Is it time to protest greed in sports? The housing industry? Retail? Internet business? Food establishments? Religious institutions? Lawn servicing? Airline industry? Automotive industry? Isn't it fair to say there is greed in every for profit industry?
lol, sorry the "lamestream media" can't tell you more than what I saw from lower Manhattan this weekend.
Well I guess you made a very minor straw man argument.. Doncha know we have had a financial crisis that has affected the whole world? Hint: it wasn't food establishments, sports or lawn service industry. Hint: the mortgage and finance industry had something to do with it. Therre was some fraud involved.
Why then did you include 'greed' as a protest point? Why didn't you just say criminality? Should the criminality and greed of the mortgage/housing industry be protested as well?
The criminality would not have taken place if the government had not been a slaves to the corporations. The government was supposed to protect the interests of the people, but rather they threw aside the safeguards and regulatory bodies due to some powerful wallstreet folks. In the end its in the name of greed.
The world's economic system is fundamentally broke beyond repair. Has been for a long time people just never realized it while the straw house was being built. BTW, banks aren't like other corporations, since the product they sell is money, something which affects us all. If ever there is a sector which should have the screws put to it, it's the banking sector. Too bad we all forgot that.
Of course, rising housing prices require both a buyer and a seller. The general public was greedy too - thinking that housing was an investment that would go up 5%+ a year forever and would always pay for itself. Wall Street enabled it, but main street happily participated in this greed, and the ones that sold their overvalued homes benefited plenty from it.
The biggest problem is that there is no one protest, it is a mish mash of similarly minded people randomly protesting things that seem to go together. You see signs about "corporate greed", "tax the rich", "banks are evil" and stuff like that, mixed in with signs about legalizing pot, women's right to choose, anarchists rule, rights to unionize, save the environment, etc. There is no single message, just a bunch of half baked, quasi hippy messages so far. Now unions plan to march too I guess. Good luck with everything.
This is a revolution which is against the whole system. Unfortunately, revolution should not be peaceful. They will fail.
finally it made D&D, after 15 days and 800 arrests. It is kind of funny. Not only US media are blocking them out, Chinese media are doing the something too. Isn't this a great time to show the true color of USA? their Nazi cops, their media control, their silent government, their people but labeled as 'hippy'.........
There is no "media block" Every newspaper in the country and news outlet are reporting about this. What else is there to report besides 100-1000 protestors have occupied lower Manhattan? I just read of over 700 arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge in a national newspaper. Isn't that the factual info? What more do you want?
Or, if you actually read the thread before posting in it - all you had to do was read the second post, which doesn't seem to be asking too much - you'd have seen that this is a repeat of a thread posted... 14 days ago.
Indeed... Leopold needs to go back to listening to NPR and sipping his latte. Leave the heavy lifting to others.
You CHOOSE to go to college.... that costs MONEY, and since you probably don't have $250,000 sitting around, yes you will go in debt. Seriously, we are a nation of pansies... If you don't like being in debt, then go to a JUCO while working to pay for your classes, or don't go to college and join a trade union, like many young people. This is getting out of hand.
That dude is just a charismatic blowhard that talks out of his ass with so much conviction that people believe him. A disciple of Alex Jones for sure.
