The "Occupy Wall St" Protest

homecomfort wrote:IF we did not have the "LEFT WING" , hippies and all, this country would be spiraling out of control with only a right wing, heading toward certain doom.

franco b wrote:Clouds of tear gas choked central Athens ahead of the vote as riot police intervened to separate rival demonstrators who fought with firebombs and stones outside parliament, leaving one man dead and dozens injured.

This is what happens when a country lives on borrowed money. It will take longer to happen here but it inevitably will unless the current practices change. Those changes will have to be as dramatic as Ron Paul advocates.

The bullshit jargon of those in charge will change to the easier to understand jargon of the streets. Kill,maim, rape, loot.

homecomfort wrote:IF we did not have the "LEFT WING" , hippies and all, this country would be spiraling out of control with only a right wing, heading toward certain doom.

franco b wrote:Adherence to the Constitution and balanced budgets are not my idea of doom.

jpete wrote:

franco b wrote:Adherence to the Constitution and balanced budgets are not my idea of doom.

If only that were the goal....

jpete wrote:Or we could get Perry.

"It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression."--Eric Hoffer

mikeandgerry wrote:Similarly, I have also noticed that the more expensive the degrees get, and the more they are touted as indispensable credentials for any political, social or environmental decision making, the less real value the degree has in actually accomplishing beneficial change.