What do the Protesters Want? Let This Girl Tell You It’s About…Affordable ‘Broccoli’
- Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:20am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Ever since the beginning of the Occupy Wall St. protests, many have been trying to find a unified message. Is it about the banks? Obama? Student loans? Retirement? Affordable broccoli? According to this girl, all of the above.
The Washington Times caught up with one protester on Wednesday who launched into a tirade about what she was upset about and what the protests were all about. Her explanation ranged from forgiving student loans and mortgages, to elderly people having to work, to affordable broccoli. And there was also some anti-Obama sentiment mixed in:
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The irony in all this? Glenn Beck has long predicted that rising food prices would lead to unrest.


















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grandmaclown
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:47amIf you don’t want to repay a student loan, don’t get one in the first place. You can go to a community college; get a job and WORK and get the first two years at a reasonable cost. This is what my kids did, and it DID NOT HURT them. Anything that is FREE is not appreciated. There are ways to go to college if you really want too. I took a few classes at our local community colleges and the majority of kids were more interested in getting their Pell Grant check instead of studying and working. I think it’s time this bunch of protesters got their heads in the real world and quit wanting everything FREE! The more you get FREE, the MORE you want FREE. Well, I am tired of watching my spending so I can help you get more FREE stuff. The super rich are not the only ones who pay taxes. We’ve always had to pay and we have never made much money. There are the so called poor that make more than we do when you add in all their government benefits(which the government doesn’t count: all the FREE food stamps, housing, education grants, health care, child care, even cellphones., etc.). I am thankful of what we do have, but noone else is entitled to it.
Report Post »Ryan Beaulieu
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:35amSo ignorant…
I love the people who play the race card who demand racism be stopped. Can’t have it both ways :0(
Report Post »mrst
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:36amwow.. I didn’t say this.. but I do ‘get’ it. Just had a bit of conversation with some young folks myself. I cut coupons, shop frugally, recycle stuff into art that I sell.. and by gosh, Hubby & I are footing a heckuva lot of bills for folks who are mad at us for not wanting 3 cats in our ‘rent free house’. sigh.. I love ‘em , but I don’t think my folks would have let me have 3 cats in their house. Dunno how to get it through without having them all ticked at me. Guess I just have to let them be. :(
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:38am“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” ~ GOD
Report Post »oregon scott
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:45amyour comments are well written and so very true. I really don’t get how they can protest the price of any food, they are not paying for it we are. a family of four or even six does not need 800.00 dollars a month in food stamps. learn how to shop for gods sake. they can’t complain about housing as they get a 1000.00 a month apartment for 75.00 to 100.00 we pay the rest. the one key thing on student loans that drives me nuts is, those that are working and making a living have to repay the loans to better themselves,Those are the people that will actually put the education to use. Then you have the people that will not ever use the education, that are just going to school on loans that don’t have to be repaid,are the people complaining the loudest. and they don’t work, it is just a huge waste of money.
Report Post »But the media and the movie stars are all behind all these idiots. It takes away so much for those that are really needing the help and can’t get it. Go ahead protest all you want. you are only 7% out of 300 million that are getting more angry every moment.
lillymckim
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:49amWho knew there where that many people out there who have contributed absolutely nothing to society except for
Occupying Space
Report Post »Bigolfascist
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:08pm“Anything that is FREE is not appreciated.” Anything FREE fron the Government, AIN”T!
Report Post »Bigolfascist
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:16pm“Senior citizens picking up garbage….”??? I‘ll bet it’s only the Black and Brown ones, though, ’cause, well, you know……..That girl does love to hear herself talk!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:20pmMaybe those old people have to work because they are raising their own grandchildren because their own useless kids are spitting them out and using them until the government cuts off the welfare checks then passing them to grandma. This girl in the video is a prime example of what entitlements and marxist education reaps. Useless ingrates with the mentality of 6 years olds.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:30pmThe country was not founded on brown labor nor was NYC. It was built by those hardworking immigrants who became US cits. They did not sit around and complain for free stuff like you. Atleast those senior cits picking up trash is more than you are doing young lady. It is a shame that folks cannot retire at 30 years any longer unless of course they had a cush government job with the feds, state or local county. Food prices are going higher she is right about that but to tie all this around US racism just defies logic. She has some of the topics right but not the facts of how we got here. The higher cost of living in this country is a direct result of government screwing with the system, exporting jobs, promising benefits they can’t provide. We‘ve built a beast of entitlements and now we can’t pay up on this system. Going on 40 years working and I see no end in sight. I‘ll work another 15 years easy and I don’t see even then how I will be able to retire.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:34pm@TH3…..Excelent….Thank you!
