Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party Protests

Why aren’t these people marching in front of the White House? Crony capitalism seems to start there! Solyndra was just one example of the crony capitalism this administration has corrupted it self with. What happened to the transparent government Obama promised? Follow the money, where has Obama gotten most of his campaign money from, Wall Street!!! Obama flips and flops more than a fish out of water!!! Only his hardcore left wing liberal base is going to vote for him next time, it won’t be enough!!! Americans don’t want 4 more years of failed policies and no jobs!!!

Tea Party…clearly defined objectives: 1. Reduce Spending. 2. Cut/eliminate the federal debt. 3. Reduce the size of government. 4. Return to a strict interpretation of the constitution. Occupy anything now group’s objectives: Duh………..

No Obama you are wrong. These people are on national news saying they want wealth equaly distributed. NO that is not going to happen in this free country. But Obama is trying hard to socialize this nation to a point none of have to work. We will just steal from each others wealth if any is left and let China call their loan to us due and just let them take over our nation. Sounds stupid does it not? But if your a left lib nut case protesting it is the right thing to do is it not.

Of course Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party are different! One is a group of Americans are protesting for our freedom, the other are loony extremists!

Now, which is which? (It all depends on your point of view.)

The key difference between the two sets of protesters is that the tea party are the people who pay for everything and get nothing in return whereas the occupy wall street hippies are the people who pay for nothing and live off other peoples’ money.

Don’t equate the Tea Party with Occupy Wall St. The Tea Party is for cutting spending. In other words, don’t invest in getting the economy back on track. Just cut and reduce which won’t create one job and will cause another recession. Occupy Wall St thinks revenues need to be increased on the wealthy and corporations who have had their taxes reduced consistently since Reagan 30 years ago and now have the lowest rates and most tax loopholes. The 99% have had their wages stagnate for the same 30 years while JP Morgan Chase is rolling in billion dollar profits during the worst economy since the Depression. How is this possible? How were they able to generate such profits? Clearly something is fishy but the GOP couldn’t care less wanting to roll back Dodd-Frank regulations. There is a much greater approval of OWS than there is for the Tea Party protests. WANTINGBALANCE – LMAO – strict interpretation of the constitution??? What did the Supreme Court do in Citizens? They gave away the show to the rich and corporations who can donate to campaigns with impunity and in secret so that extreme right wing politicians are ushered into office against the wishes of the silent majority.

He’s admitting he doesn’t get it.

Obama is not fooling me. He is in bed with these wall street crooks that Americans are protesting . They are campaign donors. Obama’s refusal to prosecute these wall street crooks who caused the financial meltdown says it all.

“Are you better off NOW than you were 4 years ago” Unless you are on Wall St., a government employee, or a contractor… I would hope you have enough self respect to look in the mirror and say NO! If not, even this President is incapable of helping you… Bottom line…

For the most part, I have agreed with the President’s approach to solving this country’s economic problems. Economic turnaround is going to have to come from multiple facets; there is no one solution. However, I take issue with comparing the ‘occupy Wall Street’ protestors to the Tea Party. The Tea Party is a group of self-centered, wealthy right wingers who want the status quo for health care and no taxation equity between the wealthy and middle class and working poor. The Tea Partiers are so out of touch with reality it is dangerous. This country’s economic problems stem DIRECTLY from Wall Street’s lack of regulation, allowing greed to run rampant at the expense of not only US citizens but all of the Eurporean nations as well. I think this country should count its blessings that the ‘occupy’ protests have not grown to the enormous size of similar protests in Eqypt and Syria. What the ‘occupy’ protestors are saying is crystal clear; this country is headed to a great divide between the few ‘haves’ and the many ‘have nots.’ History has proven time and time again that once the poor populous realize they have nothing to lose, revolution is the only answer. Mass layoff by large companies of this country is not going to help turn the economy around. Outside the box thinking, such as global salary cuts of 5% for worker bees to 20% for top brass and keeping people employed seems a much better solution.

