Occupy Wall Street

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Originally Posted by PiKA2001

LOL @ bolded. Not sure what national media you read/watch but I CAN'T seem get away from coverage of this.

But speaking of undercovered stories, how bout that Eric Holder and his lying to Congress about his knowledge of Operation Fast & Furious....

Rick, Brian Terry was good friends with a lot of people I know. The truth is coming out little by little.

Originally Posted by AGDee

The Talker and his new gf are very into this and are part of the planning group for Occupy Detroit. From what I've read on the Occupy Detroit Facebook page, they are the Tea Party's liberal counterpart. They are protesting the "Rich get richer, poor get poorer" trend and are angry that the politicians aren't listening to the bottom 99%, just the top 1% and meeting corporate interests, not the interests of the people. That's the gist of the posts I'm reading anyway.

Occupy Detroit is scheduled for 10/21.

UGH where is this going to be? If they disrupt my commute and my friend's wedding, I will run them down.

[*winter*]

I think, honestly, there just aren't enough jobs. And we're unloading the ones we hav left. I'm not sure what the outcome is, or how to change it...do we line our streets with factories so we can make things again? Could we afford to make things again with the cost of health insurance and wages? It's almost too late to turn back the clock in some ways.

I think the movement of industries overseas began many of the problems we have in our country today. Look at cities- they were dealt the death blow by the outsourcing, and haven't recovered. I don't think it's a coincidence that after the availability of work for the average joe dried up that gangs and drug dealing became rampant. When people knew that if they finished high school, there were options available for them, we didn't have the level of problems we do nowadays.

So, instead of learning that we're accomplishing nothing by stripping away people's chance to work, we continue at it, and now it's hitting the college grads and professionals. Which chips further away at the American Dream- you do what you're "supposed" to do (althewhile accumulating large debts, for the average college student) and when you graduate, it's not even worth it.