Unions Set to Join "Occupy Wall Street" Protests

Soulshiner wrote: What does it all mean?

"We're here for different reasons," said Vincent, whose father is also unemployed and recently went through a home foreclosure. "But at the end of the day, it all boils down to one thing, and that's accountability. We want accountability for the connection between Wall Street and the politicians."

"Something has to change," he told CNN. "We're out here because we're tired of what's been going on."

Giles Clarke, a 46-year-old freelance photographer and father of two, echoes Vincent's call for greater accountability.

"People have simply had enough," Clarke said. "We're living in an age where the inequality between high-end Wall Street and the (rest of us) is simply a gap that has become too big. Millions of people have lost their jobs. Millions of people have lost their homes."

There's been, Clarke said, "way too much cloak-and-dagger activity within the corridors of Wall Street" in recent years. "This is about raising awareness and a change of political discourse."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/03/politics/ ... ?hpt=hp_c1

Oh come on, the question was:"what is the objective?" Do you know what that objetive is or do you have to gather 500 different ones and try to make sense out of them?

The TEA party has cleary stated their objectives ...part of it is in the name. They want the Constitution followed, lower taxes, and less government. So far they are having an impact...good.

How long will this group stay around once the NY winter creeps in and freezes their Berkenstaulks? Without a clear objective, there can be no organized movement.

But at the end of the day, it all boils down to one thing, and that's accountability. We want accountability for the connection between Wall Street and the politicians."

Seriously? would they not be more effective mobbing Washington? After all, who makes the rules? These people are truly clueless. rofllol

Vice Lord wrote:

GoEDbels Schultz wrote:

Vice Lord wrote: Corporate Americas useful idiots, thats all they are, thats all they will ever will be

Didn't you work for corporate America?

No..I worked for a Labor Union.

O.K. ... Labor Union had a contract with Corporate America. If corporate america didn't contract with the labor union...you would have been ....working for corporate America either way....

Those with the money. That's who makes the rules.

Who do you think the politicians really work for? The people? Isn't that another piece of the Tea Party pie? Mad because we the people has been sold out to special interests and lobbyists? Yelling that the politicians work for US, the citizens who pay their salary, not the special interests that seem to have gotten hold of the national checkbook through their cozy relationships with the politicians? Where does the Tea Party think that all of this out of control spending cash is going to? Who is soaking up all of this government gravy? Does the Tea Party believe that the people who crashed the economy on Wall Street should have been bailed out? Why is the venom only reserved for one side of the transaction? Why does it appear that the Tea Party is afraid to upset the rich?

The protests seem to be about the greed and recklessness of Wall Street, the excesses of the rich in contrast with climbing unemployment and devaluing of the dollar. Protest has been happening around the world. It was going to come here sometime.

And for all the cracks about the dress and cleanliness of the protesters, do you really think that the revolution that has been hinted at and secretly wanted in this country is going to be launched by clean cut happy middle class people? The dirty pooly dressed masses have been taking out governments around the world.

There are a couple issues where the the people disagree with the politicians, one is illegal immigration. The working people of America don't want the competition, but Republican businessman like being able to underbid for labor and Dem politiicans like the idea of possible new Democrats.

The other issue is the Wall Street bailout. The TEA party was against it, the Left was against it, but somehow Washington still passed it. Guess we know which party is in power, the Wall Street party. And they paid both Republicans and Democrats to bail them out.

I remember a decade ago when Mexico defaulted on their loans. Washington bailed them out, which really meant, taxpayers paid off the Wall Street banks who made stupid loans to Mexico.