Remember Occupy Wall Street

[Kirkland Laing]

So basically OWS was a bunch of people saying "We don't want to pay for what we use anymore"? Does that about sum it up then?

Income disparity and we don't want to pay for anything again because we've been beaten by "the system" and we're sore losers....that it Comrade?

No. It's a bunch of people wanting a fairer distribution of income. They're not asking for something for nothing, they're asking for a redistribution of income downwards to make up for the massive upward redistribution of income that's happened over the past thirty years.

But hey, it's pointless pointing this out to you. The fact will fall out of theback of your brain in seconds and you'll be back ranting about workshy losers wanting something for nothing.

[El Kabong]

No. It's a bunch of people wanting a fairer distribution of income. They're not asking for something for nothing, they're asking for a redistribution of income downwards to make up for the massive upward redistribution of income that's happened over the past thirty years.

But hey, it's pointless pointing this out to you. The fact will fall out of theback of your brain in seconds and you'll be back ranting about workshy losers wanting something for nothing.

Oh no, you're totally right, those people seemed to be working very hard

[Kirkland Laing]

A small handful of people living in tents in a park isn't representative of the movement at large. And it turns out the movement at large is already representative of a large number of Americans :

Poll: Occupy Wall Street is Twice as Popular as The Tea Party



Last week, I noted a Rasmussen Reports survey that gave Occupy Wall Street slightly higher favorable ratings than the Tea Party. Time magazine's new national poll is out, and there's no "slightly" here. The Occupy movement has a 54 percent favorable rating; the Tea Party's rating is 27 percent.




Poll: Occupy Wall Street is Twice as Popular as The Tea Party




And eventually, as things continue to get worse for the 99% and the things I've been telling you about for years, inequality and so on, continue to get worse, Occupy and/or its descendents will become a popular mass movement supported by over half the country.

[El Kabong]

Yeah and guess what....the Tea Party is still around. Where's Occupy? Where are they Kirkland? Did they solve all the problems? Did they achieve their goals? Or did they support my stereotype of them and give up?

The Tea Party is looking all the more popular what with Obamacare being so wonderful

[Kirkland Laing]

Yeah and guess what....the Tea Party is still around. Where's Occupy? Where are they Kirkland? Did they solve all the problems? Did they achieve their goals? Or did they support my stereotype of them and give up?

The Tea Party is looking all the more popular what with Obamacare being so wonderful

They just bought up millions of dollars worth of medical debt. That bit of information apparently already fell off the back of the shelf.

[El Kabong]

They just bought up millions of dollars worth of medical debt. That bit of information apparently already fell off the back of the shelf.

....Princess I'm part of an organization where $15 mil is just about the daily operating cost of 1 of our hospitals where we provide treatment to patients for FREE. So no, I'm not impressed with that.

[brocktonblockbust]

They just bought up millions of dollars worth of medical debt. That bit of information apparently already fell off the back of the shelf.

....Princess I'm part of an organization where $15 mil is just about the daily operating cost of 1 of our hospitals where we provide treatment to patients for FREE. So no, I'm not impressed with that.

come on Lyle, atleast its a very very very small start. Give a modicum of credit where it is due. It was a good thing, even if it didnt make a dent, it was a good thing.

[mikeeod]

Accomplished nothing.

[Kirkland Laing]

They just bought up millions of dollars worth of medical debt. That bit of information apparently already fell off the back of the shelf.

....Princess I'm part of an organization where $15 mil is just about the daily operating cost of 1 of our hospitals where we provide treatment to patients for FREE. So no, I'm not impressed with that.

Since I started posting here I've repeated several themes over and over with you. I told you back in 2007 that the economy was unbalanced, underegulated and was heading for an epic meltdown with a long period of unpleasantness afterwards.

I told you that the economies of developed countries and particularly the US were becoming more and more unequal with all the gains of economic growth nd productivity going to the top 1%, and that no matter which party was in power in developed countries the situation would continue to get more unequal.

I also told you that the GOP could no longer rely on the politics of racial resentment to appeal to the majority and win elections with the white vote only. And that the decades of race-baiting politics would start to bite them in the arse as the whilte majority dwindled.

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...tml#post444472

And you've now watched an economic meltdown and a pathetic recovery even five years later, you've seen the beginning of mass recognition of the unequal economy and what it means for future economic growth and the prosperity of all Americans and you've seen a Kenyan imposter get elected president and then get re-elected in the middle of the worst economy in living memory.

Clearly I don't know what I'm talking about.

And you've taken the opposite side of the argument to all the above stuff and been proved epically, relentlessly wrong for years on end. You're going to be wrong about this too.