Wall St. Commuter: “We’re All 99%. This Is Ridiculous.”

These protesters are idiots. Do they think shutting down business is going to help the economy? This is the beginning of Christmas season and many retailers survive on Christmas shopping. These actions show they are really anarchist.

I can see where they are coming from but it would have been better, at least I think, if they had just marched on Wall Street and the Capital/Congress, etc. Instead they have inconvenienced the hard working people they are doing this for….they are on private property with drumming all night keeping people who go to work and need sleep from doing so. They are harming businesses and hurting the very ones they are fighting for. They got fed, all kinds of donations, free flu shots, etc. Where are these donators when people who are truly in need need them? And it has gotten so out of control, fighting with the police, getting arrested, that people have lost sight of the point of this.

Why can’t these can’t these unemployed, and old people protesting get out of our way, don’t’ they know we are trying to Christmas shop?

Idiots. If the media would quit giving them coverage they would all go home and be the worthless lot they were before the OWS thing.

You see, this is what happens when you feed the animals.

occupy a job hippy!

I just don’t understand what they hope to accomplish by preventing their fellow 99 percenters – their comrades – from going about their day, going to work and feeding their families. If their gripe is with the top 1 percent, they should be targeting their efforts towards them in their private cars and upscale offices, not the subways and banks where the rest of us frequent. Certainly, they can no longer claim that their efforts are aimed at helping the 99 percent of us when their very actions are hurting us.

I wish they showed pictures of the people who post on these abc message boards. I bet most of you are old people who were handed everything in life and completely out of touch with reality. I’m actually at work but I bet you’re all at home living on that social security check that i’m paying for you, lol

These bunch of losers need to get out of the way and let everyone else, who is carrying them on their backs, get back to work. There’s a reason why a lot of these people don’t have jobs … it’s because no one wants to employ them!

mythoughts57 – you are kidding right? OWS is far, far from a grass roots movement. IT is funded by George Soros, organized by ACORN (under its new name) and has had more media hype than it has deserved. The media has bent over backwards in its attempt to give this movement nothing but positive publicity (although that tide is starting to turn). This is not a true uprising by the people. A true uprising by the people starts with a goal that is usually directed at government and aims to effect government change. This is just a bunch of kids complaining via their I-phones and laptops that corporate America has become too greedy, without for a minute acknowledging how their own greed for consumer goods has fed the problem. I read your comments and thought surely you are being sarcastic, after all, when we elected the president who promised us change, he went into the white house backed with a powerful super majority in the senate and a majority in the house. He could have passed anything if only he could have gotten his own team to stay on board, but alas, he could not, so better blame the opposing party even though they held none of the cards and none of the power during Obama’s first two years.

Did the police ever find out what that liquid was that the occupiers sprayed in the cops faces this morning? I hope they test it for HIV as these occupiers have been known for using laced fluid as a weapon like that before.

FAT people like her too lazy to do anything to contribute to her country than watch bad reality TV all night and considers herself living in “FREEDOM” as long as she can eat at McDonalds and shop at places like Target and Home Depot

I bet the OWS protesters are smarter and have more skills than the people that are posting here. The only reason why some of you arent starving is because you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and handed everything, lol

A true american patriot goes to work for a depreciated salary, after all he needs to keep feeding the bankers that own him …….. One day all angry NY commuters (once their hopes get killed by the 1%) will look back at OWS and wish they would have done something …….

SIGMUND SEAMONSTER – You left out a very important item. Someone also raised you, lazy, complaining because you’re not making top dollar fresh out of school, doesn’t know the first thing about real life because you’ve been living under mommy and daddys’ roof, never had to pay taxes yet to know what it feels like 40 years later, incapable of intelligent thought, superior feeling above others in your own mind, and mediocre at playing computer games.

