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    I want to hear more about this man.....where does he stand on other issues?


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    Some people think the Occupy Wall Street/Whatever movement harkens back to the 1960s.

    Me? I’m getting bad, late 1980s flashbacks.

    It’s like watching Oberlin College freshman orientation parties sprouting up all over the country.

    Zombie caught an Occupy L.A. protester babbling about the “violence” necessary to achieve “fundamental transformation:”

    http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/...eve-our-goals/


    In Philadelphia, two, self-identified “Maoist” and “socialist” freaks were caught on tape by Temple University student Erik Jacobs:

    http://twitter.com/#!/Erik_Jacobs


    Tea Party vs Occupy Wall Street

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUr8HeWwog


    http://michellemalkin.com/2011/10/12...ds-of-the-day/
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    Protesters suspicious of plan to clean up NYC park
    By MEGHAN BARR and VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press | AP – 24 mins ago


    NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of the private park where Wall Street protesters are camped out gave them notice Thursday that it will begin enforcing regulations, which prohibit everything from lying down on benches to storing personal property on the ground.

    Protesters said they believe the effort is an attempt to end their encampment at lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, which triggered a movement against unequal distribution of wealth that has spread across the globe.

    The owner, Brookfield Properties, handed out a notice to protesters saying they would be allowed back inside after a planned park cleanup on Friday morning if they abide by park regulations.

    The notice lists regulations including no tents, no tarps or sleeping bags on the ground, no lying on benches and no storage of personal property on the ground. All those practices have been common at the park, where protesters have lived, slept and eaten for nearly a month.

    "They're going to use the cleanup to get us out of here!" said Justin Wedes, 25, a part-time public high school science teacher from Brooklyn. "It's a de facto eviction notice."

    It's not clear whether the regulations are new or how they would be enforced.

    Brookfield did not respond to requests for comment Thursday, but two uniformed police officers at the park confirmed that they escorted representatives of the company as the notices were passed out to demonstrators.

    Some protesters questioned the need to clean the park in the first place.

    "This is the cleanest protest I've ever witnessed," said Emilio Montilla, 29, a laid-off teacher's assistant. "We take care of ourselves. We're self-sufficient."

    The notice from Brookfield Properties stated that the 12-hour, section-by-section cleaning is slated to begin 7 a.m. Friday and is part of daily upkeep, and that conditions have deteriorated in recent weeks because that upkeep was put on hold by the protesters.

    Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said in a statement Wednesday that the protest has "created unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park." He said Brookfield asked for police help to clear the park so it can be cleaned.

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    Protesters suspicious of plan to clean up NYC park
    By MEGHAN BARR and VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press | AP – 24 mins agotweet17Share2EmailPrintRelated ContentFILE - In this Oct. 5, 2011 file photo, a coalition of students and their supporters …

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    19 photos - Tue, Oct 11, 2011See latest photos »NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of the private park where Wall Street protesters are camped out gave them notice Thursday that it will begin enforcing regulations, which prohibit everything from lying down on benches to storing personal property on the ground.

    Protesters said they believe the effort is an attempt to end their encampment at lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, which triggered a movement against unequal distribution of wealth that has spread across the globe.

    The owner, Brookfield Properties, handed out a notice to protesters saying they would be allowed back inside after a planned park cleanup on Friday morning if they abide by park regulations.

    The notice lists regulations including no tents, no tarps or sleeping bags on the ground, no lying on benches and no storage of personal property on the ground. All those practices have been common at the park, where protesters have lived, slept and eaten for nearly a month.

    "They're going to use the cleanup to get us out of here!" said Justin Wedes, 25, a part-time public high school science teacher from Brooklyn. "It's a de facto eviction notice."

    It's not clear whether the regulations are new or how they would be enforced.

    Brookfield did not respond to requests for comment Thursday, but two uniformed police officers at the park confirmed that they escorted representatives of the company as the notices were passed out to demonstrators.