“However, it figures he can’t tell the difference.” *** LOL!!! This made me chuckle. Clearly this is political posturing. If this President truly cannot tell the difference between these two groups then their is reason for concern.

People come don’t be played by the media. Divide and make profit that’s how all these media outlet do. Remember the majority of the press didn’t question President Bush’s agenda. There doing the same again. They know people’s frustrated with the slow economic recovery, so they play on that. President Obama has been strong on national security so they stay away from that. That’s there tactic to make money and stay relevant, divide us and make profit. If you think i’m wrong just go over to FOX, CNN they were all in trouble two years ago, some of the newspaper even wanted bailout money.

“…that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded,” Obama said. “And that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded.”****

He summed it up in a nutshell. The idea that there is no clear objective to the Occupy Movement is bunk; the fact is all the different issues being raised boil down to THIS.

As for are we better off now than 4 years ago? Whether or not this President has done any good for most of us?

Absolutely.

We are in the 17th straight month of private sector job growth (coming after over a year of massive private sector job LOSSES under Bush; look at the darn GRAPH, as published in the Wall Street Journal….a big V, the left, downward half in red, representing the private sector job losses under Bush’s last year and the right-hand, UPward side in blue, representing the p.s. job GAINS so far under Obama.)

FTR, the increase in the unemployment rate is almost entirely due to PUBLIC SECTOR job losses, most of them under REPUBLICAN/TEA PARTY people elected in the mid-terms nationwide. Last month, the 137,000 private sector jobs created by SMALL and mid-sized businesses (large companies ELIMINATED 5,000 jobs) were off-set by 54,000 lost public sector jobs)

And he is absolutely correct in saying that HIS agenda is more in line with the goals of the Occupy Movement; he realizes that WE are the job creators, NOT the giant multinationals or the uber-rich.

The primary objective of this movement, as I see it, is to force the issue of the economic inequality and corruption (including getting corporate money OUT of our government!) to the forefront in this upcoming election. It’s working. :)

The supporters of OWS include the Communist & Socilaist Parties, Iran, Hugo Chavez, China, the Democrats and Obama – ?

Hello America, well Obama is right to a certain extent, the Occupy Wallstreet Protestors do have some things incommon with the Tea Party and somethings not. the things we donot have incommon. is that Tea Party People are orderly law abiding citizens, that leave a rally cleaner than when they came. the OWP donot , while the Tea Party members are against Wallstreet bailouts from the Federal Goverment as with the now defunk Solyndra corporation. we are not opposed to Wallstreet Bankers who earn their own money and have an honest stock exchange such as the Ford Motor Company which refused federal funding. some, some OWP people are against everything to do with buisness, and the main difference is that the OWP is being funded by ACORN a Barrak Obama favorite pork spending pieve. while the Tea Party would like to close ACORNS doors and get back all our federal funding to ACORN. the only other things that the OWP and Tea Party have incommon is the claim to the right to free speach.
sincerely Fezzy Bear

Well according to the latest USA Today Poll, if the election was held today Cain would beat Obama, no problem! – Could that be the reason the left wing liberals are desperately trying to label Cain as a Tea Party racist??? Its truly laughable how far the left will go to save Obama! Its clear Obama is out of touch with the real world and what the Tea Party is all about!

There is one massive difference betwen the tea party and the ows crowd: the ows crowd does not understand how to bring about change. It is not by protesting. Washington doesn’t care about protesters. If you want to bring about change, this must be done in washtington by our representatives. The tea party understands this. The ows crowd, by protesting only, are like kids playing in a sand box and Washington walks by, pats them on the head and says “…you have a nice day…”

Democrats liken Obama to a good leader. He isnt.

LOL this man may want to spend more time alone talking to himself.

Oh no. Please don’t tell me the President is lumping OWS with the teabaggers. Wow. Please, Mr President, say something a little bit more in touch than that. omg.

Why aren’t these people marching in front of the White House? Crony capitalism seems to start there! Solyndra was just one example of the crony capitalism this administration has corrupted it self with.

