Wonder how long he spent thinking that one up. Duh!

He clipped it right off the top of his head as soon as He was asked. If these young people continue to protest these wall street "Nabobs" their city government "minions" are likely to kill one or more of them.

"Wall Street Day of Rage" changed to "Occupy Wall Street" brought to you by no other than SEIU Lerner to bring down Chase, Wall Street and Capitalism.

Wait a minute.....

SEIU's agenda is Mr. Obama's agenda and contains more dishonesties (lies):

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ1NJaCtIkM

What is the problem with people making money betting on people not making money ... I don't get it!!!!

So what if hey have also encouraged people to invest in what they have insured against!!!

That's business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If the rich corporations in the US don't come up with a realistic plan to help the hundreds of tax payers that save their asses when they where crying "Too big to fail" they will find themselves in real trouble.

This is just the begining of the movement that is resulting from the realization that We the people saved their buts, but we get NOTHING in return, and they keep making record profits -oil companies- The politicians are fine, so they do not need to go out and protest about anything. They can play their stupid game of catch an mouse..and the tea baggers can keep this country down by playing the song "Job creators can not be taxed" ...

I have no problem with legal protests. Just keep it legal. This country is about free speech, even if you don't exactly understand what is going on (and that is whether you are a care-not-to-learn liberal extremist or a Douche-bag Party righty mouth foamer).

Come on, I respond. The guys who were "too big to fail" have left. They took their profits and ran. We bailed them out to receive the same in huge bonuses they could retire on. They have left the country.

I don't mind helping business as long as their tax deductions and other benefits are fully disclosed and open for debate for longer than five minutes. Most of their bidding is done behind closed doors, then packaged in some legislation that most people are in favor of - without knowing they are contributing a billion dollars for some bridge between farms. The lies just perpetuate themselves. I don't want to donate to anyone on Wall Street or to support a corrupt government in Haiti, but we aren't really given the choice. We can vote, but we are not usually given competent options, particularly with Congress.

I have been saying for a long time this was going to happen, THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Odumbo had better get off his ass and do something and I don't mean kiss the tea party and the repubs asses either. I predict this country is going to convert to a POLICE STATE. and a lot of these kids are going to get killed.

So be it.

In case there is any doubt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA

Today, police corralled and maced a female protester from less than 2 feet away, directly in her face (above YouTube video).

She was just standing there, and when she turned toward the officers, one of them sprayed her.

This is definitely NOT the "democracy" my sons joined the military to defend.

Twitter feeds related to the protest have not been allowed to trend, even though this shows how far-reaching this has become:

http://trendsmap.com/topic/%23occupywallstreet

The mainstream media has near completely blacked this out from any substantive televised coverage. Keith Olbermann called these corporate cronies out on his own show, in an interview with Michael Moore:

http://current.com/groups/current-video/93460922_michael-moore-calls-for-support-of-occupy-wall-street-protest-decries-execution-of-troy-davis.htm

And the New York Times put their own "spin" on their menial coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/nyregion/protesters-are-gunning-for-wall-street-with-faulty-aim.html?_r=1

FOX Noise showed up after the police interactions (of course). So I can hardly wait to see how they decide to spin this.

Racist bigots march on Washington and spit on our leaders and no one is dragged anywhere. The people show up to march against Wall street and they are dragged. Tell me something officer, Who spit on whom that you felt a need to arrest someone? Or is this Wall Street paying you to end a protest? Do you realize this will eventually lead to your own enslavement for the rich? And you are helping them make sure of it quicker.

AHHHHHH YES, I SEE ALL THE TEABAGGEE’S ARE OUT IN FORCE DEMONIZING THE SATANIC WEALTHY.

It is getting so tiring listening to you Teabaggee’s incessant, childish, whining and crying about the mean, nasty, fat-cat, rich people and corporations in this country. And of course, the insinuation is that they’re all Republicans, Independents or Conservatives. Like GE’s Jeff Immelt, Right?

