the likes of you, who are unable to empathize with these million stories, when the glint of gold flashes in your eyes instead. It is easier to cast aside the millions begging for change, when you see only the change in your pocket, and not the potential change in the world.

The irony is that you, yourself, are probably in the 99%. To paraphrase Steinbeck, you probably don’t see yourself as an exploited poor, but “a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.”

[...] and are also supporters of a political ideology that is at peace with Wall Street. In this, I am as confused as they seem to be.  Little wonder their “demands” are so [...]

Here’s a handy key for those who can barely decipher what this fine gentleman is articulating:

no = not
nothing = anything
theme = them
list = let’s
theme = them
witch = which

LOL WAT? The bank bailouts were enacted during the Bush Administration. That being said, both sides are to blame.

OWS + TEA = FREE

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20013452-503544.html

“I think the problem is that the Tea Party is known to be a bunch of mindless idiots…”

Prove it – otherwise you must accept that your baseless, biased, proof-free comment is, in fact, demonstrably “mindless”.