Occupy Wall Street Demands
 

Here's a list of their demands.

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.

Lloyd J Hart 508-687-9153

That is comical

Lemme go rack up a shit-ton of debt so I can complain about it and get it all "forgiven". BRB going to the Chevy dealer

Wow

That can't be real.

How about going back to your homes, taking a shower and stop blocking traffic.

Seriously? Gotta be a hoax. Can you see any of that happening? I can see the entire US going all Mad Max, and possibly the entire world if some of those came true.

and whjat if their demands arent met, they going ot keep protesting? Its going to start to get cold soon so they will all go back to mommys house to keep warm.

they may have some good ideas/intentions but obviously no clue on how to impliment them.

Wasn't this already posted?

And I'm betting someone made it up. Unless I'm mistaken, there's no "organization" that speaks for this entire "movement"

It was posted, but in the War Room. A lot of people don't have access to that section.

Yep, calling fake. I've spent some time on the occupy wall st section if reddit, and the closest thing to demands I've seen are that they want campaign finance reform to limit politicians from receiving unlimited monies from big companies, and for government to stop saving banks that are failing because of bad decisions on their part. Oh, and fair taxation of individuals no matter what each persons economic status is, and same for business

I thought they wanted free pizza and portapotties lol

The Chicago Board of Trade putting "We are the 1%" signs in their windows overlooking the protesters. TFM

These guys lost all credibility the moment the National Unions became part of it. What ever message or crdibility left when you get into bed with parasites like Hoffa Jr

No way that's real. Nobody is that naïve

I thought that too at first. They've spread to other cities and have come to Atlanta (I guess filming for "the walking dead" has finished and they need something else to do). Our local news ferrets have been running around talking to them.

They interviewed this one "lady" at the UGA protest. She stated "My boyfriend lives in Valdosta (located in south GA at the Florida line) and works there. She goes on to say "I'm a music major and wanted to be one since I was a little girl but I can't find a job there". Somehow that is Wall Street's fault despite odds are she'd be a government worker.

Well guess what. I've wanted to be a fucking astronaut since I was a little boy. But I don't have an aeronautical degree and if I did they only send maybe 20 different people into space a year out of thousands who wish they could. It's not feasable for a lot of people. Sure you can try and you should, but if you don't get strapped to the giant bottle rocket then you don't blame NASA for not sending a space shuttle every week.

I think some people out there really want change or something done and really care. The rest I feel are there just to "fight the system", be cool, or cause trouble.

How many jobs of ANY kind are in Valdosta? How about MOVE to where there ARE jobs.

What a joke........Bunch of entitlement-syndrome kids.

Well a funny part is I was in Athens (where UGA is) a few weeks ago. I stopped to eat right across from where the protesters would be. I remember a "now hiring" sign on the door. I can't believe in a school with 50,000+ students they can't find someone who wants to work.

I'm also sure you can find plenty of jobs in Valdosta. It isn't that small of a town (they do have a university and AFB down there). But I think I remember her saying something about her boyfriend doing engineering. Gee, your BF got a real degree that is in demand and you got an easy degree because you enjoyed it.

Socialism, communism, marxism or whatever you want to call the anti-capitalist movement they are espousing really sounds wonderful. If everyone could truly be equal.

History has told us this won't work for 2 reasons

1) people are not equal. There will always be people who believe they are "better" and expect to get "more" than others.

2) when you take the profit motive away, there is no wealth created and no economic growth. Eventually the system runs out of money and crashes.

You can't pay enough in taxes to pay your own salary, so where does the money come from?

Just a random post with no citation.

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http://www.politicususa.com/en/snl-occupy-wall-street

I think that SNL actually hit the nail on the head wit their criticism of Fox news over their coverage of the OWS protests

My daughter, after talking about the protesters here.... "yeah, well, I want a pony." She's 17.

Then she deserves a fucking pony! What kind of crappy parent are you that doesn't give your daughter a fucking pony. Get off your lazy ass and get her the four legged beast.

What the fuck, over.


Actually, I havnt heard of anyone there asking for a pony

So get her a Mustang :lol:

thats cuz they're prob. asking for Unicorns. if you're gonna dream, dream BIG!

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/10/us/occ...html?hpt=hp_c1

Well, Sharpton is involved now.

If thehy wanted to have any credibility thats def gone now.Maybe th ecops will tazer his sorry ass, now that would be worht watching LOL

Why the fuck should she get her a pony? That's Wall Street's responsibility.

Maybe after I get MY pony.... :lol:

They're completely wasting their time. They might as well be shouting obscenities at turtles. If they put this kind of effort into learning about the people representing them in all levels of government and actually voted for a person who represents their beliefs, rather than the one with the best stylist, they might actually be able to affect some change. But that would require more thought than what goes into making a snarky sign.