I bet the OWS protesters are smarter and have more skills than the people that are posting here. The only reason why some of you arent starving is because you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and handed everything, lol

Posted by: JOHN DOE

Nope. No silver spoon here. My I-phone wasn’t given to me, I actually had to work for it at this thing I like to call “a job.” My job pays me an income in exchange for my skills and labor. I use that income to buy things like the laptops these jobless kids are using to update their blogs. If they have all this free time to camp out, disrupt commuters and blog, then it’s safe to assume they don’t have a job, how are they affording their laptops and internet connections? Hmmm? How do they pay the bills for their fancy android phones? Perhaps they are the ones with a silver spoon.

“I’m actually at work but I bet you’re all at home living on that social security check that i’m paying for you, lol”…………….. You on the net while at work? And you are laughing at people collecting Social Security? To collect Social Security that means you paid into it.. That means they earned the right to be paid. HOW did you earn the right to be being paid to sit on your rear doing nothing??? Maybe your company needs to hire mine to put a little software into place to make sure you are WORKING while at work. Another one of those who think they should be paid to do nothing.

Instaed of laying about on WS perhaps they should look at their I-Pods ,I-Pads,I-Phones, Gap Clothes on and on. Go lay infront of the headquarters demanding these products be manufactured in America. Guess what? JOBS in America. Morons!

5 mil + times $2.25 a ride can you imagine how much money in one single day that brings in? i cant. people had enough the rich will only get richer and the poor will only get poorer this is a police state either your with the evil or against it and let me tell you evil is not within the poor trying to survive it is with the rich at the top trying to crush values at the bottom go and suport your fellow man.

Dont be silly what job would that be? working fast food? I mean you didnt mention anything about a house, car, college. All you mentioned was an iphone and laptop, LOL hey anotherday dont be jealous because I have a good job with great perks. My company doesnt treat me like a slave. I happen to be a great worker and they trust me with internet access. I continue to get raises and promotions and treated fairly. Instead of being jealous of me why dont you focus on meeting that software installation quota before you get laid off. We wouldnt want you to end up at zuccotti park lol

Hey, at least NYers can use the Park right? This was after all worth using force and violence to achieve. All the occupiers wanted was to stake out a place in protesting their grievances as guaranteed them by the supreme law of the land, the US Constitution.

It is the First Amendment which guarantees the right to Free Speech, Assemble, and to demand redress of grievances. I…I…must admit ignorance, it must be a later Amendment that guarantees the right to not be inconvenienced by persons practicing any previously enumerated rights…and guarantees businesses the right to make a profit. My ignorance on that last would explain why I did not understand why we bailed out all those failing businesses. Maybe someone in the know would be kind enough to point out the places in the Constitution I am ignorant of…

Solidarity.

These idiot OWS people are just out for themselves. Trying to get free money donations and handouts. They aren’t bothering the top 1% at all with these protests. They’re just hurting those they purport to be representing. Why block the 99% from riding the subway to get to their families? Do you honestly think anyone in the top 1% rides the train? they’re so stupid.

it’s all a transparent sham.

NIMBY

Check the record people. EVERY attempt at change has been met with complete obstruction by the GOP. The GOP has blocked or watered down EVERY bill to put people back to work. GOP Governors around the country are cutting government employees as fast as the private sector has been able to hire therefore the unemployment numbers have not moved. There is a concerted effort by the John Boehner led House to block EVERYING this president does. There is a concerted political effort by the Republicans to force failure on President Obama and in extension on the American economy. You know it, I know it, IT’s A FACT.

Posted by: mythoughts57

It’s called politics – each side generally opposes one another because they want to push their own plans through. It’s nothing new. The fact remains, for Obama’s first two years it really didn’t matter how loudly the GOP yelled or put up roadblocks, they had no power, all they could do was yell. The democrats had all the power for two years – Obama’s first two years. The democrats had the White House, a supermajority in the senate and a majority in the House. It’s not the GOP that stood in their way, it members of Obama’s own party that stood in the way. Facts are tricky little things, and in this case, you simply can’t blame the republicans, who were powerless, for any of Obama’s failures in his first two years. At some point people need to get away from this blind party loyalty and realize that each party has good people and bad people and each party has good ideas and bad ideas. This democrats/good-republicans/evil script is starting to wear thin and most people see right through it anyway.