So, keeping that in mind, your only solution is very simple. Instead of getting your self-proclaimed upper education and wasting your superior intellect trying to indoctrinate our children in schools and universities into your socialist underpinnings, do something much more constructive. You obviously have been indoctrinated that the whole corporate world is evil so you need to make a concerted effort to do the following.

TAKE OVER ALL THE FORBE’S 2,000 INDUSTRIES AND MAKE THEM THE UTOPIA YOU SO REVERE.

1. Go to business school for 4-8 years; learn about accounting, economics, human resources, management, payrolls, benefits, inventory and a few hundred other aspects of running a business. Especially a Forbe’s 2,000 business. These are the root of all evil in your self-pity world.

Right?

2. Now, after accumulating over $200,000 or more in student loans, go get a REAL JOB! Work your way up the corporate ladder, for 25 years or so, based on merit rather than tenure. This will be an unknown accomplishment for you but you’ll pick it up quickly I’m sure. You have such superior intellect as compared to the rest of the world.

Right?

3. Once you achieve your position as CEO or president of the company refuse to accept any more than $1 dollar a year in salary than your highest paid employee. No perks, no stock options, no bonuses and no golden parachutes because you know these are all the root of capitalisms failure.

Right?

4. Now, DO NOT allow your company to make ANY profits because as all you Liberal Progressives so proudly proclaim, profits are bad. Tell any investors and shareholders that they will most likely lose money if they invest in your company because that’s the cause of all the world’s problems, greed.

Right?

5. Let the unions dictate all your wages, benefits and pensions because unions only care about the “little guy”. We know the unions would never use any of the rank-and-files money for anything political, corrupt, fraudulent or imprudent like that.

Right?

6. Let the EPA, environmentalists and other happy groups determine how and when you can produce your product. They, of course, are only concerned with protecting trees, lizards, smelt, turtles and other cute things.

Right?

7. Oh, and make sure you tell the president you are willing to pay much more in taxes than you are responsible for to help all those who don’t want to work. It’s a free country but it’s YOUR responsibility to give them your own money, even though they can work but just don’t want to. Everybody needs to pay their “fair share”.

RIGHT?

See how easy it is? Seven (7) simple steps.

This is all you Liberal Progressives have to do to create the utopia of social and economic justice for the collective you all cherish so dearly.

Good Luck! ! ! !

(By the way, a “teabaggee” is the one who accepts the bag from the teabaggers. You can find a more descriptive definition here, urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabaggee)

markmich,

Why is it you sound so ignorant and uneducated? where in this article did it say anything about the protesters being Teabaggers or any affiliation to any political party. Except for your seeming lack of education I would think you work for wall street. Just because people disagree doesn't make them wrong and it doesn't make them right but the cornerstone of American society is the right to disagree and if you feel necessary peacefully protest. I failed to see anything in this article that was remotely violent by these protesters so maybe you should get yourself an education and develop an open mind.

tired of ignorance-3370725

The ignorant and uneducated is the Liberal Progressives on these threads. I imagine when your own ilk bring up the "tea baggers" (Post #1.5), which you all think is so witty but have no idea of its meaning, which obviously is a political jab, it must be ok, right? Your ignorance is only surpassed by your hypocrisy.

My post is addressed at the mob mentality on this thread blaming the demonic wealthy that the Liberal Progressives envy. If you want to change it, DO IT! Take my advice in my post, take over all the mean, nasty, fat-cat corporations and run them under your socialist Liberal Progressive ideology and see how long the gravy-train for your nanny-state mentality lasts.

To be honest about it, I didn't even know there were protests going on against Wall St. The only result of it will be dozens of peoples records worsened with arrest for useless vagrancy and vandalism.

Hypocrisy is the state of pretending to have beliefs, opinions, virtues, ideals, thoughts, feelings, qualities, or standards that one does not actually have.
Now please explain where in my post I have stated anything remotely hypocritical or do you just like trying to use big words to make yourself feel important. Nowhere did I state anything about being for or against any political party but you in your rush to judge others you must have missed that. You automatically assume that because I disagree with you I agree with everyone else and that was exactly my point when i said you needed to develop an open mind and not rush to snap judgements. You have absolutely zero idea what i do or don't believe politically based on my post yet you take the liberty of assuming you do know what I believe. That is why i said and still say that you are coming from a stand point of ignorance. So once again get an education, don't use words you don't understand and try to have an open mind about the beliefs of others.

