Occupy Wall Street Opinion Thread. What is your perspective?

#101

People should protest if they feel there is something worth protesting, just don’t expect anything to come of it.

As I said in my earlier post; It’s good that they are at least trying.

Unfortunately it is a complete waste of time and will change nothing at all.
The rich want to stay rich and there’s no way they’ll let a small group of people stop them. Do you think they are scared, sitting up in their high castles drinking their wine? Not at all.
Hell, next election Obama is getting replaced by Republicans. Republicans are all for tax breaks for the rich, so do you really think they give a shit about what these people are protesting about? If anything, under the Republicans the rich will get much richer.

#102

Difference between the anti-war protest of February 15, 2003 and the occupy protests is the amount of time. The anti-war protest only lasted a weekend, and the occupy protest has been going on for 48 days. On top of that it continues to grow and keeps going strong around the world.

Maybe the quality of this protest out weighs the quantity of the 2003 protest. I’m not saying anything will come of this, I’m just pointing out the difference in light of the details.

Man, whatever happened to having a good skill? Money has no meaning other than what people have given it. (It makes me sad inside.)

#103

OWS is not about stopping people from being rich. In fact, if we do what OWS wants, people will continue to be rich.

Are you sure?

Actually, the Republicans might allow the rich to get richer by allowing them to not have to pay for what they use, but they got rich because of us: the consumers.

If you help the consumers, whether it’s someone in the “great unwashed masses” or a small business, then the rich will get richer. As the adage says: A rising tide raises all boats. Anchoring the boats of the poor and middle class will cause the rising tide to harm people that are at the bottom. That is what has been happening for the past quarter of a century.

If you help the drivers of the economy, they will be even richer. Despite OWS wants.

Remember: OWS doesn’t want the rich to stop being rich.

#104

Hah, not with the current crop they aren’t. I’ve got some respect for Romney, but the rest of them are loons, and the voting public - left and right - damn well knows it.

#105

Daniel, you seem to know the exact goals of OWS. Would you educate me?

#106

You must have not done any research or watched any debates… Or you’re kidding.

#107

Acri: What would you like to know?

#108

The goals and aims of the movement and how they plan to achieve it.

#109
  1. To hold Wall Street and lenders accountable for their actions that directly led to the economic meltdown
  2. To spur a national conversation regarding actions that are deleterious to the economy
  3. To force government’s hand to start helping the economy by doing things such as tax increases (or at least elimination of the tax cuts that were supposed to be temporary anyway) that will help do things like spur innovation, increase spending on infrastructure which will, in turn, create jobs.
  4. As said in point 3: Create jobs. OWS wants people to go to work if they want to work. They want a jobs program such as WPA. Increasing spending on infrastructure will increase jobs. Temporarily increasing spending on things such as “entitlement” programs will increase jobs.

Want more?

#110

I appreciate Romney’s “we can’t afford to run from science” viewpoint. In my eyes, it makes him the giant among midgets.

EDIT: So someone challenged me on the above quote in a private message, and I went back to look it up, and it turns out it was Jon Huntsman who said that, not Mitt Romney. I’m not sure why I thought it was him. So fuck Mitt Romney.

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