Dont be silly what job would that be? working fast food? I mean you didnt mention anything about a house, car, college. All you mentioned was an iphone and laptop, LOL hey anotherday dont be jealous because I have a good job with great perks. My company doesnt treat me like a slave. I happen to be a great worker and they trust me with internet access. I continue to get raises and promotions and treated fairly. Instead of being jealous of me why dont you focus on meeting that software installation quota before you get laid off. We wouldnt want you to end up at zuccotti park lol

Posted by: JOHN DOE

What are you talking about? You were the one who said that people commenting against the OWS protesters only have their jobs because they must have been born with a silver spoon. I’m simply saying, nope, no silver spoon here and that you are very, very wrong to make assumptions about people. Someday, perhaps you will be mature enough to realize that. By the way, I don’t work in the fast food industry but certainly do not look down on (as you apparently do) the thousands of hard working folks who do work in the fast food industry. It’s hard work and I know many upwardly mobile kids (without silver spoons) who work their way through college working fast food. Shame on you.

way to jam up the people you supposedly represent. the OWS clowns would have us believe that their movement is so important, so righteous, that everyone’s life should stop for their idiotic tantrum. enough with these goofballs. this stunt today will do more to erode what waning support they have than anything any of their opponents could have done. this is what you get when you have a bunch of immature mooshbrains who think people like che guevara are heroes of humanity hades bent on forcing their brand of governance and social organization on everyone else. and at this point it’s plainly obvious that they realize their words and campouts aren’t doing anything to sway the masses to their cause. the next step is for them to simply blow the whole thing up, cause riots, cause complete chaos in hopes of changing the system by creating bedlam because they couldn’t win a battle of ideas. they’ve devolved from simply being annoying and offensive to being dangerous. time for them to go.

Hey Joe Everyguy! Your buddy Obama received more campaign contributions from Wall Street donors than any other president. Stop blaming Congress for Obama’s failings! Obama has been using the US Treasury to pay back all his cronies that helped raise money to get him elected! Solyndra ring a bell to you or are you too busy protesting to educate yourself to what is really going on? Obama has had a successful presidency, in his estimation. He is doing exactly what he set out to do, destroy this country’s economy.

I would feel it part of my duty to pay a price for the rights of all of us to remain in tact. what is a little inconvience when it comes to your constitutional rights. irregardless if you agree or disagree with any protest, this is a valuable part of our keeping our rights. while few will protest for the many, at least be willing to pay in other ways for not participating. why is it that people only think these rights exist only when they agree with the actions. thats why most are ignorant and have no idea how important these rights are at any cost. you poor little thing your whole world was upset because you had to spend your precious little extra minutes in this delay. I do not agree or disagree with the message these protestors are protesting for, by I dam- sure believe they have every right to do it. and the minute I stop believing that, I am a traitor, take me out and shoot me. the amount of sacrifice given by our founding fathers and the war dead, along with those who have suffered in any way or died to defend and keep these rights are owed as much as we can give them .

ETTUCAT, it’s not just libs and dems, check out a few of the signs people are carrying in these protests. They are dogging Obama. Get your facts straight and place the blame where it belongs … on the people protesting. Also, November 2012 might surprise you. Don’t be so sure of yourself.

Everyone against this movement keep drinking the kool aide that everything is fine in this country

1) keep paying for record gas prices while those corporations every quarter report record profits
2) college tuition rising up by more than 10% in most cases
3) unemployment around 20% (true number not the number the gov’t wants you to see
4) veterans get treated poorly by our gov’t when they come home
5) education cuts all around, kids suffer
6) around 50 million americans with no health insurance
7) wars that never end
8) corporations getting tax cuts while sending jobs overseas and the ceo’s making record bonuses.
9) congress and our president have done nothing to improve this country, use our money to fund these corrupt corporations when they are at risk for going under.

So many things can be added that are wrong with this country at the moment. Stop kidding yourself into thinking this movement represents nobody or has no cause.

FAIL!!! Don’t they know the 1% don’t take the subway or mass transit.

As if the 1% use the trains. Thanks for nothing.

Keep letting the government and police take away your rights. The government doesn’t care about the people in this country only in others.