    Some protesters questioned the need to clean the park in the first place.

    "This is the cleanest protest I've ever witnessed," said Emilio Montilla, 29, a laid-off teacher's assistant. "We take care of ourselves. We're self-sufficient."

    The notice from Brookfield Properties stated that the 12-hour, section-by-section cleaning is slated to begin 7 a.m. Friday and is part of daily upkeep, and that conditions have deteriorated in recent weeks because that upkeep was put on hold by the protesters.

    Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said in a statement Wednesday that the protest has "created unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park." He said Brookfield asked for police help to clear the park so it can be cleaned.



    Holloway said the cleaning will be done in sections. Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited the protesters Wednesday to offer assurances.

    The protest, known as Occupy Wall Street, has sympathetic groups in other cities which each stage their own local rallies and demonstrations: Occupy Boston, Occupy Cincinnati, Occupy Houston, Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Philadelphia, Occupy Providence, Occupy Salt Lake, and Occupy Seattle, among them.

    In Portland, Ore., where a camp with more than 300 tents and tarps has sprung up in two downtown parks, police arrested eight people before dawn Thursday for blocking a street.

    In New York, police arrested four people Wednesday outside JP Morgan Chase offices where Wall Street protesters called in vain for a meeting with Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon.

    Protesters accused the police of rough handling. An Associated Press photographer witnessed police officers heading into the crowd of demonstrators to make the arrests.

    A lawyer for a woman pepper-sprayed during an action last month is demanding that the Manhattan district attorney prosecute an NYPD deputy inspector on an assault charge. Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the matter was being investigated by police internal affairs and the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

    More protests are planned in Toronto and Vancouver this weekend, and European activists also are organizing.

    The movement has also drawn reaction from world leaders, including President Barack Obama, former Polish President Lech Walesa and Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

    Walesa said Thursday that he supports the New York protest and is planning to either visit or write a letter to the protesters. He said the global economic crisis has made people aware that "we need to change the capitalist system" because we need "more justice, more people's interests, and less money for money's sake."

    Khamenei said Wednesday that the wave of protests reflects a serious problem that will ultimately topple capitalism in America. He claimed the United States is in a full-blown crisis because its "corrupt foundation has been exposed to the American people."

    Khamenei's remarks came a day after U.S. officials said the Obama administration plans to leverage charges that Iran plotted to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador into a new global campaign to isolate the Islamic republic.

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    It's Private Property? What part of do no harm would you need to know. That should be the code of any protest. Guess their nothing like the tea party! Of course the union people are not tasked trained to clean up and the elite among them are "too good" toclean up. I guess that leaves the private property owner and the tax payer.

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    Sanitation and clean-up are required for the health and well being of everyone. As for tolerating disruptive prostests, the voters of NYC can pass judgement upon Mayor Bloomberg and the city administration at the next election. Hopefully, neither fools nor political operatives will incite violence, but simply continue peaceful protests. In addition, Washington, DC should be the next protest destination for that is the source of this recession and political corruption unseen since the post Civil War era.

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    once again just like the wto we have a liberal movement going nowhere and created by the media for the purpose of moving its desired agenda.
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    Anti-Wall St. protesters ready to block clean-up
    By Michelle Nichols and Paul Thomasch | Reuters – 3 hrs ago

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement threatened on Thursday to block any efforts by clean-up crews to enter their camp to clear away three-weeks worth of debris, raising concern about a potential showdown between demonstrators and police.

    While New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said their protests can continue as long as laws are obeyed, the city has become concerned over the build-up of trash and general wear and tear on Zuccotti Park, headquarters for the demonstrators.

    Bloomberg visited protesters at the park on Wednesday night and informed them it would be cleaned by work crews on Friday, a move demonstrators said was a ploy to permanently drive them from their camp about five blocks from City Hall in lower Manhattan. "What's been said is that we can come back later, but of course we're skeptical," said Jeff Schurte, 29, who recently earned his master's degree in international development. "This could just be an excuse to get us out permanently."