Oh and by the way what the protesters did accomplish is that they brought attention to their cause whether it is helpful attention or not remains to be seen and unless you have a crystal ball your last statement is merely speculation and wishful thinking by those that oppose the goals of the protests.

Well, at least they can all say they're far smarter than you.

care to elaborate? or is name calling good enough?

Ohh Dan - just to make sure you understand, name calling when dealing with cretins like you is very appropriate........Wall St. should be burning right now. Do you work there ??!!

You must either work for Goldman Sachs, or just be a total dimwit. Yes, keep giving your tax money to these robber barons who continuously rape and pillage your country. Just passively sit there and don't do anything. I'm sure everything will be okay.

Its a good enough response to the original poster!!!

Praise goes out to those protesters!!! We need more action against the rampant greed thats hijacked our country!!!

enlightenedeuropean in your haste to attack, you didnt realise that i was critisizing JesseL. Is this how mobs are formed?

My only question is...

What the hell does Wall Street have to do with Troy Davis?

Could you imagine how the cops would be reacting if these guys had guns on there hips, like last years tea baggers. Bet they would of treated these guys differently.

Those who condemn protesting are not true Americans in my book.

If the founding fathers were here right now they would not be here very long know why?

They would just leave and go start something else, all of the "revolutionaries" I.E. dumb protestors would go with them and make an even better place.

Sure its speculation, but what was the country founded upon?

What is the country being squashed from?

Yep. So @!$%# You if you talk @!$%# on people standing up for their rights. You deserve your destiny in that case.

We need to organize better and have millions of people out there.

For those who are complaining about this protest:

How was was your dinner tonight? Good wine too? Watching movies tonight at home, without having to worry about where the moneys is coming from to pay the rent, electric bill, food, etc?

Blogging about how stupid those people are?

-yeah! I thought so... Easier to do all that BS when your stomachs are full and the check is in the mail, isn't it?

tontosh,

You beat me to it. You are right on. We need a million people marching down Wall St. to demand real financial reform:

1) Reinstate all of the Depression era financial regulations, especially the Glass-Steagall firewall between commercial and investment banking, which was only partially restored by Dodd-Frank.

2) Use anti-trust laws to break up the mega-banks.

3) Institute usury laws to limit consumer loan and credit card rates to no more than 10% above the inflation rate.

4) Make sure that ALL financial products (derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, etc.) are traded on transparent, well-regulated exchanges with full information available to buyers and sellers, to prevent big trading firms from exploiting inside information (like they did when they sold mortgage-backed securities that they knew were worthless). Again, Dodd-Frank left too many loopholes in this area.

5) Proceed aggressively with the federal lawsuits against banks and trading houses for misrepresenting the value of mortgage-backed securities during and prior to the financial crisis. They should pay back the damage they have caused to the economy and to the federal budget deficit.

6) Reform the securities rating industry so that it is not funded by the firms whose securities it rates, and institute strong regulations and quality control so that firms who issue bogus ratings lose their license to do business. No more AAA ratings on steaming piles of you-know-what.

7) Make sure that the newly created consumer protection agency be given the powers it was originally intended to have.

8) Go back to limiting banks' charters to only one state at a time, as they were before the 1980s. No more interstate banks that are too big to fail.

That's more than the collective IQ of all of these protesting morons

James, keep driving...Pull up the tinted windows in the limousine, so I do not have to watch them...They look so dirty...No class..

Rush called. It's time for your meds.

Otter96 re: 7)

If Elizabeth Warren wasn't "busy", I would of liked to see her head that agency. But what she is doing now is important too.

Otter96 said:

You beat me to it. You are right on. We need a million people marching down Wall St. to demand real financial reform

We can call it the "Million Man March."