Posted by: RadioMan77 | October 18, 2011, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm

You know nothing about what the President did or didn’t do with Solyndra. So if that’s the only example you’re got for your accusations, you’ve got very little.

You would do far better to look beyond your bias to what happened during the massive economic collapse under Bush, if you’re looking for corruption.

Somebody here wrote that there are no blacks at OWS. Honey, you better get yourself some eyeglasses! Ha, ha, ha. Weird.

As a long time staunch Democrat I am becoming more and more disillusioned about both political parties and their stupid and lying rhetoric. All of these a ‘holes have been doing for months is giving the people lip service with absolutely nothing to show for it. It is obvious to me that Washington, D.C. does not give two cow pucks about getting Americans back to work or any along those lines.

There’s a lot of haters on this thread. Yikes.

This Pesident is setting a record for campaigning when he is supposed to be providing some kind of leadership for this country. Will someone please tell him that……….besides his new growling speaking style, he shows us that he is increasingly at a loss for constructive criticism, let alone creative thinking. The guy is on some kind of mission to divide this country, and frankly, I find it abhorrent…….is this what Chicago “class” is????????????????????????????????

Excellent observation President Obama. You tell’em

#1. Tea Party members don’t defecate on Police Cars, expose their breasts in public, smoke weed in public, use the “F” word to state their concerns about Big Government overspending our Tax Dollars, leave garbage in their wake, take over parks and streets for days and weeks at a time, belong to Marxist Totalitarian Movement, or get PAID FOR PROTESTING. End of differences.

Tea Party people took their issues to DC. They were ignored, but that is where the problem is. And Obam is riding around on a million dollar bus today campaigning yet AGAIN. Did Axlerod not tell him the election ended three years ago?

He’s kidding – right? So, Obama, the American Natzi Party, the American Communist party and the New Black Panther Party (those are the ones wanting to kill “white babies”) are all in agreement. Now that I think that through, I’m not really surprised.

Re: “Why aren’t these people marching in front of the White House?”

The White House is where the Puppet is. Wall St is where the Puppet Masters are. To change the Puppet, you must get to the Puppet Master.

Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party Protests……… FAIL LMFAOOO

The movements are polar opposites. Tea Party stands for freedom. OWS agitates for slavery to the state. The Tea Partiers are those who hustle, strive, and contribute; the Occupiers are those who demand, intimidate, and mooch.

The Tea Party wants Americans to live as free citizens who make our own decisions. OWS wants us to live as permanent children in a nanny state that controls our money, protects us, and tells us what to do, under the bizarre impression that the state is an entity that cares about them.

Aren’t they protesting the corporate buyouts on Wall Street? So, in essence aren’t they protesting the man they put in office?

POSTED BY: WILLIS | OCTOBER 18, 2011, 4:06 PM 4:06 PM

I would think most people are protesting the corruption in big financial institutions and the top 1% that took the country into the disastrous economic collapse under Bush. All ordinary Americans suffered because of this, except the richest, and they got richer. People have had enough.

The top 1% are hoarding the bulk of the nation’s wealth.

Posted by: June | October 18, 2011, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

Number of jobs created by June: ZERO.

Pssst, June, I can hoard as much wealth as I want. It’s my labor and my earnings, not yours.

This bill has nothing to do with jobs, it is another stimulus from Obama to his union cronies. He is just campaigning a year before the election, he is on a bus running form his record.

he is on a bus running form his record.

POSTED BY: TIM MASH | OCTOBER 18, 2011, 4:19 PM 4:19 PM

After Bush’s economic collapse lost the nation 9 million jobs and threw the country into massive debt and deficits? No, it is not the Democrats who have to run from their record. It is the Republicans who almost destroyed the country and began selling it off to China.

POSTED BY: SUSAN | OCTOBER 18, 2011, 4:24 PM 4:24 PM

You’re quite deluded. Obama is not in the top 1%. You might want to look in the mirror when you are considering the term ‘idiot’. Nothing worse than an arrogant idiot.

Posted by: John | October 18, 2011, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm

Hey, genius, Obama is a top 1% multi-millionaire who doesn’t even need the money. Taxpayers cover his entire lifestyle. He’s using you while laughing all the way to the bank.