    Owners of the park notified protesters that once each section was reopened after about four hours for clean up, rules would be enforced against camping and/or the erection of tents and other structures, lying down on the ground or benches, placing tarps or sleeping bags on the ground, storage of personal property. Occupy Wall Street pledged to resist any effort by cleaning crews or police to enter the park, asking protesters to create a human chain around the area to "peacefully/non-violently stand our ground," according to a post on its Facebook page.

    The movement, which began on September 17, plans to undertake its own massive clean-up effort and sent out requests for mops, brooms, garbage bags and power washers. But protesters also objected to Bloomberg's description of the camp. "I don't feel that the story presented by the city, by the mayor, is accurate, that the place is so unsanitary and filthy that there's vermin and things like that," said Schurte. "I haven't seen any vermin or cockroaches the whole time I have been here."

    Since an unremarkable beginning, the protests have spread across the United States, as people in other cities take up the cry against the billions of dollars in bank bailouts doled out during the recession that is allowing banks to resume earning huge profits while many average Americans struggle with lost jobs and savings.

    In Austin, Texas four protesters were arrested on Thursday for criminal trespassing after they refused to leave the protest site outside City Hall when city workers came to clean the area.

    Lauren DiGioia, 26, who has spent the past week at Zuccotti Park and is a member of Occupy Wall Street's sanitation committee, said she was concerned that violence could break out in New York if workers attempted to enter the camp. "I'm worried there is going to be a riot," she said.

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    Who's behind the Wall St. protests?
    By Mark Egan and Michelle Nichols | Reuters – 2 hrs 27 mins ago


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters say the rich are getting richer while average Americans suffer, but the group that started it all may have benefited indirectly from the largesse of one of the world's richest men. There has been much speculation over who is financing the disparate protest, which has spread to cities across America and lasted nearly four weeks. One name that keeps coming up is investor George Soros, who in September debuted in the top 10 list of wealthiest Americans. Conservative critics contend the movement is a Trojan horse for a secret Soros agenda.

    Soros and the protesters deny any connection. But Reuters did find indirect financial links between Soros and Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada which started the protests with an inventive marketing campaign aimed at sparking an Arab Spring type uprising against Wall Street. Moreover, Soros and the protesters share some ideological ground. "I can understand their sentiment," Soros told reporters last week at the United Nations about the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, which are expected to spur solidarity marches globally on Saturday.

    Pressed further for his views on the movement and the protesters, Soros refused to be drawn in. But conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh summed up the speculation when he told his listeners last week, "George Soros money is behind this."

    Soros, 81, is No. 7 on the Forbes 400 list with a fortune of $22 billion, which has ballooned in recent years as he deftly responded to financial market turmoil. He has pledged to give away all his wealth, half of it while he earns it and the rest when he dies. Like the protesters, Soros is no fan of the 2008 bank bailouts and subsequent government purchase of the toxic sub-prime mortgage assets they amassed in the property bubble.

    The protesters say the Wall Street bank bailouts in 2008 left banks enjoying huge profits while average Americans suffered under high unemployment and job insecurity with little help from Washington. They contend that the richest 1 percent of Americans have amassed vast fortunes while being taxed at a lower rate than most people.

    BANKING LIFE SUPPORT

    Soros in 2009 wrote in an editorial that the purchase of toxic bank assets would, "provide artificial life support for the banks at considerable expense to the taxpayer." He urged the Obama administration to take bolder action, either by recapitalizing or nationalizing the banks and forcing them to lend at attractive rates. His advice went unheeded.

