"The OWS movement is way different than this "Tea Party" of white, naive, and foolish old people(mostly) playing the working class Joe the Plumber hero BS. OWS is a legitimate social movement advocating a return to the founding principles of the US Constitution.This movement is inherently right wing, now Fox News and dumb celebs like Glenn Beck etc are trying to get in on it, garbage.Oh yea, the Koch Brothers are involved as well."

Oh I'm having too much fun with this. :rotfl2::har:

Was the tea party around when Joe the Plumber crap was going on?




What makes it legitimate?


I have not seen this yet. :hmmm:

I have learned that when details of personal political opinions are posted.. and those details i KNOW are going to come back with a scathing rebuttle of one form or another... it is best to not involve oneself, but instead, sit back and enjoy the show that is sure to come. :O:

Two things i learned you don't discuss with friends. Politics and Religion.

Dude, you missed what I did. Read Bubbles' quote, and then see what I did there. :03:

Sorry sir! :haha:

Correct on so many levels. The Tea Party want a reduction of taxes, less regulation, and less government waste. They demand nothing from anybody except less intrusive government. These Wall Street protest losers OTH don't seem to know what they want other than government to seize money and assets from the private sector to give to them. They want "free" education provided by other people, "free" healthcare" provided by others, and apparently the "right" to seize assets from private individuals based on income. They are there to take. These protestors are scum.

I've seen many of these OWS greedy little losers show up in their "corporate" made SUV's, using their "corporate" made IPODS and MP3 players to listen to music, using their "corporate" phones to talk to their useless friends, taking pictures of their idiotic event with their "corporate" made handhelds, and are eating at "corporate" fast food chains daily. What a bunch of tools.

An oversimplified partisan rant full of name calling....hmmm. You're pretty full of hate. Maybe it might be easier to take a step back from the keyboard and let it go.

You really can't dispute any of it however. You know what both groups have as their goals. Not hate at all. Just sick of people wanting something for nothing, and wondering why things are the way they are.

All his posts are that way. I've had him squelched for the longest time now. If your looking for a fair and open minded discussion, you won't find it there. :O:

Oh I think you can dispute a lot of it. There's a lot of people out there who are angry, but they're not quite sure of what to be angry at, or exactly what they want done about it. That's something both groups have in common. To say that "everyone in this group is for the war in Iraq" or "everyone in this group wants free healthcare and education always and forever" is making a mistake.

There's a lot of dumb kids in this movement, sure, but what I think it's tapped into is that feeling of powerlessness and the sense of being wronged when they see a country that's ostensibly by the people and for the people being co-opped by corporations to further their interests at the expense of the people. That, I think is the overarching issue, and a very valid one. The rest is details. It's a nascent movement that's just finding itself, and it's people exercising their rights to petition government. They're free to do so and I hardly think that qualifies them as scum.


Oh I know. I edited my post to include a bit of forum advice - if you find yourself getting that worked up over something on the internet, it's best to just walk away.

Right back at ya.

That's great and all, however they seem to have no trouble with misplaced, overreaching, and corrupt government. Until they address that, I can't take any of them seriously. And just what is the stated end goal of these people?

I think that's what they're trying to figure out. They're mad, and they want something to change, but they don't know what. That's just my impression and all as I have no connection to any of it aside from thinking that regulatory capture and the influence of lobbyists and big business on government has gone too far.

The short version, for all of you keeping score at home:

The world according to the political right--Wall Street good, government bad.

The world according to the political left--government good, Wall Street bad.

The world according to me- goverment bad, wall street worse :D