Report Post »mad_hatter
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:37pmI find it laughable that Bernanke is sympathizing with the Occupiers considering it was he and Greenspan that should have seen this coming and it was the Dems that destroyed the economy starting with the housing market: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/bernanke_ows_blame.html
Report Post »freeus
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:39pmThis woman seems to be exhibiting hypomania.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:49pmuh LOCKED….bringing in “Law Teams” are not indicative of an organic movement. This “distortion” who’s directions I posted earlier- is trying to accomplish two things…to erase the “demands” of numerous “protesters” because they’re being used to portray (and correctly so) the protesters as a gaggle of incoherent idiots and to supplant those demands with organizer approved ones so as to give these protests the exterior of credibility and legitimacy. This was instigated by professional agitators and marxists Stephen Lerner and Wade Rathke and implemented through their operatives in academia and a collective of activist groups.
Report Post »The aim, according to Lerner, is to “destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.”
“How do we bring down the stock market? How do we bring down their bonuses? How do we interfere with their ability to, to be rich?” Lerner asked in March.
Would you like a shovel for that hole you’re digging for yourself LOCKED?
crackerone
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:51pm“Darn Tooting” it’s about broccoli…….imagine waking up beside that?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:56pmThese people want freedom to sleep til noon, on your dime. PERIOD
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:16pm@Ryan Beaulieu
About the can’t have it both ways. As a young foolish teenager, I was a big women’s libber. I had a boy friend tell me once that if we wanted equal rights as women, we would have to give up the priviledges we had, like having the door opened for us, etc. It would also mean men would no longer be chivalrous. We’re there. And just after I realized I rather would have the priviledges, the doors opened, seats given up, treated like a lady instead of one of the guys, etc.
Report Post »flagman texas marine
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:02pmThe EPA is a big part of food price increase
Report Post »sofaking obvious
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:10pmI wonder what she would say if you asked her about Unions? HAHAHAHAHAHA
Report Post »lecar
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:25pmGrandmaclown, I do not think these students went to school expecting a free loan. The problem was the indoctrination at the school and the fact that most liberal arts degrees are worthless in the workplace, has made these idiots into entitlement goons. Had they taken your suggestion for education, they may have prepared correctly and avoided some of the indoctrination (because when you have to work to go to school, I believe you listen and discern better).
Report Post »Flyinglow6
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:36pmYou have summed up what all responsible Americans feel and want. I totally agree with your comments. These people want a free ride and don’t want to be held responsible for their actions.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:12pmBroccoli tastes like your lawn clippings, and gives me gas….kind of like listening to her.
Report Post »JillUSA
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:35pmI so agree, this generation doesn‘t know how to appreciate anything because it’s free..
Report Post »mils
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:18pmstupid person…doesn’t want to repay the student loans they were so happy to take out…
usually a BPOS and part of the ginne generation
such dumb ignorant people. it’s disgusting to think they are the future of america.
Report Post »damn, what a disgusting outcome to all our hard work
1389AD
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:37pmFirst of all, she’s undoubtedly a product of the public education system, such as it is. The more money we put into it, the more we get results like that.
She’s probably being paid to be at the protest anyway; more than likely, somebody bused her in (I am sure she can‘t afford to live near Wall Street if she’s as poor as she pretends to be), and I wonder whether she bothers to buy or eat any vegetables other than French fries when she gets the opportunity.
And it’s fine with me to put an end to student loans. The federal government has NO business subsidizing or being involved in education at ANY level, except for the service academies. The state governments, ditto.
See:
http://1389blog.com/2011/10/06/days-of-rage-occupy-america-protestors-posers-and-useful-idiots/
Report Post »BLACKCAPITALIST
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:25pmHow about, Big Government – please stop crushing the private sector with your non-stop regulations, get out of its way, so that small businesses can create jobs to restart America’s economy. Once that happens, I will get a job TO EARN MONEY AND BUY MY BROCCOLI! Winning.
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:29pmWhat a mouth…all that comes out is garbage. This “idiot” is the product of all the free government stuff program, pell grants, welfare, section 8 housing. food stamps Yadda, yadda, yadda! My bet this uneducated slug (who we GAVE a college degree) will never use her so called degree, will not pay back herd loans, will have a passel of kids and be on welfare the rest of her miserable life…and I will have to pay!
Report Post »KYHighlander
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:36pmdidn’t understand any of that, stark raving mad!
Report Post »sailinggail
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:24pmMan….She should go to California. They have a great plan there!!
Report Post »Van Bones
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:10pmThe Race Card, Don’t Leave Home Without It. Filthy Pigs.
Report Post »Disnylv
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:00pmHoly poop, what a complete idot. IS she as stupid in real life as she sounds? Cheaper to eat at McDonalds, really why do you not speak about the protests and what they are really about? GLOBAL take over and Shiria law
Report Post »scotts
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:59pmI’m going to figure by your user name that we are probably about the same age.I am with you on what you are saying.Seems like we have a bunch of young people who don’t want to take care of themselves.This young lady could move over to a socialist country in Europe and see how that works for her.Oh yeah,most of those countries are on the edge of bankruptcy.I appreciate where she is coming from,things are a mess,but I’m pretty sure if she would find her way through instead of whining she could get herself in a better spot.She wanted the loan,you pay back the loan,not me or you.The blame game,man can I get someone to tell these people to grow up and go home.I have a family to support and we have to make the bills and work and make sure that our kids are raised up to be,well not like that young lady who expects someone to give them stuff.I tell my kids you have a tough world out there and you have to have a good education and God on your side and you take care of yourself.Thank you and God Bless America.