The bottom line for the super wealthy – like Bush, Cheney and the rest of them – is ‘don’t worry about this economic crisis, we’re doing fine’. Keep hoarding the money and we’ll have Obama out of office in no time.

POSTED BY: JOHN | OCTOBER 18, 2011, 4:15 PM 4:15 PM

This is exactly what’s going on.

Bullsh it how many arrests did the tea party have? Also the NAZI and communist parties are supporting OWS and now 1 was just arrested in Seattle for exposing himself to children get the bail money together.You in the leftstream media are spinning but its not working……

How many arrests did the tea party have v ows? Also the nazi party and the communist party are backing OWS not the tea party also just lost one OWS protester in Seattle for exposing himself to children get the bail money together.

here are documented arrests from the OWS movement..
September 18 – New York, NY: 2 Arrests
September 19 – New York, NY: 5 Arrests
September 24 – New York, NY:80 Arrests
October 1 – New York, NY: 700 Arrests
October 5- St. Louis, MO: 10 Arrests
October 6 – LosAngeles, CA: 11 Arrests
October 6 – San Francisco, CA: 1 Arrest
October 6 – Santa Barbara, CA: 9 Arrests
October 7– Sacramento, CA: 19 Arrests
October 8 – Des Moines, IA: 32Arrests
October 11 – Boston, MA: 140 Arrests
October 11 – Washington, D.C.: 6 Arrests
October 11 – Chicago, IL:21 Arrests
October 12 – Houston, TX: 8 Arrests
October 12 – San Francisco, CA: 11 Arrests
October 13 – Austin, TX:4 Arrests
October 13 – Seattle, WA: 10 Arrests
October 13 – Portland, OR: 8 Arrests
October 13 – Gainesville, FL:4 Arrests
October 14 – New York, NY: 14 Arrests
October 14 – Seattle, WA: 1 Arrests
October 14 – Denver, CO: 24Arrests
October 14 – San Diego, CA: 1 Arrest
October 15 – New York, NY: 92 Arrests
October 15 – Minneapolis, MN:1 Arrest
October 15 – Raleigh, NC: 15 Arrests
October 15 – Tucson, AZ: 53 Arrests
October 15 – Phoenix, AZ: 46Arrests
October 16 – Chicago, IL: 175 Arrests
October 16 – Washington, D.C.: 19 Arrests
October 16 – Phoenix, AZ:3 Arrests
How many did the tea party have? and of those how many were move on plants sent to start trouble? this is a subject that you lefties shoul not bring up at all…lol

HK1215, Don’t forget to mention that most of those arrests were simply for refusing to disperse/move, trespassing on PUBLIC property.

Ask yourself (you and the other “patriots” advocating for the wholesale gassing and arrest of these protesters) since WHEN did it become “unlawful conduct” (to quote the Denver police) to peacably assemble and petition your government for redress of grievences?

Hmmm?

… but Barack Obama is part of the 1%, with an Adjust Gross Income of $5,505409 in 2010, and the jet as well.

Susan stated: “He’s using you while laughing all the way to the bank.” Judging by the comments on this page, the “he” who is laughing all the way to the bank would be Mr. Limbaugh.

JACKSMITH: “Raven…If they don’t pay any taxes, exactly what is their “grievence?””

Perhaps that they are so POOR due to the record-level concentration of wealth/income, that they don’t OWE any federal income taxes? (They DO pay other taxes, including gas, sales, SS/Medicare, etc..)

Having done both in my life (paid FICA and not) I’d MUCH rather make enough to OWE than not.

You seem to be of the view that someone could be sleeping in the gutter and starving but if they don’t have to pay federal income tax, what the hell IS their complaint? Sheez.

Pssst, June, I can hoard as much wealth as I want. It’s my labor and my earnings, not yours.
Posted by: Susan | October 18, 2011, 4:13 pm………………………….actually, Susan, if you’re a Hedge Fund Manager then it has nothing to do with your labor. It would have to do with your amoral manipulation of the Global Market and profiting from playing high stakes poker with other people’s money. It would be the labor and hard earnings of the taxpayers that bailed out the Financial Market and payed the exorbitant bonus you received, which was inconsistent with the intent of that bail out.

