Evil Corporations Get Unwitting Support at Wall Street Protests
**Written by Doug Powers
We’ve covered the personal connections to Wall Street of some of the celebrities who are supporting the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters.
Now there’s a picture going around that helps establish a personal Wall Street/corporate connection to the protesters themselves (Doug Ross has a full size pic here):
As for political leaders, President Obama has claimed the protesters represent “broad based frustration” with the financial system. Nancy Pelosi said “God bless them” and that no longer will the “recklessness of some on Wall Street cause massive joblessness on Main Street.”
In 2008, Obama raked in millions upon millions in campaign cash from Wall Street, and Nancy Pelosi’s husband made his bones as an investment banker.
History won’t record this as the largest protest ever, but it might take the prize for the most ironic.
Update: Nancy Pelosi is finally speaking out about this madness:
“I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this myself in the late 70s in San Francisco, this king of rhetoric. … It created a climate in which violence took place. … I wish we would all curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements and understand that some of the ears that it is falling on are not a balanced as the person making the statements may assume.”
Wait, nevermind — that was in reference to the Tea Parties in 2009.
Meanwhile, Pelosi managed to pin some of the blame for the ongoing Wall Street protests on… you guessed it: George W. Bush.
**Written by Doug Powers
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I wonder how many i-Phones are in the crowd?
i saw the video of the kid letting loose on a squad car. how exactly will his actions bring down wall street? and who will clean up his mess? i nominate nancy to clean it up!!
Nancy PeloNazi – one of the most worthless creatures to occupy human skin.
These people are being paid by spooky dude with all his numerous holdings and the union thugs. These people have zero idea why they are there or do they care, just pay me to get my filthy body stinky for three weeks and cost the cities millions to clean up after me as mom probably does at home!
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Woodstock without the rain and music. Morons in search of relevance. These clowns elected a POTUS who is a reflection of them. No need to work hard because decades of that warm, fuzzy self-esteem program has convinced them that they are entitled to all their heart’s desire without having to achieve anything. Just show up and the goodies of the world will be doled out. Guess they missed those lines in the former Soviet Union, where the citizens would wait for their handouts which didn’t include the latest technology. Spoiled brats! When the weather gets nasty, they will slink back into the shadows. Are any of these clowns willing to die for their beliefs? Probably not.
I find odd that evil corporations make such great video cameras, iPods, cell phones, clothes and so on. DOWN WITH CAPITALISM!!! should be a great t-shirt to sell out there : )
(laughs)
Free advertising.
Still can’t believe the guy at the cop car.
Can you imagine seeing that at a Tea Party protest?
Can you imagine doing that in your youth?
This is what you get when you have nothing to loose and just don’t give a damn about anything.
To compare, my oldest daughter just started college. She’s in a class now on a Saturday, not a regular class, to better her mechanical drawing skills for her major in Electrical Engineering.
These folks… never mind.
These people are not protesting manufacturers of goods.
They are protesting the wizards of Wall Street who manufacture nothing but profits for themselves.
P.S. Are you all just crazy for those new bank charges? Eager to pay to use your debit cards?
HarryBailey: Any person can change their bank at any time.
You can stay or leave simple as that.
Don’t use a bank if you don’t want to.
Do what you want.
The “wizards of Wall Street” can make profits make as much as they can as long as it isn’t illegal.
you mean like rahm did before he worked in the whitehouse? what is wrong with making money? you can’t pay bills with that load that kid put on the cop car. and isn’t going to wall street the dream of every child of a entrenched politician in washington?
Oh, I see, according to Oblubbermouth, the “occupiers” express the frustration of the American people–but the Teapartiers don’t.
And from Nazi Peloser:
That’s because there will soon be no jobs left on Main Street to result in joblessness. There’ll be no Main Street either!
Oh, btw, Botox Queen,I doubt “God bless them” means much since they’re all allegedly atheists.
Those charges are going to hurt those such as the OWS crowd the most. My son is an engineering major and his bank account will not be seeing a $5,000.00 limit to avoid that $5 charge as he works for minimum wage and just gets by. Though I did let him know to thank Dick Durbin and his amendment that made that all possible. These clowns at OWS should be protesting in Washington, and the reason Pelosi finds them so adorable is because of the very fact that these clowns have no clue where to direct their anger, and she’s just relieved that they haven’t figured it out. And that is the very reason she disparaged the Tea Party crowd, because she knew that the Tea Party had.
Love the pic! OWC- the Good & Bad- http://www.themoderateseparatist.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-good-bad.html
A message to the occupiers: Get over yourselves, punks, you’re not the 99%! If you all really, really believe that the 1% is out to get you, I got another thought–
Hey, dumarses: They’re just NOT that in to you!
The rich are too busy making money and figuring out ways to hang on to it, invest it, grow it and spend it for their own pleasure.