    The Hungarian-American was an early supporter of the 2008 election campaign of Barack Obama, who will seek a second term as president in the November, 2012, election. He has long backed liberal causes - the Open Society Institute, the foreign policy think tank Council on Foreign Relations and Human Rights Watch. According to disclosure documents from 2007-2009, Soros' Open Society gave grants of $3.5 million to the Tides Center, a San Francisco-based group that acts almost like a clearing house for other donors, directing their contributions to liberal non-profit groups. Among others the Tides Center has partnered with are the Ford Foundation and the Gates Foundation.

    Disclosure documents also show Tides, which declined comment, gave Adbusters grants of $185,000 from 2001-2010, including nearly $26,000 between 2007-2009. Aides to Soros say any connection is tenuous and that Soros has never heard of Adbusters. Soros himself declined comment. The Vancouver-based group, which publishes a magazine and runs such campaigns as "Digital Detox Week" and "Buy Nothing Day," says it wants to "change the way corporations wield power" and its goal is "to topple existing power structures."

    SLOW START

    Adbusters, whose magazine has a circulation of 120,000 and which is known for its spoofs of popular advertisements, came up with the Occupy Wall Street idea after Arab Spring protests toppled governments in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, said Kalle Lasn, 69, Adbusters co-founder. "It came out of these brainstorming sessions we have at Adbusters," Lasn told Reuters, adding they began promoting it online on July 13. "We were inspired by what happened in Tunisia and Egypt and we had this feeling that America was ripe for a Tahrir moment."

    "We felt there was a real rage building up in America, and we thought that we would like to create a spark which would give expression for this rage."

    Lasn said Adbusters is 95 percent funded by subscribers paying for the magazine. "George Soros's ideas are quite good, many of them. I wish he would give Adbusters some money, we sorely need it," he said. "He's never given us a penny."

    Other support for Occupy Wall Street has come from online funding website Kickstarter, where more than $75,000 has been pledged, deliveries of food and from cash dropped in a bucket at the park. Liberal film maker Michael Moore has also pledged to donate money. The protests began in earnest on September 17, triggered by an Adbusters campaign featuring a provocative poster showing a ballerina dancing atop the famous bronze bull in New York's financial district as a crowd of protesters wearing gas masks approach behind her.

    Dressed in anarchist black, the battle-ready mob is shrouded in a fog suggestive of tear gas or fires burning. Some are wearing gas masks, others wielding sticks. The poster's message seems to be a heady combination of sexuality, violence, excitement and adventure. Former carpenter Robert Daros, 23, saw that poster in a cafe in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Having lost his work as a carpenter after Florida's speculative construction boom collapsed in a heap of sub-prime mortgage foreclosures, he quit his job as a bartender and traveled to New York City with just a sleeping bag and the hope of joining the protest movement.

    Daros was one of the first people to arrive on Wall Street for the so-called occupation on September 17, when protesters marched and tried to camp on Wall Street only to be driven off by police to Zuccotti Park - two acres of concrete without a blade of grass near the rising One World Trade Center. "When I was a carpenter, I lost my job because the financier of my project was arrested for corporate fraud," said Daros, who was wearing a red arm band to show he was helping out in the medic section of the Occupy Wall Street camp.

    Since its obscure beginnings, the campaign has drawn global media attention in places as far-flung as Iran and China. The Times of London, however, was not alone when it called the protests "Passionate but Pointless."

    Adbusters' co-founder Lasn dismisses that, reeling off specific demands: a tax on the richest 1 percent, a tax on currency trades and a tax on all financial transactions. "Down the road, there will be crystal clear demands coming out of this movement," he said. "But this first phase of the movement is messy and leaderless and demandless."

    "I think it was perfect the way it happened."

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    Occupy Wall Street Protester: Pay for My College... Because That’s What I Want
    October 13, 2011


    Interviewer: “Why should anyone pay for your college tuition?”

    Protester: “Why? It’s just, it’s just my opinion.”