The Tea Party shouldn't be the only group who can bastardize names!

Where are you writing from? -just curious- Must be nice telling us what to do, when all of Europe is going through the same s**t -or worse- look at Greece...

Have you looked at your own country the European economy is going to hell in a basket maybe you should be protesting more there.

I don't have the funds to make it to Wall Street because of Wall Street, but I'll protest if I have a ride.

tiredofignorance...Maybe you should study history a little more. Did you not notice Goldman, JP Morgan etc over lying to get Greece into the euro? They europeans are not blameless, but we helped get them there with our out of control banks.

massbytes,

Maybe you should learn to read I never said anything about who was to blame for what but maybe you should study a little more and maybe you would notice their are very few large American banks anymore most are multinational conglomerates with offices in many many countries and they just put their main offices where it does them the most good. Yes we have guilt in Europe but they aren't exactly innocent here either as are many other countries around the world. It is not an American problem or a European problem it is a world wide problem and until it is treated as such it will only get worse. and a majority of economists agree that it has been brought about by greedy business practices by multinational corporations and banks only looking at the bottom line and not the bigger picture.

You know who isn't going bankrupt? Uh, those people who aren't in debt and pay their bills. Nobody drugged you, dragged you into a dark room, and told you to spend money that you borrowed shamelessly for decades. Take responsibility for your failings Mr. & Ms. American. Buck up, pay your bills, and stop blaming others for your reckless behavior. The piper always has to be paid. If your parents told you otherwise, go spank them.

rrobeson

First, gather up all your prescribed brain-power, and then, go bark under your own tree...

We are talking about entire nations bankrupting here, not merely individuals: nations that have been led by their governing Judas Goat money-changers to enslave the citizenry of all nations, including that semi-intelligent species that barks under trees.

Your input in the world economy, wouldn't likely amount to squat, or the right-hand pocket's change in my underwear..

Pssst, I'm wealthy, get it?

But, all of us are being swallowed down the drain by money-changers -- people you will never hear about, read about, or see even pictures of.

rrobeson,

I wonder if GM, AIG, GOLDMAN, BANK OF AMERICA, GE, and many other companies who needed a bailout from the hard working Americans were drugged. No one asked these companies to borrow so much that they couldn't pay back and needed to beg for help from Mr. and Ms. American. Wake up.

To rrobeson:

Are you a complete idiot or do you just play one online? The ones who aren't going bankrupt are the banks and corporations that dumboma bailed out with my tax money because they made stupid decisions who then turned around and paid themselves enormous bonuses for being stupid. Then instead of paying people a decent wage they raise prices on goods and services and pocket even bigger profits. That is why a lot of people are in the financial shape they are in, Where was my bailout when we lost our house because my wife got sick? even with insurance our medical bills hit 96k in one year, but my bad i guess that was my fault huh. Your statement is both arrogant and thoughtless as their are many people in trouble through no fault of there own. If you want to get a clue about real life people try raising a family of five on less than 40k a year with no assistance and spend about 20% of that on medical bills. Until then don't presume to tell me and the thousands of others in my position how easy it is.

You MUST be tired! You forgot it was DUMBusha who was in office during the bail-out of Wall Street. I'd like to see him show his face around the park now.

Dan - you are an fookin' idiot.

Halen, you like to make up stuff, dont you.

I think you have it backwards. The people they are protesting are the ones who should be in jail. But just keep paying your taxes toward bailing out the central banks. Just sit there and don't do a thing about the fact that our country is being torn apart from the inside out by Wall Street and the central banks. I'm sure everything will be fine.

Behold !!! Dan Halen!!!! ..defender of the people who would not stop their limo's to spit on him if he were on fire!! How does this great man do it? By being a right wing mouth piece parrot!! What courage..what brilliance!!

I bow to you, enjoy your rewards! * this is the part where I let out long fart and bow deeply at the same time..

Hey Danny boy those fuching idiots that you're talking about?Well Danny Boy they're are trying to reshape this corrupt country you're living in.

You're country is no longer a politically based government.