Stop flattering yourselves thinking that rich people have nothing on their
minds all day except how to fleece the
masses99%, to control you and send you to the poorhouse. That is EXACTLY what your unions and your ObaMonopoly admin and your Dimbecile reps and senators have been doing.Wake up and smell the “BO” in the park … that’s the odor of the absolute failure of the Prezidunce you zOmboccupiers elected!!!
HB – What? What do you mean by that? There is an expiration date on property rights? Regarding your wages/salary — are YOU “entitled to such profits forver”?
Yes, but it’s THEIR bank, not yours. If you don’t want to use their services, carry cash or find another bank.
Yes. Exactly.
Or open your own damned bank and make a fortune treating people ‘fairly.’
Harry Bailey and the OWS clowns really do not have a clue about what freedom is and what it means.
HB, are you aware of who it was that pushed BoA to institute these new debit charges…sure you do but didn’t respond to flmom when she mentioned it. It was a little body and smaller minded liberal Marxist elitist bastard Durbin, adding to the disease Dodd and snagle tooth Franks and bank reforms that’s working so well now.
The retailers lobbied for the reduced fees, and the lobbied happily obliged. The fee of 44 cents was naturally passed on to the consumer, so the low end consumer such as my son and those like him would not be a good revenue source, but the high end consumer would be and that’s how it should be. Just think of it as a sales tax, because essentially that’s what it is and with sales taxes the consumer who consumes more, pays more. The result of the Durbin amendment has been that the poor pay the same amount as the rich, well, actually the rich pay less, because they have the means to keep the $5,000 minimum. This whole situation is because of the mentality of Washington that they be the harbingers of what profit a bank or corporation should make, when the fact is that it is the consumer that makes that decision in the choices he makes on where he does business. It’s called competition. When you start with the premise that you know better than the consumer, you are bound to screw up a system that works much better than the central planning we are treated to each and every day with this administration. Unfortunately, you seem to be of the same mindset of the clowns we have in Washington, who because they could never make it in business themselves, have decided that a career on the Hill at least gives them the power to think they can. THEY CAN”T and it shows.
Capitalism vs. Corporatism
As the fever of Occupy Wall Street spreads across our country en masse, I have found it amazing none know what they’re protesting. Not on the elementary level that if asked; they all give different reasons, but they don’t know the difference between Capitalism and Corporatism. They’re marching in the WRONG place, they should be marching on Washington! What they don’t know or understand is that it is the anti-free market central bank planning and large corporations, along with creeping socialistic interferences in the free market that have given rise to our destructive boom bust cycle that is destroying capitalism.
I read two interesting satirical books by Fredrick Pohl “The Space Merchants” and “ The Merchants of War” an exaggerated view of consumerism through the eyes an advertising executive. In a overpopulated world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power.
As we look at the poor out of work whiners, they all have been susceptible to corporatism. As they march on they use Apple i-phones, Nikon cameras, Sony videocams, Facebook and Twitter to communicate, Procter and Gamble make-up and shampoo etc. Corporatism is just another form of fascism. In Italy and Germany, particularly during 1933-1945, fascism merged the self-interests of despotic, single-party rulers with large corporations for whom big war offered big profits. Mussolini called it Corporatism.
To clarify, capitalism is and economic system investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations. Corporatism is the organization of a society into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and exercising control over persons and activities. In other words, a merger between corporate and government power.
Our government has been in the business of picking winners and losers for decades and we are now seeing the effect on the small businesses that are the job creators in the US. While our bureaucratic central planners have been legislating corporate friendly tax incentives and bailouts through lobbyist, which the small business man can’t afford. They have allowed a system that suppresses the small businesses to compete with the large corporations. The small businesses are the ones that take the risk in true capitalistic form. If we don’t change the incestuous relationship between our government and large corporations power grab then we will continue the vicious cycle of bust and boom economies and high unemployment.
I’ve been saying for a while now that we are beginning to resemble Russia, in that a favored few are allowed to run their companies and make huge profits, just so long as those favored few toe the line with the administration. My husband and I have an office in Moscow, so I know how the system works there and it is not very different from here in the US, GE comes to mind.
i didn’t know the government could say how much money, aka profit, a business can make. this is what socialist countries do. please show me where in the constitution it says the government has that power? please go back to the protest, they won’t disagree with you.
Just unbelievable…
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Sorry.. can’t get link to work…
Barred,
Try dropping the “Oc” before http: That might be the problem !
Of course they will NEVER protest about the abuses about the BIGGEST CORPORATION – government.
They’re awfully silent on that!
I can’t help but notice two things NOT in the picture:
“Body Wash by Olay”
“Deodorant by Right Guard”
Defrocked Pope Pelosi along with her cohorts seemingly are ignoring that she and Dreamworks Harry were the majority leaders in their respective parts of Congress when this onrush of unfunded spending began.