Report Post »Aristacah
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:15pmFor saying so little, she sure says a lot. In fact, I’m wondering if she ever shuts up.
I’m with you – they need to get off their behinds and get a job and stop worrying about everyone else. Worry about yourself first.
Report Post »Boulderite
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:40pmGood job! My very sentiments
Report Post »kf4omc
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 12:04amNo such thing as a private student loan. The Government outlawed it 2 years ago. Only the Federal Government can give Student loans now. that was in the first Stimulus Bill.
Report Post »Mountain Mama Martha
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 12:14amBut you raised decent, hard working American citizens. You have to understand that this is a bunch of lazy, free loading idiots. They expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Why aren’t their a$$es working instead of sitting on them protesting because they’re not getting enough free stuff? They make me want to puke. But these are the crumbs of the earth that Obama goes after because he knows they don’t have a brain big enough in their heads to see through his lies and deception. I say herd all the protesters up, load them on a blamed ship, and send them to Iran or Iraq or even Russia. Let those countries give these idiots the education they need….that NOTHING in life is free.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 12:28amOr serve your country in the armed forces, grow up, see the world, and earn the GI Bill. Besides the services also allow you to use tuition remission programs while you’re on active duty.
These are a bunch of bored, spoiled brat rich kids w/nothing else to gripe about.
Report Post »hdog2012
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 12:54amstop regulations, get out of the way of businesses mainly small ones, stop wasting money…… the list goes on stop crying you dont have to go to college to be successful were not racist that expression is getting old. It makes me sick to watch these people give me give me give me.
Report Post »jptrucker
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 3:58pmDid this moron go to school ? She should get our money back for that education.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:39pmPLEASE can someone cleverly edit her rant with THE Choppin’ BROCOLLI song?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR6y71×3tSY
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:30pm@ loriann12 who Posted : “About the can’t have it both ways. As a young foolish teenager, I was a big women’s libber. I had a boy friend tell me once that if we wanted equal rights as women, we would have to give up the priviledges we had, like having the door opened for us, etc. It would also mean men would no longer be chivalrous. We’re there. And just after I realized I rather would have the priviledges, the doors opened, seats given up, treated like a lady instead of one of the guys, etc.”
They gave up a lot more than that. Divorced women with children are among the largest group in the country living below the poverty line. That is because divorce laws changed after they started considering everybody “equal”, so that when some guy decides to dump his 40-year-old wife for some 20-year-old, he can just walk away. She’ll be lucky to get him to pay child support, much less anything else. Even though she may have worked to put the jerk through college, etc., she is “equal”, so not entitled to any of “his” money.
Professional “Libbers” wanted to repeal laws limiting hours women could work, because it “limited their chances for executive advancement.” These were lawyers and professional women wanting to repeal laws that were put in place to protect poor southern women working in textile factories where they would be worked 12-16 hour days for practically nothing. But these affluent “bimbos” did not know–or care–about those women, only “their
Report Post »HumbleMan
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 2:06amThis excuse for a human being should be in jail. Sorry honey; you get no sympathy.
Report Post »inferno
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:47amYes sir . A perfect example of what is produced by our public education Marxist school system.
Report Post »I doubt if there is anyone in this group who can put two lucid thoughts together.
I do agree with one sign however, that is to end student loans. If it were done, the cost of a college education would drop by 50%, and those who shouldn’t be in college would not be there cluttering the campus.
travlman77
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:59amOh they want the money, they just don’t believe they need to pay it back.
Report Post »They want to stop collections.
loriann12
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:21pmWe lost our Pharmacy (Walgreen’s) because it will no longer take Express Scripts, the military prescription “place”….we had to move to CVS, who will take Express Scripts. Now, instead of paying $3 for generic, we pay $5. Now, I’m not complaining, but I have another example: I got an eye exam at a “non-approved” place and it was $65. When I called a place that took Tricare Insurance, it was $160, the same exam. Yep, if you’re being paid by the government, charge more because you won’t get what you charge.
Report Post »BrunMan
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:54pmExactly, the ‘easy money’ of student loans has caused the price of college tuition to go up. The schools know how to work the system (gov’t backed loans) and they lure us in with promises that sound like ‘free’ school’, only to find out that we owe thousands of dollars back to the lenders. But, let’s be honest, we allow this to happen to us, by falling for the sales pitch, by not paying attention to what it is really going to cost.
The world is full of those typical ‘used car sales’ types, from colleges to the US gov’t. They know how to spin things to get us to believe the bull. What bothers me most is that after all these years, we still fall for it. Let’s wake up and stop feeding the system. Let‘s change our leadership and take back control of the gov’t.
P.S. If that girl could read half as fast as she talks, she’d be brilliant! It would be quite a contrast.
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 1:11amYou’ve got that right.