We are all part of the ((1/360,000,000)*100)% in that each of us is unique and should not be lumped into a group by someone trying to profile us based on some criteria! (Isn’t this the argument against the Arizona immigration enforcement laws?)

@MS….. I did NOT say that at all. The people who make the laws and rules that WALL street live by are in DC.. and guess what.. MOST OF THEM ARE 1% also. Obama… Net worth.. 10.5 million.. Nancy Palosi.. 30 million.. John Boehner… 6 million. WHAT are you doing now?? You are costing the NYC taxpayer Millions of Dollars.. IT IS NOT COMING OUT OF THE POCKET OF THE 1%.. MOST OF THEM are not paying those taxes..

The ultimate goal of disruption, division and chaos is being met by the people who pull the strings on the Occupiers. They aren’t camping in tents, getting raped, picking up fleas and lice, living with hobos and getting hit in the head. The true organizers are in some back room figuring out which union goons to send where, how to antagonize police for the photo shot of the day and to cause as much diversion as possible from the real problems our nation faces. Occupy has a goal. They just are saying what it is.

For those among us skilled in math: 80% of the 99% don’t even know this is going on. 50% of the remainder (that would be 50% of 20%, or 10% of the 99%) support the occupiers although less than 5% of the 10% could actually explain, in a clear concise sentence, what this is all about, while 95% of the 10% don’t want to be included in the 99%. If this event is remembered for anything it will be the stench left in parks across the country.

The complaining lady commuter looks anything but hungry and homeless.

Why don’t these idiots, drug addicts and bums go march by the White House, not Wall St.
The one in LA is being organized by the Unions. Why don’t they go to the library and study instead of wanting what other people have. True class warfare thanks to O’bummers failed economy.

In case you have not figured it out, your president has millions donated to his campaign by Corporations, insurance companies, banks, wall street, and others. The richest Congressmen are Democrats.

What exactly do they want? I’m all for world peace and the end of crime, economic equality and everybody having everything they need. How exactly do they plan to accomplish those wonderful goals? By the way, your first amendment rights end when they impinge on someone else’s. It also seems that the news coverage is rooting for some confrontations. Peaceful protest gets boring, so let’s have some violence!!

This movement will probably boil down to one last stetson covered cowboy standing on the corner of Wall Street and Broad in his skivvies playing a guitar.

Did Obama say he actually supported them or that he just understood their frustration?

Hey where’s the picture of Obarry kissing another leader on the lips on this left wing site? Now that’s news that needs to be spread. What an embarrassment to our nation that guy is. He has disgraced this nation long enough. ANYONE BUT OBAMA IN 2012! Period.

It isn’t about affecting the 1%, it is about speech and stopping the authorities from implementing anti protest techniques perfected since the 60′s. Somehow people have bought into that you must follow rules to protest.

What does anyone expect, these people have no respect. If they really cared about protesting they begin with the Whitehouse and demand Bernanke be fired. And why do they give millionaire celebrities a free pass but rail against CEO’s of campanies. And this is in NYC, the liberal mecca of the United States….it’s your base NYC.

I predict Obama, Pelosi and the rest will not say another word.

These pathetic vermin of the occupy movent are the most disgusting, envious wretches imaginable. How jealous they are of those who have something they don’t. How they snivel and scream that they have been cheated somehow by those who have succeeded. When you tell them you are content with what you have earned with your own two hands, they deign to look down on you and call you a slave. They themselves are the slaves. Slaves to their own hatred and jealousy. A real man or woman doesn’t need a lot to be content and certainly doesn’t covet what others have. If these useful idiots want to affect change, then they can do it by staying informed and putting pressure on their politicians through the ballot box. May they fail and take their place in the dust bin of history.