As I watch what is happening in New York and other cities three things come to mind. First from “Forest Gump” “Stupid is as stupid does” Second ..from John Wayne “Life is hard, and it’s harder if you are stupid” Third ..All those that get arrested will now have a police record when they go to apply for a job with a major corporation. Most corporations do a criminal background check …. wonder how this will affect their future ability to earn a living and support a family??? Jerry USMC (Ret)
Dems are so ignorant. Probably not your fault – some low-SAT union grunt in a socialist school left economics out of your curriculum.
You do know that economies consist of both goods and services right?
I’m guessing you don’t know that providing capital is a service . An extremely important service if you want a healthy vibrant economy where new ideas flourish, and the elitist rich do not get to own everything. You have a good idea, start a business and somebody with lots of money funds the idea. Or a lot of people with a bit of money (Wall Street). Or a corrupt government with tax money gives it to their friends, and bails out the failing businesses run by their friends. If they were simply protesting the latter, that would be one thing, but they are not.
Mussolini’s supporters said the same thing. How about …
Shut Up.
Aw geez, don’t confuse the poor little feller with facts AG, his mind’s made up.
See, providing capitol is, like, a service provided by the guvmint, n’stuff. They tax the evil rich ya know and, like, borrow from China, n’stuff to provide $$$ to, like, unions and greeny weenie business boneheads who couldn’t run a lemonaide stand. N’stuff.
HarryBailey – Dude, go back to sleep. You make more sense that way.
These protesters have nothing in common with the Tea Party. They are rebels without a clue. They are the Teat Party.
Holy bosom, Batman ! The TEAT Party !
So stealing that !
LOL
Priceless
On so many different levels
We must remember the Founding Fathers wanted separation of church and state. Nancy Screwlooley shut you mouth!
Oy. Back to the cost of health care again? Okay, since you’ve probably not heard my comments on it, HB, I’ll share them with you.
If you want your standard of prevention, care, and treatment to remain static or hover around a $10/month level, you’re more than welcome to sign a waiver relinquishing any desire for more advanced or enhanced treatments, cures, or preventions. So if they come up with a cure for HIV/AIDS, cancer, heart disease, alzheimers, leukemia, ALS, etc, you don’t get any.
Since that sounds a bit harsh, let’s look at the last 30 years in medicine. People like to point out the rise in health care costs in the last 30 years, so lets use that as a benchmark. Look at all the developments that have taken place in the last 30 years: transplants, cures, joint replacements, heck, even erectile dysfunction. All of those are the result of people in the medical industry spending a LOT of money to develop products and bring them to market. If they hadn’t been able to raise prices to recover the cost of the investment, they wouldn’t exist. So if, 30 years ago, someone had capped the cost of health care/insurance as liberals want to do now, my father would have died 10 years ago without the newly developed heart procedures. HIV/AIDS patients wouldn’t have their current life-extending drug cocktails. Elderly people with hip and knee problems simply would have to use a cane or wheelchair, dependent upon the kindness of others, instead of living full and enjoyable lives.
Bottom line, we PAY more today because we GET more today.
The anti-capitalism remarks and attempts to justify tearing down our system are laughable. They seem to deny reality. Money makes money. Money makers provide incentives for others to make money and perform productive work. Profits are a natural by-product of both. At what point is a lot of money too much money? Profit is possible as long as competition allows it to be. Failure to compete eventually means failure….period.
Have you received raises over the past year, or two, or three? Has anyone? Does it still cost the same to make a shirt, harvest a head of lettuce, as it did two or three years ago. Prices go up because costs go up. If corporations do not make enough profit to pay back their investors, employees and overhead, new managers are brought in who can, or the company goes belly up. It’s the nature of our financial system and the only way to change it is to put up with either some form of fascism, or communism, or both, neither of which is very viable here in our Nation.
Well, H.B., “insurance fees rise at the whim of your insurance company” is a rather interesting statement. What is your view of Congress mandating what insurance companies must pay for? Is that “on a whim”? Further, why, when insurance companies’ risks and costs increase, should they NOT raise rates?
Do you actually think of INSURANCE companies as more or less PAYMENT PROCESSORS, and not INSURANCE companies at all?
Do you think my auto insurance company should pay for my new (and certainly needed for safety) tires? Oil changes? New transmission? Why or why not?
I shared that very picture to my Facebook page. Love it. Now, someone who “friended” me has a link to the “Occupy New Orleans” thing going on. It’s a live feed. OMG–you talk about stupid! And the YAT lives on. . .
Then there’s “Occupy Houston”
And they’re doing “general assembly meetings” too!
Look–someone call these kids’ parents to come pick them up. Time for their naps.
Wait, what? Like the left’s puppet master and funder-in-chief, George Soros?
Oh, yeah. A bunch of these dopes show up carrying signs that they don’t know what the sign says…they even admitted they were paid but wouldn’t say who paid them. This whole thing is sooo bogus and Soros’ organizations are all behind it. Sleazy Pelosi had the nerve to defend that…man, dem politicians are really evil.