Occupy Wall Street

Batboy2/75 · Post by **Batboy2/75** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:25 pm

This past weekend the Occupy Wallstreet Movement was endorsed by the American Communist Party, the American Nazi Party, and the current leader of the Democratic Party. Thereby winning the socialist trifecta of political endorsements.

Organizers are still waiting for the coveted "Ming the Merciless" and "Emperor Palpatine" endorcements.

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:42 pm

Batboy2/75 wrote:Now we have run out of other peoples money

No. No we haven't. You're a sheep if you believe this.

Have sugar subsidies ended? Have the loopholes been closed that allow GE to pay zero taxes on billions of dollars?

There is plenty of money. There always has been. It's simply a matter of where the government distributes it, either actively (by taking it) or passively (by writing laws allowing some to keep more than others).

Grandpa's Spells · Post by **Grandpa's Spells** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:04 pm

This is interesting:
http://imgur.com/a/U4FR4

It's a series of graphs, but this one stands out:

If that's accurate, that's a serious problem.

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:08 pm

hmmmm.... what could have increased productivity beginning in the mid-80s....

Grandpa's Spells · Post by **Grandpa's Spells** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:20 pm

protobuilder wrote:hmmmm.... what could have increased productivity beginning in the mid-80s....

Look closer. The increase in productivity was relatively stable from '47 onwards. It's compensation that plummeted.

Freki · Post by **Freki** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:41 pm

I blame Gates and Jobs.

EDIT: it's worth clicking on the link, BTW, there's a ton more information there than what Troy posted, he couldn't have posted it all.

Turdacious · Post by **Turdacious** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:20 pm

LOL at the 70's being considered part of 'The Great Prosperity.'

Grandpa's Spells · Post by **Grandpa's Spells** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:12 pm

Freki wrote:I blame Gates and Jobs.

EDIT: it's worth clicking on the link, BTW, there's a ton more information there than what Troy posted, he couldn't have posted it all.

Most of them are also interactive, so you can adjust the ranges and get different outputs.

E.g., increasing income disparities over time:

Batboy2/75 · Post by **Batboy2/75** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:23 pm

protobuilder wrote:
Batboy2/75 wrote:Now we have run out of other peoples money
No. No we haven't. You're a sheep if you believe this.

Have sugar subsidies ended? Have the loopholes been closed that allow GE to pay zero taxes on billions of dollars?

There is plenty of money. There always has been. It's simply a matter of where the government distributes it, either actively (by taking it) or passively (by writing laws allowing some to keep more than others).

You're a fucking dumbass if you subsidies, tax breaks, and foreign aid are the root of the problem.

While these programs should be eliminated on ethical grounds, they are not what is bankrupting this country. The huge expendatures on Medicare, Social security, and other social programs. Lefties like to rail against Military expenditures, but it's the only fucking large program that is actually mentioned in the fucking Constitution.

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:02 pm

kreator wrote:
Batboy2/75 wrote:
coop wrote:

hahahaha really? The fucking UAW? hahahahahahahahahahahaha at the 99%.

That picture somes up the whole movement.

Same tired socialist ideas. Same group of idiots.

They don't want government to change. They want the march towards collectivism and trynany to continue. The Welfare state is in the beginning stages of imploading and these dumb bastards haven't even woken up to this fact. Like spoiled children they want their Gvt Healthcare, Social security, Welfare, Gvt financially supoorted green jobs, Gvt supported and protected industries, Gvt supported higher education. Not realizing that it was these ideas are the causing the our problems. Plus, on top of their hubris, they demand some else pay for it. Now we have run out of other peoples money and the death spiral begins.

They're like diabetics, whos pancreas had finally stopped producing insulin, but still demanding a bakers dozen of glazed donuts.

I have nothing in common with these people. I hate them, the politicians, the public sector unions, and the corporations.

well said sir.

No it's not, it's borderline retarded. You can't sum up any complex social movement with a single picture. The very idea is dumb.

TerryB · Post by **TerryB** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:23 pm

Fat Cat wrote:
kreator wrote:
Batboy2/75 wrote:
coop wrote:

hahahaha really? The fucking UAW? hahahahahahahahahahahaha at the 99%.

That picture somes up the whole movement.

Same tired socialist ideas. Same group of idiots.

They don't want government to change. They want the march towards collectivism and trynany to continue. The Welfare state is in the beginning stages of imploading and these dumb bastards haven't even woken up to this fact. Like spoiled children they want their Gvt Healthcare, Social security, Welfare, Gvt financially supoorted green jobs, Gvt supported and protected industries, Gvt supported higher education. Not realizing that it was these ideas are the causing the our problems. Plus, on top of their hubris, they demand some else pay for it. Now we have run out of other peoples money and the death spiral begins.

They're like diabetics, whos pancreas had finally stopped producing insulin, but still demanding a bakers dozen of glazed donuts.

I have nothing in common with these people. I hate them, the politicians, the public sector unions, and the corporations.

well said sir.
No it's not, it's borderline retarded. You can't sum up any complex social movement with a single picture. The very idea is dumb.

Don't interfere with Batboy's "us vs. them" view of the world. He's playing right along by the rules they established.

buckethead · Post by **buckethead** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:11 pm

Maybe someone already posted this but this is interesting

Pinky · Post by **Pinky** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:21 pm

FWIW, The Dalai Bama's top campaign contributors from 2008:
link

milosz · Post by **milosz** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:31 pm

Yeah, Obama's Wall Street connections are often attacked from the Left. One might wonder why a Mohammedans socialist is so popular with Goldman Sachs, though.

Turdacious · Post by **Turdacious** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:32 pm

But Occupy Wall Street's most defining characteristics—its decentralized nature and its intensive process of participatory, consensus-based decision-making—are rooted in other precincts of academe and activism: in the scholarship of anarchism and, specifically, in an ethnography of central Madagascar.

http://chronicle.com/article/Intellectu ... _medium=en

Yes we can! Probably not what Obama had in mind.

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:31 am

Apparently more listless hipster trash has emigrated to Spain. Madrid here:

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:38 am

Rome

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:39 am

Lisbon:

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:39 am

Hong Kong

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:40 am

Santiago (that's Chile jackasses)

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:40 am

Manila

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:41 am

Brussels

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:41 am

Seoul

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:42 am

Lyons

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:42 am

New Yawk

IGX

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