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spidey
Trad climber
Berkeley CA
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/occupy-wall-street-protests-new-york_n_989221.html
Occupy Wall Street: NYPD Arrests 700 Protesters On Brooklyn Bridge [LATEST UPDATES]
Occupy Wall Street
Hundreds of people protesting Wall Street abuses were penned in and arrested by police Saturday, two weeks into an ongoing demonstration that has become known on Twitter as #OccupyWallStreet.
Centered at Zuccotti Park since September 17, the gathering that began as a call to arms from anti-consumerist magazine AdBusters has shown no sign of a slowdown.
The movement aims to "express a feeling of mass injustice," according to the group’s declaration for the occupation of New York City released Friday. The injustices include the foreclosure crisis, work place discrimination and student loan debt, among a list of others.
As HuffPost reported recently, the movement is less about specific policy demands and more about an expression of opposition to ever yawning economic inequality driven by Wall Street and its allies in Washington.
Calling themselves an American revolution, the protesters say they plan to stay in the park indefinitely.
Greg Basta, an official with New York Communities for Change, said that the organizers were encouraged by police on Saturday to march on the street area of the Brooklyn Bridge, instead of the walkway, then subsequently arrested them for marching in traffic. Two lead organizers, Jonathan Westin and Pete Nagy, were penned in by police. Westin managed to exit the police pen, but Nagy is missing and presumed detained by police, Basta told HuffPost.
"Police say some demonstrators spilled onto the roadway Saturday night after being told to stay on the pedestrian pathway," the Associated Press reported.
Similar demonstrations started Saturday in Washington and Los Angeles.
Shon Botado, a protester staffing a first aid station in New York, told The Huffington Post on Friday that he’s not leaving “until change is made to the financial structure.”
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Ron, I sure hope this gains momentum.
Again, it's not a partisan issue, some here have blinders on in regards to the news. It IS NOT a political issue, it's more broad than that.
It seems to be about fairness and accountability and I hope it is about empathy for your fellow man trumping greed.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Yeah, it's an inherently profitable business if you don't get super greedy.
A bank sells you a CD for $100,000 and pays 1/2 % interest on it these days. From that deposit they can loan out S1,000,000 of computer generated money for a mortgage and charge 5% on that money. 5% of 1,000,000 is $50,000 and to earn that they only had to give out $5,000 plus their overhead.
Nobody else has that sort of profit margin. It's only by leveraging, fudging and fooling dangerously that they can't make their business a cash cow, which it is, except the CEO don't want to take cuts in their multi-million dollars salaries to pay for bad calls they made trying to make ever greater profits
peace
Karl
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Weschrist,
They didn't listen to the cops. That's why they got arrested.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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We didn't listen to the British, that's how we got America
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Dave
Mountain climber
the ANTI-fresno
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"if they earned less bonus incentives in new contracts than the year before, then they got none of it."
That statement makes absolutely no sense, Cleo.
Did they earn less bonus, receive fewer incentives to sign contracts, or sign fewer contracts?
I have worked for and with consulting engineering firms and have not found your statement (confusing at it is) true for most companies in my industry.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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be afraid be very afrAID
FOR THIS IS A SMALL SAMPLE OF THINGS TO COME
or not.
just load up the 12 gauge and buy a big bag of bisanti rice,
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Oct 2, 2011 - 03:19pm PT
be afraid be very afrAID
FOR THIS IS A SMALL SAMPLE OF THINGS TO COME
or not.
just load up the 12 gauge and buy a big bag of bisanti rice,
Don't forget the bath salts.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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that makes sense.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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OK, here's an example of how I conduct business.
I recently finished a project where I was building a playground for a local nonprofit. We bid on it at a discounted hourly rate. We finished early and below budget. The three of us that were equal partners on the project took the dividend on the bid and gave it back to the nonprofit as a charitable, tax deductible donation.
I made exceptional money despite the intentional pay cut, and managed to give a cool thousand dollars back to the community center.
Not sure if this fits into this conversation, but I suspect it does.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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+1 for doing business that way Brandon, especially for a non profit
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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you can not buy a country,
you have to earn it,
what that means is beyond my comprehension,
niners win again, wtf?
lucy, you have some splainin to do,
ricky retardo
late nite hero for insomniacs, methodists, narco snorters, you name it, we got it at rays chowder house,
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Ok I give up.
Just exactly WHO is behind these protests?
Who is this organized group that rounded up the protestors?
And who exactly are the people or organization that will get this "funding"..
And where does this funding come from?
Honestly, I have been reading everything I can find, and can't see answers to the above.
Edit: one more question: the names of rich people that these protestors have taken money from illegally, as in without due process, please?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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How did Michael Moore and Al Gore have money taken from them by these protestors without due process?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Ah, got it now, thanks Wes.
I would have thought ACORN was behind the protestors.
Or more likely Anchor Babies.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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blue collar anarchy is on the way
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Brandon-
Your post above is exemplary and commendable of your business model. It is, on the face of it, fair and equitable for both parties (though, taking a look from a purely capitalist standpoint you may have walked backwards naked through a corn field)….
You have to understand that this/your standard is not the standard for the current/recent, and past business model…. Greed is.
And that is the problem.
That seems to be the reason for the failure of the American model.
That seems to be the reason for the failure of America.
And that seems to be the reason for the occupy wall street.
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