Pretty much one of the reasons I feel we are royally fucked at this point. These dudes have so many options and ways out that you really can’t do much at all but help your own and others when you’re in the position to. Like we need a Marvel or DC reset cause this entire setup is on some other shit 
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The only monster here is me, because I want the Occupy movement to at least partially succeed and reap whatever rewards my poor-ass ass would get out of it. But I’m not going to protest, because I’m lazy and Adventure Island II isn’t going to play itself.
That would probably hold true for a lot of nationalities lol.
It’s called scapegoating. Basically blaming problems on somebody else. It’s a finger-pointing game.
The reason that we’re 14 trillion dollars in debt, government and corporations are in bed together, we’re lacking in jobs, education and healthcare, and still fighting in undeclared wars, banging the war drums and being imperialist is …
…ILLEGALS!!!
“QUE!?!?!?!”
Wtf are you talking about man. You blaming the fucking immigrants that can’t speak english for the shit a bunch of white contractors are responsible for? The only reason people don’t pay shit is because they can have things done in foreign countries for less, which is why those same foreigners come here since they can’t make enough to make enough to feed their families in their own countries that are basically RAN by American and European conglomerates. Blame the mother fuckers that privatized all the utilities and take all their local resources while forcing them to buy over priced foreign shit they can’t afford.
When America stops depriving the rest of the world of its resources is when assholes can bitch about niggas trying to make an honest living. Not.
I always figured it would be a sign of the end times when people started using rapper names instead of the proper spelling of words.
It’s hard to take someone seriously after that.
People in the US are spoiled and I think reality is about to come by and slap some sense into them real fast.
You think the economy is bad now? Ha! It hasn’t even hit the bottom yet.
First let me say that you kind of sound like Fox news personified.
Peter Schiff isn’t right. He knows all about loopholes because he is the son of a man who used to use them. He also preaches free-market capitalism/Friedman-ian economics (AKA Trickle-Down).
Trickle-Down economics hasn’t worked. It’s bullshit. It basically says that if you give tax breaks and incentives to the rich and the major corporations they will in turn, be happy and create jobs for us. Which hasn’t worked, all it has done is increase the disparity between the rich and the poor.
Look up some stats on it.
CEO to employee income ratio is currently 317:1.
Currently the top 1% wealthiest in the US own 40% of the total wealth. The top 10% own 90% of the total wealth. (The bottom 90% of us share the other 10%. This means if you make less than around a million a year.)
The middle class has been decreasing since the Reagan era, and the amount of work expected of people has increased while the compensation has decreased with respect to the increasing cost of living.
If you think Schiff is so smart listen to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYk4PobHx4#t=4m19s
Schiff says that the strives of the unions did not end child labor and did not stop unfair hours. He calls it liberal propaganda. Basically he’s saying that history is wrong and he is right…
Adam Corolla… really?
If comedy was personified Corolla would probably be somewhere near the armpit or the gooch.
George Carlin would be the balls, Demetri Martin would be the imagination, Chappelle would be the heart/stomach/soul cuz his shit is too funny.
Seriously if you want to glorify a comedian’s rant, pick a real rant. Let’s try actually picking someone who knows what is really going on:
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I thought Dane Cook was the taint? Maybe he’s the cancer, and Corolla is the taint 
The funny thing is that Government institutions have probally done more damage to the economy over the last 30 years than the private sector has.
Is there some kind of threshold/gauge that I’m unaware about, for how much shit populations are supposed to take in the ass?
Before people start to take action, or begin to even think about things?
I agree though, things aren’t rock-bottom yet.
US is 14 trillion in debt, the European economy is failing. The big banks/international banks are running shit. A few months from now when Europe is in a depression, and when the US is going to be pushing for war with somebody (Iran? Asia somewhere?) just to get that economic bump things aren’t going to be pretty.
The US people will still be knee-deep in austerity measures paying for the economic crimes of the banks/investment firms. The austerity will weigh most heavily on the middle class (pushing them farther and farther towards the bottom), meanwhile you’ll still have politicians being lobbied for tax reductions on the rich, because maybe Trickel-Down economics will work this time… fuck that.
Government institutions like social security and medicare/medicaid? You’re right let’s pry our parents/grandparents off their medications. They’ve had nice lives…
And let’s raise the age limit on social security to 70-75. The average person will be able to enjoy their retirement for about 8 years before they croak.
Lol.
What do you think the founding fathers thought about: woman’s suffrage, slavery, interracial marriage and abortion?
Remember, these are the same people that thought black people should only be counted as “three-fifths” of a human being. Sigh.
i’d shove that stupid bitch, her 15 kids and her 3 baby daddys in an oven nazi style.
fuck these lowlifes.
