Am I the only one who doesn't get the "Occupy Wallstreet" movements

[EllenFrasier]

I just don't understand how anything is going to change because some people are camping out in parks by Wallstreet, NY and other parks near capitol buildings around the US and the World. How is that going to make anybody change anything? Sure, they will know that "the people are not happy" but what will change?

 

[superme80]

I get it, but I don't agree with parts of it. Yes I think the banks did a sucky thing. And yes I think the government screwed us over. What we need to do, as a nation, is to vote those in office OUT of office and find away to chuck out the lobbyist. But sadly our government does not want to do that and most people will not do their research to vote people out of office. People are too "brand loyal". If the person is a democrat or republican they will vote for them regardless of their stands on issues. Sadly most of us who do our research are stuck voting for the lesser of the 2 evils since the majority of our options suck.

 

[greengeen]

Amen. I follow the news closely, vote every single local-state-national election, and I'm a bit of a lefty. I DON'T GET IT. I want them all to go home and get a job or an education and quit complaining.

 

[lizabu]

I agree and think its pointless. What do they hink will happen? Some billionaire will see them and decide he wants to split his money with all the poor? I think we need to speak with our votes, not camping out on the streets. We have to stop electing different politicians that are all the same.

 

[Svhadden]

I get it, but I don't agree with parts of it. Yes I think the banks did a sucky thing. And yes I think the government screwed us over. What we need to do, as a nation, is to vote those in office OUT of office and find away to chuck out the lobbyist. But sadly our government does not want to do that and most people will not do their research to vote people out of office. People are too "brand loyal". If the person is a democrat or republican they will vote for them regardless of their stands on issues. Sadly most of us who do our research are stuck voting for the lesser of the 2 evils since the majority of our options suck.

This.

 

[HeatherC]

I find it hypocritical that they claim they are against corporations and their earning profits. Yet they are sitting there camped out in their Timberland boots with their LLBean tents, wearing their Northface Jackets while posting on their IPhone and Android Phones drinking Starbucks coffee.

 

[rvchat]

Amen. I follow the news closely, vote every single local-state-national election, and I'm a bit of a lefty. I DON'T GET IT. I want them all to go home and get a job or an education and quit complaining.

lol i say same. And honestly, take it to congress and the white house.

Do we honestly expect criminals to punish themselves?

 

[58cognac]

I find it hypocritical that they claim they are against corporations and their earning profits. Yet they are sitting there camped out in their Timberland boots with their LLBean tents, wearing their Northface Jackets while posting on their IPhone and Android Phones drinking Starbucks coffee.

Hammer, meet nail...... you said it HeatherC....

Some have had their laptops, phones, etc. stolen while "occupying".....

Corporate greed/theft evil... individual greed/theft, not so morally unpalatable I guess....

 

[Phlip]

I find it hypocritical that they claim they are against corporations and their earning profits. Yet they are sitting there camped out in their Timberland boots with their LLBean tents, wearing their Northface Jackets while posting on their IPhone and Android Phones drinking Starbucks coffee.

I also find it provoking that some of them are whining about their college loans. Just who the heck put a gun to their heads and made them borrow so much money to go to college?

 

[rvchat]

Amen. I follow the news closely, vote every single local-state-national election, and I'm a bit of a lefty. I DON'T GET IT. I want them all to go home and get a job or an education and quit complaining.

lol i say same. And honestly, take it to congress and the white house.

Do we honestly expect criminals to punish themselves?

 

[akl432]

I also find it provoking that some of them are whining about their college loans. Just who the heck put a gun to their heads and made them borrow so much money to go to college?

 

[torinsmom]

I find it hypocritical that they claim they are against corporations and their earning profits. Yet they are sitting there camped out in their Timberland boots with their LLBean tents, wearing their Northface Jackets while posting on their IPhone and Android Phones drinking Starbucks coffee.

LOL, my pastor showed this picture during a sermon to make a point and I thought it was hysterical...

 

[myladyisatramp]

Here Here, I say vote all of them out of office and get new blood but people complain and yet they still reelect....And for those occupying go back to work...wait do they have jobs if not go get one...
sorry....

 

[KennesawNemo]

You are not alone.

I do agree with some of the points of those occupiers. However, even with the things I agree with, I don't think they are going anywhere without a clear message.