Quoted for extreme truth. Bet they put more effort into American Idol voting...

Most are probably working at Starbucks or Office Depot, angry that their music degree couldn't land them a "real" job. Meanwhile, one of their fellow employees with only a HS diploma but a better attitude gets promoted over them. :lol:

I thought Starbucks, Panera, and Urban Outfitters actually paid decent. It's why their shitty food/products are so overpriced.

Granted it's pretty shitty when you spend $200,000 at a fancy private school (paid for by their banker dad). But you should have known that when you signed up for Conflict Management or a business degree that everyone and their brother and sister and father and mother and 3rd cousin's best friend's dog has.

I want a pony too by the way. And I want it pink damnit.

I'm just so frustrated by all of them, JUST for the reasons you've put above. I will say, I was highly impressed with my daughter's boyfriend. He went to dinner with us and the entire conversation at the table was about the protesters and their demands. His discussion was right there.

Makes me proud... maybe there IS hope for the future.

Maybe the Occupy Wall Street people will turn it to a viable political movement, the left wing counterbalance to the right wing tea party. I doubt it, but maybe.:shrug:

I am taking chewie down there on saturday if I work the WTC, he will be kicking ass and taking names :lol:

Chewie groping hippy boobs would be epic.

He needs a shot by the memorial name things too, preferably before he touches hippy boobs.

I gotta take him to the clinic first and get him his shots, remember hes been with derf so who knows what he contracted

I doubt it would get as much support, but would be equally hijacked by the hardcore...

You do have some celebs lending support now so they can get soem face time, and the esteemed rev al sharpton is having his radio show broadcast from down there today so that does wonders for their credibility.

The protests should occur in DC instead, because politicians have only themselves to blame for allowing big business to enslave them. WTF is up with tax subsides to oil companies? Like that's an industry that really needs a break.

They have the right lobbyists throwing the right money at the right senators to push through bills that are beneficial to their bottom line.

More like hijacked by the somewhat saner.

I've never been to a Tea Party but I don't ever recall someone taking a dump on a cop car. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml

I kind of want to go to the Atlanta one with a sign that says "I have a right to a free unicorn". I'm also going to steal their high dollar tents that they got from REI, Ipads, and car. When they bitchc I'm just going to tell them it is socialism in action.

your wish has been granted

http://gawker.com/5848647/occupy-dc-...ffice-building

From above article:
"The goal is to "shut down" the building. This could be difficult. Arrests have begun."

Should we go ahead and start the "pigs taze innocent protesters" thread?

Its only a matter of time. There was soem controversey in NYC about cops who had a hard time arresting 4 teenage girls who hopped the turnstyles in the subway. Sadly the cops did the right thing so no video to bash them on.

They've spread to Central park (kinda)
They have set up a little protest fest right across the street from the Apple Store.

maybe steve jobs will shower them with lightning bolts

one can only hope

"Down with evil wall street"
"Down with greedy CEO"s!!"
"We love you Steve Jobs!!"

that sums it all up :lol:

It's funny how much Steve hated his fan boys too. Steve really really didn't like the people who bought his products, but loved their money.

A true capitalist

Can you blame him? I don't like most people who buy his products. They're generally ill-informed idiot fanboys who immediately dismiss any competition and claim some sort of superiority because they spent money on a product. There's a reason the smug, hipster idiot apple fan boy stereotype exists: there's a shitload of truth to it.

Or maybe they just found it easy to use, and aren't the type of person to spend time re-rooting & customizing an android phone.

If they knew what that meant, that would be an excellent point. Instead, they're people who haven't touched the competition, don't know a thing about what features are available on other phones, and are quick to jump on the shit talking bandwagon without being even remotely informed. Their iPhone is a status symbol and somehow owning it makes them better people. And while they may derided rooting, they have no problem trumpeting the benefits of jailbreaking. Not even saying that shit behavior doesn't happen elsewhere, because Android and Crackberry people can be pretty damn myopic. But the iPhone fan tards are infinitely worse.

If Jobs wasn't around, something else would have filled the void.
Creative people tend to be creative
If macs weren't around they would just use whatever else.

Amiga

Sounds just like the poser GSX-R boys around Panama City to me

Not everyone who uses Apple products are fan boys. They will try other brands and manufacturers. They will research before they end up buying Apple. Hell, I have a Mac.

