Weekly Open Thread – The “Filth & Fury” of Occupy Wall Street Edition

There is a vast gulf between the Anarchists of OWS and the TEA Party- just for starters, the Tea Party leaves a place cleaner than when they got there. We also don’t defecate in the streets, or urinate against a police car- they do, we have the gun camera film.
But that’s just the grimy surface of their major malfunction- they actually believe that they are entitled to the money of others- obviously their teachers and parents didn’t teach them just what this country was all about.
People in this country have the right to have the opportunity to succeed, not the right to succeed- there’s an important difference, one they should have been taught long ago.
If someone makes an obscene amount of money, oh well- that’s the American Dream. He or she is then free to spend or give away as much or as little money as they want.
If you , on the other hand, didn’t make an obscene amount of money, either you made bad choices in your life, or money was not your primary objective in life.
I have been a carpenter for forty years- and I knew when I began that I was not going to make scads of money, but I loved what I did, and I am very good at it. Now, there’s not so much work, and even less so for a 60 year old carpenter with arthritis, but I am not going to whine about it like some entitled brats on the streets do. No, I’ll pick myself up, and make do with something else, at least until our Dear Leader gets his head outta his ass, or is voted out.
As for the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, they can keep wallowing in their filth, or recognize that what they are doing is not working, and perhaps they should get a job, any job.
After all, the world needs janitors too.

Check out this link from the Chicago protest. There can no longer be any doubt as to what this group stands for. Now that the dems have committed themselves by endorsing them, they will have to answer. Just think, the Democratic Party, the Communist Party, Michael Moore, Van Jones, and the unions all working together combined with public support from abroad from Iran and Hugo Chavez, to make a better America.

His daughter just walked into the living room and said “Dad, cancel my allowance immediately, rent my room out, throw all my clothes out of the window, take my TV, and stereo, and iPhone, and iPod, and my laptop.Please take all of my jewelry to the Salvation Army or Cash Converters. Then sell my new car, take my front door key away from me, and throw me out of the house.” Then disown me and never talk to me again. And don’t forget to write me out of your will and leave my share to my brother.
Well, she didn’t put it quite like that.. she actually said… “Dad I have decided to work for Obama’s reelection campaign.”

Open Thread, right?

Did you think you would EVER see a US President hawking products?
Obama sinks to a new low!
IF you clicked the link it takes you to Obama’s web site where you can buy the beer cooler for ”only” $10 bucks!

Can you make out the note on the bottom of the beer cooler?
It says:
WORKERS UNITED

Who are ”Workers United?”
Their own web site tells you:

Workers United, SEIU is a union of 150,000 workers in the US and Canada who work in the laundry, food service, hospitality, gaming, apparel, textile, manufacturing and distribution industries. Workers United is a new union with a 100 year heritage, and includes members from predecessor unions like the ILGWU, ACTWU, UNITE and UNITE HERE.

I wonder if the idiot who ”Tweets” in Obama’s name will be fired over this?
My guess is no.

Where have all the Tea Party protesters gone?

Have you noticed how the grass roots Tea Party assemblies rapidly vanished as the Tea Party banner was appropriated by the far right wing of the GOP?

The Wall Street protesters and the 99 percenters may now represent the issues closest to hearts of mainstream Americans.

What attitudes and policies have the republicans turned the Tea Party label into a symbol of? One has only to listen closely to their stated intentions, and to look closely at the bills that have been passed in the House since the new republican majority was seated. Basically, this is the stuff of an extreme right wing agenda. It’s a weird amalgam of the social agenda of the religious right and the economic and tax agenda of the very wealthy.

Americans need only ask themselves exactly how their own lives and futures would change if all of the things republicans are currently proposing became reality. Would the vast majority of working people, the middle class, the young, and the elderly be better off or worse off?

OK, basic math skills required.
What was wrong with this picture?
Workers pay in $100 a MONTH (or LESS).
(Even a 40-year career only nets the program $48,000)

Anyone who becomes disabled can draw out $50 a DAY for LIFE!
(That $40,000 only nets a disabled person 960 DAYS! Less than 2 years and 7 months!)

Yeah, it was in those 2,000 plus UNREAD pages of ObamaCare.
It was called CLASS, or the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program.

Sort of reminds me of Solyndra.
Anyway, although there is an UNSEVERABILITY clause in ObamaCare that prevents this act, today Obama pulled the plug on CLASS.

MSNBC has this.

Do you folks see the article about 2 Occupy Boston cowards spitting on a female nco of the Massatchusetts branch of the Coast Guard. I wish I could have been there.

@Greg:

As far as large public demonstrations, the TEA party phenomenon last peaked in 2010, and will no doubt do so again, even more so, in 2012. You know — election years, genius, when the greatest change can be effected. The GOP establishment has not coopted anything, but they will definitely endeavor to ignore this grass roots movement as much as they dare. They are as much the enemy as the left wing of the Democratic party. We will be back to remind the GOP of their responsibilities increasingly as the next election approaches, and hopefully replace them with actual small government conservatives over time.

Most of the people who attend these TEA party type things have jobs and families, and they all pay their own way to the rallies, Greg. They provide their own signs, food, housing, and transportation. They are not subsidized like the astroturfed union rallies, and are not interested in pursuing a happening outdoor existence in their own fecal matter as a long-term lifestyle like the Occupy people. They want the government to quit taking so much money from them, and to stop spending so much money, and to stop borrowing so much money. This is the exact opposite of your side, which wants the government to spend more money on them and go into more debt if necessary to provide the funds.

By your own words, Obama, the Democrats, the unions, and Occupy are very much your side.