More to the point, down with affirmative action (which is obviously how Obozo and Mooch got their “educations” back in the day). NO point in letting anybody into a school who hasn’t studied enough to earn the right to be there. It’s just an incentive to be lazy and the “student” is very likely to drop out or flunk out, even with the grade inflation that we have these days.
And if a student flunks out, the loans become due and payable, but the chump in question doesn’t have the degree that would (supposedly) make it possible to earn the money to pay back the loans.
Then you end up with those protestors who blame everybody but themselves. Some of them have started to blame “Jewish bankers” and “Jewish billionaires” for their plight. This cannot possibly end well.
http://1389blog.com/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-protestors-blame-jewish-bankers-billionaires/
Report Post »toodarnedstubborn
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:45amGet off your lazy asset and get a job you lazy cow. I’m sick of supporting you.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:55amNot so fast!!….I’ll give her ALL of my brocolli!!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:19pmGo away Rapids. You’re a racist and have no place among civilized people. Peddle your crap somewhere else.
Report Post »RedheadedStepchild
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:19pm@rapids – I agree with Jefferson – no racists here! Dumb is just dumb in any color. As you so brilliantly demonstrate!
Report Post »honor007
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:45amI wish I could afford to buy about 10,000 pacifiers, I would love to make the treck just to walk down the line and pass them out?! I didn’t go to college because I knew I could not afford it. period. I have done pretty well for myself. I was a single mother for around 10 years, worked for as little as $6 an hour to feed my two girls. I never once complained or thought someone owed me something?! I am glad my daughters were watching me work hard all those years. These people
Report Post »need to get over themselves, you just do what you have to do.
Stryker
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:48amAnd your daughters will be better people for it no doubt. Great Job!
Report Post »Pacman116
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:48amAwesome!! Way to go Honor007! My wife has a friend that was in a similar situation and she also busted her butt to make it work. Too bad that isn’t the norm these days.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:51amThat is a great ideal….we need to start handing out pacifier and diapers to these people!!!!
Report Post »JazzGuy
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:00pmThank you for your comment, Honor007. I too am a single parent (father) who knows the value of a dollar, and of working to make your way. I also did not go to college because I could not afford to. Further, I never got any foodstamps or free housing either, not from the government, not from any other social programs. My two sons are now grown and also realize they’re not to count on, or accept, handouts from our failing government, that they have to make it by educating themselves, and by working to “do what you have to do” to live. I may never get to ‘retire,’ which was once part of The Great American Dream, but we all were raised to appreciate that freedom does NOT mean live FOR free.
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:44amLet stop grant money which come from rich people and corporation!!!
Report Post »Boson Higgs
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:53amPell Grants this year — $16 Billion
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:06amPell grants are useless to the student anyway. What is $500 when the rest of the bill is in the tens of thousands.
Report Post »starsrdancing
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:59amTo Bought Your Silo Yet: $500 is a big deal to a student attending a local community college.
Report Post »There are many students that go to college and do NOT rake up tens of thousands of dollars.
So to that group (living within their means) a $500 grant helps, big time!
schmite123oh
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:28pmactually pell is up to $5550 depending on your EFC (Expected family contribution) which is a bogus mess of a calculation anyways, we should do away with the pell grants.
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 1:02amScholarships should come ONLY from private donors and should be awarded strictly as recognition for academic merit, without regard to whether the recipient needs it or not.
If the scholarship ends up going to someone who is academically outstanding and is already wealthy (which wouldn’t happen often), so what? It was earned fair and square.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 2:49pmPrivate donors should be able to choose who they want to give the money to, shouldn’t they? It’s their money.
If I want to give scholarship money to, say, homeschooled children, and I want to make it need based, what is that to you? That being said, if donors wanted to create a merit-based scholarship and make it only available to students that get perfect SAT scores, that should be their choice too.
Most of us don’t want other people telling us what to do with our money. That should be true for (private) scholarship donors too.
Report Post »DianeCee
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:44amThis woman thinks the “land of the free” means she can receive free food, education, heat, police, fire, child costs, phones, travel, clothes, medical, etc. Is this the result of the state’s matriarchal society that raised her? Re education about the “land of the free” is needed immediately.
Report Post »B.O.STINKS
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:43amYou got that right!
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:45pmShe wouldn’t shut up, wasting my oxygen. I should charge her for that!
Report Post »mom4times
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:43amtime to break out the ibuprofen after that rant…..on the bright side though….at least she doesn’t like obozo
Report Post »bringiton
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:22amGuaranteed she’ll vote for him again.
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 1:05amShe probably will vote for him again because she obviously can’t think for herself.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:43amWell for one, it’s not a single group of people; lots of people think lots of things. However, there is a widely accepted list of demands from the site Occupy Wall Street, which is used as a host for forums and pictures about the protests. FOX reported on it a couple days ago (after first writing a story quite similar to this one with fake demands), then got it right. You can find it here: http://coupmedia.org/occupywallstreet/occupy-wall-street-official-demands-2009
Playing dumb to why people are upset says more about the reporter than those they’re reporting on.
