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[Kid in the back raising his hand]

If these folks are pissed off unemployed people, then where are they getting the resources to spend weeks in the America's most expensive City?

Throw a Jamband in the mix, and these same folks would be at a Music festival, instead of a leaderless direction lacking protest.

These are people pissed off because they are unemployed or underemployed. They spend a bunch of money going to college, and even went intio debt to get their degree, despite all the obvious evidence that it was a dumb idea to do that.

I also wonder how many of these protestors drive a Kia, Hyundai, Subaru, Toyota, etc. Just saying...

So if one owns a nice car, they have no right to protest corporate corruption? Owning anything from a corporation absolves all corporations of any form of corruption?

What about the numerous gainfully employed protesters? What are they protesting about? Perhaps since they have decent jobs, they should shut up? The true unemployment rate is the highest since the depression. I suppose the unemployed should just work hard? Wealth inequality is the highest ever and billions have been siphoned upward. I suppose the poor just have to work harder in spite of the fact that it's become statistically less possible for many to move upward. America is becoming a third world country and when we become one, I suppose the masses of poor who are starving just need to work harder right?

http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152647/occupy_wall_street%3A_the_most_important_thing_in_the_world_now/

The GOP says

If these folks are pissed off unemployed people, then where are they getting the resources to spend weeks in the America's most expensive City?

zzyzzx says

These are people pissed off because they are unemployed or underemployed. They spend a bunch of money going to college, and even went intio debt to get their degree, despite all the obvious evidence that it was a dumb idea to do that.

Clearly, you're both right to be concerned about this.

Frustration with the bail outs, status quo, corporate corruption of our government... which outsources American jobs, while Federal Reserve inflates the currency into funny money.

Throw in Endless and pointless wars, and huge unemployment, and false promises by administration which so many believed... throw all that into the pile and see the results.

FortWayne says

Frustration with the bail outs, status quo, corporate corruption of our government... which outsources American jobs, while Federal Reserve inflates the currency into funny money.

Throw in Endless and pointless wars, and huge unemployment, and false promises by administration which so many believed... throw all that into the pile and see the results.

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Nah, they're just lazy and need to get a job. That will solve all our problems.

BobbyS says

So if one owns a nice car, they have no right to protest corporate corruption?

I was saying that if one owns a foreign built car, or even a car made in the US by a foreign company (which does still put a lot of Americans out fo work), one has no right to complain about being unemployed.

zzyzzx says

I was saying that if one owns a foreign built car, or even a car made in the US by a foreign company (which does still put a lot of Americans out fo work), one has no right to complain about being unemployed.

Dude, you need to update your perspective. Much as I support buying American, the issue of buying an American vehicle to support American jobs is moot:

Even the ford f-150, the #1 ranked vehicle on the American Made index, is now only 60% made in the USA... the #2 vehicle, the Toyota Camry, is now 80% made in the USA!!!

http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=top&subject=ami&story=amMade0707

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/MadeInAmerica/page?id=13795239