occupy wallstreet is growing

[Isaiah Mendoza]

a lot. And spreading to other cities.

[Sean Winnik]

I slept over in Zuccotti Park two nights ago, and marched Washington Square park on Saturday. Seriously one of the most motivating and uplifting days of my life. A lot of motivated, intelligent people are down there, and it is not disorganized at all, like some news stations are portraying it. It's very organized, and very interesting. I encourage everyone to check it out.

[The kza]

what's it all about?

[Sean Winnik]

Essentially it boils down to dissatisfaction with the way this country is running, taking the economy in particular into account. The majority of the people are for higher taxes for the rich/superrich. And also for taking corporations out of politics. The entire movement in Zuccotti Park makes all decisions as a direct democracy of the people living there.

[Billy Paternoster]

The best part is the they want to take corporations out of politics and want wall street to end, but half want Obama elected who is supported by Goldman and Sacs who received a major bailout from the government, much like the green company solyndria, who the 3 owners are reported to be very rich now after receiving the the bailout from Obama, the company also gave him a 2 or 3 hundred thousand dollar donation to his campaign before filing for bankruptcy. Some of the groups also want every one to receive equal pay if the work or do not work, which is the start of communism. They hate corporations yet the receive great help from unions, and they just hired a major PR firm to tell their story. In my opinion they just have no sense of what they are doing, from what I have seen all they can talk about on a consistent level is what they see on the liberal media. It's good that our generation is finally taking a stand on something, but this "We Are the 99%" isn't the best idea they could stand for, its a muck for sure.

[The kza]

yea, honestly I've seen most of these groups and they seem to lack a lot of direction....

making the rich pay for more taxes will not fix jack shit.... it's the average Americans tolerance for bullshit has risen so high that this is the only response we have come up with.

don't think I'm against it, but most of the people out there are 15-30 year olds bitching about 'the corporation and political lobbying'

[Billy Paternoster]

making the rich pay for more taxes will not fix jack shit

True that, I wish people would get off this taxing the rich stuff, the 10% wealthy that do have the highest tax rate also pay i think like 90% of the taxes. People want the rich to pay their "fair" share of taxes, and I'd say that's more than fair. That's why I like Herman Cain, he wants to adopt a flat tax rate, every one pays 9%, it's honestly the best way to help the tax debate. You shouldn't punish some one because of hard work. I feel I shouldn't have to pay more money in taxes because some one is to lazy to find a job. America was built on hard work and succeeding because of that, hard work pays off, we all know this. What doesn't pay off is be busting my hump barley having money to afford my bills, why some one on welfare is perfectly able to work, chooses not too because they get more free money then they would if they worked. The system is flawed, that's why I'm glad what the governor of MI did, if you have been on welfare for more than four years, your cut off. Welfare was built as a helper if you are in hard times, not a way to live your life.

[Taylor Culbertson]

True that, I wish people would get off this taxing the rich stuff, the 10% wealthy that do have the highest tax rate also pay i think like 90% of the taxes. People want the rich to pay their "fair" share of taxes, and I'd say that's more than fair. That's why I like Herman Cain, he wants to adopt a flat tax rate, every one pays 9%, it's honestly the best way to help the tax debate. You shouldn't punish some one because of hard work. I feel I shouldn't have to pay more money in taxes because some one is to lazy to find a job. America was built on hard work and succeeding because of that, hard work pays off, we all know this. What doesn't pay off is be busting my hump barley having money to afford my bills, why some one on welfare is perfectly able to work, chooses not too because they get more free money then they would if they worked. The system is flawed, that's why I'm glad what the governor of MI did, if you have been on welfare for more than four years, your cut off. Welfare was built as a helper if you are in hard times, not a way to live your life.

What's rich?

[Buffington]

If you think the 99% thing is bullshit or a higher tax rate on the wealthy wont help, you need to check out history.
Oligarchy is not what the founders had in mind.

Blaming the poor and or lazy is what they want you to do. They did not deregulate so corporations can have you compete for jobs with workers in 3rd world nations. The poor and or lazy did not lie us into war and put it on the credit card for the rest of us and our grand kids to pay for while no bid contracts for billions were handed out like candy on Halloween. The poor did not deregulate the Banks so they could get too big to fail.

The 99% movement is about getting the power back in the peoples hands.
It will take time, it will be messy.
But just like anything worth doing its worth doing badly until your good at it.

[Enrique "Kiko"]

Oligarchy is not what the founders had in mind.

+1

Theocracy isn't what the founders had in mind either, but that's where we have been heading at an alarming rate.