Thoughts on Today's Political Landscape

[Enoch Root]

Occupy Wall Stree (Brooklyn Bridge):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUmyP...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_1bYVMwg8k

[Enoch Root]

Occupy Boston:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu63e...utu.be&t=1m42s

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Occupy Boston:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu63e...utu.be&t=1m42s

Since the occupy mobs like to march up to people's homes and act like a bunch of dunk college kids just out of a football game they lost why don't they march up to Warren Buffett's house and protest the billionaire who doesn't pay his taxes?

[smc]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Since the occupy mobs like to march up to people's homes and act like a bunch of dunk college kids just out of a football game they lost why don't they march up to Warren Buffett's house and protest the billionaire who doesn't pay his taxes?

In Boston, what Tracy Coxx refers to as a MOB comprises, among others, a number of recently laid-off teachers, union ironworkers who want nothing more than to fix the North Washington Street bridge, several dozen clerks who have lost their jobs at retail outlets that have closed, a large contingent of Vietnam Veterans, etc., etc., etc.

I think the use of the highly charged term MOB ought to be explained.

[Enoch Root]

Drunk college kids eh? Well, I have my doubts about the movement since it might be taken over by pro-corporate folk but the fact Tracy had that reaction tells me the movement may be onto something.

[franalexes]

why don't they march up to Warren Buffett's house and protest the billionaire who doesn't pay his taxes?
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And the answer is?

[smc]

Originally Posted by franalexes

why don't they march up to Warren Buffett's house and protest the billionaire who doesn't pay his taxes?
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And the answer is?

I do not speak for this movement, but I suspect that the answer is quite simple. The millionaires and billionaires whose homes have been targeted for demonstrations in New York City are the ones who have gamed the "system" on Wall Street. They are senior executives at Goldman Sachs and other investment banks and brokerage firms who not only are largely responsible for the economic collapse that begin in the last years of the Bush administration, but who -- unlike Warren Buffet -- have said nothing about the responsibility of their class for the current situation.

That said, I am all in favor of taking on Warren Buffet. In my view, a "benevolent" capitalist is no better than a Wall Street mogul who says "let 'em eat cake." In the end, they are all exploiters.

"Left" enough for you, fran?

[parr]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Since the occupy mobs like to march up to people's homes and act like a bunch of dunk college kids just out of a football game they lost why don't they march up to Warren Buffett's house and protest the billionaire who doesn't pay his taxes?

And while they are at it, swing on by Jeffery Immelt's.