Finally someone said what I’ve been thinking!

It bewilders me to think that we started a war in Libya to protect its people’s rights but we are arresting and beating American citizens for exercising theirs!

ocelott:

The actions of the Boston PD will not go unnoticed. Spread this like wildfire.

America???

stfuconservatives:

• Unions are the reason you get paid a minimum wage at all
• Taxes subsidize your moderately-priced, in-state public university
• Wow, I wonder if you lived at home and had parents or guardians paying your living expenses so you could start saving for college?
• 95% of scholarships go to white people like you
• Have fun looking for a job after college, blowing through all your savings, and finally realizing what it’s like to live in the real world. You are the 99%. You just don’t know it yet.

stfuconservatives:

cognitivedissonance:

Submitted by: Shane Moore

Okay, I’m sick of people acting like these occupy people are a bunch of heroes. They’re a bunch of lazyass pretend hippies who don’t wanna work.

Can’t get a job? Fine, start mowing lawns, walking dogs, etc. Do SOMETHING other than trying to mooch off my hard earned money. I don’t get health insurance at my job. I don’t expect someone to just hand it to me like they’re greatful I work for them. I should be greatful to THEM for a job. There are jobs. You know how to get money from the rich? WORK FOR THEM. 

Go to Georgia. There’s a whole bunch of rotting crops since they got the illegals to leave. Now there’s jobs for AMERICANS who won’t take them up on it because they think they’re too good for farm work. http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=2270871

I am supposed to feel sorry for people who won’t work, made bad decisions by buying too much house, getting a worthless degree etc.? Sorry, keep your socialism and your change and I’ll keep my money. If you want to live in a socialist country, go try North Korea on for size. 

Meg, of Cognitive Dissonance:

Wow, that’s cute and callous. You assume there’s some mythical land with jobs aplenty for the taking. All you have to do is apply. Uh-huh.

Actually, I’m going to do you a favor and not post your email address. I’m just going to factcheck this a little.

First off, here’s the official list of demands from the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly. I see nothing in there about being able to not work ever again while “mooching” money off of Shane Moore or anyone else. 

Also, there are about four people actively seeking work to every job that’s available. Some estimate it’s higher than that. Employers are finding difficulty with hiring candidates with the qualifications they’re seeking. As the Business Insider article details in the above link, there’s a gap between finding skilled workers and those looking for work:

Employers say they’re having trouble finding applicants who fit the requirements for open positions. In a recent survey by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 40 percent of the members of the Inc. 500 (a group of the fastest-growing companies in the United States) reported that the biggest impediment to growing their companies was “finding qualified people.”

“That clearly speaks to the skills gap that exists,” says Thom Ruhe, director of entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. “So we’ve got this paradigm of millions that are unemployed, yet there are literally hundreds of thousands of jobs that are available if we had the right skilled labor to put there, so there’s a challenge.”

Note he says “millions unemployed” but “hundreds of thousands of jobs” are available. So even if finding skilled workers wasn’t an issue, there would not be enough jobs to go around.

This leads to underemployment - essentially, people who want to work full time, but cannot find full time work. As Bloomberg explains: “More Americans who would like a full-time job are settling for part-time work instead. They are counted in the underemployment rate, which increased to 16.5 percent, the highest this year, from 16.2 percent. The number of people working part-time for ‘economic reasons’ jumped 444,000 to 9.3 million.”

How do we get skilled workers? Affordable education is crucial. Right now, the class of 2011 will be the most indebted class to graduate college. Wages have not kept up with the cost of education, health care, housing, etc. This is all while corporations are posting record profits. We’re in trouble all around.

It’s not as simple as you think. You can’t just say “GET A JOB ASSHOLE” and that makes it so. Not with the way the economy is now. 

The average worker is unemployed for approximately 40 weeks. That’s nearly a year. 

As for Georgia, if the crops are already rotting, there’s nothing that can be done. And the law did not just get rid of undocumented workers, jackass. People who are in the country legally also left. You know why? If you live in fear of being hassled or arrested for not having proper documentation on you at ALL times, you might take off too.

