what do you think of the "occupy wall street" protesters?

I'm conflicted.

Some of them are obviously ignorant tools (ones protesting crony capitalism while wearing Obama 2012 shirts come to mind.......lol).

However some of them actually seem to have real beefs with how things are going. Generally speaking some of them seem to realize the problem is not with one party or the other its with the SYSTEM those two parties have created for themselves. They have a monopoly on power and they give the people the illusion of choice to maintain that monopoly.

What I don't like is those that are blaming "wall street" like wall street didn't get LOTS AND LOTS of help from their friends in Washington.

As far as those claiming these people are enemies of the U.S.: That is fking retarded.

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They seem to be accomplishing very little of substance HOWEVER this is the most coherent list of demands I"ve come across:

If you want to prevent (or at least lessen) the financial crisis

that Caused this:

#1 Reinstate the Glass Steagall Act that separates commercial

and investment banks, enacted during the Depression and repealed

in 2000, eight years before the crisis.

#2 Regulate the credit rating agencies.

#3 Reward and recognize companies that keep jobs in the US

#4 Don't allow mortgage backed securities to be resold with a different rating

#5 Use Anti-trust laws to break up companies and banks that are too big to fail

#6 Repeal the Commodities and Futures Modernization Act of 2000 that

de-regulates Derivatives.

The folks on Wall Street own the government and everything the candidates are saying.

To everybody out there blaming Obama, Bush or any other singular government official as the cause for America's prosperity getting flushed down the toilet. You're missing the big picture. The situation is simple: The near entirety of the US government is corrupt and run by political Bribe-takers bought and paid for by people who have amassed the most wealth overall in this country (Top 1% of the US Population). These politicians, now solely representing their funders and not the voters turn around and pass legislation that gives the Super Rich here every advantage possible, including free money (Quantitative Easing/Bailouts), lower taxes and zero accountability for their actions. In order to prevent revolts from the increased burden to the unrepresented in this country, the Super Rich have set up a bogus political party to siphon off and redirect the anger of the masses (The Republicans) and an ineffectual party (The Democrats) to cave to “republican pressure” while pretending to care about the masses. In addition, they have co-opted and bought out nearly all of the mainstream media in order to filter out any info that would lay the blame on the true culprit, instead leaving the majority of America divided and focusing their energies on decoy scapegoats and partisan nonsense. The super rich and those they pay for care not one bit about jobs or the welfare of the country they grew from. They merely care about having as many digits as possible for their bank statement balance. And if that means the middle/working class will eventually need to vanish, then so be it. The entire system is broken.

Let's face it, OWS has failed.

It's been in the national spotlight for more than 2 weeks now, and it has accomplished nothing except demonstrating that it's just a left leaning mindless mob of grungy potheads.

What went wrong?

The protesters are raging against the consquences of their own actions. They are the ones who put the Democrats in charge. That's what caused the problems they are protesting. Now they are having a mass temper tantrum because of the results of their own actions.

But like spoiled brats, they won't acknowledge their own role in causing their problems. They won't direct their anger at the root cause of their problems. They won't openly blame the Democrats that they put in power, mistakenly believing that would solve their problems.

Instead of addressing the cause of the problems, they direct their rage against the symptom of the problems. Problems that the protesters caused.

Is that why they have accomplished nothing? Because they're acting like a pack of spoiled brats who won't admit their own error?

Hello.

The capitalism sistem is not this devil that everyone tell.

I think that this protest are legitimate against greed of Wall Streed investors.

The Europe hardly escape this crisis.

I think they're being honest when they say they want violent overthrow of America and to eliminate the Jews.

Some are useful idiots, some actually want to destroy capitalism. In any case, they are enemies of the United States.

I expected this to happen and I support them. They have only just begun, and I think they will do some good for the 99%.

looks like a mob of liberal dbags to me. never in my life have i hoped for police brutality, until now..

No. No. Oh mais oui.

a mob of mindless hate!!!

Idon't.

No.

No.

Yes.