Forum Post: Why isn't OWS protesting at Jon Corzine home?
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 12, 2011, 11:45 a.m. EST by nymetro
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Does this make more sense than say, protesting as select conservatives homes (ie: Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, etc). Your original ideology may have had some merit but when you selectively choose to pick people of certain political spectrums it defrays from your intent and speaks towards a political slant.
If what Corzine has done to MF and its employees is not a perfect example of greed at americans expense, I don't know what is.
Why aren't you? You. Are. The 99%. too.
Why isn't OWS protesting at the White House? Wasn't it Obama and the Dems that pressed for and got the $879 Billion TARP passed, which was really the Wall Street bailout? Isn't a savings of $500 Billion in ObamaCare to come from reduced Medicaid benefits? Hasn't Obama and the Dems declared that nothing..including Social Security is "off the table" of the "Super-Committee" when it comes to reducing the budget deficient?
From BlackAgendaReports.com:
Social Security stands to be mortally wounded at Obama’s hand. His second round of cuts in the payroll tax further undermine, not just the program’s trust fund, but its status as a free-standing entity outside of the usual congressional process. Congress will, theoretically, make up the temporary shortfall in payroll taxes through appropriations. But that puts Social Security in the middle of the budget deficit debate, where it does not belong and from which it has been purposely shielded since its origins in President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Through rhetoric and calculated action, Obama has for the past two and a half years been in league with Republicans in falsely conflating Social Security and the federal debt. He is now positioned to knock the program from its protective pedestal.
Apparently those things don't matter to them. Ask them and their standard byline is "it's an anarchist movement". In fact, our comments will be cleansed off here because we don't fit their definition. Either your for the greedy or your with them, and nothing in between.
This is a leftist movement run by leftist radicals.
They are NEVER going to protest at Jon Corzine's home.
Corzine is a big shot liberal Democrat and a HUGE fundraiser and campaign donation bundler for Obama (and other major Democrats).
OWS will NEVER protest Corzine. They will never attack one of their own.
Corzine is the 1%.
Yeah .... But he is the liberal Democrat 1%.
That means protesting him is off limits for this hypocritical movement.
There is no difference between a Republican and a Democrat, they both feed at the same trough. Anyone who does not recognize this is deluded.
That may be true, but OWS apparently sees a difference. They selectively chose the protest the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch. Yet we don't see them at Bloomberg (RINO), Corzine, or even Soros homes. Who are we kidding here. They would have been better off keeping to the original message and not selectively protesting individuals (or accepting them into their fold, ie: Michael Moore).
It doesn't matter what you say.
This movement NEVER protests against liberal Democrats. They only protest and attack conservative and Republican organizations and people.
They have consistently demonstrated this behavior from day one.
This movement has no intention at all of targeting any liberal or Democrat people or organizations.
Think again.
Especially if you think BO is "liberal". This guy is owned by Goldman Sachs.
Then why isn't OWS protesting him?
He is definitely a liberal. He is the furthest left president this country has ever had, and yes, he also receives more money from outfits like Goldman Sachs than anyone else has ever received.
Still ..... the overwhelming majority of OWS people will vote to reelect him. That is the ones who actually do vote.
The "furthest left president this country has ever had" "receives more money from outfits like Goldman Sachs than anyone else has ever received"?
I didn't know Goldman Sachs was a far left organization ... LOL
Sorry, I really do try hard to be civil, but your outright self-contradicting stupidity is simply over the top, especially when combined with your arrogance.
Because "far left" = "melanin" when you're a guy like RicoSuave
He makes a perfect point. Why isn't OWS protesting the former Goldman Sachs CEO Corzine? I mean, what he did to MF is a picture perfect scenario for you to protest right?
Go ahead, block me. It will only prove that I was right and it isn't Rico and I that are arrogant.
I haven't said a single thing that was contradictory. I've merely stated facts. Perhaps the facts just don't match your left wing world view.
Lots of liberals work at Goldman Sachs. Jon Corzine used to run the place.
They do give more money to Democrats than Republicans. They have given Obama more than any other single politician.
Democrats are easier to bribe. Wall Street firms give more to Democrats these days in order to keep the jack boot of government force off of their necks.
"Obama is the furthest left president we've ever had" is not a fact.
(I have to reply here because there was no "reply" link after your last post)
There is no way Bill Clinton was further left. Are you on drugs or something? Clinton deregulated and passed Welfare Reform (which is all now destroyed by Obama and the Democrat Congress).
JFK did things a Republican president would have difficulty getting passed today. He certainly wasn't left wing.
FDR may have been liberal, but no where in the league of Obama. FDR was firmly against the creation of things like public sector unions. He knew the danger they posed to the taxpayers of this country. Obama is all about public sector unions and the taxpayers be damned.
A good portion of FDR's agenda was shot down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Obama has never been concerned about the constitutionality of anything. If Obama had his way, he would take government to further lengths and extremes than FDR ever dreamed.
Obama is a typical modern day left wing Democrat. He wants as many people in this country as possible to be dependent on government for their daily existence. People like him don't care about prosperity for people. All they care about is deriving political power via dependency on government.
There has NEVER been a president further to the left than Obama.
Name an administration that was further left? You can't.
FDR and JFK hell I think Bill Clinton was further left than Obama
or maybe you just have a funny definition of left, like further left = more melanin
Money buys power. More money flows to those in positions of power than those not.
Those in power serve those who finance them. The "liberal left" power structure is an illusion. If the "liberal left" was in control there would be a strong regulatory system, single payer health care, etc.
Instead there are massive bailouts for banks and Wall Street (what ever happen to the "free" market?), no investigations or prosecutions for those behind the economic collapse, no prosecutions for war crimes, mandates for citizens to buy private insurance or be fined, etc., etc. This is a liberal agenda? LOL.
There is no "free market" in the United States. There hasn't been for many, many decades.
There is no such thing as "real" capitalism in the United States. Government has it's fingers in every single industry and every corner of the economy. That is one of the reasons our economy is bad and will only get worse as time goes by.
Check the Federal Register. That is where federal government regulations get posted. It is thousands of pages bigger than it was 10 years ago. You can't claim there is no strong regulatory system. It is bigger and stronger than it has ever been. It is now crippling.
Part of the problem is that many of the regulations are in the wrong places for the wrong things.
I was against all the bailouts. I was against the wasteful and corrupt "stimulus" spending.
I notice no OWS people are opposed to the wasteful and corrupt "stimulus" spending.
"I notice no OWS people are opposed to the wasteful and corrupt "stimulus" spending." Do you just make this stuff up? I didn't support the bailouts, and I won't support the next round when the banks collapse again. Neither does anyone I know in the occupations.
The free market is an oxymoron. They only goal in a free market is maximum profit, and the surest way to maximize profit is to eliminate competition.
Anyone who agrees with your post is deluded. The liberals represent the corrupt and power hungry in America/ The day republicans became even half as corrupt as the liberals is the day I will become an independent.
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Exactly. This is my point. They are hypocrits in their own right. This is why they are destined to fail. Americans see through the hypocrisy.