Thread: THIS is what OccupyWallStreet is about... not what Fox News says it's about

Why #OccupyWallStreet? Four Reasons from DC Douglas - YouTube

GOP candidate and Florida businessman Herman Cain had no sympathy for the protesters or their message. On CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Cain said protesters are acting out of "jealousy" for bankers' success, and suggested demonstrators who complain that they are jobless are just "playing the victim card."

"It's anti-American because to protest Wall Street and the bankers is basically saying that you're anti-capitalism," Cain told Bob Schieffer.

Feingold, who recently started the PAC Progressives United, also had words for Herman Cain's anti-protest screed: "There is nothing more un-American than a person like Mr. Cain trying to intimidate people from exercising their right to protest. There is nothing MORE American than peaceful protest.

Occupy Wall St.'s drumbeat grows louder - CBS News

OWS is a pretty diverse crowd with a ton of very different messages.

Feingold is obviously an idiot. To claim that someone describing the protestors as jealous (which I agree with, and would also add the adjective greedy) and describing them as anti-capitalist (when they're standing with people holding signs saying "fight for socialism") is somehow tantamount to intimidation is nonsensical. Perhaps someone can buy this Feingold person a dictionary and a remedial English class.

No doubt being a former Burger King and Pizza Godfather with a 1971 degree in computers everyone should recognize how qualified Herman Cain is to rule over us.

Well a good start would be to get people to remember that we have a system of government where we're not "ruled over" by anyone.

Originally Posted by AmateurFlix

we have a system of government where we're not "ruled over" by anyone.

Tell that to your Republican pals who want the ability of stripping the Supreme Court of it's Supremeness. Without the Supreme Court we become governed and "ruled" by those with biased political and radical religious views.

I'm not familiar enough with what they're proposing to comment on it specifically however I will say that the balance of power between the three branches of government is not currently what the system was intended to be. If any one branch has ultimate authority and no one can overrule them then they are the de facto rulers of a government which was not intended to have anyone ruling over anyone else.

Cain says people who are not rich have only themselves to blame. "Don't blame Wall Street," he told protesters, in an interview with the Wall St. Journal. "Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself. It's not a person's fault because they succeeded. It is a person's fault if they failed. And so this is why I don't understand these demonstrations and what is it that they're looking for."

Though the first 2 paragraphs of the article are great. The We are the 1% sign cracked me up

Occupy Wall Street Protests Rankle the Rich - Yahoo! News

I will say there is no way Republicans can win the presidential election at this point.

Even many Tea Party independents are moving over to side with OWS. So imho what the Presidential race will boil down to is Evangelists vs Everyone else. It was pretty stupid for Perry and Cain to begin using Christian faith as warfare to divide their own party. This is not something a true Christian does although most Evangelists are in fact religious fakes anyway. My step mother is an Evangelical so i've seen first hand how most of these stupids act perfect and holy on Sunday while living in sin the rest of the week. When confronted they will use the excuse that it's was the Devil and or Demons who tricked them into doing things that go against God..

Basically this sums up the current Republican party.

The Holy Roman Emperors of Ottonian Dynasty, when they came to the throne, believed they should have the power to appoint the pope. They also believed they should appoint minor church officials. The result was that, more often than not, bishops, abbots of monasteries, and even the pope were not independent, but resembled lackeys or sycophants of the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. This attitude was bolstered by the general conception that the Holy Roman Emperor and all other European Kings were chosen by God to be leaders.

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