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Typical response of someone with a loser mentality like yours. I know just where I am in the scheme of things and am quite happy being much closer to the top than you.

And while you sit there smugly, how much of your "scheme" is market-based, where it could all be lost due to the games played and risks taken by the "1%"? Doesn't it bother you that the financial industry extorted the tax payers for their "bailouts", yet now that it's business as usual, they are raking in the dough again?

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And while you sit there smugly, how much of your "scheme" is market-based, where it could all be lost due to the games played and risks taken by the "1%"? Doesn't it bother you that the financial industry extorted the tax payers for their "bailouts", yet now that it's business as usual, they are raking in the dough again?

 

 

Hey junior, I have some news for you. FIFTY PERCENT of people in America have money invested in the market. As for the bailouts - I think the companies should have been allowed to go bankrupt. After filing, they would have been in a better position to consolidate their business, re-adjust compensation, and take other measures to make them more competetive. I believe the economy would be much farther along the path to recovery if this had happened. The government supporting those institutions has only prolonged the economic recovery. As far as my investments, I have always continued the same practices in good times and bad. Working for me so far. Quit your crying, get an education, and take care of your own money. It is not the alleged 1%'s fault. Look at a break down of who inhabits that one percent. Its pretty interesting. A lot of doctors and lawyers. Wall Street execs are only 17%. Wake up and start to think for yourself.

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"In total, after-tax incomes for the top 1% shot up by 275% from 1979 to 2007, the CBO found. Those in the next higher bracket – the highest 20% of earners (excluding the top 1%) – saw their earnings increase by 65%, which is not insignificant but only a small fraction of the gains had at the tippy top.

 

Meanwhile, wages have been comparatively stagnant at the low end of the income spectrum. The bottom 20% saw their wages increase by just 18% during that 28-year period."

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FIFTY PERCENT of people in America have money invested in the market.

 

50% also don't have enough saved to last them a month in an emergency, and most, including some of those who are invested, believe that losing their job would likely cause them to lose their home and/or file for bankruptcy. If you can't handle a routine situation like getting laid off, that's pretty much the definition of "beyond your means".

 

I tend to believe that's more because the bottom half prioritizes unnecessary items like cable television, a larger home, multiple trips to Florida, and cigarettes over absolute necessities like job training, eliminating your personal debt, and saving for an emergency, but whatever the reason, there it is. It's amazing the excuses people make for bad financial decisions. "Well, if I made more money, they'd just take more in taxes!" "Investing is just a big roulette wheel!" "We just aren't savers in this country."

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Have real proof and not a blog or tweet?

Over 2,400 Tea Partiers Arrested

Pair Living With Tea Party Protesters Arrested For Selling Heroin

Tea Party Protester Defecates on Police Car

More than 700 Arrested After Tea Party Blocks Traffic on Brooklyn Bridge

Police In Riot Gear Clear Tea Party Protesters in California City

130 Tea Party Arrests in Chicago

Police Investigating Possible Sexual Assault of Teen at Tea Party

Tea Party Discourages Sexual Assault Victims From Contacting Police

Tea Party Protests Go Global; Riots in Rome

Muppet-Wielding Tea Partiers Occupy George Soros’ Speech

Florida Mom Abandons Family for Tea Party

Police Worry as Tea Party Pines for World Series Spotlight

Tea Partiers ‘Defecating on Our Doorsteps,’ NYC Residents Complain

Riot Police Arrest Tea Party Protesters

Tea Party Occupies GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s Connecticut Front Lawn

Tea Party Targets Phil Griffin’s House

Tea Party Takes On NYPD at Times Sq.; Then March to Washington Sq.: 74 Total Arrests

Repairing Tea Party Damage to City Hall Could Cost $400,000

Tea Party Killing Tax-Funded Grass at McPherson Square

Cincinnati Police Arrest More Than 20 Tea Partiers at Piatt Park

Tea Party Speaker: Violence Will Be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals

NYers to Tea Party: Lay Off the Drums

Tea Party Protesters Sing “F*** the USA”

98 Degrees Singer Among Tea Party Arrests

Protesters Accused of Hurting NYC Economy

Tea Party Gets ‘Getting Arrested’ App

 

Try reading the frickin artical

GOOD GRIEF!!!!!

 

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The First Amendment absolutely gives “occupiers” the ability to “peaceably” assemble and protest against capitalism, free enterprise and economic freedom, but it does not entitle them to lawlessness, disrespect for private property or violent anarchy.

President Obama and the Democrat party had control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives for two years. Liberals controlled Congress for four. It’s hard to have grassroots angst work in your favor when you were largely in control of Washington for such a long and economically devastating period.

So we can understand why liberals want the Occupy movement to work out for them. However with over 2,400 arrests in roughly six weeks, you have to think they’ll soon be having some buyer’s remorse.

 

The Title is mock of the OWS Hippie Reunion celebration being orchestrated by Obama.

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Not really. Seriously.

 

I'm starting to think the 1% we hear about on the news are not the richest, but the the most benighted. Especially when they think posting a cartoon is a serious rebuttal.

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Acorn!?!?!

 

LOL!

 

Seriously - turn off your computer and TV. Read a book. Considering the juvenilistic approach to your postings and rebuttal, start slow. This would be a good start - http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/0448433400 .

Now I do realize you haven't heard this from any of the MSM but that's OK we don't mind sharing with you.

 

Evidence suggests that ACORN, the Left’s premiere astro-turfing organization, has been paying people to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Astro-turfing campaigns can generate big money, and ACORN’s lucrative protest-for-profit program is nothing new. As I note in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, ACORN has acquired great expertise in manufacturing so-called grassroots protests.