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    That dude should first go to college and learn, like proper grammar, basic logic, and how to make a convincing argument, before he tries to get uppity at some smart talking big money stooge from National Review, and try to tell him that education is a human right, not a privilege, and that he mustn't become a debt slave slaving away in a cubicle while the bankers take credit for his work, cuz that's what they want to make him pay for even the most trivial education.

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    I don't know one way or the other, but I do know that this guy is very typical of the folks I have spoken with who generally view the answer to their problems in a "tax somebody else and help me" lens. In my observation such people are not a small number but are great in number. It is a common mentality that is very dangerous.

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    This child is so stupid that he can't even articulate the point on his sign, which makes me think someone else wrote it for him or told him what to put on a sign.

    The point of his sign (in liberal speak) is -- 'you guys bailed out all the banks, why not bail me out and pay for my tuition?'. It's a simple idea, but this kid can't even express that. ?!?! He goes into this rant about being able to express his opinions.
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    I agree to a point. Colleges and Universities push student loans and even push them to certain banks and financial institutions that then give kick-backs. These banks got bailed out but what happens when you graduate with $200K in student loan debt but cannot get a job or can only get a low paying , or part time work but your loan is $1400 a month? There are ways to put off or pay less for longer but who wants to wait until there 60 years old or older before their student loan debt is paid.

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    Occupy Wall Street: Turning violent?
    A demonstrator urges his fellow Occupiers toward a violent revolution in a video that has conservatives hopping mad

    posted on October 13, 2011, at 11:34 AM


    An Occupy Los Angeles protester has been caught on camera telling fellow demonstrators that nonviolence is a dead end. He calls Gandhi a "tumor" who created an Indian society in which 600 million people live in "maximum poverty." Instead, he says, Occupy Wall Street should use the bloody French Revolution as its model. (See the video below.) "The bourgeoisie won't go without violent means. Revolution!" the unidentified man says. "Long live revolution! Long live socialism!" His comments are met by a smattering of applause from the surrounding crowd. Is this just one guy's random rant, or is Occupy Wall Street turning dangerous?

    The reaction: Leftist uprisings start with talk of justice, says Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, "but always end up demanding redistribution — and the guillotine." Note to the journalists who painted the Tea Party as violent: I've never seen a Tea Party speaker advocate the "bloody" overthrow of America, as this guy does. This Marxist "clown" certainly isn't the first Occupier to call for destruction, says Susan Duclos at Wake Up America. President Obama wanted a class war to distract from his "dismal record," and he got one. Hold on, says Katty Kay at BBC News. Occupy Wall Street may be fueled by the same frustration that has people throwing stones in Athens, but "the most extraordinary thing about the U.S. protests so far" is not the level of anger — it's "that they have been so mild."

    Watch the un-Gandhi-like speech, and judge for yourself: http://video.theweek.com/embed/playe...urning-violent

    http://theweek.com/article/index/220...urning-violent

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    This whole wall street thing is completely bogus and has been from day one. It was started by radical socialist movements and backed by Soros, Acorn and the The Working Family Party. A bunch of loser community organizers trying to create a movement with some sort of power. But the majority are clueless hippies who want something for nothing. The quickest way to get them to get rid of them would be to offer them a job. Read more here about who's funding this fleabag circus: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/vide...ts-of-america/
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    But of course the FOX official propaganda is that anything to the left of Hitler is a left wing conspiracy. The same propgandists created and attempted to build the Teabag movement... Dont trust what anyone says that someone else says; hear and see for yourselves: http://anonops.blogspot.com/ http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i..._sam_adam.html

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    Bound to happen. That's how extreme anarchists and Big Labor operate when they don't get their ways early on--threats and worse. By the way, I'm not one of the so-called 1% that rules the universe, sad to say, so I must be one of the 99%. If so, these clowns certainly don't represent me no how, no way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hblueeyes View Post
    I agree to a point. Colleges and Universities push student loans and even push them to certain banks and financial institutions that then give kick-backs. These banks got bailed out but what happens when you graduate with $200K in student loan debt but cannot get a job or can only get a low paying , or part time work but your loan is $1400 a month? There are ways to put off or pay less for longer but who wants to wait until there 60 years old or older before their student loan debt is paid.

