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Does the Occupy Wall Street movement represent the 99%?

Does the Occupy Wall Street movement represent the 99%?

  • Yes, they very much represent their complaints & agenda.

    Votes: 11 14.5%
  • They represent some of their complaints & agenda, but also have their own unique/radical ideas.

    Votes: 20 26.3%
  • Not really, their ideas are more represent the complaints & goals of the poor and radicals.

    Votes: 17 22.4%
  • Not at all! They only speak for a radical fringe!!

    Votes: 28 36.8%

  • Total voters
    76
  • Poll closed .

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I know there are many individual OWS movements around the country, but in general, do you believe that the OWS movement represents the grievances, complaints, & desires of the 99% of the USA?

Keep in mind, the 99% means those folks in the USA who make less than $379,000 a year.
 
I know there are many individual OWS movements around the country, but in general, do you believe that the OWS movement represents the grievances, complaints, & desires of the 99% of the USA?

Keep in mind, the 99% means those folks in the USA who make less than $379,000 a year.

It might represent much of the complaints, but it certainly doesn't with respect to course of action
 
The 99% thing is just a slogan, but of course the semantic spinsters in the media took it literally and started to use it against the movement.

I think the grievances are accurate, but their approach to dealing with them was sloppy. Hopefully the next wave is more organized, but I'm sure the government is already mobilizing to make it more difficult.
 
It is the usual from these types...

plenty of complaining with no real solutions...

happens all the time. When asked for a solution, they have none
 
My guess is they represent the radicals, economic failures, welfare beggars and full fledged libtards that comprise 25 - 30% of the population. Their message is just as confusing and illiterate as the messages we get from the group I described. I really do hope they come back in the fall of next year and start up the same stupid ship they just ended. They are the gift that keeps on giving.
 
I know there are many individual OWS movements around the country, but in general, do you believe that the OWS movement represents the grievances, complaints, & desires of the 99% of the USA?

Keep in mind, the 99% means those folks in the USA who make less than $379,000 a year.

I might make less than $379,000 a year,heck I make less than $100,000 a year but those people do not represent me. I do find it amusing that some time ago these Occu-tards were like lets tax the **** out of those who make more than $250,000 a year. Now they are pretending that they are somehow on the side of these people whom they were trying to screw in taxes. The only 99% these Occu-tards represent are the Occu-tards at the protests, not everyone else, the rest of the people at the Occu-tard rallies are the brain dead douche bag celebrities trying to dick ride these rallies for fame.
 
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hell, the Occupy movement represents the beliefs of some of the 1%
Warren Buffet has told us that there is a class war going on and it is being lost by the 99%
 
OWS started with one great singular message: we want our jobs back.

But they turned quickly to the left, and now spew so many messages that their original message is pretty much drowned out.

They have succeeded in raising much support across the nation .. from the left.

And they have also succeeded in creating much opposition .. from the right.

Thus they are effectively powerless in reaching and representing the great majority.

And now anyone sporting the original singular message, staying centristly true to what we need to do to accomplish that goal, will be written off as being just another splinter of OWS.

OWS couldn't have done worse harm to the American political process, as well as to any chance of getting our jobs back, if they had been hired by Wall Street.
 
I know there are many individual OWS movements around the country, but in general, do you believe that the OWS movement represents the grievances, complaints, & desires of the 99% of the USA?

Keep in mind, the 99% means those folks in the USA who make less than $379,000 a year.

The 99% cannot be represented by one organization. Their interests are too vast. It's a cutesy little slogan, and I get what they're trying to imply, but it's silly to think that any group's interests can be represented based solely upon how much they earn.
 
The 99% thing is just a slogan, but of course the semantic spinsters in the media took it literally and started to use it against the movement.

I think the grievances are accurate, but their approach to dealing with them was sloppy. Hopefully the next wave is more organized, but I'm sure the government is already mobilizing to make it more difficult.

What gives you that idea?

