"Occupy" Protests

Hey, a reasoned look at both the tea party and occupy wall street:

JJLehto wrote: Something I've heard about "Socialism for the top, Capitalism for the rest" THAT is truly what the free market is about amirite!?

 

^It means that the rich share the wealth, and the rest of the people work for a living. Obviously, it makes absolutely no sense.

The T wrote: ^It means that the rich share the wealth, and the rest of the people work for a living. Obviously, it makes absolutely no sense.

Not quite how I heard it described but hey, interpretation is part of the fun.

Henry Plainview wrote:   thellama73 wrote:  Maybe I'll actually make a difference. lol, nobody gives a sh*t about think tanks.

Thanks for being supportive, Henry. You are a true friend.

None at all Teo, interpretation is all part of the fun isn't it?

manofmystery wrote: JJLehto wrote: manofmystery wrote: JJLehto wrote: Something I've heard about "Socialism for the top, Capitalism for the rest" THAT is truly what the free market is about amirite!?     What does that even mean? It's some lame and over fanciful way of saying the top gets bailed out and subsidized and protected by the government and most everyone else does not. Isn't that one of the many problems you guys have? And of course that is not exactly what a  true free market system details....but what do I know?     Oh, ok.  For a second there I thought you were endorsing some type of capitalism/socialism hybrid for the "top".  What we have right now is cronyism (can't use the term crony capitalism because I feel that the first word invalidates the second) which is in the facist/socialist vein.

Whoa whoa not at all
And yeah Cronyism is a much better way of putting it, that or "socialism for the top" whatever you want it blows.
It is fascism really.

JJLehto wrote: thellama73 wrote: Henry Plainview wrote:   thellama73 wrote:  Maybe I'll actually make a difference. lol, nobody gives a sh*t about think tanks.  Thanks for being supportive, Henry. You are a true friend. Well now you are too smart to actually expect support from Henry, but I must say that's pretty cool news. Even if its for a conservative think tank, not even the Cato institute? Aim big llama

I applied at Cato and Heritage, but didn't hear from them. I was actually offered jobs at two different places, so I even had a choice in which one to take. That was pretty cool.

I'm going to refresh this thread by posting video here:

Edited by King of Loss - October 18 2011 at 00:23

^Thinking about stuff, I'd imagine.  

Disconnect big corporations from politics. Criminilise the corporate funding of party political campaigns. Separate investment banking from commercial banking, and reinstate Glassteigal, and equivelent legislation worldwide, to make it both illegal and a technical impossibility for investment banks to play 'casino' to the degre that they have. This legislation was bought in at the end of the great depression to prevent it happening again. It was repealed in the 90's.

I challenge any former chancellor, treasury secretary, head of IMF, World Bank, Federal Reserve etc, to convince me that they didn't know that this disaster was inevitable. It's a crisis by design, and the same people who orchestrated it, will be the ones offering up the solution, over the next 6 - 12 months, so watch out!!

Oh, and don't get too excited about 'taxing the rich' Newsflash, if you own a home or run a small business, you ARE the rich, as far as they are concerned. The uber rich architects of this crisis are untouchable, regardless of who's in power in any country. I wouldn't be surprised if they regarded us as a different species altogether.