Forum Post: Do you use ATMs?
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 15, 2011, 6:49 p.m. EST by libertysquare1
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Your movement seems to be misleading. You preach fair business practices, which is respectable and necessary. Yet all the signs you physically hold promote an end to the banking system. Why blanket all businesses? Not all banks are evil. Nor their business segments. Does everyone in OWS not have ATM cards? Do you not have mortgages? or student loans? How does a society function without banks? Lastly, why do people only focus on the bailout for financial companies? What about Ford and GM?
Capitalism has it's pros and cons. Companies will always go where they can get the best workers for less. That's not their fault. Maybe we should be reflecting on ourselves ... We are lazy, unproductive and expensive on a relative basis
Absolutely. Get back to what really matters. Focus on yourself and family. Rather than what other people have.
Keep up the good work !! Have you thought about partnering with Dylan Ratigan's petition drive to take the money out of politics? Take on that cause, then tax reform. As long as corporations can move our jobs overseas and shelter their money off shore, the middle class doesn't have a chance. We MUST stop them.
be thankful
50% of the world lives on $2 a day or less. People in Africa are starving. In some countries like England they spend tax payer money on a King and Queen that did nothing to earn their title. Mexicans die trying to cross our border just to work hard and make less than 90% of the Americans. People have family members dying of cancer, and you consider taking money from the rich instead of being thankful for how good the US really is.
Why aren't there protesters in Hollywood? Should Ashton kutcher really make 700k per episode? Why do Hollywood entertainers get out of serving a sentence for drugs and spousal abuse? There are so many industries where the judicial system does not apply? Why do you only protest wall street?
Society functioned for a long time without ATM cards. They only became widely used (and then taken over by Visa/MC) in the late 80s early 90s.
What's your point? Do you have one? Or do you shove your cash under the mattress?
We've never said "no capitalism" as a movement. We've never said "no banks" either. We accept that the movement of capital as facilitated by financial institutions is what propels this economy forward. However, if you look more closely at this statement, it essentially means that the financial services industry has an incredible amount of power. If it chokes up and shuts down, so do we. If financial institutions decide to go on a bender, their high carries us for a while, but then their hangover equals severe recession to depression for us.
The only other institution or series thereof with that kind of power is the government, and the government is a) at least in theory directly accountable to the people who have to live with the consequences of its mistakes and b) subject to constant calls for its diminution, castration, and in some cases its elimination since 2008. What I'm trying to understand is why an industry so powerful was (and still is) subject to so little regulation and oversight.
You are soooo right!
Its also the facts that some of the banks have been lying too us they have been taking are homes when they dont even have proof of owning them they have been simply lying to us
"How does a society function without banks?"
The protest is against banks like Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, and other top dogs.
There are plenty of local options that aren't being protested. As well as Credit Unions.