The only difference this obtuse affirmative-action child can see is that they both have gripes. The Tea Party pay their taxes and pick up after their rallies, and don’t have a racist bone in their bodies. The OWS freaks defecate on police cars and use violent tactics and spew obscenities, which comprise a major part of their vocabulary skills. The 800,000 Tea Party Marchers early last year were not even noted by the media, but Diane Sawyer excitedly noted that OWS rallies were happening in “over a thousand countries.”

Does anyone edit that blonde bimbo’s teleprompter crawl?

So does this mean thier racist,stupid and un-American?

Not even close. President Obama is just using another photo-op to continue his attack on the Tea Party. The Wall Street group is a sit in group that disrupts the area it is occupying without a thought of the cost to tax payers for cleanup and security. Not to mention the disruption to local businesses and jobs. It has no specific demands, it is all over the place….”What do we want? I don’t care”!!. The Tea Party, is for fiscal and personal responsibility, smaller government with state and local control of most regulation. The Tea Party holds time specific rally’s and leaves it’s area clean when leaving. No arrests except for a few SEIU interlopers. Like I said…NOT EVEN CLOSE!!

“… but Barack Obama is part of the 1%, with an Adjust Gross Income of $5,505409 in 2010, and the jet as well.”***

Actually, he is in the top 0.1%! (anyone with more than 1.6 million or so a year in declared income IS) And why should he NOT be? On the one hand, the Righties praise the wealthy and their right to be so and on the other, they bash this President for BEING SO.

At any rate, it’s all relative (and I don’t mean inherited wealth, although that certainly factors in in many cases! Not in HIS case, however.)

Consider this, from a recent study of income/wealth disparity in the U.S.:

“it is also important to realize that the lower half of that top 1% has far less than those in the top half; in fact, both wealth and income are super-concentrated in the top 0.1%, which is just one in a thousand.”

Or this, from Kiplinger: ” The latest numbers from the IRS — based on 2009 tax returns — show what it takes to be among the top 1% of income earners: adjusted gross income of $343,927 or more. The 1.4 million Americans with this elite status reported 16.9% of all the country’s taxable income.

That’s right. One percent of taxpayers reported almost 17% of all taxable income… How much do you need to make to be in the top 50% of earners? Just $32,396.

Fall below that level and you are in the bottom half, along with nearly 70 million of your fellow taxpayers. All told, that group earned just 13% of the income reported on 2009 tax returns…”

See, THAT is the POINT; many Americans, like frogs being slowly boiled, have yet to realize that they are COOKED, and NOT part of the top percents or at any risk of ever being so.

Just think; making 33 grand a year puts you in the top 50%! Just 344 grand puts you in the top 1%!

To some, that may seem like a goal to strive for. To others, it is a travesty, indicating as it does the massive DECLINES in income and standard of living for everyone else over the last 30 years or so.

The very IDEA that simply earning a middle-class income places you above between 2/3rds and 3/4s of your fellow Americans (depending on your definition of “middle-class”, but I started at 65 grand a year and went up to 90 grand in mine) is ABHORENT to many of us who grew up on the American Dream.

This is the FIRST generation in which the income and standard of living of our children will be LESS than that of their parents, folks.

Wages (except for CEO compensation, which has risen dramatically) have been stagnant or in decline since the 1970′s!

(and of course, meanwhile, corporate profits and the wealth of the top few percent have risen to record levels)

Bottom line, at this point, if we don’t want our President to be “rich” (compared to US) we need to find someone with an annual income of 100 grand or so. Good luck; there are precious few of us left (85% of us make less).

Posted by: Susan | October 18, 2011, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

The top 1% are the people who own the bulk of the country’s WEALTH, not just some income one year or the next. A few million here or there does not put you into the top 1%. Far, far from it. And Obama’s few million put him nowhere near into the top 1% who own all the wealth.