Report Post »Stryker
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:51amYes that’s what is “different” about this protest, there are many groups with many different agendas all uniting (and growing) for this “cause”. I have a bad feeling about how this is going to play out.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:10amIt’s not going well so far, but it‘s increasingly being compared to the Tea Party’s beginnings; groups of citizens angry at the status quo who set forth vague idealistic goals (Contract From America) and then focus their anger into effective political clout.
What makes it different so far (besides opinions on what should be done) is that the Occupy groups don’t have clear leaders and candidates. No matter how much you’ll hear about Van Jones or Soros on this site, the protesters are almost guaranteed not to know who they are. Without a leader they’ll remain without direction, ineffective, or at the worst, turn violent.
It‘s been surprising how peaceful they’ve been so far, really. Almost all reports of violence have been from police, who apparently maced and used a baton on a FOX News crew the other day… hence why now FOX is reporting the protesters’ demands accurately, since their own members have been attacked by the NYPD!
Report Post »fishlore
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:28am“No matter how much you’ll hear about Van Jones or Soros on this site, the protesters are almost guaranteed not to know who they are.”
Hence the term useful idiots. Soros is very much involved in this. It takes three clicks to discover this simple truth. Whether these laughable, ignorant, tools realize they’re being used by him or not is irrelevant. They are doing the bidding of a man that’s trying to overturn our economic system and institute a one world order. Soros’ words, not mine.
Nothing but a bunch of anti-American wannabe communists.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Report Post »Demand four: Free college education.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all.
Locked
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:37am@Fishlore
… what link are you quoting from. It’s apparently not the one from the Occupy Wall Street site itself. Someone’s been feeding you misinformation, I’m afraid.
Aha, found it! Apparently you missed this part:
“Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly.”
Well done!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:39amPoor LOCKED..always spinning..always getting caught in his own lies…
Read this and weep kid:
An Occupy Wall Street supporter, known by his honest nom de internet as “distortion”, demanded
STOP LISTING DEMANDS
“The opponents of this movement are using the demands posted in this forum as the official lists. And some of these lists regardless of how right or wrong are extreme points of view and will only hurt our cause by making us look like extremist nut jobs. You don’t speak for everyone in this. Stop creating public demand lists, delete demands threads. Let the organizers and the law team working for them do this.”
“So thanks a lot, now this is how the opponents are viewing us”
Report Post »See that LOCKED? “LET THE ORGANIZERS AND THE LAW TEAM WORKING FOR THEM DO THIS”. You lefty dolts really think you’re fooling anyone?
Locked
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:54amUh, Avenger… you realize the link I had is the list they’re working on? The movement itself just had a law team step up a couple of days ago – it made news here on The Blaze. Did you forget already? There are organizers, but no official leaders; as members have said, it‘s different than in 2008 because they’re not behind a charismatic leader like Obama.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:30pmReally LOCKED? “No official leaders”? The anonymity is important to the leaders of this. The anonymity is deliberate. The instigators are Stephen Lerner and Wade Rathke and they implemented this through their allies in academia and a collective of activist groups. Yes there are “leaders” LOCKED, but they just want to remain in the shadows which is where the unhinged left likes to operate from.
Here’s what Lerner has said on it…
The aim, according to Lerner, is to “destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.”
“How do we bring down the stock market? How do we bring down their bonuses? How do we interfere with their ability to, to be rich?” Lerner asked rhetorically in March.
This is why there are “legal teams” now LOCKED..it’s cover for Rathke and Lerner. They are damage control for a “movement” (more accurately a gaggle of incoherent, smelly lefty idiots) that‘s rapidly sucking the air out of Rathke and Lerner’s endgame.
I ask again LOCKED..do you want a shovel for that hole you’re digging for yourself?
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:46pmWhat gets me is how these people are welcoming with open arms and applauding these RICH celebrities like Michael Moore–who are in the 1% they are supposedly protesting against. What idiots! I would say it doesn’t make much sense, does it? Well, for that matter, none of what they are doing makes any sense, except from the standpoint of causing trouble and hoping to bring about a backlash that can be used as an excuse for martial law.
Report Post »TheWholeTruth
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:43amWell, there’s hope. She has SOME things right, food prices, the vitamin issue, and MAYbe a few more like Obama being a scam. Let me answer her question about why food is so high. It’s called bio-fuels. They are taking the corn for fuel, animal feed is now having to go to wheat which is causing a shortage there for human food as well and so, get ready prices on pasta and bread are going to go up by about 20%, rice and beans as well. So hope you stocked up already.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:15amJust put in my fall garden (mild winters).
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:44amYes bio fuels are really driving up the cost of food. Not only is it driving up the cost of corn and soybeans, but farmers are using land that was used for other crops to grow them on thus driving up the costs of food like broccoli because of the more limited supply. In addition, this has not been a great year for growing crops. We have much of the South and West suffering from a drought while we had the flooding in the North East. I think that where we are going to first see allot of protests about the cost of food will not be in the U.S., but in countries that are heavily dependent on the U.S. for food. Places like Africa, the Middle-East, and South America. I think that in the following year we are going to see allot of unrest in places like that because of food costs and even the possibility that the U.N. is going to try to get directly involved in food production.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:41amI like the end student loans idea, if you aren’t motivated enough to get a job and put yourself through college, you shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Report Post »KeithOlberdink
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:40amShut your pie hole.