You're government is now owned and operated by the corporations. That Danny Boy is not the United States of America where most of us were born in.

Things are going to get progressively worse Danny Boy and when they do, you won't be flapping those gums of yours.You'll be wishing you hadn't opened your big fat mouth.

Yes that's what we ALL are... except i'm educated at a Top 20 Business school, have a white collar job, and have supported myself for the past 8 years after college. And I was down there and narrowly escaped being arrested...

Or we're just a bunch of "homeless vagrants" as NYPD officer with badge #2514 referred to us...

It is ok he will change his tune realy quick, especially if someone he loves and knows happens to get picked off by a total stranger.

Protestors:Keep up with the fight!!!Don't let the rich and corporates corrupt you like they did with the Government since Clinton came in power (with his NAFTA bill)

MattfromNY it's going to get even rougher!So be prepared.Badge # 2514 is mindless Goon.The Goon has no freakening idea of what the hell he's talking about.Like i said just a mindless Goon!In the 60's they called them PIGS!

Keep up the fight!This is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger.I'm older than you.But I've about had it up to my eyeballs with the Bull Sh it!

I hope it does - I feel like the movement is at a critical point right now. Its gonna be boom or bust...

Braids: if it gets bad enough, they will send in troops.

Please do! We really need as much support as we can get!

Don't give Up!We need You!You're all Heros!

I WAS WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA! Thank God! I Thought everyone had been overcome with apathy. I needed some heroes today. My prayers are with you.

i've known that expression for 40 years and just now i find who first said it. not really a fighting post but...

Capitol Hill is merely Wall Street's puppet - in which case the anger you're witnessing in lower-manhattan is not misdirected.

Thank You MG979 somebody who get's it.The whole freaken Government is owned and operated by these GREEDY CORPORATIONS.The so called politicians are as you said merely their puppets right on up to the President!

Jealous much? I'm sure if you ask the manager at McDonalds you might get a raise.

Wow Jessie, that's pretty mature. The point isn't that these people have sick amounts of money, it's about how they get it; the games they play are sick. I once went to a seminar given by a guy who owns a firm on Wall Street, and he literally spent an hour talking about how it's the job of his employees to exploit the system and get around any regulation that they can to make more and more money. It's about what's right, and what's wrong. I promise you that when I graduate in 3 years with a Ph D, I could get a job on Wall Street if I wanted, but I wouldn't dare strictly out of having a moral conscience, and having read and heard first hand about the types of sick games these people play while the rest of the country suffers.

Jealous, no. Angry, absolutely.

Moreover, I worked rather intimately with a number of billionaire hedge-fund/buy-out firm types. And no, I wasn't serving them fries. Incidentally, I was designing their homes (well, to be more precise, in most cases I was designing their fourth, fifth or sixth homes). That's correct, I'm an architect. After six years of school and three-plus years thereafter tackling the required internship hours (both prerequisites to sitting for the ARE-exam) I was making $62,500/year - a fair salary indeed.

However, I've worked for people who've spent more than that on a medicine cabinet - yes, a single medicine cabinet - to be placed in the guest house of a summer compound that is occupied just a few weeks per year. This particular client happens to be a 43-year-old billionaire hedge-fund manager. The guy has a bachelor's degree (I have a master's) and, from what I know, works no harder or longer than I do. Yet my annual salary is roughly equivalent to what he makes in a single hour. At least I've a hand in creating something tangible. This guy is nothing more than a high-stakes gambler who produces positively nothing of value.

So glad to finally see some decent coverage of the protest that is over 9 days strong on the mainstream media...don't give in, don't give up.

it has been repeated in history many times. the greater the gap tween rich and poor, when it gets big enough, the people will do someting about it.

A timely reposting...

"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 19

Yea, Linda. Do 500 of them and others will change. We are in desperate need of a banking system to serve instead of rape our people.

Linda

Revolution... yes. Violence... no.

The worst thing you can do to a rich man, is take away his wealth, as that is what he measures himself by.

