Hey. "This Occupy Wall Street" thing is starting to grow.

[pspr]

Quote from Maverick74:

I am starting to notice something. At least in Chicago for the "occupiers", at the beginning they looked like a bunch of homeless kids and runaways with cheap cardboard signs. NOW, it's changing guys. The preppy kids are showing up with their new laptops. It's getting sophisticated. In other words, they are getting funding! Thanks George Soros! The money from the left is pouring in and the homeless kids are being pushed aside and it's now officially becoming an "operation". I'm watching this transform everyday as I walk by them.

Basically the same thing that happened to the tea party is now happening here. How ironic is it that the big money is now coming in to protest the "big money". Only in America kids, only in America!

I'm getting the feeling that the Democrats are really afraid of the Tea Party. So, the lefties are trying to create their own Tea Party on the other side as a counter balance. They are finding members in the chronic unemployed and students and pouring money into the movement.

I personally don't think it will get traction in the long term because the protesters aren't personally committed. They'll lose interest unless there is enough money to pay them continually to protest.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from pspr:

I'm getting the fealing that the Democrats are really afraid of the Tea Party.

Most of the nation has grown weary of the tea party, which is why we're hearing next to nothing about them lately.

 

[Max E.]

We need to send some guys like this down to wallstreet to deal with these spoiled little brats.

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from Max E. Pad:

We need to send some guys like this down to wallstreet to deal with these spoiled little brats.

Is that Range Rover getting kicked in the head? :eek:

 

[Max E.]

We can only wish.... I doubt he leaves his moms basement much though.

Quote from Maverick74:

Is that Range Rover getting kicked in the head? :eek:

 

[TGregg]

Somebody clever got a tweet on CNBC, said they went down to the rally against Wall Street, but all they really wanted to protest was Wall Street 2.

 

[nutmeg]

“The folks, who are getting free stuff, don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff, can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff. And, the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop.
And the folks, who are getting the free stuff, want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they're already getting. But the folks that are working hard to provide the free stuff to the folks who are getting the free stuff want the folks getting the free stuff to also work so they can earn their own stuff.
Now, the people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff, have told the people who are receiving the free stuff, that the people who are paying for the free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced_, and racist. So, the people who are getting the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for their stuff. Pretty soon we will not have any one left to provide the free stuff to the people who are getting the free stuff making all the people dependent upon the government for all their free stuff.
But someday people will realize they gave up all their freedoms and liberties to get the free stuff. And that is the official fiscal economic policy we now have.”

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Max E. Pad:

We need to send some guys like this down to wallstreet to deal with these spoiled little brats.

"Cowardice is the mother of cruelty."

 

[MarketMasher]

Quote from pspr:

I think the main reason the banks aren't lending is because they can borrow from the FED at an extremely low rate then just go buy Treasuries with the money and make a profit with no risk and on money that isn't even theirs. So, why should they take the risk of making loans?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2010/05/are-banks-borrowing-from-the-f.html

Too bad those low rates that help fill the balance sheet holes in Too Big To Fail banks (unless they revoked FASB 157) also screw over older folks on fixed incomes who get no returns on savings anymore.

But hey, somebody's got to pay for those MBS/CDO banker bonus parties.

 

[huh]

Quote from Lucrum:

I saw a clip of a protester being interviewed by a reporter.

Reporter: What do you want to replace capitalism with?

Protester: .................(stunned silence)




The protester was speechless. I LOL.

I'd be stunned too. What does capitalism have to do with the US?