NYC Protest - "Occupy Wall Street"
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I had to right a stupid assignment about this at school yesterday. I knew nothing about it so I just BS'd my way through it (I did quite well I'd say 
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So can someone explain what is going on, in the simplest form. I'm so confused.
).So can someone explain what is going on, in the simplest form. I'm so confused.
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People are mad because rich people are rich, if you want the cynical answer. There is/was probably a more direct message behind it, but as soon as it gained steam it basically devolved into people decrying class warfare by advocating class warfare.So can someone explain what is going on, in the simplest form. I'm so confused.
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Occupy Wall Street has many different reasons for going on, but the boiled down answer is that the lower to middle class populations are upset over a broken economy. I'm sure everyone has a slightly different reason for being there, but this is only what I gather after filtering out the BS the media is dishing out. I wouldn't read to much into the media since they are making out protestors to be everything from Hitler to Jesus.
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I LOL'd
It's funny but sadly true, for the most part I've seen it been made fun of by FOX and CNN and at times by NBC.
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The media here (UK) dont seem to think that protests in NYC is news, hmmm.
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So can someone explain what is going on, in the simplest form. I'm so confused.
I won't speak for the folks actually protesting, even though I totally agree with them, so here is an article with some quotes from younger people who seem to understand what many adults don't (including on this forum
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One of the better quotes is from a 12 year old, "Sometimes people don't want to understand that what they are doing is wrong. Especially, when they don't want to stop doing it."
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Dapper for president, yeeeee - haaaaa!
He'll confiscate 1.5 trillion from your evil bosses and give it to you for free. It won't cover the national debt but it will feel good and you'll be able to pay a higher tax rate for a while proving your loyalty to a failing socialist movement.
He'll confiscate 1.5 trillion from your evil bosses and give it to you for free. It won't cover the national debt but it will feel good and you'll be able to pay a higher tax rate for a while proving your loyalty to a failing socialist movement.
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Did you spell "write" like that in your essay?I had to right a stupid assignment about this at school yesterday. I knew nothing about it so I just BS'd my way through it (I did quite well I'd say
So can someone explain what is going on, in the simplest form. I'm so confused.
If so I think you'll lose some points.
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This type of thinking annoys me.
It seems so many people have this assumption in their head as though job searching is a 24/7 job itself.
I've been searching for a job for some time now, and guess what? It doesn't take that long to search new listings, nor fill out applications.
So while I regularly search for work, I still have much free time on my hands anyway.💡
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As CSLACR said, you don't look for jobs 24/7 and after a while you get fed up with all the no call backs and dead ends. I was unemployed for 5 months and I looked every day for work, most of the time all I came up with was a bunch of jobs I had already applied for or were scams.
And who's to say the protestors aren't finding jobs? The protest as a whole is a massive social network of people and I'm sure one of the biggest topics of conversation is employment.
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A higher tax rate would be what the tax rate use to be... when things weren't so terrible.
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Does anyone actually think the successful (and greedy) give a rat's ass about the protestors? Nothing is going come out of this but noise and platitudes from these groups about how successful their attempt was because they got CNN and FoxNews and a bunch of blogs to listen for 30 seconds about satisfying diddly-squat. Do they seriously think that these massive corporations are going to move at anything other than a glacial pace to kowtow in an equally empty gesture for a couple of firebrands?
They're right...but you know why I'm not protesting? I have a job; then again, half the arguments for and against why there's a lack of jobs has nothing really to do with this protest. Half of this country think employment can be forced by moving an unseen hand, others think you should leave it alone.
Again, a big waste of time: Since Hollywood was out of ideas, so the (non-)working class created one.
They're right...but you know why I'm not protesting? I have a job; then again, half the arguments for and against why there's a lack of jobs has nothing really to do with this protest. Half of this country think employment can be forced by moving an unseen hand, others think you should leave it alone.
Again, a big waste of time: Since Hollywood was out of ideas, so the (non-)working class created one.
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They interviewed a couple of bankers in Amsterdam, but they give nothing about the protesters. Because they know that they will never agree with each other.
Makes sense, as the greasy haired protesters, who have no jobs, live on welfair, and will be protesting against nuclear power or something next week.
Makes sense, as the greasy haired protesters, who have no jobs, live on welfair, and will be protesting against nuclear power or something next week.
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Some people just have a need to fight against something, all the time.
It seems to me that if these people really wanted to hurt big business, they should cancel all their bank accounts, credit cards, cell phone, internet, etc. But I just laugh my ass off when I see these people on their brand new iPhones they paid for with their $120 a year Visa going on Facebook talking about how big business is ruining the world. The ones here in Toronto, I don't even think they know what they're protesting, because things really aren't that bad here.
