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2011-11-02 Home Front: Culture Wars
Opulent Homes of the "99 Percent"
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Posted by Beavis 2011-11-02 06:20|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Spoiled Brats one and all.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-11-02 08:02||   2011-11-02 08:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah man, I live in a hole in the side of a hill. It just happens to be finished, plumbed, and have sliding glass door access to a pool and two fridge kitchen above it...but its still a hole in the ground, damn bankers! Hoooo!

So what is with the costuming? Are they what they think the vandals looked like, for those who know Rome is more than what one does in the coffee house district?
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-11-02 08:13||   2011-11-02 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Fits the pattern. Bill Ayers was the son of the CEO of Commonwealth Edison. None of the Weather Underground were what anyone would call deprived. Instead a good portion of these protesters seem the be the untalented sons and daughters of the 1% they claim to be protesting. Then, I see the protests as a way for the leadership (as it is) to remain in the elite strata of American society and not fall into the middle or lower classes that they claim to represent yet so disdain.
Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-11-02 09:23||   2011-11-02 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Me and the missus should be this destitute.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-02 10:43||   2011-11-02 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances unless the people don’t obtain a permit, don’t stay where we tell you to, stay later than we’d like, smell bad, make noise, have uncombed hair, have any money or a nice house, have an Insane Clown Posse tattoo, live in your mama’s basement, or upset our new global government leaders in any way shape or form.
Posted by Jeque Hupairong2828 2011-11-02 13:06||   2011-11-02 13:06|| Front Page Top

#6 I see it as this...

The wasteful kids of the Productive have been given money by their parents and never earned it.

This develops the same damaging neoteny and entitlement complex that the welfare state creates. It's a grown up having a tantrum.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-11-02 13:20||   2011-11-02 13:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I have an engineering undergrad and an MBA in Finance and am smart and educated enough to know when we're being screwed by a thoroughly crooked racket on Wall Street.
Posted by Jeque Hupairong2828 2011-11-02 13:38||   2011-11-02 13:38|| Front Page Top

#8 I should say I'm smart enough.

And I reserve the right to take my pitchfork out and peaceably assemble whether I have the right qualifications to peaceably assemble or not.
Posted by Jeque Hupairong2828 2011-11-02 13:45||   2011-11-02 13:45|| Front Page Top

#9 I live near a town with a lot of "trust fund babies"
They live in large houses and mansions, all paid out of the family trust. Their lives seem to revolve around music festivals and pot. Most have a BMW out front and a VW Kombie with peace signs out the back.
The majority spout deep Green politics and are always good for a demonstration against anything they perceive as hurting Ghia.
I was talking to a female of the species a few weeks ago in the pub and I asked her what was the attraction of these demonstrations and she said "Tipper what you have to understand is that when we are charging the police, it's better than sex"
I just don't get it.
Posted by tipper 2011-11-02 14:26||   2011-11-02 14:26|| Front Page Top

#10 For a number this is the first real physical activity in their life, adrenal rush, feeling of accomplishment, natural opiate, in addition to whatever else is floating about. I get that.

They want their voice heard, to have their story to tell, their own stick it to the man story, that we the people have the right to assemble. I get that too.

They have gone their life preaching flowers and peace and are finding out they have been full of shit as they find their sub-human chants and charges. They are full of shit because they are not cheering for freedom but actively interviewing for the job of government, and like every other job they have applied for they are failing. Sorry the tattoo business didn't explode like you wished, sorry the restaraunt owner didn't want a chef who looked like s/he just crawled out of the garbage disposal, sorry you blew a bunch of money on an unrequired college eductation with nothing to show for it.

What I am sorry about is that the true grievences are overshadowed by the carnival, the communists, the dense, the stoned, the naieve. I am sorry they feel their right to assemble is more important than everyone else's right to assemble. I am sorry they are waiving their pitchforks at the wrong house.

See, there is only one organization which forces me to spend money and buy shit I don't need, and that is government. My city taxes me, I see the results. My county, usually do as well. My state, suddenly my money purchases a new stadium lighting system at blah-state university and, subsidizes the university educations already dammit. Then there is the Federal. It does some good things, it does a lot of bullshit.

My health insurance has nearly doubled since 2008 - not the corporation's fault, and if they are getting more than they honorably should it is the fed which gave them the cover and lack of regulation to do so.

Every time minimum wage is raised it makes products more expensive/overseas production more appealing.

Not gonna play ball with the fed, they shut your ass down. Why not somewhere where all they want is their cut and they leave you alone.

Banks are so regulated and audited that an eff-up there is the regulators being incompetent or in cahoots with the fed. Take my money for Government Motors, well horseshit, that is being forced to buy a corporation's product and it ain't GM doing it.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-11-02 15:09||   2011-11-02 15:09|| Front Page Top

#11 ION CHINA DAILY FORUM > AFTER SEVEN WEEKS, OWS STILL GOING STRONG.

and

* SAME > OWS FINDS MONEY BRINGS PROBLEMS TOO.

Paying daily camp. etc. costs while attempting to set up non-profit orgz = status.

* SAME > FOX: TEN SIGNS THAT AMERICANS ARE ANGRIER THAN EVER.

E.g. Resisting Police + stealing whole or large herds of farm animals at a time.

* SAME > NYC AUTHORITIES REMOVE FUEL, GENERATORS FROM OWS SITE [Zuccotti Park].

Meanwhile, certain major Unions' Bosses are repor calling on their Membership to prepare to seize Bridges + Banks, etc. in new mass actions of "more Militancy" in case the various OWS Protests fail, which many Analysts + Bloggers ultimately believe it will???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-02 22:43||   2011-11-02 22:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Make complete sense now, spoiled rich kids rebelling against their parents.
Posted by Creregum Glolump8403 2011-11-02 23:06||   2011-11-02 23:06|| Front Page Top

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