Lmbo, You know what is humorous, but also, at the same time, sad? These shallow, arrogant, big headed, sheepish, slaves to the governments, that are posting derogatory comments about the occupiers? I’ve noticed their either, very lazy when they type, or uneducated. I’d actually lean more towards uneducated. Why?
Well, let me give you all a little lesson in economy. The USA, I’ll assume that is where you all live beings your so bothered by the message we have been trying to get out to the hard headed and soon to be left behind, if you don’t use your thinking ability’s. First off, I must let you all in on the obvious. We did not block any streets off. See, if you could actually distinguish between protesters and police with riot gear on, you just might be able to figure out that the obstructions were the police, and the barriers they had put up, blocking the streets, and not allowing anyone through. Not the protesters. Now just in case your lost now. Let me help you figure it out.

Remember seeing the metal gates that were blocking off some of the streets? Well, if you looked around where those barriers were, I’m sure you might have seen these really evil looking, minions, and a big amount of them were carrying these fat sticks in their hands. These sticks are called ‘bats’ or ‘batons’. Now, please do not mistake them for the good firefighters that were actually helping us out there. The understanding fire fighters realize their jobs are on the line as well, like the rest of us. We all pay police and first responders for their protection. They are paid to protect everyone. Oh, just in case you are wondering. I also have a good job. I own my own small business, I also go to the Art Institute, I own my own home. I am far from a loser, that you assume we all are, and yes, I am a protester. I am ALSO, far from being rich. Oh, and if you had not actually witnessed the interactions between us protesters and NYCPD, then please do not make things up by what you hear, by people, Mainstream news media, especially mainstream media. Unless you have proof, PLEASE, DO NOT SAY SUCH DEROGATORY THINGS ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT! Most adults leave that back in Junior high school, once they grow up.
Okay, I hope you are still with me here, and I have not confused anyone. Now, I’m really not sure any of you know how much debt our country is in. I’ll give you a hint to the toon of, 15 trillion. Now, our Government and congress has borrowed this money and I, myself have always been taught that if you borrow money from anyone then it should be for a needed basis only and it’s the responsibility of the borrower to pay it back. Well, to put it in a nut shell, OUR GOVERNMENT has borrowed so much money from china and this is called a TRADE DEFICIT. The worlds second-biggest economy, China, has warned the US that the days of squandering borrowed money are over. WE THE PEOPLE have to pay it back with higher taxes now, only for middle class to low income tax payers. Seniors retirements have been extended to 85 yrs old now, Closing down Postal Services, No more medicaid or medicare for ANYONE! Not even disabled people. Small businesses will have to close down because they will not be able to keep their businesses open because of higher taxes and they will not be able to pay decent wages to employees, so if they can scrape by to keep their businesses open they will be forced to downgrade the workforce. There will no longer be 401k retirement funds. Schooling will no longer be available for children on the ‘No child left behind’ bill. A lot of teachers will be without jobs, Gas prices will go sky high. ..GET IT NOW? We will be the ones to suffer for the BAIL OUTS that these big rich corporate banks and businesses have been getting from our congresses borrowing. Not only that but all corporate employees are getting bonuses from these bailouts and the money is going right into their pockets. They are foreclosing on peoples homes because people can no longer pay the high tax rates anymore. We get to sacrifice our semi comfortable life styles so that we are forced to pay high state taxes, Federal taxes. etc. I’ll even let you all in on a secret or 2, to think about. When our hero’s come home, that have fought for our freedom , that we will no longer have, Can you imagine how they will feel, when they see that all the fighting they have done for us, has all been in vain. Another FYI our elections are rigged. We have less then a week to figure out how to pay the US’s debt back to China and they will not tax the rich. And just one more FYI before I forget. Congress just last week, after being put on a deadline, to pay back this huge debt they created, for our broke country now.
They ended up giving Fannie May and Freddie Mack each a 400 million dollar bail out a piece and on top of paying Newt a few million for his services all employees of these corporations got healthy bonus checks and they are paying police off to get violent with occupiers to try to stop the protests against them. We need to shut them down. Our government is corrupt. They DO NOT care about WE, THE PEOPLE, Anymore. Our forefathers wrote in the declaration of independence, our constitutional rights that our system has corrupted. Go ahead and search online and look it up. Read it very carefully and then see for yourself, if you still look at our wonderful leaders the same. OUR COUNTRY IS TURNING plutocracy (rule by the wealthy)..

