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shifter2009
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 Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Steelrails"][quote="Kuros"]
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The drum circle crowd is of the same mindset that got us into this mess |
Seriously? They got us into this mess? They did? Not all these hard working job creators who have corrupted the system for their financial gain? Not the wall street bankers who rigged the system, crashed it then convinced the government to pay them for it? It was the hippies that did it!
What really pisses me off about your comment is you are calling them hippies for doing what capitalists and libertarians are always telling people to do, make choices with your dollars. They went to a bank in mass to close their accounts in protest of bank. Isn't that exactly what they are supposed to do when they are upset with a companies policies? Take there money elsewhere? Now that is a flashy gimmick solution that isn't sustainable.
That said, these human microphone dinks should be beaten
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-18-2011/the-99-?xrs=share_copy |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="shifter2009"][quote="Steelrails"]
| Kuros wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
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The drum circle crowd is of the same mindset that got us into this mess |
Seriously? They got us into this mess? They did? Not all these hard working job creators who have corrupted the system for their financial gain? Not the wall street bankers who rigged the system, crashed it then convinced the government to pay them for it? It was the hippies that did it!
What really pisses me off about your comment is you are calling them hippies for doing what capitalists and libertarians are always telling people to do, make choices with your dollars. They went to a bank in mass to close their accounts in protest of bank. Isn't that exactly what they are supposed to do when they are upset with a companies policies? Take there money elsewhere? Now that is a flashy gimmick solution that isn't sustainable.
That said, these human microphone dinks should be beaten
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-18-2011/the-99-?xrs=share_copy |
Trust me, if you put the drum circle crowd in charge of financial systems, you'd get the same kind of short-term, self-interested, cronyism that you have with Wall Street. Same mentality- Go for flash and sizzle instead of boring old hard work and savings. The drum circle crowd wants to spend our way to prosperity as well. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
Going to throw out this blast...which is full of tripe but still needs to be said...
At least in the case of some of those hippies, maybe they'd have a job or a better one if they didn't spend all of college smoking weed and doing shrooms and "finding themselves".
OF course this has nothing to do with the rampant outsourcing of jobs and the shameless selling out of Washington to Wall Street, but I have trouble taking the drum circle crowd seriously.
Although statistics indicate that only about 15% of the people at the protests are unemployed.
OWS would be great if it ditched the hippies and young people who don't even bother to save money but believe they should tell other people what to do with it. |
Some Americans are in Nam-Han (South Korea) because the unemployment is high. It's at 9.9% or so, unless I'm mistaken, and the figure is not accurate. It's probably even higher than that. All those protesting are American citizens. All citizens have the right to be upset with the fact that America has a huge deficit and the wealth is more capable of helping with the patriotic duty of paying it off and helping rebuild America's cities. Personally, I think taxes should slightly be increased on the middle class and a lot more on the wealthy. That's the norm in most Western, industrialized countries. It makes economic sense to do so. We can't seem to do it because the system is similar to where it was in the 1920s when we were ruled by guys from New York.
When Roosevelt instituted the New Deal, the higher taxes helped increase the size of the middle class. |
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