To be a fan boy, you have to unconditionally love the products and find no fault. You won't consider any other brand, no matter if it's better or the cost difference. Steve wasn't a big fan of those people. Look up the funny emails some of them got, he was a prick. LOL

He tried to run out on his kid.
He shut down all charitable giving at apple.
I hear he would go to dog parks dressed as Peter Pan, find the cutest puppy there and then run up and bite off the puppies penis...preferably in front of a small child.
I hear he gave Ronald Reagan AIDS back in the 80's and that's what really killed Reagan a few years back.
I saw a discovery channel special back in the 90's that revealed Steve Jobs to be the one responsible for the Crack epidemic. Rumors were that the CIA did it for the lulz but they showed documents that indicated that Steve would register at hotels under the name "Caroline Ingrid Anders" between the years 1976 and 1983 and would frequent various inner cities.
I saw on Fox and Friends that Steve Jobs convinced Fox broadcasting to kill Arrested Development and that his Arab father would drive around arabia selling chickens to goat herders.
Fucking goat herders...

I agree. When I went looking for a netbook/small laptop for school I looked into apple. I thought they were sturdy looking laptops (since I am rough with them). But the price drove me away. It think it was $500+ for a similar computer to my Toshiba. If the Macbook was only $100 more I may have considered it.

Here at my school though it if you have an apple you are a fanboy/girl/chaz bono. My theory is that if you see someone with an Imac (or is it iMac?), then it is a good guess they weren't the one who paid for it nor could they tell you the cost of it. On the college level. Which of course makes up a good portion of the protesters. They're also the same people who bitch about having to spend $100 on a text book but won't blink twice when dropping that on a pair pants.

But to each their own. Well actually no not to each their own. That's not fair, I can't afford an iMac or even an iPod. I want one of those too (with my unicorn)

Dude, that describes practically the entire consumer public. Apple fans just have an unfortunate love of skinny jeans to go along with the attitude.

You sure they aren't just lining up early for the iPhone 4S release?

Who says they can't multitask? I bet they took Conflict Resolutions and French Feminism at the same time in college.

I saw this on another forum I frequent and thought this was pretty spot on for the O.W.S.


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Brilliant. :lol:

Buy the way, WTF is this thread about, anyway?

Oh right, protesters. Dirty hippie fags, every single one of them. These stupid bastards think they might be able to make some kind of "change". They're not like us. They have yet to realize that the American people have virtually no control over their own government. They haven't given up yet.

But they will. Most of them anyway. Some will continue to write letters to the editors of free local newspapers, up until they die of lupus in an organic hemp yurt hospice. At least, that's been my experience.

It's a pity they can't be like ole Samuel Adams (American patriot and beer guzzler). That guy hated corporations for realz yo. He was seriously pissed when a certain big company started going broke, and the British government raised the tax on their products, in order to bail them out.

Nope, today's protesters can't hold a candle to that guy. His protesters had costumes and shit. They vandalized stuff too. They were bad-ass.

Now what have we got? A bunch people in silly hats, holding up signs, and breaking stuff. Fucking amateurs.

And what are they bitching about? Corporations controlling our tax structure for their own gain.

The nerve.

JC

That shit's hilarious :lol

True.

I didn't see one Amish guy in that whole crowd.

Wait. That's it. This is how we get our country back.

Here's the plan:

Phase One- We get the hippies to cook up ten million pounds of pot brownies. Then, we hold a ginormous party. We invite all the lobbyists, and CEO's, as well as Congress, and other useless assholes. It will be easy to get them to come. We just promise them all a chance to win their very own state, at the silent auction.

Phase Two- As soon as everybody is ripped, we have Cher yell, "Hey everybody, there's a bunch cool buggies out front!".

Phase Three-The Amish wave and dance around the buggies.

Phase Four- When all the people stream out of the party, we have the Tea Party folks mow them down with Pre-Clinton ban assault rifles.

Problem solved, everybody's happy, world peace breaks out, and we all go out for a beer, (except for the Amish, who we blame this whole thing on, before we send them all to Gitmo).

JC

:lol::lol::lol:

I am not opposed to standing up and saying ENOUGH. I'm not even opposed to protesting. But, to come up with such ridiculous "demands" makes it more of a joke [with a bad punch line] than a protest.

Those here in Austin don't even know what they are protesting. Talking to a group of them, they are "celebrating" being part of the 99%. Um.....

One of the local radio stations here had a guy out in the park where they are camped out in downtown Atlanta, interviewing several of them. When each one was asked "What are your list of demands?" none of them could list even one. :skep:

These people have been camped out in a park for over a week that the people who live across the street from can't even walk their dog in or use after 11PM without risk of receiving a fine from a police officer.

Amurrrica.