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    What about the thoughtful person who did not want to take on debt and either paid his tuition as he could, lengthening his college term or just didn't go because it was too expensive? Will they give that person money so he can now go and get the education and degree for a better job too? Will they pay back everyone who used money from their own pockets? Why should this kid get a free education (forgiveness of loans) when others must pay? Ultimately he is the one who will benefit from his degree. College (education) is an investment in oneself.
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    I went to college ... I paid as I went... working menial jobs while taking a full load. DH took out some loans ... not much ... and also worked while attending school. We had all the loans paid off in less then 10 years. It is about having priorities and taking care of responsibilities. We don't have "new" cars, we do without, scrimp and save... The problem with alot of these "Gen X's" is that they want the lifestyle of their parents... without ever putting in the work that their parents did to EARN what they have.
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    Eviction of Occupy Wall Street From NYC Park Postponed
    By ABC News | ABC News – 3 hrs ago


    City officials said early this morning they will postpone a cleanup of Zuccotti Park after earlier threatening to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been encamped here.

    As the announcement was made via the “people’s mic” just before 7 a.m., the crowd waved their brooms in triumph. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office tweeted that Brookfield Properties, owner of the park, (and not the city) decided to postpone cleaning. The city was informed “late last night.”

    Occupy Wall Street had vowed yesterday to stay in the park and try to prevent the cleaning crews from entering. “Friday morning, we’ll awake and position ourselves with our brooms and mops in a human chain around the park, linked at the arms,” the group posted on its Facebook page. “If NYPD attempts to enter, we’ll peacefully, non-violently stand our ground, and those who are willing will get arrested.”

    In a statement on Wednesday, Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said the protest, “created unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park.” He explained that Brookfield Properties, the real estate company that owns the park, asked for police assistance to empty the park in order for it to be cleaned.

    According to a notice from Brookfield Properties the cleaning was scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. on Friday.

    The owners of the park have informed protesters that following the cleaning, rules against camping, the erection of tents or other structures, placing tarps or sleeping bags on the ground, lying on the ground or on benches would be enforced.

    While the movement appears to be united in its desire to stay in the park, Occupy Wall Street remains leaderless without an organized message or list of demands.

    On the Late Show with David Letterman, Wednesday night, former president Bill Clinton said it’s time they took a proactive position. “I think on balance this is going to be a positive thing, but they’re going to have to transfer energies at some point to making some specific suggestions,” he said. “They need to be for something specific and not just against something because if you’re just against something, somebody else will fill the vacuum you create.”

    In a blog posted on his website, Clinton’s former vice president Al Gore expressed his support. “Count me among those supporting and cheering on the Occupy Wall Street movement,” he wrote.

    Cititgroup CEO Vikram Pandit said he understands why the protesters are frustrated. “Trust has been broken between financial institutions and the citizens of the U.S., and that is Wall Street’s job, to reach out to Main Street and rebuild that trust,” Pandit said on Wednesday according to Businessweek.

    Pandit even offered to speak with the demonstrators. “I’d talk about the fact that they should hold Citi and the financial institutions accountable for practicing responsible finance,” said Pandit. “I’d be happy to talk to them any time they want to come up.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/eviction-occup...105655439.html

    Laws don't mean **** in thie country anymore. They get enforced selectively, and ignored at will. When the people in government have no respect for law, the whole society is ready to break down.

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    He who waits for the government to solve his problems will wait forever.

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    They should make the protesters clean up the park, then enforce their rules.[/i]
    Laissez les bon temps rouler! Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.** a 4 day work week & sex slaves ~ I say Tyt for PRESIDENT! Not to be taken internally, literally or seriously ....Suki ebaynni IS THAT BETTER ?

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