Comments | irked_indeed: (без темы)

irked_indeed

(Untitled)

Oct 06, 2011 17:32

I got to thinking this morning (inspired by jordan179's recent blog post) about the "Occupy Wall Street" movement - particularly in light of President Biden's comments that it it has "a lot in common with the Tea Party."

( A little introspection )

Comments 2

whirlwindmonk October 7 2011, 11:43:42 UTC

Thanks for the link, I've been wondering just what exactly they're protesting about aside from "Teh corpurashuns are EEEEVIIIILLL!!!" Good to see that they're bringing up some grievances I can agree with. As Jordan pointed out, I would rather see them marching for an actual solution rather than just trying to annoy people into listening to the problems, but hey, I suppose it's better than nothing. Maybe ( ... )

irked_indeed October 7 2011, 14:45:13 UTC

Thanks!

Yeah, I wouldn't say all their objections are indefensible. Some of them are bad thing - but what, exactly, are we going to do about them without causing worse problems? (As an analogy: mugging is bad, lobotomizing the population so they can't mug anymore is worse.)

I'm open to finding out they've got some great solutions, but... so far, they haven't presented anything like that that I'm aware of.

Contrast the Tea Party, which had some very concrete objections and at least a general solution: stop the bailouts, cut taxes, cut spending on basically everything.