It’s no wonder you have such a shallow understanding of economic in this country. You have the a mentality of an eastern-european, small-time restaurant owner trying to pretend he understands the super wealthy of the country. You don’t.

If I remember correctly, Obama and the dems ridiculed the Tea Party. I don’t see/hear them ridiculing the Occupiers, even though the Occupiers are trashing the park.

POSTED BY: RAVEN | OCTOBER 18, 2011, 6:01 PM++++They were ARRESTED period. It doesn’t matter if it was for jaywalking or spitting on the sidewalk. At least the Tea Party has respect and they haven’t been arrested. Sorry by the OWS is a bunch of whining losers without a clue no matter how you spin it.

George Soros made $7 billion in 2010 as a hedge fund trader. He made billions more during the financial crisis. I don’t see the OWS crowd surrounding his house and protesting his greed. Why is that? Posted by: Susan | October 18, 2011, 5:35 pm………………….Uh, his money is made on Wall Street?

Anybody up there, including Buffet, is pushing for policy so they themselves have to pay more.

POSTED BY: SECONDLOOK | OCTOBER 18, 2011, 6:30 PM ++Not Bill Clinton

“He’s kidding – right? So, Obama, the American Natzi Party, the American Communist party and the New Black Panther Party (those are the ones wanting to kill “white babies”) are all in agreement. Now that I think that through, I’m not really surprised.” ~~~~~~~~ How much thinking about the subject could you really have done when your poor level of knowledge about those parties is demonstrated by the fact that you can’t even spell the name of one of them correctly?

Obviously President NoBo has never been to a Tea Party getty.

But that’s OK, I’m getting used to our President talking about things he knows next to nothing about.

Please Obama there is no comparison with the flea baggers and the tea party. It is no wonder with statements like that why you have failed in all aspects of your presidency.

The OWC crowd are the same type people as those who support Marx and Stalin (who killed 61 MILLION) and Hitler (who killed 21 MILLION). Neither regime started off this extreme but look where they ended up. Taking from one group of people and giving it to another group is stealing no matter how you justify it. If the “rich” got that way by illegal means then prosecute them. If you don’t agree with their business tactics, or who they support – you have the power to boycott them. But to threaten and demand that you have a right to somebody’s money because you lacked the initiative or drive, or maybe even ability to do it yourself is ludicrous. I am not wealthy by any means. Sure I would like to have more money in the bank. However, I am not willing to make sacrifice and work 12+ hour days, to always be on call, in order to achieve that goal. My time is better invested elsewhere, like my family.

Maybe that’s the real problem is that instead of having parents who taught these people to be productive members of society, they only had absentee parents who gave them everything, teaching them to only be takers.

MHO

E: “And based on Stalin’s misuse of communism as an ideology in order to justify a dictatorship how do you arrive at placing these two men together?”

Right, because the next dictator would treat the people fairly. That’s the whole point — the system is inherently corrupt. The only system that forces the government to treat the people fairly is one based on freedom, like the one we have in the US. Liberals just don’t like the fact that they have to work for themselves and that others that work hard deserve more.

Truth be told these movements are populace movements and neither Right nor Left. The Tea Party was cheered in New York the same way the OWS movement is. Yes, these movements have been infiltrated by the usual suspects in an attempt to divide and conquer once again. Shake them off! Keep the populace momentum going and ignore the Left VS. Right cliches being proposed by the main stream media.

There’s now a report that a 19-year old woman was raped at Occupy Cleveland. Never heard of a rape occurring at a Tea Party rally. Never heard anti-Semitic slurs at a TP rally. Never heard protesters chanting “F**k the USA” at a TP rally. Never heard protesters demanding an end to the system that allows such protests and an abundance of wealth at a TP rally. Never was there a TP rally that did not pay the permit fees and leave trash, soil, condoms, needles, behind for all to clean up. Yet, it is the TP protesters maligned by Pelosi, Obama, Reid, most of the mainstream press and the Left. Nice. Bottom line: no one’s daughter ever got raped at a TP rally. Sleep on that.

