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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Occupy Wall Street

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For those cynics among you who claim that you don't know what the Occupy Wall Street movement is all about I give you Jim Oliver of Occupy Portland who was on the PBS evening news Friday, November 11, 2011. He made a clear and ringing statement:

"The goal of the Occupied Movement is to make systemic changes to the economic and political systems in this country that are failing the 99% of Americans who see our wealth decreasing as the wealth of the point zero one percent of Americans who control policy in this country increases."

So now you know. They want to take our country back. No wait. That's the Tea Party.

PS The mathematically literate will note that he left out 99% of the top 1 percent. He thinks that things are controlled by just .01% that is to say 1/100 of 1 percent. Oh well ...
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  1. TomNovember 17, 2011 at 6:57 AM

    This morning CNN is reporting that today’s agenda for the OWS group is to shut down Wall Street, shut down the Brooklyn Bridge, and disrupt traffic in the subways.

    That agenda from any other group would be considered a terrorist threat. Bless their hearts.

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  2. TomNovember 17, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    Occasionally I have cause to walk past the Stock Exchange on Wall Street and I have a serious concern. The security personnel around the Exchange are not rent a cops, they are not wannabes, and they are not the NYPD.

    If the OWS people actually try to shut down Wall Street they will be moving into a situation exponentially more serious than camping in Zuccotti Park. I truly hope someone can convey (to the OWS people) how serious this action would be.

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