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Anti-Capitalist Spaniards Took to the Streets…in Diapers
- Posted on June 22, 2011 at 1:09am by
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Spanish demonstrators took to the streets Tuesday protesting Spain’s abysmal economic conditions and 21 percent unemployment rate. Some of the protesters even wore diapers.
One activist, who said the marches are about “ordinary people” mobilizing to change the “economic and political system,” blamed Spain’s financial problems on the unfair “capitalist system.” Which begs the question: whose capitalist system? Socialist Spain’s?
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Comments (97)
TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:59amPlease don’t tell me THIS is coming to America next…
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:58amCan’t wait to see this in this Nation. NOT!!!
Report Post »I_Hate_Libs
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:14amlol @ Chris, “cradle to grave society” what a perfect description.
The horror of the Democrat mind.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:11amOf course capitalism doesn’t work… when the government tries to control it and plan it. The economy is organic.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
Chris
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:04amHow appropriate, a craddle to grave society has adults walking the streets in diapers.
Report Post »slvrserfr
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:00amFinally, their true maturity level prevails!
Report Post »CHICAGOTHUGBUCKET
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:58am“For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt and stupidity, must be redistributed”, Spain is a very socialist country and this is what we will see soon as the next generation has been trained by the Mao loving teachers unions.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:56amUseful idiots.
Report Post »LarryofArabia
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:50amCan you say ‘other people’s children’? If my kids acted like that I would disown them. Genetics must be to blame here. Maybe… yes; maybe people do things that are deemed as stupid solely on the reason that other people are doing it. The next question; how can so many people be wrong… I mean stupid? Maybe its because they are all wearing diapers complaining about capitalism in a socialists country. Stupid. I blame Barry.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:37amYeah, well I’m not going be changing any diapers for that lot of lazy crapers…mental midgets controlled by the few rich socialists will eventually get you to Communism…they have no ideal who is pulling their strings…Seriously people need to study up instead of twitting this and that.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:37amPeople, we’re talking Spain. People’s lives there are get up, eat, sit in a plastic chair by the side of the road, throw a donkey off a bridge, back to the plastic chair for a nap, then supper. A long hard day there.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:33amYes, very appropriate protest. Toddlers’ diapers to go with their childlike minds.
Report Post »hightide
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:10amHow appropriate. Cry babies wanting a handout, marching in diapers. Hahahahahaha
Report Post »Aequitas
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:08amCapitalism created a global market, capitalism created a global labor pool, capitalism is systematically wiping out the American middle class with blinding speed. Companies have been pulling stakes and leaving town for years! And why are they doing that? Profit and Loss. No American can compete, it doesn’t matter how educated you are, it doesn’t matter how much experience you have, it doesn’t matter if you have a strong work ethic, no company is going to pay that person $15.00 dollars an hour, when they can pay someone else in another country $2.00 dollars a day, it’s all profit and loss. These companies are encouraged to do this and they get incentives and enormus tax breaks for doing this and you can thank your politians for that Republican and Democrat
Report Post »Redwing1
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 9:32amSpare me please. Get off your rear end and start a company or get an education. Too many examples in America that make your statement laughable. People come here with nothing and make something off themselves all the time. If you are lazy and expect something for nothing that is your fault. Maybe it is Gov’t policy that pushes companies out of the country. See Boeing.
Report Post »Aequitas
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:36amSpoken like a true capitalist. I am educated and do own my own business and just for own edification here’s some stats for you.
Report Post ».• 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
• 61 percent of Americans “always or usually” live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• 36 percent of Americans say that they don’t contribute anything to retirement savings.
• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive‘s paycheck to the average worker’s paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
NotFooled
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:38am@RedWing1 I agree.Some people have lost their entrepreneurial spirit. If you don’t have a job, create one!!! Europeans are so domesticated like farm animals due to their socialist system. I believe that that is exactly how the limousine liberals us. Thier the farmers who hands out the feed. Self reliance is not only Patriotic, it’s our duty. It’s in our American Spirit!!
Report Post »Aequitas
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:43am• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
Report Post »• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
• In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America’s corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
• or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
• This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.
• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 – the highest rate in 20 years.
• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.
NotFooled
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:44am*like
Report Post »Aequitas
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:59amWhat I can’t believe is people still argue against raising taxes for the top 5%. The argument is always “the more they keep the more they will invest in the U.S”. Taxes for the rich are at the lowest point since the 1950′s and over 50,000 U.S companies have gone overseas in the last 20 years. If the funds actually “trickled down” the money would be propping up the middle class not sending it into oblivion. We would have a budget surplus and unemploymet would not be at 9% (which is misleading because so many people have given up looking and aren’t included in the number) The top one percent are there because they hoard money not because they share it. That money may prop up the stock market or raise real estate prices in some areas but it does nothing to help the 99% of us that will never be in that group. You’d think people in a democracy would vote in a way that helped the overwhelming majority not the rich few.
Report Post »ClockKing
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:13pmGod, you’re a tool. Capitalism created the middle-class. And Americans can’t compete? Sorry, we’re adults, not children. So the top 1% own most of the wealth. So what? WHY does it have to “fairly distributed?” WHAT purpose does that serve. You damn sure didn‘t create Oprah Winfrey’s billions, so why the heck do you deserve a single cent of it?
Report Post »christianUSA
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:00amEmbarrassing so deceived and economically ignorant some of these broke socialist think they are capitalist so blame capitalism on their failed economy and democrats want US to have that system? Is this a contest to be the bigger fool or most Embarrassing?
