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Or you can say that they are frustrated with the economy and are looking to capitalism and controlled spending to rescue the country and help the opportunities for each American... but if your standing as far left as you appear to be, then you need to find the worst possible adjectives to describe their motives and intentions...
It works both ways, we shouldn't generalize the whole effort of the Wall Street Occupiers and the Tea Partiers by selecting particular people in the effort that the other side (left or right) can point to in order to characterize the intentions of the movement to aid their own political agenda.
Hmmm my problem is identifying one who is not... Utopia is a fine dream, nobody can argue, but how do you finance it? That is the real question... there are those who believe we can't and those who believe we must... I'm in the middle, we should at least try... try to keep our economy strong, and try to provide a good life for everyone... both sides of the coin Obama was talking about... we should look at both sides (economy and social welfare), not just one, since you need to have one to afford the other. I hope Tea Partiers and Wall Street Occupiers are both successful.... that would be a great meeting in the middle.
We can play "pump up my side and knock down the other side" all day, but that doesn't get us anywhere... for example I could say if I wanted to continue this game
Occupiers: Pay my loans and give me money so I don't have to work
Funny enough, I hear that a lot. For example, one person today said, "They are there to waste time and to continue not to understand free market. They want you to share the money you earn." I don't understand how protesting egregious, structural economic inequalities equals 'I'm lazy and don't want to work.' I've yet to see one protester say 'Just give me money because I don't feel like working.'
I find it almost as amusing as I do infuriating when people see me and assume that about me, even though the reality of the situation is (1) I was laid off through no fault of my own, and (2) after 7 months of applying to job after job, I'm still unemployed. In essence, capitalism is experiencing a general crisis (helped along by decisions made on Wall Street, the high priest of capitalism), and I'm the one who suffers for it; but somehow the blame gets place on me anyway because I'm just another lazy deadbeat leaching off the system (even though I didn't bother reapplying for unemployment insurance despite the fact I need it).
We can play "pump up my side and knock down the other side" all day, but that doesn't get us anywhere... for example I could say if I wanted to continue this game
Occupiers: Pay my loans and give me money so I don't have to work
Teabaggers: Fix the economy
Who's pumping up a side? I'm simply stating what I've seen. The OWS movement is protesting corporate influence in government. The Tea Partiers, on the other hand, don't seem to have any kind of coherent stance on anything, are rabidly against "government healthcare" (even the ones who depend on it), and named themselves after a historic even they don't seem to fully understand.
I hear ya Jason, and I would never call you a leach or lazy, that would be just as unfair and inaccurate as the Liberal bashing of Tea Baggers intentions
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It works both ways, we shouldn't generalize the whole effort of the Wall Street Occupiers and the Tea Partiers by selecting particular people in the effort that the other side (left or right) can point to in order to characterize the intentions of the movement to aid their own political agenda.
Teabaggers: "Keep your government hands off my Medicare."
I'm really not seeing how they're two sides of the same coin.
Occupiers: Pay my loans and give me money so I don't have to work
Teabaggers: Fix the economy
I find it almost as amusing as I do infuriating when people see me and assume that about me, even though the reality of the situation is (1) I was laid off through no fault of my own, and (2) after 7 months of applying to job after job, I'm still unemployed. In essence, capitalism is experiencing a general crisis (helped along by decisions made on Wall Street, the high priest of capitalism), and I'm the one who suffers for it; but somehow the blame gets place on me anyway because I'm just another lazy deadbeat leaching off the system (even though I didn't bother reapplying for unemployment insurance despite the fact I need it).