Forum Post: 11 reasons why OWS protestors are hypocrites part 1
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 6, 2011, 8:50 p.m. EST by narcosys
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First off i want to say that i sympathize with your movement. It makes sense. your base reasons that started this whole thing, dealing with the Federal Reserve and Crony Capitolism, is a very obviuos problem. But it seems to have been taken over by liberal organizations to further their cause. Many of the programs supporting you guys is affiliated with George Sorous, who himself is a rich corporate businessman that is in bed with the government. Do not let yourselves succumb to the influence of a partisanship, stay un-affiliated and push your cause with honor. The following is something that i found online, and have seen to hold true with the many interviews of some narrowminded protestors. Given i understand that not all the protestors are like this, but please keep true to yourself.
Here’s a nice interesting read that many of the OWS protestors fail to admit to. 11 Reasons why the OWS protestors are Hypocrites.
1 Occupy Wall Street says that they are angry that the big Wall Street banks “have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give executives exorbitant bonuses.”
Well, if Barack Obama and John McCain had not aggressively pushed for the Wall Street bailouts back in 2008, they never would have happened. After Obama took office, he rammed through even more bailouts. The reality is that you could easily call Barack Obama “the king of the Wall Street bailouts”.
2 Occupy Wall Street says that they are angry that the big Wall Street banks “have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.”
Yet they ignore the fact that 3 of the top 7 donors to Obama’s campaign in 2008 were the very Wall Street banks that the Occupy Wall Street movement is protesting. Once again, Barack Obama will be taking in huge amounts of money from the wealthy and from big Wall Street banks for his run in 2012. So why aren’t they complaining about that
3 One of the big themes of the Occupy Wall Street protests is the fact that Wall Street has way too much influence and power over the federal government.
Well, the Obama administration is absolutely packed with ex-executives of giant corporations and big Wall Street banks. Earlier this year, Michael Brenner wrote the following about the current composition of the Obama administration…. Wall Street’s takeover of the Obama administration is now complete. The mega-banks and their corporate allies control every economic policy position of consequence. Mr. Obama has moved rapidly since the November debacle to install business people where it counts most. Mr. William Daley from JP Morgan Chase as White House Chief of Staff. Mr. Gene Sperling from the Goldman Sachs payroll to be director of the National Economic Council. Eileen Rominger from Goldman Sachs named director of the SEC’s Investment Management division. Even the National Security Advisor, Thomas Donilon, was executive vice president for law and policy at the disgraced Fannie Mae after serving as a corporate lobbyist with O’Melveny & Roberts. The keystone of the business friendly team was put in place on Friday. General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt will serve as chair of the president’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Most of us don't support Obama.
Hello again, Gamma. I think you are wrong about Obama. I would hazard to guess that 95% of the participants in NYC voted for Obama.
But how many of them regret that now?
If this movement gets swallowed by the current political machinery, Democratic Party included, it will become effectively impotent.
I hope they all regret it now, but I doubt it very much. Liberals cling to Obama because they have nothing else left, except maybe the unions.
"Liberals cling to Obama"? C'mon. Obama has been a total disappointment. He's barely done anything he said he would do, and he's caved on things like EPA regulations for no reason at all.
Sure, most of them did vote for Obama (although I didn't - I voted Green). But they are (at least some of them) realizing that that was a mistake, and the widespread optimism that Obama gave them during his election campaign has now turned into a bitter lesson for them that both parties are corrupt and that simply "fighting the GOP" at the ballot box isn't going to be a very effective strategy.
Well said. I hope you are correct.
Well, yeah, me too =)
the movement does not support obama, so this has nothing to do with us and is merely a far right attack on obama spamming us with nonsense and BS.
Heres a few more to add...
Taylor guitars are financed by GE Capital Facebook was partially funded by Goldman Sachs Their iPhones, Blackberries...etc. Which could never have been invented without the financial system
This ain't about a single person, and Obama hardly has enough power to change things on his own anyways.
I think someone just really doesn't like Obama.
You realize issues like all that you've pointed out are bigger than just that one man you love to criticize so much. Educate yourself on how our government works and what holding the position of President really entails.
You are taking a group of very diverse people and putting them into a box that suits your argument. We don't all support Obama even if that is what some media groups are trying to portray us as.
I can see by your font size you really want change and you should seriously try to gather support with these people for these things instead of just pointing fingers. We are not the enemy.
Stay optimistic Stay involved. http://getsatisfaction.com/occupy
You meant to say, 11 reasons you don't like Obama.
// Barack Obama and John McCain had not aggressively pushed for the Wall Street //
They pushed for the Wall Street bailouts, in part, because the finance industry as a whole consistently funds our political system, quite handsomely. The government doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds after all. http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/
Obama admin is part of the problem, there has been near seamless continuity between the Bush and Obama admins, from foreign policy, failure to enact REAL regulation (we need Glass-Steagall), allowing the revolving door between Big Finance/Gov/SEC, reducing conflicts of interest (OCC regulates banks and is funded by them for example), and allowing corporations to mitigate their risk taking by socializing their losses. So what exactly is your point?
The real problems, at least concerning inequality started in the early 70's. Many of these issues are largely apolitical, transcend political party, and cannot be dealt with by our current false paradigm of Republican and Democrat. The Republicans and Democrats would like you to believe they are philosophical opposites, when in fact, they largely serve the same masters. It's a brilliant tactic, tell the voters they have a choice and propagate the illusion that the voters is actually controlling the destiny of the Country, meanwhile, wealth and power funnel ever upwards.
Welcome to oligarchical neo-feudalism!
Simply beautiful, narcosys. I think I'm gonna cry.
You will find that a lot of these folks can't deal with the truth. They'll call you every name in the book, but they know you are right. Thanks!
BIG BAD DUMMY
Ohhhh!.....this one goes to eleven!
Can't wait!
SAY IT TO MYFACE. I GONNA CORNHOLE YOU.
lol