Occupy Wall St Debate - Elizabethtown, KY

[Orwell]

dining critic wrote:

I strongly oppose it.
-- They are impairing Americans who are going
to their jobs
-- They are impairing tourists who want to spend their money in those occupied areas and help the
economy
-- They are belligerent when they have not dispersed and/or told they can't stay overnight by the various city officials and police
-- Some of them have done graffiti, assaulted
police, and have blocked roadways
-- They use the idea of vets being hurt as a
rallying point/propaganda for their cause, as if A) a vet identified himself as a vet to the police, B) that vets' injuries matter more than non-vets, and that vets have no business using their status in a protest and then cry aboit getting hurt because they put themselves into
that risky position in the first place.

Banks steal 3 trillion dollars in tax payer money. Corporations own all of our politicians. Banks crash the world economy. America is involved in multiple wars. Our country is in debt 15 trillion. Countries are collapsing around the world. 100,000 people are out in the streets of America protesting against this all this.

And you bitch about a guy peeing on a cop car?

Are you getting paid to be a topix propagandist or what?

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

[Bobby]

my vote

[humbled]

O.k. Common man speaking here. Big business moved elsewhere to make more money. We promoted big business by buying the goods they provided on price and name alone, regardless of quality. In the process of buying, we lost the necessary skills to provide for ourselves. America's answer? Camping out on streets and hoping for a handout. Get real people. Office jobs are at a premium. Time to relearn how to spin yarn by hand and keep yourself warm. Wanna fight big business, buy American if you can afford it! If you can't, do without! Most importantly, do away with the big bill cell phones. Otherwise, stop crying and dig, scrape, and find your way to happiness. Maybe my ignorant arse is missing the point, but I don't see too many people suffering in our great nation. Please enlighten me if I am wrong.

[big picture]

The ows is misaligned to most people because of the attitude of the above poster.No one wants a handout just a fair deal.Bank bailouts and corp. compensations for ceo is over the top.

[Better]

humbled wrote:

O.k. Common man speaking here. Big business moved elsewhere to make more money. We promoted big business by buying the goods they provided on price and name alone, regardless of quality. In the process of buying, we lost the necessary skills to provide for ourselves. America's answer? Camping out on streets and hoping for a handout. Get real people. Office jobs are at a premium. Time to relearn how to spin yarn by hand and keep yourself warm. Wanna fight big business, buy American if you can afford it! If you can't, do without! Most importantly, do away with the big bill cell phones. Otherwise, stop crying and dig, scrape, and find your way to happiness. Maybe my ignorant arse is missing the point, but I don't see too many people suffering in our great nation. Please enlighten me if I am wrong.

I think you make some good points about buying American, but I haven't heard anything in this movement that I would call asking for a handout. I would argue that things like affordable healthcare and living wages aren't luxuries like a cell phone, but rather basic rights that are endowed to us by our creator. As far as no one suffering, keep in mind that locally we've benefitted from Army spending and auto industry bailouts, so we have it a little better than many.

[idiots]

You guys are all a bunch of idiots that are very misinformed. I think everyone here, on both sides, should read a book. If you can make it through a whole book, that doesn't have pictures, come back and post.

[big picture]

which authors should i read so i can enrichen them?lmao

[big picture]

btw, it doesn't take an author to tell me how corrupt our system is.payoffs to politicians. corp contributions have to go.

[humbled]

Can anyone thoroughly explain the ows movement? I honestly don't know what it stands for. A fair shake you say? Protesting against the people that invest their earnings to make more earnings off of you? Does that really make any sense? Time to get back to basics and stay on that path. Do away with the name brands and make it with what you have and need. Hell, we could all take a lesson from the Amish way of life. The majority of America lives like they think they're from Hollywood. Pull together and help your brothers and sisters. Most importantly, remember that the best things in life are free!

[humbled]

unemployment rate nationally at 9%. Can anyone tell me the national unemployment rate 10 years ago?

[humbled]

Any old timers out there from the great depression? America needs your voice now more than ever. God help us all.

[Better]

humbled wrote:

unemployment rate nationally at 9%. Can anyone tell me the national unemployment rate 10 years ago?

Without looking it up, I think it has hovered around 4-5 percent since the early 90's and started creeping up in the mid 00's as more and more manufacturing was outsourced. To me, that really is what OWS represents--telling corporations that isn't OK to hurt America just to improve the bottom line and telling politicians that they have some responsibility to limit that kind of behavior. As you mentioned though, people need to also speak with their wallets by buying local and vote for candidates who are willing to put the interests of America over their own fundraising needs. The protestors are building awareness, but its up to us to follow through on the message.

[yep]

the job market is sh88.It isn't getting any better.healthcare is a joke.wake up people.

[Orwell]

humbled wrote:

Can anyone thoroughly explain the ows movement? I honestly don't know what it stands for. A fair shake you say? Protesting against the people that invest their earnings to make more earnings off of you? Does that really make any sense? Time to get back to basics and stay on that path. Do away with the name brands and make it with what you have and need. Hell, we could all take a lesson from the Amish way of life. The majority of America lives like they think they're from Hollywood. Pull together and help your brothers and sisters. Most importantly, remember that the best things in life are free!

Bottom line is. Get money out of politics. Stop mega corporations from buy our government.

[Orwell the Rapist]

The poster immediately above is mad because he lost his job tending the french fries at Burger King. He cornered a mentally handicapped co-worker in a walk-in refrigerator and raped her.

[ronny r]

stfu.ponzi scheme lover.

[blah]

Because I am part of the 99%

[FREEDOM_PROJECT]

Personally, I think more Americans need to grow Balls and stand up against their Government and Stop letting them screw over the American people. You blind people out there think you know so much, pft, you dont know $hit about what is going on in this country or what is going to take place in this country. You are so tied up in your so called perfect little pathetic lives you dont see what is going on around you right in your face. I will pray that you sheep wake up and see the light SOON.

[GreedHater]

Seems like Etown has a lot of issues that could use demonstrating against, but the short time I have lived here I have come to see that people here are mostly talk and no action.