Left-wing loan sharks Herb and Marion Sandler​, the founders of World Savings Bank, gave ACORN affiliates close to $11 million to manufacture mobs to protest their competition in subprime mortgage lending. The United Federation of Teachers paid ACORN $500,000 to create a spontaneous uprising against charter schools in Manhattan.

The sleazy, SEIU-funded Working Families Party, a front group for ACORN, placed a want ad on the Craig’s List website dated Sept. 26. The ad indicates that WFP was recruiting activists to carry out “direct action,” leftist argot for a variety of activities aimed at forcing sociopolitical change. The line between direct action and violent terrorism can become blurry. Extreme forms of direct action can lead to bodily injury and sometimes death. The labor movement is no stranger to assault and killings. Left-wing activists David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin participated in an attack on an armored car that left two police officers and a security guard dead. Two anarchists tried to disrupt the 2008 GOP convention with Molotov cocktails. The eco-terrorist Sea Shepherd Conservation Society admits both to attacking whaling ships with acid and sinking them.

WFP’s ad is titled, “FIGHT TO HOLD WALLSTREET ACCOUNTABLE NOW! MAKE A DIFFERENCE GET PAID!” It states:

The WFP is seeking immediate hires.

You must be an energetic communicator, with a passion for social and economic justice.

Only outgoing, articulate dedicated, determined candidates will be considered for the positions.

For those candidates that qualify WFP offers substantial paid-training provided by senior leadership, on varied issues such as: advocacy, public speaking, mobilizing, fundraising, networking and organizing. We invest in passionate people with excellent communication skills and a full benefits package is offered to those candidates that qualify. In addition, there is opportunity for advancement and travel to our satellite chapters and out of state affiliates.

This is not a policy job! Through direct action you will be shaping NY state politics for the next 20 years.” [emphasis added]

As previously reported, WFP has been involved in organizing the Occupy Wall Street protests since the beginning.

As radical journalist Laura Flanders​ reported, WFP organizer Nelini Stamp has “been here since day one and she is part of the organizing team and the outreach team that has managed to bridge the distance between that first day and this day and between the grassroots folks here and the labor movement.” Stamp said the protests are aimed at “trying to change the capitalist system” and bringing “revolutionary changes to the states.”

WFP organizer Matthew Cain also acknowledged the party’s involvement Oct. 5 and helpfully provided a photograph of party staffers bearing a blue and white WFP banner during a march in lower Manhattan. Across from Foley Square,

several WFP field staff were standing on the steps. For some of the staffers, it was their first time at the square, but for many others they had already spent nights sleeping in the park. Even those who have been there for two weeks or more have not seen their spirits diminished – they’re every bit as committed as they were when they first showed up.

Of course WFP executive director Dan Cantor, a longtime ACORN operative, is pleased with Occupy Wall Street so far. Cantor told supporters in an email that “the spirit of Wisconsin and Tahrir Square is alive and well in New York City.”

 

Nowadays WFP goes to great lengths to try to convince onlookers that it is separate from ACORN, the disgraced Saul Alinsky-inspired activist group. The shell corporation that ran the 370-plus affiliate strong ACORN network filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last November, but its state chapters changed their names and continue to operate. The vote-manufacturing nonprofit Project Vote, which used to employ Barack Obama​ as an organizer, is still in business. So is ACORN Housing, which changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers for America.

But the Working Families Party is ACORN. The minor political party shares an office address with ACORN a mile away from the Brooklyn Bridge​. Among the party’s co-founders are ACORN’s former national chief organizer, Bertha Lewis​. Her former right-hand man, Democratic National Committee executive director Patrick Gaspard​, formerly an SEIU 1199 official and Obama White House political director, also goes way back with the party.

WFP’s confusing, ACORN-like organizational structure has been known to frustrate even the most dedicated investigators, allowing the party to keep some distance from ACORN.

Through the party’s multiple arms WFP enjoys the “benefits of a political party (legitimacy in voters’ minds, ballot line), a non-profit (tax-exemptions, uncapped donation limits and tax deductions) and a for-profit (no disclosure requirements, ability to collect fees backed by taxpayer-supported matching funds from candidates),” notes Edward-Isaac Dovere of New York’s City Hall News.

The party has sister WFP-branded parties in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont. Like ACORN, WFP advocates more government spending, higher taxes, universal government-run healthcare, campaign finance restrictions, free universal higher education, rent control, same-sex marriage, an immigration amnesty for illegal aliens, and “greening” the economy by creating heavily subsidized union jobs in the energy sector.

Meanwhile, new front groups created by ACORN are also deeply involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. They include New York Communities for Change, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Action United (Pennsylvania), Organize Now (Florida), and New England United for Justice (Massachusetts)

 

The protests, which have spread to several large U.S. cities, are part of what ACORN’s neo-communist founder Wade Rathke​ calls an “anti-banking jihad.” ACORN allies are also involved in the protests, which aim to destabilize the nation’s financial system. SEIU board member Stephen Lerner said he wants to “bring down the stock market” through a campaign of disruption. He said last week that SEIU plans to terrorize bank executives at their homes.

With paid professional assistance from ACORN, Lerner’s work has become that much easier.

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Not really. Seriously.

 

I'm starting to think the 1% we hear about on the news are not the richest, but the the most benighted. Especially when they think posting a cartoon is a serious rebuttal.

PSSST look above for the rebuttal Puppet.

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