And, Why should I take anything you say on this matter serious with such an irrational outlook as bolded above?
 
hell, the Occupy movement represents the beliefs of some of the 1%
Warren Buffet has told us that there is a class war going on and it is being lost by the 99%

There is no "class war" going on.
 
There must be some confusion. The OWS is occupy Wall Street, not Podunk. So what's Wall Street about. So the protest relates to Wall Street. Am I being obtuse, or would the target be the banks and funds? It's not rocket science as one of our local rocket scientists will surely not attest.
 
Thus they are effectively powerless in reaching and representing the great majority.

"the movement has already changed the public debate in America.

Consider, for example, last week’s Congressional Budget Office report on widening disparities of income in America. It was hardly news – it’s already well known that the top 1 percent now gets 20 percent of the nation’s income, up from 9 percent in the late 1970s.

But it’s the first time such news made the front page of the nation’s major newspapers.

Why? Because for the first time in more than half a century, a broad cross-section of the American public is talking about the concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the top.

Score a big one for the Occupiers."


Robert Reich on the OWS Effect | Blog | Rebuild the Dream
 
The OWS movement is splintered, with many of the supporters clueless about what they are actually supporting. People here about the 'General Assembly' yet have no clue where that concept as practiced by the movement came from. And the OWS protesters hold up signs demanding Democracy yet they claim that they speak for a population that never asked them to speak for them.

The OWS movement is not about justice or reforming out corruption, it is about Revolution a certain type of Revolution. One that demands that the America that we know now must cease to exist. And be replaced with the model of Government being used and demonstrated in use occupied public spaces. The General assembly model is what they are asserting is to replace our system. In fact they claim as of right now that they are our new Government. They are trying to take the US over and they need the people behind them, Hence the propaganda that "We are the 99%" it is a ploy.
 
"the movement has already changed the public debate in America.

Consider, for example, last week’s Congressional Budget Office report on widening disparities of income in America. It was hardly news – it’s already well known that the top 1 percent now gets 20 percent of the nation’s income, up from 9 percent in the late 1970s.

But it’s the first time such news made the front page of the nation’s major newspapers.

Why? Because for the first time in more than half a century, a broad cross-section of the American public is talking about the concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the top.

Score a big one for the Occupiers."


Robert Reich on the OWS Effect | Blog | Rebuild the Dream

They haven't changed the public debate in America. Come on!!! Short-term: They received support and sympathy which is a testament to how great our country is, but at the rate their going, they will lose all support and give more credit to the tea party...
 
I know there are many individual OWS movements around the country, but in general, do you believe that the OWS movement represents the grievances, complaints, & desires of the 99% of the USA?

Keep in mind, the 99% means those folks in the USA who make less than $379,000 a year.

Welcome back Thunder! Anywho, yeah they definitely represent the wellfare of the 99%. At least that is my 2 cents.
 
They haven't changed the public debate in America. Come on!!! Short-term: They received support and sympathy which is a testament to how great our country is, but at the rate their going, they will lose all support and give more credit to the tea party...

"for the first time in more than half a century, a broad cross-section of the American public is talking about the concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the top.

Score a big one for the Occupiers."
:applaud
 
funny, as so far OWS's only course of action is to occupy parks and have tossing matches with the po-po.

Essentially yes, they have no real aim or plans, they're just bitching to bitch.
 
Welcome back Thunder! Anywho, yeah they definitely represent the wellfare of the 99%. At least that is my 2 cents.

they mainly represent all that is wrong with america
 
I guess, in a sense. IE the corrupt politicians.

sloth, envy, refusal to accept personal responsibility and short term gratification. that sort of sums up the occutards
 

"for the first time in more than half a century, a broad cross-section of the American public is talking about the concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the top.

Score a big one for the Occupiers."
:applaud

I'm sorry to inform you but talking about sticking it to the man and the way things are have been talked about in our local bars, homes and churches, ever since this country was founded. People were just decent about it before the public urinators uglified our cities. The tea party already organized a broad section of the American public decently and orderly, well before the urinators set up their tents, but will concede the urinatiors had had some sympathy for awhile, but that is changing due to their behavior...
 
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