These two-bit grungy low-life woodstock whiners make me sick. How can anybody sympathize with this movement? Have you seen any occupy images? They’re literally vagrants, grungy hippies, people that take shits on police cars, people that invade the local starbucks etc. Beyond that, what exactly the christ are they trying to say? “We are the 99%.” Yes….you are. You’re not rich. Most people aren’t. So what’s your problem exactly? I can think of only three things. 1) You don’t have enough money. Ok….so what exactly are you protesting? You want a higher minimum wage? You want a fairer tax structure? People on the low end pay 0% in taxes, and as you start climbing higher the most annoying chunk that you see get taken out of your paycheck is social security and medicaire. Give me THAT money back; since I’m non-retarded I’ll be able to take care of myself in retirement and I sure as hell don’t want to take care of anyone else. If you’re protesting that, I’m on board. 2) Millionaires have too much money. What does that even mean? What does their money have to do with you? You want someone to take a slice out of their bank account and hand it you, just like that? Probably not. Even occupiers aren’t that stupid. Are you miffed about golden parachutes? Ok, if the CEO of a company that was bailed out with taxpayer money got a golden parachute, that seems pretty dicey. Agreed. But it seems like a lot of times occupiers are simply protesting big CEO bonuses if their company underperformed. If the company or hedge fund or whatever didn’t get bailout money, the can pay whoever they want whatever the fuck they want; keep your mouth shut. 3) Wall streeters engineered the greatest financial collapse since the great depression. Sure, agreed. But let’s be straight on this: I’m sure some of your dumb asses were part of the problem. People don’t buy houses they can’t afford, there’s no collapse. Investment bankers don’t practice predatory lending, there’s no collapse. Wall street wizards don’t package together exotic collateralized debt obligations and turn junk loans into AAA instruments, there’s no collapse. Jackasses that bought said CDOs do their homework and/or have the good sense to stay away from incomprehensible exotic wall street products, there’s no collapse. Jackasses don’t issue credit default swaps on junk “AAA” loans, there’s no collapse. So….get all your facts straight or shut the fuck up. And also, your anger is a little misdirected. Wall streeters are going to do exactly what you let them get away with. There’s nothing to decry there; that’s simply human nature. If you make robbing banks legal, people are going to rob banks. Don’t blame the robbers; blame the idiots up in washington who legalized bank robbery. Likewise, this here wasn’t a wall street failing; this was a washington/SEC failing. Hedge funds were almost completely unregulated for years, the swaps market was completed unregulated, people like Alan Greenspan and Phil Gramm were champions of deregulation for years, and the SEC was asleep at the wheel/sleeping with people who were at the wheel. (Or just filling up 500 gig hard drives with porn; that’s a true story.) Wall street is going to do exactly what you let them get away with; if you have a completely unregulated financial industry where greedy fucks are allowed to run wild, well what the fuck do you think is going to happen?? You don’t need to be a rocket scientist or a wall street wizard to figure that out; if washington does nothing to prevent bank robberies, people are gonna rob banks. Stop yelling at wall street and START YELLING AT THE IDIOT RIGHT-WING HARDLINERS LIKE PHIL GRAMM WHO GUTTED FINANCIAL REGULATIONS. I love republicans; “We need to get rid of burdensome regulations!!” Oh my, those burdensome regulations. Yes, if the EPA tries to enact soil control regulation on farmers in arizona to prevent dust storms….that might qualify as burdensome regulation. If these poor dickless washington schleps hold up shaking hands with basic swaps/hedge funds regulations in ‘em….and you know, thus possibly avert the greatest financial collapse since the great depression….that might not be burdensome regulation. So you right-wing hardliners, shut the fuck up. You occupy wall street idiots that don’t have the slightest clue what you’re talking about, shut the fuck up. Stop protesting against rich people and wall street; start protesting against irrational hardline right-wingers that are in possession of jero critical-thinking ability and have the simple one-note message of “Max deregulation.” They get us bogged down in insurgency pseudo-wars, they want max deregulation, they intone “CUT SPENDING CUT SPENDING” endlessly, sans nuance, and they just generally have no ability to parse or think intelligently, and you’re protesting against rich people??? What kind of idiot jag-offs are you??? Someone should round up you and the hardliners and dump you in a concentration camp.
1/12/2012 – Christ
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