You know, the more I look at it, the more I just see it as people who are dissatisfied with the condition of the nation blowing off some steam.
It's their time, it's public property, and if it makes them feel like they're doing something worthwhile, then good on them. :idk:

I think if a lot of them voice displeasure with the govt and vote then things may start to get better for now it will be the cool thing to do for another week or 2 u ntill it starts getting cold out then they will pack up and go home.

I'm not sure what y'all are expecting from a grass-roots movement full of Joe and Jane Q. Public. Most people can't pull their head out of their ass to drive, let alone articulate a vague, growing dissatisfaction with the state of our country. Personally, I think most people have been letting others do the thinking for them for way too long, and it's gonna take a while before they (we?) can wrap their heads around why they're even pissed.

Fixed. Woodruff Park is the home of hte homeless. All those GSU, Agness Scott, and Emory students camped out there are ruining the public restroom the homeless have come to love.

Dumbasses are supposed to be doing the same thing, today, on Bay Street in Toronto (our financial district). Our school of business is on the fringes of it. Wonderful.

Personally, I'm more concerned about the news that a dozen zombies fell off a scaffold, on the set of the new Resident Evil movie. More concerned because:

1) I didn't get to snog Mila J.

2) THERE'S ZOMBIES!!

We have a winner.

We've been getting fucked for so long, so hard, from so many different directions, it's hard to know where to even begin.

Yes, the list of demands on page one is moronic. It ain't gonna happen. But, the media has a habit of focusing on the "extreme". They're not looking for people with articulate points, they're looking for whack jobs that make for an interesting story.

I doubt that the "serious" protesters want to completely rid the world of corporations. They have to buy their crap from somebody, right? However, when the Supreme Court decides that corporations are "people", and can basically buy the government they want, while regular schmucks like you and I, effectively have no say in how this country is run, I think they have a legitimate beef.

Sure, fifty percent of them are probably nut bags. Welcome to America.

JC

I will give you this, I like this much better than the tinfoil hat society grabbing their guns...

its still early, I think everyones worried or waiting for one of these to turn violent and see where it goes.

What's funny, is that the tin foil people, and the "hippies", are bitching about the exact same things, and they don't know it, or won't admit it.

JC

It's not the same.

The hippies have bongos.

I know.

I hippies are just so much more subtle.

Yeah, well, the other side has Ted Nugent.

Maybe they should start a band...

JC

Ted Nugent actually has talent. Bongo drummers suck at music which is why they play the bongo.

I do not like our government giving money to private businesses (or even other countries). But I'm pretty sure that most of the banks have paid back the government. Many CEOs didn't take the bonuses they were contracted to get (just to save face).

Fukitt I'm headed up there now.


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That's because they're too busy ridiculing each other for their respective stances on non-issues like gay marriage, immigration, school prayer, abortion, and tax rates for the wealthy even though none of them are wealthy themselves. :wtfru:

:lol

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That may be so, but all my favorite bands have a drummer.

Ninja please, the banks ARE the fucking government now. Have been for a long time.

Bingo.

They've been playing both sides against the middle, since I can remember. It's all just a distraction to keep us occupied, while they quietly (hell, they don't even try to hide it anymore) line their pockets.

The fucked up part, (thanks founding fathers, assholes) is that the only people who can change it, are the ones in charge, and the banks own those jerkoffs outright.

JC

I wish these wall street whiners would just shut up or we let us shoot them.

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I'd like to meet this kid and shake his hand.

I wonder what he would have done if there were no jobs, or the jobs college students usually take were being held by long term employees? Or if the scholarships weren't there?

This man is more like the .5%.

Seems like a moot point. Given that he's responding to the "99%" slogan, he's done all this recently. He got those jobs and those scholarships in the middle of the economic downturn, so apparently it's possible.

there are always jobs, whether they are "below" you is a personnal choice
and there are always old cronies who won't retire.......its the way of the world.

we have a 75+ y.o. engineer and 1 that this is his first job out of college.

I'm not saying that his claim isn't impressive. It most certainly is. What I'm saying is, he's not the norm. He's more of the exception.

http://ireport.cnn.com/blogs/ireport...ent?hpt=hp_bn2

Apparently the majority of protestors are angry over "government corruption." And the list Racer X posted to start this thread was a user-submitted list to the OccupyWallSt.com web forum, not an "official" list of demands any more than my hate thread is official for this forum.

The spirit of the 53% appeals to me at a certain level but I take the actual "pics" with a grain of salt. Especially when the campaign was started by an individual with ties to to GOP. I'm not implying that this is a viral marketing campaign but it would make perfect sense for certain agencies to plant pics and stories.

Living below your means is certainly the exception.

Being able to is not.

Welcome to udmans thread.
Has been covered already