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You mean to tell me, that none of these guys were Political majors, or were their degrees not worth the paper they were printed on, or were all of the good ones already working for the MAN (1%)?

What do you call a bunch of college kids camping?
A jamband festival at the burning man.

I think those kids in the "AT&T It's not complicated" commercial campaigns could have better served occupying Wall street.

at least they want more more more more more, if they don't get it, they'll turn into a werewolf and have to stay in side saying "rah rah rah"...

I'm not really seeing your connection here. Their premise was never about addressing politicians directly, and so your argument sort of falls flat here. And demeaning the actions of college kids is not relevant either seeing as how historically its this age group that is more active at drawing attention to things and getting shit done versus sitting around and merely complaining.

FYI: I didn't have anything to do with OWS. But I found their cause not without reason either.

Don't think for one minute that I've not been a member of that club, back since when it was called the "Down with the man" movement.
Now of course all we ever did was sit on our ass and prognosticate about the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer.
My generation never had anything to protest about. Well we did, we just never were able to muster up the will to bitch about the man.
I mean how far would we have gotten. Don't forget that 90% of Americans belived in a totally Freemarket system. And to complain about the status quoa would have been considered un American.
The idea was, if you don't like your job then be your own boss. It was easier to do until at least the year 2000. I wouldn't dare blame one politician for that. I'd blame technology as much as any single politician for the diminishing small business climate in this country. It takes billions of dollars for R&D, and dust free factories to make the products, and a whole litany of regulation rules to be compliant with to even make a product that modern society would even be interested in buying. So software and food are the only two options for self starters in this day and age. There aren't more options.

BUT!! Had our generation had been called on to pitch a stink about Reagan, Bush Sr., or Clinton. I think we would have came armed with more than our tents and sleeping bags.

Reagan would have called the Pinkertons in a minute on our asses.

My Dad started his own small business for about $5,000 and as of now makes probably close to 100k a year doing it. Its not a tech nor manufacturing type of business either.So I still believe that there are many opportunities for those who want to strike out on their own.

As far as the income gap, well that's a difficult thing to quantify. On one hand its not practical to say " Oh, I am soooo upset that that person has more money than me!" Sorry, but that's the way its always been. The fact that there are some really wealthy people isn't the problem. Wealthy people usually have upper positions at either corporations or business, and as cliche' as it is, they do indeed serve as the country's employers. So complaining about the rich for the sake of complaining that they are simply rich is pointless.

But there is something to complain about and be concerned with if that wealthy person or corporation attained their wealth by not playing by the rules the way they should have.If a person or business gains their wealth by basically cheating the system or finding sneaky loopholes, then that to me is not right and deserves a second look. There is a LOT of that happening now. Not that this is anything new. But that also doesn't mean we should merely accept it and remain complacent either.

Dude use the return key, it's right there.
Don't be afraid, and put some ass into it, and create some paragraphs.

What with you being the grammar expert and all, geesh.

edvard2 says

My Dad started his own small business for about $5,000 and as of now makes probably close to 100k a year doing it. Its not a tech nor manufacturing type of business either

Not to undermine your old man's accomplishments, because that's some fine grass roots spirit going on there; but frankly, 100K ain't dick these days. I think that's a big part the problem...

My friends from Lebanon, Egypt, Afghanistan love Bush and blame his finding Hussien in a foxhole as a "dictator over-throwing optimism" moment.

The most devout and outspoken Republican I have met is a Afghani women escaped from the tribal nation.

JodyChunder says

edvard2 says

My Dad started his own small business for about $5,000 and as of now makes probably close to 100k a year doing it. Its not a tech nor manufacturing type of business either

Not to undermine your old man's accomplishments, because that's some fine grass roots spirit going on there; but frankly, 100K ain't dick these days. I think that's a big part the problem...

Yeah there was that city official in Alameda county , who retired with a 300k pension.

zzyzzx says

Bush More Popular than Obama

Another sore loser.

pointless. they both steal your money.

edvard2 says

OWS could have succeeded had they decided to broaden their approach. They for too long stuck to the single idea of "Occupying".... something.

Anytime you feel nostalgic about the OWS, just visit Telegraph Ave near UCB...
They were there 20 years ago.. they will be there 20 years from now... still brain dead.