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What groups support Occupy Wall Street

Conservative said:
What is it about liberalism that creates this kind of loyalty even with all the reported failures?
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Again, you re-post the same source twice and declare it FACT and then complain about the delusions of others.

You are so loyal to your GOD Rupert Murdoch that you re-post him over and over again as if each time it's a new source and that this is "magical proof" that the story is true.

You are being fed a story and you keep re-spitting it at people like it's true.

Oh, and I took your advice and googled it:

Here are the sources:

Daily Caller (right wing site - who is using the Fox News story as its source)
Examiner.com (right wing site - using the Fox News story as its source)
MyFoxNY (well, this is just obvious...)
Catholic Online (commentary - using the Fox News story as its source)
Gothamist.com (you guessed it - uses the Fox News story as its source)

There is only one story going on here - and it's being repeated ad infinitum by the right-wing blogosphere. This does NOT make multiple sources reporting the story.

This is how the right-wing media works to convince you there is a story though. Take one questionable story with one questionable source and repeat it over and over and over again until people believe it.
 

The so called rightwing Congress has been under the Control of Democrats from January 2007 to January 2011 or didn't you get that news wherever you live? Democrats still control the Senate and the WH. GW Bush never had the overwhelming numbers that Obama had and Democrats could have stopped anything Bush did. Take a civics class to learn how our govt. works.

Rational people would understand that the Obama resume is playing out today. He showed zero leadership or executive skills but was hired anyway. He is a community agitator and does that well. Those that make excuses for Obama are doing so to keep from having to admit what we all know, he made a fool out of you
 
Too many hypotheticals and assumptions, and the bottom line is that NYCC sending people to OWS to participate does not constitute "support" or "backing", in the way that Fox News supported the Tea Party with on-location on-air personalities and endless hours of free nationwide television time, nor in the way Dick Armey (and others) backed the Tea Party with millions of PAC dollars.
 

Thought Liberals liked ACORN so what is your problem when this is proven true? The actual results coming out of the OWS says it all and is typical of ACORN and all the other leftwing radical groups that support this movement. Keep diverting all in an attempt to keep from admitting that you are wrong in your support.
 

I know I can count on you showing me the T.E.A. Party members getting arrested and the police using tear gas to disperse them, or the rapes that have occurred at those rallies.
 
So apparently this problem with an entitlement mentality just randomly happened at the end of the 70's...and before then everybody worked hard even though the same entitlement system existed?

Generally if it's a handful of people that aren't doing as well as the rest I'll usually chalk it up to individual differences in ability/ethic etc. When 99% of the population as a whole has near the same wealth as 1%...it makes me think there may be a structural problem....
 
Conservative said:
The so called rightwing Congress has been under the Control of Democrats from January 2007 to January 2011 or didn't you get that news wherever you live? [...]
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Once again your post arrives from outside the sphere of informed reality. The Senate Republicans have filibustered about everything that has came down the Obama pipe, except for the very few occasions that the Democrats had the votes (60) for cloture. Surely this is not news.

Please try to find a real argument; repeating common knowledge is very tiring for me, and I imagine all others that have taken the time and civic responsibility to make themselves well-informed.

How the Filibuster Changed and Brought Tyranny of the Minority - US News and World Report
 

Sure, federal funds shouldn't support partisan rallies...if the federal funds are for some specific purpose then we should make sure it's not being used for say partisan activities.

At the same time....lets be honest, sectors like the energy sector get ALOT in subsidies and spend a lot on partisan activities.
 

What you seem to believe is that the top 1% always remains the same but it doesn't. People move in and out of that top 1% based upon their own abilities. Many of those in the top 1% are liberals. We live in a country with equal opportunity but you are looking for equal outcome. Wrong country. Cannot believe there are so many like you in that area. What is your solution to the income inequality? OWS serves what purpose?
 
Conservative said:
I know I can count on you showing me the T.E.A. Party members getting arrested and the police using tear gas to disperse them, or the rapes that have occurred at those rallies.
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Please provide links to these alleged rape(s) you keep referring to.

So far I can find one verifiable report.

And the tea party was preaching the corporate line, so of course they weren't attacked by corporate forces.
 
I no longer have any idea what numbers you are talking about. I suspect that may make two of us.
 

Ok, how many of those who move in and out of the one percent came from or went to the lower 80%?
 

What a bunch of BS, what did Obama want that he didn't get? He had a filibuster proof Senate during his first year in office prior to Scott Brown winning. Amazing how Republicans are the only ones that ever used the filibuster. This is nothing more than an excuse that liberals use to justify the failures of this empty suit.
 
What if...? said:
Ok, how many of those who move in and out of the one percent came from or went to the lower 80%?
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where do you think they come from. Where did Bill Gates come from, Mark Zuckerberg? Steve Jobs?
 
Karl said:
If Fox lists their sources, I'll list mine.

Wasn't that obvious?
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I posted the article from a reputable source, to me it is irrelevant as the actions of the OWS are outrageous and over the top which reflects the support of the groups that support them, hardly representative of the average American.
 

Thanks for this.

This "Obama had his chance to do something and failed to do so" meme is particularly vile. But a few years from now, the whole filibuster fiasco will be forgotten, and those who get all their information from the conservative mediasphere will swear that Obama was completely unopposed.

Like those who believe Hussein was involved in 9/11 and Obama wasn't born in the states.

Its called "the Big Lie" technique.

Big Lie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
We live in a country with equal opportunity but you are looking for equal outcome
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That is not true. My goal is not complete equality relative to wage. I don't think that works. I do think that if wealth is increasing at the top, and stagnant everywhere else...especially in realtion to past trends.....it probably has something to do with a structural problem not that 99% are lazy and 1% are workholics that work and produce 1000%'s the average American.
What is your solution to the income inequality? OWS serves what purpose?
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There are lots of solutions. Nobody has the magic bullet and if they claim they do they are probably lying. it would probably take a lot of things from improving schools for anybody not in a district with million dollar homes to making college affordable etc. OWS serves the purpose so that we're not talking about stupid sh** like Casey Anthony but stuff that actually matters.
 
Conservative said:
What a bunch of BS, what did Obama want that he didn't get? He had a filibuster proof Senate during his first year in office prior to Scott Brown winning. [....]
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No, he did not. Due to the Franken/Coleman election dispute, and Ted Kennedy's illness and subsequent death, he had the 60 votes for a total of about 6 months (in two split segments, Jul. 7, 2009 - Aug. 25, 2009, and Sep. 25, 2009 - Feb. 4, 2010).

111th United States Congress (Senate summary) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Everything you are posting is wrong. Everything.
 

What is preventing you from becoming part of that evil rich group? Growing up rich people were celebrated and not demonized. I went to college in hopes of becoming one of those rich people and I succeeded. I have used that success to do what many other individuals have done, donate to charities of my choice not forced redistribution throught the govt. and I know where the money goes and who it helps. Where is the money going that is sent to the Federal Govt?
 

Then tell me what Obama wanted that he didn't get passed and the fact is he did have a filibuster proof Senate for a period of time.
 
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