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:44amYes, please girl. Shut it. How many freebies do ya get now? Ever try working 8 or 16 hours a day/ I have for years. It helps with those extras ya know? Food, housing, education, health care. Never a hand out from the Govt. Two jobs at time sometimes but it can be done. Lazy effin PIE HOLES>
Report Post »Stryker
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:53am^ like! ^
Report Post »cgizzy
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:56amDanwesson455… I completely agree… When I moved to NYC right out of college, I didnt have a job and barely any savings. I had a temp job within 2 months and then when the temp job ended I got another job. That job couldnt pay all my bills, so I got a second job. These people saying they can’t find jobs, I know the job market is hard, but seriously? I was able to have 3 jobs in a 6 month period. How did I get those jobs? by busting my a** and sending out at minimum 10 resumes and job applications a day, and not being picky about what job I had (one of the jobs was a care technician at a pet store–basically I came home smelling like dog poop every day).
These people dont want jobs… they want the perfect job that pays for everything they want and provides everything for them, but they dont want to work to get that perfect job. They think it should be handed to them. And those that dont even want the perfect job think everything should just be handed to them in the first place. Lazy bums. I did not work 2-3 jobs every sysmester in college just to pay for these people to live because they dont want to work. I have not worked since I was 13, paying taxes since 16, to pay for these bums who dont want work.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:39ammmmm Broccoli with melted velveta cheese :)
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:48amthe ONLY way to eat broccoli.. or in a broccoli casserole..
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:01amIt’s good raw with ranch dip too.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:07amI prefer mine in an asian dish. I don‘t know what velveeta is made of but it’s beyond awesome.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:03pmBroccoli Soup during a snowstorm is the bomb, Can I say bomb??
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 2:58pmMmmm… maybe I should make that tonight.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:38amIt‘s staggering isn’t it. It’s an epidemic of “stupid”.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:45amYes, it’s hard for me to decide if I feel pity, or contempt. How can people allow themselves to become like this? It takes a full dismissal of self worth and dignity.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:50amWicked dumb! How do we rid ourselves of this mentality?
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:52amThank you teachers union! She is a product of you. For you good teachers, I feel sorry for you, you are vastly out numbered.
Report Post »mficentral
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:57amI am an 80 year old great grandmother and I have never, ever seen so many truly stupid people. Where do we put this crime? Public education? I am telling you all you had better take back your country or your children will follow this group.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:38amThe funny thing is, one reason produce is so high is because of environmental regulations…. she doesn’t seem the type to be OK with that answer however. If she is worried about the cost of broccoli she should grow her own. I can pull it off in my garage in Las Vegas, she should be able to pull it off in whatever surely more hospitable place she lives in. People have no idea what it takes to get food on your shelves. None, zip, zilch, NADA! I am sure it would be cheaper if the government took over all agriculture/food production & distribution…. at first anyway.
Report Post »mficentral
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:51amThat is just what this country need………Government taking over the food industry. Are you serious????
Report Post »When that happens there is no America left. Think….for God sake think.
ADNIL
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:33amWhen I was young, everyone had some sort of a garden. Even those who lived in the three story tenament houses had small plots between the houses, pots of plants on the balconies, and tomatoes trellised against the buildings. We had a good sized gargen and my mom taught me how to can ( this was when people stored food during the cold war in their “fallout shelters”). I still have a big garden and can all of my own food, freeze some, and fill a root cellar, even when I worked full time. It is just what I learned. My parents taught self-sufficiency and told me that if I ever went into debt, that I would lose my self-determination.
I now live in a rural area where every house has a yard, and on a trip to visit my father -in-law last summer, counted gardens along the way. In traveling about 40 miles and passing a couple hundred houses, I counted less than ten gardens. I do not understand why more people do not grow some of their own food. People up here are mostly low income or no income and still do not do this. I just don’t get it. I have been without a paying job for over a year but have enough food for my family and others. Ya know, I do not think that is what the government has in mind. Agenda 21.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:04pmSarcasim seems to exacpe you mficentral. *I* don’t think the government should take over food supply, but it’s likely this girl does and she belives honestly that will make it cheaper–and it first it would be because they would want to show off how much better communisim would be (GAG CHOKE)
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:06pmADNIL you are absolutely right. Worse is, people don’t KNOW how to grow their own food. I had a friend–a nurse mind you–look at my seed potatoes and ask me how I got the seeds out =/ I am hoping the USAF will reassign my husband soon to somplace where things grow; preferrably back to Texas but anywhere in the south will do.
Report Post »Orion the truth hunter
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:03pm@thekuligs “I had a friend–a nurse mind you–look at my seed potatoes and ask me how I got the seeds out” LOA You are absolutely correct about people not knowing how to grow food. I have grown acres of walnuts from nuts and have had several people say “I didn’t know you could grow a walnut tree from those nuts”. I have never grown indoor broccoli before but I do have an indoor potato plant. I read somewhere that you can get over 50 pounds of potatoes in a raised container (outside) so I am trying it inside.
