Occupy L.A. Is A Joke

George Vreeland Hill 2012's picture

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Occupy Wall Street needs to shut its stupid mouth.
How dare they count every person in the ninety-nine percent they talk about as in with them.
They do not have a right to speak for me.
I like the rich.
Many of them started with nothing or almost nothing.
Steve Jobs and countless others became VERY rich after being very poor.
They did not complain.
They had ideas and went with them.
The top one percent creates jobs.
Our companies, stores, firms and on and on that employ millions were not started by poor people.
They were started by the wealthy.
Now, OWS states that the rich are our enemy.
Great, go against those who create so much.
Occupy Wall Street has got to be the most stupid bunch of idiots to ever band together.
They have no real clue as to what they are doing.
In Los Angeles, they accomplished nothing and left a mess that cost the city a lot of money.
In Seattle, OWS blocked docks and tried to prevent people from going to work.
Yet, they claim they want people to go to work.
The entire Occupy movement is a joke.
They talk for the entire ninety-nine percent, but of those ninety-nine percent of the people, about ninety percent are working.
I live in Beverly Hills and I'm doing fine.
I don't need Occupy Wall Street to tell me what to do.
 
George Vreeland Hill 

Seriously??

Really man? Get off your high horse. You clearly have no idea what the hell is going on with the Occupy Movement or what we stand for. This is about the rich controlling our Gov't actions and everything in between. Have you at all paid attention to how our gov't is being run and what it is doing??? Something is clearly wrong and something has to change. Thats what we are trying to do. We're not going to simply follow aimlessly as we are screwed over. You live in Beverly Hills and you're doing fine. Thats fucking great man, I am really happy for you, I really am, but others are not so lucky. Some people cant barly take care of their families and send their kids to school. Have you looked at the job market and the unemployment rate??? Do some research before you start posting useless crap about things you clearly have no full idea you're talking about.


Yes, the idea is not full proof, nothing is. But that doesnt mean we're going to stop, cause if we stop, we get walked on. We're not saying all the rich are "bad", we're simply saying that some are in control of way to much. AIG is a perfect example. All of the banks we bailed out? Wtf happened to all that money?


Steve Jobs? Really??? Do a little research on the guy. Sure he was great, but he wasnt the only one that made his  company grow. Thats a whole different thing.


Please just do a little research man, thats all I ask.


(Excuse my language)


-Jayson Garcia

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You're right George. We do not speak for you nor do we have any desire to do so. However, you are misinformed about the origin of wealth. Just about every major corporation started with someone with initiative, some of whom you identified, and most of them started out in a garage with a small investment. You could have also included Carl Karcher and Colonel Sanders.

The rich don't "provide jobs", they need employees to expand. There is nothing wrong with this dynamic as long as those that make it to the 1% don't exploit that relationship. We are talking about the systematic divestiture of the entire middle class and those thrown into poverty through no fault of their own. People that only want to provide for their families but found themselves upside down on their mortgage and out of work. They did not cause the 2008 meltdown. There have been many prosecutions that support this view and many more to come. But unfortunately, even when Wall Street criminals are prosecuted and convicted they rarely provide anything resembling restitution to the victims of their crimes. Someone else, usually the taxpayer or the employee is left to pay the bill. 

Speaking for myself, I don't hate the rich. The typical self-made millionaire works 80 hours a week and risk everything to become successful. And along the way they create jobs, the natural byproduct of their efforts. Many entrepreneurs give back to society in many ways including innovation and ideas, community involvement and commit themselves to social responsibility.

Unfortunately, this is not the sort of behavior we have learned to associate with major financial institutions which produce nothing but constantly find ways to rip-off their depositors and investors without much of a deterrent. Their business practices are not embraced by the entire community or even most of it. Few business owners or entrepreneurs sit around plotting to manipulate currency, bet against their investors, repossess collateral without due process, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbyists to influence or stop legislation, or ask the taxpayers to finance their irresponsibility and misconduct.

I would suggest you read more of the content found here. Follow some of the links to other informed writers and reporters. Your simplified, sophomoric interpretation of the movement can only be addressed with education, something that we can only encourage by providing the information.

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Why do you write like that?

Your comments are too wrong and trite to address personally, and your profound ignorance outside my responsibility. Anyone can express an opinion, but its credibility is as good as its basis; which is not looking promising on your part. I suggest Googling... well, everything. Because you don't seem to know much about anything.

But why is your writing so shitty? I've seen that weird, stanza-esque formatting, and obsessive repetition in the severely mentally ill. You might want to get that checked out. There are also community college courses available for remedial writing. You can get a GED, just like Paris.

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Remember Crypto that we are trying to de-emphasize our role as social service providers and that we should do our best to adhere to the rules of the forum. Your observation regarding use of the language was adequate to make the point.

stanza-esque!

I kind of like the formatting, made it easy to read and talking points stand out rather well. It was also good to hear the opinion of probably millions by now articulated (note, a recent poll reflects growning non-support of OWS, down to 1/4 of americans, with 2/3rds dis-approving). not that any of that matters.

millions of us know of the exploitation, subjigation (spelling?) opression and downright slaughter of people on this planet (how many die of hunger daily? 13 thousand? how many killed or maimed in corporate sponsored wars?) and yet food supplies are traded on the market as a 'commodity'? all laws and law enforcement dictated by billionaires? some of us will never ever give up the fight for worldwide human dignity in spite of whatever garbage mr. hill has bullshitted himself into believing.

his opinion brings to mind the single biggest threat, problem, disease in human culture:

"I've got mine, so screw you and die." Oh sure, you might drop some change in the salvation army jug if you feel bad, or even give to charity (especially at tax time) but from whatever means of privilege or ass-kissing you find yourself in a 'comfy' place and now like sooooo many others you live in a quiet fear of hoping your pitiful little safe-haven remains intact while others suffer, starve, and die. I see this disposition in goverment workers, pensioners, union workers, and others that with a 10 percentage point drop in stock values they will lose it all and will find themselves considering picking up plastic bottles for money to eat. is this a way a sane human race must live? no.

please join us and help everyone, lest things become really bad and you find help from no one. they control us by making us fight each other. we are not a joke. we are just brave enough to care. try it.


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