And North Korea is not socialist. The -isms aren’t all the same thing. North Korea is, on a good day, a one-man dictatorship ruling a communist state. On a bad day, it’s a murderous, infantile tyrant’s playground. You want socialism? Try Sweden. It sounds horrific:

Sweden has an extensive child-care system that guarantees a place for all young children ages two through six in a public day-care facility. From ages seven to 16, children participate in compulsory education. After completing the ninth grade, 90% attend upper secondary school for either academic or technical education. Swedes benefit from an extensive social welfare system, which provides childcare and maternity and paternity leave, a ceiling on health care costs, old-age pensions, and sick leave, among other benefits. Parents are entitled to a total of 480 days’ paid leave at 80% of a government-determined salary cap between birth and the child’s eighth birthday. The parents may split those days however they wish, but 60 of the days are reserved specifically for the father. 

As for the rest of your post, there’s really no point in addressing it. You sound as if you think we should grovel in gratitude for jobs that pay less than a living wage. Instead of wishing we were all at your level and had no benefits, why not wish for health care for all? Countries with socialized medicine spend far less of a proportional amount of GDP on health care than we do. One theory is better access to a doctor leads to more preventive care, which then stops minor issues from becoming major ones. 

Like it or not, you are in the 99%. It’s not lazy socialists like you picture. It’s this man. And this woman. And those of us in Casper, Wyoming. I will continue to fight for you to have the right to a decent living wage, a job with benefits, affordable education and health care, and congressmen who represent We the People and not corporations. You can continue ranting on the Hannity forums. We’ll be out there so you don’t have to, Shane.

Cheers,

Meg

Nothing to add to this awesomeness.

-Joe

stfuconservatives:

wearentreallythe99percent:

EXIF Data:
Make: SAMSUNG
Model: SAMSUNG ES17 / VLUU ES17 / SAMSUNG SL40 / SAMSUNG ES19
Software: 908261

Wow, yeah, this is the slimiest thing. It’s an entire blog dismissing and minimizing everyone’s suffering on the justification that they have digital cameras and possibly computers!

From their summary:

We aren’t the real 99 percent. The real 99 percent exist in famines in East Africa, in the slums of India, without food, water, or sanitation - we live a life of luxury compared to them.

I love a good ol’ fashioned “don’t you have more important things to think about” derail.

-Joe

Annnnnnd now I feel shitty about my situation and the African’s.

Seeing this [shitty] blog didn’t magically get me a job, so despite being “enlightened,” I’m still unable to help myself or the Africans.

If only the 1% would chip in a few bucks….

wearethe99percent:

The AMERICAN DREAM is NOT to have EXTRA, it is just to have ENOUGH!

When people working hard making AT or ABOVE MINIMUM WAGE cannot afford

• Food

• Healthcare

• Medicine

• Shelter

AMERICA, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

At least 25 top United States companies paid more to their chief executives in 2010 than they did to the federal government in taxes. (NY TIMES 8/31/11)

More people DIE annually from LACK OF HEALTH INSURANCE than from automobile accidents!A 2009 Harvard study found that around 45,000 people died from lack of insurance compared to 33,808 deaths due to auto accidents (Wikipedia).

General Electric, Boeing, Bank of America, Verizon, Citicorp, Merck, Pfizer, Wells Fargo, Exxon/Mobile, and News Corporation (aka Fox News) paid ZERO U.S. taxes in 2010. (Washington Times, 4/10/11) Why are regular Americans having to pick up their slack???

Right now, as you read this, someone who HAS A JOB and works hard every day can’t afford their medicine. Someone can’t pay the light bill this month. Someone is eatingRamen noodles so they can afford to pay the rent. LOTS OF SOMEONES. It’s no longer just the Lower Class who have to choose between these survival items, the MIDDLE CLASS is STRUGGLING to SURVIVE too!

Right now, as you read this, someone else, who has enough vacation time to take several paid weeks off a year, is deciding whether to buy a third car. Or whether to get aesthetic cosmetic surgery. Or which fancy tile to use in the kitchen remodel at the vacation home. They think the 99% have nothing to complain about.