Report Post »Orion the truth hunter
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:11pmBTW, there is currently a huge black walnut crop (at least in the mid-west) that would make an excellent FREE food storage product for the labor of collecting and preparing them.
Report Post »Van Bones
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:01pmDo you understand that there are many people in our country that don’t want to put fourth any effort. Grow their own food. LMAO
Report Post »Not Amused
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:37amWell the good news is she says she won’t vote for Obama. Her friend is overly dripping with jewelry and very fashionably dressed for the occasion. Someone needs to explain:The price of broccoli is directly related to the price of gasoline which has more than doubled since 2008.
Report Post »Jeff1000
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:37amEducate yourself before spouting off.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:36am.
Whaaa Whaaaa Whaaaaa you need a tissue sweetie?……..
How bout some cheeze with that whine?……
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:36amI pod, I phone, I am a Guitar Hero, I am the Wii master, I life Heroes come in all ages to this group the most important is I (me). Oh wow Che was a socialist? I love his T shirts, does he have an X360 game. If Che was down with socialistism I can see it, got to be good. Socialism is wealth redistribution; like take money away from the old bastards and give it to me, SWEEEEEEEET. My grandfather has more money than god, Do I get a car or a house from him, hell no. I vote for take it from him and give it to me, Obama-rama go get the old guy’s money and give me a brick, keep the change, and I hope you taught him a lesson. I am never going to have to pay for this spending cause “I dont want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day” so how about some spending money for me, comrade Osabama. Hey dude I voted for you, give me my props. Mao wear is like it green and that will save the planet so I should borrow mom’s credit card and order a Mao jacket and hat. I ass my teacher and she said Mao brought piece and goodness to China and now they are numero ono in the world, so they are a little socialist, it must work. The Russians had it good until they started drinking.
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:00pmAnd their parents;
The soccer, baseball, basketball, texting one, two, three, four, I do not have the time to study this political thingy. What the hope and change president, well I can vote for that. Bush invaded Ireland to kill Salam O’Seiney because he had whiskey of mass production.
Report Post »Parent teacher conference tomorrow, Kayla is failing her Socialist studies because grandpa told her Hitler was an evil toad. The school text book publisher was going for the no one is evil except for capitalist, and big business genre. Garden party, friends said Bush is bad, because Katie Pelosi on the NCB news said this is the worst economy in the last 50 years, so Osama has to be better than Bush. And you know Bush had three terms kind of like a Clinton sandwich. Hillary Clinton you know the president in the blue dress that someone spilled tartar sauce on. Make a mental note to my self do not let my father help Kayla with her home work, history has changed since he was in school. Socialism is a good thing. I am a socialist because I have many friends and we socialize all the time. Gosh I wish could remember what I learned in school aren’t governments all the same, just pay my taxes and everything will be ok. Osama is a Repulicrat and he is for hope and change that is good enough for me.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:35am“I want this free, I want that free, I want that other thing paid for too!”
What sad, subservience bound, dependence craving, piss poor excuses of human beings.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:46amI didn’t watch the video, but I’m almost sure she never said anything about wanting free food. Please quote where she did, if you please.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:56amBroccoli is not food? How do you use it precisely? As a handy floor cleaner?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:05amSo she said free? Great! Quote please; even the article said “affordable.”
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:12amYou’re being pedantic. How does one “lower” broccoli prices outside of a market mechanism, and who pays for that?
If you want something below the cost that it’s at now, you’re wanting somebody else to subsidize the difference (or use force).
Do you have anything else to add that actually applies to the video?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:23am“You’re being pedantic.”
And you’re being misleading. Didn’t mean to drag it on this long, but if you’re just going to mock inaccurately, it’s not good mocking; it’s the difference between calling Obama a socialist and pointing out that Obamacare has some socialistic medical practices. Your latest post should have been your first, as you’re right: the market dictates prices, so the question should be asked how would the market price be lowered without subsidies or impacting the farmers.
I mean no offense, as it’s obvious you understand economics better than this girl. I simply ask that you step up your criticism instead of reverting to untruthful mockery.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:39amTell you what Locked. I’ll cede “affordable” to you.
Now, what do you have to say that actually pertains to a criticism or support statement of the video? Anything?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:41am@Locked
On re-reading your last post I feel I owe you an apology. You’re correct, I should not have embellished in my statement you initially responded to, and it was wrong to do so. Thank you for calling me out on that, I really need to watch myself sometimes when dealing with things that might trigger emotional responses in my psyche.
Cheers
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:43am@LOCKED
Report Post »You start by saying tou didn’t watch the video, then criticize others regarding their remarks about what was said in the video. Watch the video so you won‘t waste everyone’s time.
Locked
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:55amThanks for the last post; I can come off as abrasive, I know. It’s tough to criticize without looking like a tool online, so sorry if I did that. Have a good day!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:31pm@Leader
Report Post »“You start by saying tou didn’t watch the video, then criticize others regarding their remarks about what was said in the video.”
