Occupy Wall Street protest

[Faldur]

I've been watching this thread for awhile as well as the OWS coverage in the media and one of the things I've noticed is that both sides seem to forget a key factor in this whole debacle. Regardless of which side of the debate you're on, we are all living in this country together and our infrastructure is crumbling around us. And with nearly 14 million people out of work, our tax revenues are also suffering, so no meaningful repairs are being made. When the bridge collapses it won't matter what your social strata is, everyone on it is going in the river.

Well keep your water wings in the passenger seat. Its one of the results of spending all your money on candy and toys, there is nothing left to pay the rent.

[BluegrassCat]

Well keep your water wings in the passenger seat. Its one of the results of spending all your money on candy and toys, there is nothing left to pay the rent.

See the Tea Party cheers the idea of a bridge collapsing under hundreds of people, just like they cheer executions and letting people without insurance die.
And btw infrastructure repair is exactly what Obama has been pushing. Things that should be nonpartisan have become partisan and it's not Obama's doing.

[Stavros]

Come on Faldur, you can do better than that. BigDF is suggesting that while the OWS protestors turn their gaze (and their impotent rage) skywards to the boardrooms of Wall St, the streets around them are falling into disrepair. I know you loathe Keynesian economics, but it would be a better use of your resources to marshal a million young men and get them re-furbishing your infrastructure, from Highway 61 to the Hoover Dam -and at least it's an option. In one post you have predicted a victory for Tea Party enthusiasts in next year's elections, which suggests you should be optimistic about the future, yet you let yourself down in your latest post- it beggars belief that Americans have run out of ideas...and if those troops of young workers were out there re-building your country, they would be paying their own rent, spending some money in local shops, and probably not hanging around Wall St whining about the filthy rich...

[Faldur]

See the Tea Party cheers the idea of a bridge collapsing under hundreds of people, just like they cheer executions and letting people without insurance die.
And btw infrastructure repair is exactly what Obama has been pushing. Things that should be nonpartisan have become partisan and it's not Obama's doing.

Lol, you don't have the money.. maybe you should of thought of Infrastructure before you squandered your fortune. And your dramatic comment about letting people die was very touching.. you do know there is not a state in the union where a citizen would be refused medical care, weather the means to pay was there or not? I'm not for the federal government buying peoples food, am I starving the world also?

[Faldur]

Ok, sorry to those that frequent the political forum, but this little gem just has to be shared. A pissed off hippie from Mom's basement declares war on Oakland.. God I'm going to miss this shit when its gone.

[MdR Dave]

Seriously, they're called "teabaggers". They've had the Koch brothers' balls in their mouths since day one.

The worst part is that most of them don't even know it.

[BluegrassCat]

Lol, you don't have the money.. maybe you should of thought of Infrastructure before you squandered your fortune. And your dramatic comment about letting people die was very touching.. you do know there is not a state in the union where a citizen would be refused medical care, weather the means to pay was there or not? I'm not for the federal government buying peoples food, am I starving the world also?

The Tea Party lol's as the country collapses. And it's not "my" dramatic comment, it was shouted to the rooftops by the vicious mob that would rather see American burn than become a country where whites are the minority.

[Faldur]

Come on Faldur, you can do better than that. BigDF is suggesting that while the OWS protestors turn their gaze (and their impotent rage) skywards to the boardrooms of Wall St, the streets around them are falling into disrepair. I know you loathe Keynesian economics, but it would be a better use of your resources to marshal a million young men and get them re-furbishing your infrastructure, from Highway 61 to the Hoover Dam -and at least it's an option. In one post you have predicted a victory for Tea Party enthusiasts in next year's elections, which suggests you should be optimistic about the future, yet you let yourself down in your latest post- it beggars belief that Americans have run out of ideas...and if those troops of young workers were out there re-building your country, they would be paying their own rent, spending some money in local shops, and probably not hanging around Wall St whining about the filthy rich...

Unfortunately Stavros I just don't see how any of that can be paid for. Most states are broke, due to irresponsible spending. The federal government is broke, we can't afford it unless we cut back the spending so we can re-allocate the funds. In my opinion, if you went forward with a proposal such as that you would have the finest roads and infrastructure in a bankrupt country. It would be like remodeling your kitchen while your house was being foreclosed on. To me it makes no sense.

[Faldur]

where whites are the minority.

Give me one fact to back up that statement.

[BluegrassCat]

Give me one fact to back up that statement.

This is from 2009, it may have accelerated since then.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/us/18census.html