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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Who is Occupying Wall Street and Why?

Here apparently is the list of "demands" presented by the Occupy Wall Street protesters:


  • Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.a
  • Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
  • Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
  • Demand four: Free college education.
  • Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
  • Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
  • Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
  • Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
  • Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
  • Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
  • Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
  • Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
  • Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
  • These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
These are some fairly "out there" demands that strain credulity. And yet, now certain lawmakers in Washington are voicing support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Let's see who they are: 
John Larson from Connecticut
Louise Slaughter from New York
Raul Grijalva from Arizona
Keith Ellison from Minnesota
Russ Feingold, former senator from Wisconsin
What do these individuals have in common? Maybe it's the "D" that follows their name. 

Grijalva and Ellison said they were "inspired" by the protesters. Slaughter said she was "proud to see the Occupy Wall Street movement standing up to this rampant corporate greed and peacefully participating in our democracy” (I suppose by "peaceful" she's referring to things like peacefully blockading the Brooklyn resulting in hundreds of arrests).

Who else supports the Occupy Wall Street crowd? Let's see. George Soros. Michael Moore. Roseanne Barr. Susan Sarandon. Alec Baldwin. Yoko Ono. A veritable pantheon (to quote Alton Brown) of leftist celebs! Who's next? Barack Obama, maybe. Today he dipped his big toe in the water when he scolded Bank of America for raising fees on debit card users (but there's no connection between B of A raising its fees and the regulations imposed on banks by the Frank-Dodd bill, right, Mr. President?). 







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