On the other hand, a lot of the people there actually just make me feel they are there just so they can blame their failure on someone or sth.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...-ken-jennings-i-am-the-99-percent?sc=fb&cc=fp

read the aticle above and see the last picture in it. It makes me sick.

 

[KennesawNemo]

I find it hypocritical that they claim they are against corporations and their earning profits. Yet they are sitting there camped out in their Timberland boots with their LLBean tents, wearing their Northface Jackets while posting on their IPhone and Android Phones drinking Starbucks coffee.

And for a person like me, who has a steady job with decent income with no debt except my mortgage which is paid on time every month, Starbucks is only once a week treat.

 

[wheelcap]

You are FAR from alone!! I don't quite understand the mindset and philosophies of many of them. They are upset that somebody has a nice house and a quality car, but they are unwilling to get a job to earn such things for themselves. If you want a nice house and a good car, get a job and work hard and buy them - THAT'S the American way. America allows them to complain in public, but America also allows them to get a job -- it's their choice. I just don't understand the choice they've made.

 

[tonums]

I am by no way a softie, but I just keep thinking that if all these people were out volunteering to make their communities better how much they could change! I don't know the numbers, but they are popping up in alot of major cities (like here in Tampa). Imagine, cleaning up a neighborhood park, fixing up a poor working single moms house, going grocery shopping for the elderly so they can eat a decent meal? The possibilities are endless. They have the numbers, they have the energy, they have the timberland boots. THAT would be AMAZING.

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

I don't get it at all My feeling is that a certain faction of every generation needs to have their "cause," and this is it for Gen Y or whatever the current 20-something generation is called.

 

[robinb]

I find it hypocritical that they claim they are against corporations and their earning profits. Yet they are sitting there camped out in their Timberland boots with their LLBean tents, wearing their Northface Jackets while posting on their IPhone and Android Phones drinking Starbucks coffee.

You are FAR from alone!! I don't quite understand the mindset and philosophies of many of them. They are upset that somebody has a nice house and a quality car, but they are unwilling to get a job to earn such things for themselves. If you want a nice house and a good car, get a job and work hard and buy them - THAT'S the American way. America allows them to complain in public, but America also allows them to get a job -- it's their choice. I just don't understand the choice they've made.

I don't think they against corporations in general or people who have nice houses and quality cars or even capitalism. They are not against people making a good living or corporations making a good profit. They are against greed, corporate bailouts and banks that are still too big to fail. They are against the Wall Street system of investments that crippled the world's economies with their dirty tricks and default swaps. They are against CEOs and hedge fund managers (the 1% as they say) making millions of dollars while the working folks and middle class (the 99% as they say) are just happy to have a job. They are against corporate personhood and the effect of corporate first amendment rights (in the form of money) on our electoral system.

That's what sticks out for me. They are for and against other things too. As I understand it, every "Occupation" has it's own agenda set during the daily "General Sessions". I don't agree with all of it, but I find it utterly fascinating.

 

[eliza61]

I just don't understand how anything is going to change because some people are camping out in parks by Wallstreet, NY and other parks near capitol buildings around the US and the World. How is that going to make anybody change anything? Sure, they will know that "the people are not happy" but what will change?

I totally get the OWS protesters because I am a civil rights baby. the same thing you say about OWS was said about civil rights. so here's my comparison.

1) They have no clear direction. LOL neither did we. I love it how people think black folks woke up one day and civil rights was born. We weren't organized. In fact we couldn't even decide if we want MLK to be our leader.

2) We didn't start out in washington. In fact in was almost 20 years before the march on washington. We did the same thing these folks are doing except we got lynched for it. We sat in 5 and 10 stores.

3) we were called lazy, communist, socialist. My mother was a lawyer and her job was to try and register blacks to vote. Voting in the south in the 60's could get you killed. I remember all the time people telling us "Our negroes are happy, it's those Northern agitators who are trouble makers". or "negroes want to steal our american way of life".

Change occurs whenever you get a group of people together who are feed up and feel they no longer are a part of this country. It starts exactly the way OWS started. I am living proof of that.

Lastly, don't forget we just dedicated a national monument in Washington dc to a man who heard the same argument you are using about ows.