If I was wrong, please quote where the girl said she demanded free food. Or, you know, learn to read the follow-up comments so you don’t get egg on your face. Either of those is acceptable.
monkeymom
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:34amColleges are corporations that don’t pay taxes – alrighty then.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:34amYup, these protestors are clueless. Remember though, they are only cannon fodder for their Marxist handlers who are behind all this…and they are not clueless.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:42amExactly correct, and they‘re too bloody stupid to realize it I’m afraid. What is it about human beings that so many of us as so easily duped into working against our own rational self interest, so many times throughout history? These kind of people make me a Sad Panda. It’s like they have no ability to read nor analyze nor even comprehend at a 2nd grade level the lessons of history. And you’re right, the elites are putting them there specifically to be cannon fodder, literally hoping that their followers take some deaths, in order to justify the “crackdown” the elites seem to be pushing for.
Sad sad sad. Oh well, we’ll survive and be fine, this time around there’s a lot more awareness of not only the history, but of the tactics and how to counter them. Powder dry, family safe, ready to help your neighbors…that’s all we can do for now.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:52amHey Ghost, that’s exactly the plan, if they can get another Kent State, they are off and running. What‘s really amazing is that the radicals that put that together are the same radicals that made the Kent State shootings possible AND they have effectively raised another generation 60’s radical clones!
Report Post »Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming…
Jenny Lind
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:33amI cannot listen to another skull full of mush. If this is what education is doing, I agree, end student loans, because no college can fix this. No loans, no colleges, hmmmmmmmm, works for me.
Report Post »CONSERVATIVE SUMMER
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:00pmAGREED! After seeing these products of our universities… I’d rather my kids go to the University of Hard Knocks. At least they’ll have a better since of reality that these idiots!!!
Report Post »Viks4141
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:33amIf I didn’t know better I would think she was forced to take out her student loans….. However, she does make a few good points.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:09amWhat were the good points? It was 4.5 minutes of childish gibberish. If your talking about her not supporting anyone who doesn’t have “real solutions” for president, then I might have agreed… if I wasn’t 100% sure that she will vote for Obama once again. That was just a smoke screen, she will vote for the same people that put her in the position that she laments.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:28amShe failed to mention that the immigration that people are complaining about are here illegaly. She also fails to mention that the Italians and Irish were also building NY.
Are you kidding me……
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:22amALL I HEARD WAS BLAH BLAH BLAH AND ….now…..I have a headache!
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:27amThanks for the warning. I’ll pass.
Report Post »CRoyce
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:33amThat’s the problem… all any side ever hears from the other is blah blah blah… we never listen to each other.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:44amCroyce
Tell me what you learned listening to somebody whine for her “right” to rob other people to pay for her whims. I mean other than what I just listed in the last sentence. What enlightenment did you gain concerning your fellow human being? Sometimes, stupid is simply stupid, and no great lesson can be taken from it except “don’t be like her/him”.
Report Post »CRoyce
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:59am@ Ghostofjefferson
I learned that she is a young woman with a great deal of anger who, like all of god’s children, deserves our compassion and love. And, while I personally attribute most of what she said to a lack of life experience and growing up as a repressed (arguably a somewhat self-repressed) minority, some of her points are accurate. I agree with her that we live in a society that throws away billions of dollars to special interests while we continually fail to educate our children. I also agree that it is a sad testament to our society that it is cheaper to eat at McDonald’s than to feed our children healthy meals. And what I know from experience is that you can not educate a person by attacking them, ridiculing them, or posting condescending comments to or about them. To “re-educate” someone, you must first understand them. To understand them, you must listen to them. To gain their trust, you will need to show them respect.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:03am@ croyce The blah blah blah is the sound of an uneducated sponge that thinks everything is owed to her. This yak-head is partialy right but if she would add all the facts should would talk herself right out of her anger. Yes this nation was founded on imigration of all colors. We alllow imigration, “LEGAL IMIGRATION”. Perhaps she wasn’t taught this in school or just refused to hear that part. Food prices so high, lets stop killing our oil production, using corn for ethanol and lets downsize the epa by 2/3. Yep, the green movement is driving prices of food through the roof. I wonder if she thougt about that? Meanwhile just sit there yelling out bits of half information while I work three jobs in the pursuit of my American dream.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:16am@Croyce
You actually didn’t “learn” anything, you simply saw your own positions sympathized with. I believe that’s called Confirmation Bias. If you don’t hold her positions, then you hear somebody asking for others to provide their way through life. Yes, we can all note the huge waste in government (and many do on this site). When you combine it with “end student loans” and that concept doesn’t mean “end the practice” but rather “pay the debt I voluntarily incurred”, well, you’ve at that point stopped being sympathetic and moved directly into the phase of “rob other people to pay for my mistakes”.
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:28pm“I‘m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more!!!”
“What are you mad about?”
“Um… you know… stuff!”
Report Post »Van Bones
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:18pmCroyce, I pretty much disagree with almost everything you said. I don’t speak for God, but my God from the Bible even gave up on some people and I sadly don’t have his patience.
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