Hey they aren’t getting it anyways because Social Security is about to go into the tank, but that isn’t what I am talking about. You might want to lay off the assumptions…
I am talking about multiple problems. For starters yes our government is overspending and has been for quite some time and now we are starting to reap the consequences. You can argue what we spend most on. Social programs, military, bail outs,etc. but the overall problem is regardless of what we spend it on the core problem reamins which is that money out >>>> money in. It is now to the point that even if we soak the rich for every last penny of theirs it may still not be enough. In fact every country in the world knows the US isn’t going to repay their debt and are positioning themselves accordingly. And yet we want to throw more money around?
Many liberals quote the line about the rich becoming richer. Sure it is exactly what is happening, but what they fail at is actually understanding the mechanisms which lead to this disparity. The truth is that the average American is making more money now than they did 7 years ago yet the average American can’t make ends meet. Why is that? It is this little problem called inflation. The fact is that the cost of living is out running the rise in income. Guess who benefits the most from inflation? Those who have the assets to stay ahead of it Aka the Rich! We are in the process of destroying the dollar and the average joe is getting punched in the face for it because he is stuck in a race he can’t win. Yet the government has more to do with inflation that corporations do.
Hell I asked several “Occupiers” if they knew who Ben Bernake was and they had not a single clue (One even said an actor).
Lastly the major problem that hasn’t hit us yet is the energy crisis that is brewing. Our energy policies have sucked for the last 35 years and we are going to find that cheap energy will be going the way of the dinosaurs. We keep investing in the wrong areas. You have both lobby groups as well as clueless morons dictating energy policy and it is starting to cause problems.
There are just a couple points to think about.
That was just to name a few problems
They were not only intimidating looking they clearly didn’t know what the fuck they were talking about. Bottom line is do not argue with big black men about economics or other heated topics of discussion they do not understand. Offer them chicken as a sign of friendship. Escalate the situation at your own peril.
I love how people oversimplify the problems of a generation to suit their own political views. Hindsight is 20/20.
Not to mention the fact that even the founding fathers were something called…Human.
When that bitch said “Somebody should be held accountable for this”
my girl was like “YEAH YOU AND YOUR PUSSY!!!”
not sure what that video had to do with ows protesters though.
Sorry I put words in your mouth, but it’s because the basic conservative spiel is cut social welfare etc.
Money out will always be >>> money in because the money is created from debt, and is taken back with interest. Ben Bernanke is the president of the Federal Reserve? Or something like that.
Inflation = duh. American’s make more because the money is worth less and less. What shocks me is that with inflation taken into account, the amount that average citizens make currently is the same or less (can’t remember) than what people used to make a couple decades ago. It hasn’t gone up. But for some people, their profits and personal incomes have increased exponentially.
And YES the energy crisis. There is a finite amount of fossil fuels in the ground, and locating them is becoming more and more difficult, and there will be a point when the amount of oil we can drill will not be enough to cover the cost of the drilling/locating of the oil.
Not only that, but we have climate change as well, and run-away climate change. Basically the point of no return, where the damage done to the atmosphere will be irreversable.
I understand these things, and the effect that the vested interest groups of government and corporations have in perpetuating our reliance on fossil fuels. We will always be somewhat reliant, because petroleum byproducts play many important roles, but we need to research and enact alternative energy sources. Less subsidies for oil/coal/nuclear, and more subsidies for wind/solar, etc. etc.
We need to take responsibility for these problems, which is what the activists who have come together through the Occupy movement are doing. They are promoting awareness of these and many issues, and working towards changing them.
The inherent problem with solar is the simple fact energy from light we can capture on the surface of the earth will always be weaker than the energy you get from breaking chemical bonds. That is a simple physical fact and nothing we do will change that. With solar you aren’t going to get a high enough efficiency with any known material so in other words viable solar energy is on the order of 10-15 years minimum. The average solar cell runs at something like a 6% efficiency.
Fossil fuels aren’t going anywhere and we still need them for chemical purposes. Oil is going to be a key commodity for a long time.
The problem with the Occupy movement is their solutions will only cause more problems not reduce them.
What is everyone’s beef with solar energy? Even at it’s current low efficiency it still produces enough energy to power homes for a while, and that while is time when they don’t need to be powered by coal/natural gas/etc. It does not produce any harmful emissions from the chemical reactions, the only negative side would be the waste of the units, but everything produces waste pretty much and it can be recycled or disposed of properly.
And this is it’s “current state”, meaning that further development could lead to a greater rate of capturing photons and more efficiency.
And solar is only 1 of 5 clean energy sources that we know of. Solar, wind energy, wave energy, tidal energy, and geothermal energy. And imagine sources that we don’t even know of yet.