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 6:53amDiapers are appropriate, socialists need others to take care of them. What good is their protest against capitalism going to do them? How many jobs will be created? How many jobs would be lost if they succeeded in destroying capitalism and the enterpreneurs closed up shop and stopped producing wealth? Those people are clueless.
Report Post »Bushie
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 6:44amHow much you want to bet that if you were to look deep enough, you‘ll find obama’s administrations hand it it.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 6:24amNow that’s REALLY going to garner lots of international support! What imbeciles!
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 6:35amMaybe, someone in our State Department will feel sorry for them and send over a couple of boatloads of pacifiers (made in China, purchased by U.S., of course!)?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 6:20amblamed Spain’s financial problems on the unfair “capitalist system.”, they must be talking about the one where you have to work…….
Report Post »Founding Dad
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:58amSocial does not work now, nor has it ever worked. It strips people of personal incentive. The Soviet Union collapsed of its own weight, as have other socialist states. The United States’ present problems can be traced back to their beginnings 100 years ago, when we first started down the misguided path of socialism. And the further we go down that path, the worse it is going to get, because Socialism is a huge shell game of lies and misdirection. Socialists think they are getting something for nothing. Scientists know you can’t create matter out of thin air, nor can you creat wealth that way either.
Report Post »smokie
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 4:58pmThat’s the problem, they thread away creativity and innovation through education in order to gain supporters for socialism, and then after they attain their goal, have a nation of zombies that can’t earn the needed capital to support socialism.
Report Post »My work lends me to have contact with people from allover the world, and time and time again, they will compliment my innovative and creative mindset when I do the simplest and commonsense things. They lost the ability to solve problems on their own.
AltimaZeromus
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:19amWhat are they trying to say with the diapers…?
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:28amMaybe because they have baby brains?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 6:30amThat they are infants incapable of caring for themselves and need the Nanny State to do it for them. That when the Nanny State runs out of milk they will cry and throw a tantrum because now they will have to rely on capitalist innovation to come up with their own method of milk production
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:14amThey are full of cr*p
Report Post »EP46
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:12amIs anthony weener in the picture? Looks like his kind of crowd. Wonder if anthony and rham had towel parties in the congressional gym? Remember when that guy said rham approached him, threatening him, wearing only a towel? A diaper …a towel…boy these guys are smokin’ something.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:12amCapitalism and Jews, its all there fault. It’s so easy to point fingers and go with the flow. Socialists, Communists, and Radical Islam are all leading the world to a really bad direction .
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 4:22amMichael Savage used to call them “Red Diaper Doper Babies” hahaha
Report Post »Water Man
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 4:24amThese idiots don’t even know what capitalism is anymore!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 4:57amThese morons understanding what true capitalism is and how its not responsible for their problems is about as likely as the term “begging the question” being used accurately.
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:32amI was just gonna ask if the diapers were red or not :)
Report Post »eretsim
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 4:20amseems fitting, i hope they are
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 4:31amMore from the clueless left, LOL.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:12amAll the babies out to cry for the nanny state to save them. How pathetic.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:26amHaven’t had enough hope and change yet. These people are so bloody ignorant that it is pathetic. Are they unable to think even the simplest problem through to it’s logical conclusion?
Report Post »chazman
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:47amUltra Maroons …
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 6:14amMaybe these Spaniard loons should go to Londonistan & attend the muslim suicidal bombers conference , that will save Spain for sure , after all they were ruled by muslims for 800 years .
Report Post »REDPILLREADY
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 6:23amThat’s progressivism for you. Advancing the agenda beyond feeding, clothing, housing, and medical care, … “now we want govt to change us and wipe our a$$e$!!!”
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 6:33amOnce again, these people should engage brain before opening mouth! They are protesting horrible economic situation AND blaming it on the ONLY way out of their predicament! Sounds to me like their government has achieved their objective–TOTAL SUBMISSION of the population! I wonder how they are going to enjoy the “Red Diaper Doper Babies” (credit: Michael Savage)! If these people had ANY initiative, they’d toss their governent officials and develop an entrepreneurial spirit! Problem is, the longer you’re on the dole, the harder it is to break the habit! Folks, the cupboard is bare!
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:09amYeah. What’s the message? “Feed me and change my diapers”.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:12amHey Germany……… get the checkbook out. Yet another bunch of leaches
Report Post »booger71
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 7:38amHola morons
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:06amThat’s perfect. People that act like babies, should wear diapers. These people are amazing. They’re broke, but want MORE money spent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWDHs-GnHh8
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 9:10amThat has to make you laugh, blaming their economic issues on “unfair” capitalism, and they are a socialist society.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 9:28amwhat the hell…
Report Post »mibble
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 9:56amBabies. Where are the bottles to stop them from crying?
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:26amLooks normal for a bunch of large whining BABIES which is what they are..
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:48amSeems fitting is right. Let’s see an anti-capitalist would be someone who wants the government to take care of people. Someone who doesn’t understand self reliance. Someone so selfish and lazy that they probably want a government employee to shovel free food in their mouth. Yep, diapers are fitting, these people are children. The only solution is to wake up, completely cut off welfare and the government teat, and give these parasites a hard lesson in self sufficiency.
Report Post »militiaman
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 11:03amComing to a neighborhood near you……SOON…..but with a lot more intensity and without the diapers.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 11:09amWearing diapers perfectly shows the relationship these people want from their Government.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:03pmahhh yes, the green economy working at its best.Spain was the only country that truly bought into the green ******** big time.
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