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Tank Man: Genuine Courage v Juvenile Cowardice
· Thursday, November 17, 2011
"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable." --Thomas Jefferson (1817)
The Occupier's "Tank Man" Poster -- FAIL!A recent daily communiqué from the Communist Party USA (which is directed to my "know thy enemy" email inbox) was chock full of indignation about the forced suppression of the New York-based Occupy rabble's rights.
The CPUSA has been enthusiastically promoting Barack Hussein Obama's Red October Uprising, which stars an unsavory cast of his Useful Idiots. Adding insult to injury, this truculent troupe's stage debut was in New York City's Zuccotti Park, right around the corner from the solemn 9/11 Memorial.
The protagonists of the Occupy movement are adherents of the populist socialist agenda, which is now the centerpiece of Obama's Democrat Party Platform and its classist politics of disparity. Most of their followers are the product of the Left's Directorate of Indoctrination (a.k.a. "urban government schools"), which is to say they have little objective cognitive ability -- as they have aptly demonstrated.
Since its inception some two months ago, the Zuccotti Park encampment has spawned similar protests across the nation. These copycat protests have, at best, been a nuisance to their host cities. At worst, they've become violent and their rhetoric more anarchist. As yet, they have not resorted to detonating bombs, as was the practice of Obama's Marxist political benefactor, William Ayers. Notably, when asked about the brutal assaults committed by Occupiers across the nation, Leftists Rep. Maxine Waters summed up their Black Caucus support: "That's life and it happens. I'm not deterred in my support for them because of these negative kinds of things. That's a distraction from the goals of the protesters."
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In New York, the confrontations between protesters and police had become increasingly combative and had cost area small businesses and vendors in the area more than $500,000 in damages and lost business. Consequently, earlier this week Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent in police to eradicate the Occupiers and sanitation workers to disinfect the park and restore it for public use -- and not a New York second too soon.
"Dear Leader"Predictably, The New York Times lamented, "[The protesters] made '99 percent' into popular language for the have-nots. They spawned protests against further enriching the already rich 1 percent, like those in Chicago, Boston, Oakland, New Haven, and even London. But Mr. Bloomberg hasn't done as good a job [ending the protests] and we worry that his decision to clear the park of tents could end up quashing the entire protest."
Of course, the protesters were less than pleased, and in response, they have called for a massive demonstration (17 November) to disrupt city services and commerce.
"This is going to be a day of action around the city," Occupy organizer Bill Dobbs declared. "I'm looking forward to going after Wall Street and also galvanizing public support and awareness of what we're about. We are the 99 percent. Like other people in power, [Bloomberg] thinks if they get rid of the protesters, they will also get rid of the cause."
One of Dobbs' deputies was a bit more descriptive: "No more talking. They've got guns, we've got bottles. They've got bricks, we've got rocks ... you're going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do. On the 17th, we're going to burn New York City to the ground."
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However, the temperature in New York is getting colder, so these dispirited "summer soldiers" will likely not rally much support for the insurrection. But the underlying support for class warfare under the "99 percent v 1 percent" banner has not chilled. It is a mistake to underestimate the unshakeable popular support for the socialist agenda espoused by Obama and his Red cadres in Congress, in State Houses, and on the ground. That support now stands at about 35 percent, primarily those who have already been "economically disenfranchised" by statist policies.
The Genuine Tank ManWhat impressed me most about the latest call for insurrection in New York, was not the immediate threat to life and property posed by these juvenile delinquents, but their "day of action" promo poster, which Occupiers were plastering across Manhattan. Impressed, I say, because however unwittingly, it fittingly reveals the abject ignorance of the organizers and their wholly uniformed perception of history.