This is their only job they have. It is the people who provided them the funding are at fault.

@Shay. A little help for you since you questioned the education of others. And your own F.Y.I., disagreement with you does not equal a lack of education in others. That’s an insult you might consider keeping to yourself, particularly when you mistake debt for deficit and strongly infer that Declaration of Independence and Constitution are the same document.

“slaves to the governments, that are posting…” No apostrophe necessary. “I’ve noticed their either…” S/B “they’re”. “I’ll assume that is where you all live beings your so bothered…” S/B “being” & “you’re” although I would use “since” instead of being. “Now just in case your lost now.” S/B “you’re”. “I’ll give you a hint to the toon of,” S/B “tune”. “it should be for a needed basis only and… ” Look up definition of “basis”. ” …so much money from china…” China S/B capitalized. “The worlds second-biggest economy…” S/B “world’s”. “85 yrs old now, Closing down Postal Services,” No capital ‘C’ in closing and S/B a period at the end. “They are foreclosing on peoples homes ” S/B people’s. “Federal taxes. etc.” No period after taxes. “…we will no longer have, Can you imagine…” No capital ‘C’ in can. “Another FYI our elections…” Comma after FYI. “We have less then a week…” S/B than. — “Our forefathers wrote in the declaration of independence, our constitutional rights that our system has corrupted.” The Declaration of Independence and Constitution are separate documents. “OUR GOVERNMENT has borrowed so much money from china and this is called a TRADE DEFICIT” No that would be called debt. Debt and Deficit are two very different things.

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Glacia, You actually spent the time to read through it? I admire you’re (your) patients (patience).

@ Shay: “will continue to speak my beliefs. NO ONE has the right to take away our voices. And if you do not like where I am standing, then move, or go around me. ” That goes for those who disagree with you as well, right?

shay, plenty of us knew that corruption between wall street and DC was at the heart of the problem. it didn’t take OWS to make us aware of that. that being said, at this point, there are a lot of us who see the crud from OWS as being just another problem, rather than an answer.

Wouldn’t it be great if we all got behind some simple ideas —- How about lobby reform? I may be wrong but think even the two extremes can agree that lobbying of our representatives should be transparent and public. How about if we require that lobbying of our representatives be done in a public forum where lobbyist and representative are not allowed contact except through a third party who will identify to the public the contents of any document or package delivered to our representative? They’re our representatives. Shouldn’t we know what they’re basing their votes on? Just a single example and perhaps not one we would all agree on. But if enough of us from both sides of the isle got behind similar ideas that we know would have broad support they would without question happen.

@Grumpopolis, you’re being too grumpy. If the people in Washington are bums then that only says that we the electorate are incompetent. After all, we put them there. I honestly do believe that for the most part the politicians in Washington do what they think we want and more importantly what we let them get away with. Think about this question… Are you as critical of the politicians you voted for as you are the ones you didn’t vote for? You should in fact be far more critical of the politicians you did vote for. What I typically see is that people will criticize those they didn’t vote for and excuse the ones they did. It’s like your neighbors spouse for cheating but excusing your own spouse for doing the same.

Shay, again… you seem to have learned nothing from the reactions to your very lengthy earlier ramble and rant. Your last post is as inept and meandering as the one before. Example: “To the person that stated the occupiers urinate, filthy, etc, in the Subways, I’ve not once seen that happening.” Really? Then you are either lying, or you’re oblivious to what’s obviously going on all around you. And yet again you so conveniently ignore all of the massive government waste, corruption, and spending…like Solyndra — half a billion dollars straight down the drain, but not being protested by these one-sided goofballs at all.

I don’t blame Corps, Gov or Occupy. I blame the dumb and ignorant average Americans who don’t realize they are part of the 99%. You have the utimate lazy and the work-a-holic slave-drivers. Neither one is better than the other. Occupy represents neither group.

ABC news does it again, focusing on the Big Issues – such as OWS inconveniencing subway riders. Who cares about abstract issues such as who owns Congress, how wealth has steadily transferred over the past 30 years from the middle class to the top 1% or the OWS demand to Tax Wall Street financial transactions.