The wealthy - and I don't mean those making $250,000/yr., I'm talking about the hedge-fund managers and corportate raiders (think Gordon Gekko) who pocket 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000 or yes, even 16,000 times that quarter-million in a single year - have been waging war on labor since time immemorial. Moreover, this gilded-class does not need you - someone who is ostensibly blind enough to rally against his/her own best economic interests - to support them. They've got most of those on Capitol Hill already doing so.

Well now, I wonder if Obama is happy with the way his class warfare is going?

You could have a bomb going next to your ear, and you would be saying "Do you hear something?"

This is the fault of the people that do not want to share with the rest of us. 98% of the wealth is in the hands of a FEW. Wake up sleeping beauty....

Really think it was Fannie and Freddie, Shaking? Are you really still buying that zombie lie?

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_LWm6_6tA

And these people don't want hand outs. They want JOBS! They want the goons in the boardrooms to stop sending jobs overseas to to ABUSE and TAKE ADVANTAGE of the environment and labor force in countries where the governments don't give a rat's @ss about either. These protesters only crime is wanting to have jobs with good pay and good benefits like their parents had to live a comfortable middle class life. But the greedy goons in the board rooms and on Wall Street realized that they could stuff their wallets more by having employees oversees working 16 hour days, 7 days a week for pennies on the dollar...y'know, all the stuff those dirty, rotten no-good union fought against here so most of us could enjoy 40 hour work weeks with paid vacations.

I must partly disagree with you Shaking my Head. It's not as simple as Barack Obama, those politicians who give us handouts do so with money borrowed from the FED, and the FED is run by a consortium of banks, which in turn are run by the wealthy. Much of the campaign money, donated to either major party, also comes from the wealthy. So whom do you think really run things?

And it is contradicting, how you condem socialism in your response, and then advocate kicking protesters "in the butt" and putting them in jail. Isn't that what violent socialist regimes (i.e. Soviet Union) would have done to their people? I'm confused as to where you stand.

HERE HERE Frank couldn't agree with you more.I hope it grow and grows and grows, untile We the People have them on their Knees.

The american people are being screwed by these by these Greedy Banks and Corporations.

It's about time people had the Guts to Finally stand Up to these Robbers!

Ok just for that I'm votin for Rick Perry.

If people don't act now, there isn't going to be much of a world to live in pretty soon. I don't think her sign necessarily meant her own personal debt - rather, the debt of a nation; the fact that right now, your once prosperous nation is practically owned by China. I think EVERYONE should be angry right now. As unemployment and poverty rates continue to increase across the board, your tax money is going toward bailing out these goons who aided in the financial collapse themselves. I've been personally perpetually pissed off for the last 3 years, ever since I started to read about this kind of stuff, and all the BS that goes on behind closed doors at the expense of American citizens. I think it's embarrassing that more people weren't protesting. What a cowardly, passive nation we have become. Our new national symbol should be a dog on its back, pissing itself in fear. Our founding fathers would be rolling in their graves if they knew what the contemporary American passively accepts.

JK..They're all small-minded government wonks who don't have a pot to piss in. They are so small-minded that they don't realize if Wall St. firms go belly-up, mommy and daddy won't have a nickel to support them.

Ah Yeah HELLO JessieL anybody home in there?Those kids see what kind of future is ahead for them and IT AIN'T GOOD SUNSHINE!

Not good for them not good for anybody.WAKE UP YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING TOO LONG!

It's always the young that start protest. They still have some ideals and are not yet in shackled too the corporations. God bless everyone of them. I hope our older people support them in every way.

Banks, wall street, insurance companies, hedge funds and the commodities exchange all produce nothing and they cream our economy. These young people may still have open minds and see that we need real change.

In the one year I know about the Saudi royal family made 250 billion on our rigged market while 401ks were tanking. Average working Americans need to get out of this corrupt stock market.

I am looking at these protesters and just see what appears to be college age

They are probably college Grads that can not find any jobs. At what age do you think it would be appropriate and in good taste to go out and protest? (sarc.)

They all got my support Frank!They're the future of this country!