The poster contains classic elements of early communist propaganda placards from the now-defunct socialist Soviet Union, but it's revolutionary reference clearly invokes the plight of "Tank Man." As you recall, Tank Man was the brave lone protester who, in 1989, stood in front of a column of Red Chinese Type 59 tanks and brought them to a standstill. His display of defiance occurred the morning after the Communist Party cleared Beijing's Tiananmen Square of its student protesters -- the "People's Army" slaughtering hundreds of students in the process. (I am quite sure the NYPD did not kill any Occupiers in the process of their removal, but hyperbole drives emotions.)
The Occupy poster's Tank Man reference is bleeding irony because, at Tiananmen, those courageous young people were protesting AGAINST the socialist state and in support of Liberty and free enterprise -- at great personal risk because the Red Chinese don't honor any Bill of Rights. Conversely, the Occupy protesters, like their Dear Leader, Obama, want to implement a socialist state and suppress Liberty and free enterprise.
To that end, Tank Man "disappeared" minutes after his memorable confrontation, never to be seen again. A ranking Communist Party member reported, "We can't find him. We got his name from journalists. We have checked through computers but can't find him among the dead or among those in prison." He said that without so much as a smile and wink.
Two decades after Tiananmen, I stood on Chang'an Avenue at the location where Tank Man had made his courageous stand in defiance of tyranny. I was hosted by a group of Chinese entrepreneurs who were present as students at the protests. As a result of modest economic reforms in the years after Tiananmen, some of those erstwhile protesters are now among China's most affluent, those who within one generation have risen on the wings of their own initiative, innovation and perseverance from statist slums.
As I contemplate the contrast between the Occupy movement poster and the authentic photograph of Tank Man, I'm reminded of three observations about socialism and history. The first is from 18th-century philosopher Edmund Burke, who observed, "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." Next is a quote from a 19th-century classical liberal, Frederic Bastiat, who wrote, "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." And finally, as 20th-century philosopher George Santayana concluded in The Life of Reason: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Obama claims, "People are frustrated and the [Occupy] protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works." The system he bemoans is free enterprise, and his populist promotion of socialism poses great risk to the future of Liberty.
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A final word of advice to Occupiers on their rights: You have a right to remain silent. Exercise it!
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BJ Cassady
I am against the OWS, but I am also against WTO, a lot of the EPA, FDA, the FED, Freddy Mac, Fannie Mae. I am against having to be told which light bulb I should have. I am a believer in free choice, a constitutionalist. I don't believe I have voted on many of the regs being shoved down my life.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:29:22 PM
Major Stu
Perhaps President Obama was reading press reports on the Occupy crowd when he concluded Americans are lazy. How better to describe an alleged movement that refuses to take responsibility, demands respect, demands immediate action with no thought to consequence, and complains of the consequences of their own personal deliberate decisions, e.g. accept student loans to study curricula incapable of providing them with gainful employment outside academia. Granted, there may have been some sincere objectors to the abuses of the New York financiers, which is credible, but the bulk of the movement now consists of anarchists, hippies, and bums, but I repeat myself. They conflate Wall Street with corporate America, those who trade paper with those producing desirable goods and services. They demand a statist solution when statist policies, favoritism, and corruption have paved the way for the status quo. I saw a comment but failed to get the attritbution: "They don't know what they want, but they want it now." These are the victims of the public education system, inculcated with the liberal mindset of multi-culti Marxism-lite, taught that America was founded by evil capitalists and slave-traders, that American exceptionalism is a myth, and that nirvana can be achieved by submission to the state and its allure of cradle-to-grave security in exchange for liberty.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:29:45 PM
One VA Patriot
Great editorial, Mark.
"... You have the right to remain silent. Exercise it!"
Classic and so full of class.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:32:50 PM
T.D.Fish
It will be a truly happy day when socialist and racist malcontents like Ms. Waters are evicted from the House. Then, let the indictments begin!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:35:13 PM
Rod
I am reminded by these protestors of callers to talk shows like Levin Wilkow and Hannity: Often, the liberal caller will be interrupted by the show host because they are speaking with emotional, illogical unsupported arguments. I say let them talk: Their lack of rational reasoning will show them for the hollowness of their argument.