Minimum wage should be a LIVING WAGE! Middle Class wages should be enough to send your kids to college! Why is this so confusing to some people???

WHAT DO WE WANT? We want to have enough! We want jobs that will pay for food, shelter, medical bills, and education! We want to work hard and feel rewarded for our hard work. We don’t want handouts and we don’t want to hand our hard-earned money to big corporations so they can turn around and give their CEO’s exorbitant bonuses! We want the American Dream.

We ALL deserve to have ENOUGH!

thedailywhat:

Occupy Movement News Update of the Day: Demonstrator Felix Rivera-Pitre, who was involved in a serious altercation with an NYPD officer, spoke out in the aftermath of the incident to insist that he did nothing to provoke Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona’s right hook.

“The cop just lunged at me full throttle and hit me on the left side of my face,” Rivera-Pitre, a former dancer from Queens, told Gothamist. “It tore my earring out.” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne disputes this claim, saying Rivera-Pitre provoked the attack by attempting to assault Cardona.

The police are seeking to arrest Rivera-Pitre on several charges, but his attorney Ronald Kuby warned against pursuing that line of action.

“On the off chance they were intending to arrest him for injuring the captain’s fist with his jaw, I strongly suggest that you decide not to add insult to injury and avoid such a retaliatory move,” Kuby wrote in a letter to the NYPD.

Rivera-Pitre said he chose the identify himself after leaving the scene because his injury caused blood to be spilled, and he is HIV-positive. “That cop should get tested,” he was quoted as saying.

Video of the incident follows:

In addition to the above video, a second angle shows Rivera-Pitre walking away before being turned around by Cardona and struck in the face. 

Elsewhere, some 82 countries held solidarity protests, some of which were far more restive than their American counterpart.

Answering the call for a worldwide rally, tens of thousands marched through hundreds of cities across the globe, including Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, and Toronto.

Protesters in London were visited by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who was placed under house arrest nearly a year ago. Assange rallied the attendees with a short speech before being escorted away by the police.

In Rome, a peaceful protest turned violent, with masked demonstrators setting cars on fire and damaging buildings. Police attempted to disperse the crowd with tear gas and water cannons, but rioters pushed back with rocks and fireworks. Dozens were injured on both sides, and Italian Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi called for the identification and punishment of those involved.

Back in New York, demonstrators marched on Chase and Citibank, with some withdrawing their money in protest. “A bank that got billions in bailouts and cut jobs doesn’t need my savings,” Brooklynite Biola Jeje told the Daily News.

According to reports, at least 20 people were arrested near the Citibank on La Guardia Place. A similar standoff outside the Chase Bank branch at Astor Place ended without any arrests.

A potentially “historic” Occupation Party is scheduled to take place in Times Square later this afternoon.

Live Updates: New York Daily News; Occupy Wall Street. Hashtags: #ows; #occupytogether; #globalchange; #occupy; #o15.

[gothamist / nydn: 1,2 / cnn / 15october / japantimes / globalvoices / newsfeed / abcnews / thelocal / elpais / bloomberg / ap / mediaite / reuters / rt / top.]

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.

missgingerlee:

socialismartnature:

0 Bankers Were Arrested After Purposely Crashing Our Economy. Nearly 1,000 Have Been Arrested for Speaking Up About it.#OccupyWallStreet

That’s like, the opposite of what America is supposed to stand for….or something like that. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention in civics or American Government or any of the social sciences I took. Maybe.

animalstalkinginallcaps:

I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW WE CONTINUE TO TOUT CAPITALISM AS THE BEST POSSIBLE SYSTEM WHEN WE OWE THE LARGEST COMMUNIST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD A COUPLE TRILLION DOLLARS.

WE CAN SPEND BILLIONS OR SO ON FOREIGN WARS WITH NO DEFINITIVE ENEMY BUT ACTUAL CITIZENS DIE OF HUNGER EVERY DAY. HUNGER. AS IN THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH FOOD TO LIVE.

I LIKE TIVO AND TRADER JOE’S AND SHIT, BUT SOMETHING JUST ISN’T RIGHT, YOU KNOW?