Woodstock on the Stock Exchange

Your Taxes at Work

What's the meaning behind the protest in the Occupy Wall Street protest? Some say it's Tea Party envy and I don't disagree, but I think it's even more than that. I believe it's a way a group of people try to capture some sort of meaning in their sorry lives. Their message is incoherent, for the most part, and it's a "You, my government, owe me a job."  "I hate you, you damn rich banks."  "I hate the rich on Wall Street who have all the money, and I have nothing but loans from them, and it's unfair." 

I believe that, at a deeper level, these protestors are a bunch of unwashed hippy wannabees who are trying to recapture a primal Woodstock moment that their parents experienced. These libiots want to make history, and they even say that in their mindless chanting. They say that "this is what democracy looks like," but if they actually get what they're asking for, democracy will go down the tubes and George Soros will do the flushing of the toilet.

 Not An Irish Spring

Many of these people are socialists, and they have the right to be lazy and stupid socialists. But some of these protestors are undoubtedly communists, hate America, and love idiots like Michael Moore, a guy who made all his money as a capitalist denouncing capitalism. And the protestors don't even get it. Some of them don't get it so much, they don't even know that they actually are communists and socialists. They just want the wealthy to share their money with them. But even before that message went out, the mob assembled without a definition of what the heck they were protesting about in the first place. Usually protests work the opposite way around in America--people are upset about the way things are running, and the last straw is the protest--here is was the protest, then the discussion of why they were protesting. Sounds very insinsoros to me.

The media compares these people to the tea party but the major differences that I see between the two groups is the tea party people actually shower, have jobs, and know what it is they're upset about. When the tea party protests, nobody gets arrested, there is no violence, no traces of anti-Semitism, nor anti-America, just a real concern over the way the government is getting involved in things they aren't qualified to get involved with, and generally tend to screw up when they do.


Obama and some unions are supporting these protestors. It's just another way our president can divide us and hopefully win next year. The unions, with their Hoffaesque mentality support the unwashed because they will support anyone who goes against the managers of wealth, in spite of the fact that the union leaders possess so much of it themselves. 


So next time you're in the Wall Street area and see a mob, as opposed to a group of protestors, hold your head high as you hold your nose, and keep walking on your way to work.

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