This one is for you stop2think. From a poster above:

“People who see only halos on the heads of those who validate their point of view and who see evil in those who don’t are using way more emotion than rational thinking. They are also putting their ego front and center. Too bad there isn’t a test before you comment to see if you are capable of being objective. It would make the comment section an incredible arena for discussion. As it stands now, it is an embarrassing display of ridiculousness.”

POSTED BY: LYSANDER SPOONER | OCTOBER 19, 2011, 2:07 AM 2:07 AM

Professional help?

Professional help?

Posted by: Doug | October 19, 2011, 3:09 am 3:09 am

Nah, that’s reserved for the lunatic lefties who spend all hours of the day posting under 100 names.

Obama commented that the Occupiers and the Tea Partiers actually were very similar and shared some of the same goals. And he is right. Tea Partiers want to keep more of the income they’ve earned. And the Occupiers also want to keep more of the income that Tea Partiers have earned.

E: “I don’t go much for labels but the political label that would most closely define me would be a liberal.”

I’d hide from your ‘label’ too. Liberals and their s o c i a l i s m isn’t very popular.

E: “I have been working since I was 15 . . . I am employed in a 40+ hour a week job plus starting my own business. Nope, I don’t have a problem with working.”

Good. Then, you shouldn’t have a problem working for yourself and your fair share of government. That means you should favor a flat tax, rather than the unfair progressive tax that we have now that forces the more successful to be taxed more for government than the less successful. Of course, that’s where your facade falls apart and where most disagree with you.

The President said, “we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded … ”

I’m sorry, isn’t that the system we have been working under for the past 235 years. It is the system that the OWS crowd and the President by his own confessions now, wants to destroy.

The “Tea Party” VS “Occupy” movements??? —- 1) The Tea Party is a grass-roots movement by citizens… Occupy has liberal students and anarchists organized by unions and just told to show up… and some people actually got PAID to show up!! — 2) Tea Party had 700,000 people show up in DC… NO arrests, they picked up ALL their own trash…. “Occupy” is becoming violent, disobeys police orders and gets arrested… and they use public parks are their latrines!!! — 3) Tea Party wants to MAINTAIN a strong country based on the Constitution….. “Occupy” wants to DESTROY capitalism and the America we all know!!! — COMPARISONS are going to be made… just make sure you know the facts!!!

Saying Occupy Wall Street protesters are like the Tea Party is an insult to all those people.

LoyalOpposition…When you will you learn that Occupy doesn’t want to destroy Capitlalism…they want to destroy GREED…there’s a big difference. Do you know what Greed means?

Interesting comments.

Obama is lying. He has done nothing but lie since he got into office and before.
He says he is listening, he says he understands- but wait- he is giving the ground rules he wants, not what the people want.
If he was truly listening, he would say “OK protestors, make an organized list of what you would like to see change and I will look at it as well as congress.” But that isn’t going to happen- THEY DON’T CARE FOLKS!

Finally figured out why my posts wouldn’t go through. Strange word to filter out.

anonymous,
now you are giving your own opinion about s o c i a l is m. That’s changing the subject. You are free to your opinions but that doesn’t take away from the point made. Not seeing the difference between Stalin and Marx is like not knowing the difference between aspirin and cocaine. Not sure why you are acting like we were having a conversation where I was defending so ci a lis m and you were against it. That is an assumption on your part.

“..that’s where your facade falls apart and most disagree with you.” What facade. Please quote my words to justify your comment. I am fine with someone arguing with something I state but don’t argue with me on made up arguments I never expressed.

I repeat what I stated above: Look around and observe and go talk to others. You might find those simple little narratives that you subscibe to are off base.

We WANT to be separated from our government. That’s just the point. We don’t want the government involved in every aspect of our lives. But for Obama, Government is the ultimate solution to every problem Americans face. He has always been on the Government teat or someone’s teat and has no concept of self-sufficiency.

Hi, I log on to your new stuff regularly. Your story-telling style is awesome, keep doing what you’re doing!