Of course it would be better if our educational institutions actualy taught reason instead of indoctrination.
Keep attacking, Mark!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:35:26 PM
Gary
Can't wait for the NEWT/OBAMA debate.....
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:37:29 PM
The Texas Cooke
The occupiers: Turn off the cameras and have the police treat them like ALL other vagarants and you will see their mighty indignation for this country evaporate into the wishful thinking that brought them there.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:38:09 PM
T.D.Fish
Re the comment above I am reminded of the words of the great Wm.F. Buckley, and ones I use when having a chin wag with someone from the left: "I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." They just don't make them like that anymore!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:38:41 PM
Scott
You useful idiots keep intimidating women, old men and police officers who are under orders of restraint.
If this gets out of hand middle class America, you know; th one's who have served their country, built bridges, sky scrapers, water dams, etc., will defend themselves. That means no restraint and your undisciplined gaggle will tumble and run.
You are anti-authority, anti-God, drug infested, uncivil and cowardly. If you want a change go to a third world nation - you appear to have the same lack of hygiene and mob mentality of these failing nations.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:39:54 PM
Craig
While these demonstrators may seem to be unorganized and lacking in any definitive goals - don't be fooled! Something very sinister is hiding among these puppet fools and is waiting on the right moment to ignite a confrontation that will become the PUSH that the Far Left desires to put this country in a tailspin.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:40:25 PM
charles akins
Please continue with your "revolution".
You are showing the masses on how they will live in the new nation of BHO.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:41:12 PM
Jon Russell
You sir should be impeached for high crimes and placed in jail for treason.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:43:21 PM
jim
YAKITY YAK YAK --- These clowns destroy any credibility they may have gained in the first days by free loading on the charity of others showing the world that they're no smart enough to know when they are being used by those who making money from them. Such as the couple hundred THOUSAND gathered both by those begging contributions from those passing through - those intimidated and placed under control of (someone who doesn't like capitalism and/or the United States) who then place the money in ?????? name in a bank that was one of the objects of the protesters. Congratulations IDIOT.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:43:29 PM
Gary W
Grow Up !!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:43:40 PM
Michael Collins
Maxine if you and/or your family were the targets of one of these brutal assaults, I suspect you might consider it a bit more than "a distraction."
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:46:19 PM
im_frank
Let the PURGE begin!!!! Fewer useful idiots = fewer Democrat votes . . .
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:47:06 PM
Peter
They can try to burn down my neighborhood they'll be met with .223 and buck shot
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:47:14 PM
Julia Berry
There are honorable and upright ways to protest; and then, there are other ways. The occupiers have chosen the other ways, dark and unseemly to be sure!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:48:05 PM
JohnUSA
Maxine Waters, to put it politely, mumbles moronic Leftwing tripe, embraces double-standards, and is a real and present threat to the U.S.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:49:17 PM
Dave C
Ms. Waters would do well to concentrate more on covering her track regarding her husband's profiting from her political decisions. Also, please consider Botox - soon.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:50:19 PM
Rob in FL
Mark: Great article! Thank you for saying what others don't have the courage or integrity to say.
Maxine Waters is the living epitome of the racist rabble-rouser. She too stupid to argue with, but too dangerous to ignore. Waters was elected to Congress the by people of a district that overwhelmingly don't pay taxes and live off government programs. That explains a lot...
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:50:38 PM
Jim Brown
The last time I sat down and cried "That is Not Fair" I was 8 years old. My mother looked at me laughed and said "So? Who ever told you life was fair?"
Maybe your mother did like/love you enough to explain that simple fact.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:51:41 PM
Sam
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA). You are the epitome of incompetent ignorance, that the most ignorant of Dumocrap voters elected to office. However, you do exemplify all the traits necessary to be a liberal-progressive-socialist-communist member of the Democrat party. Being from Kalifornia, you're likely gay, as well ...
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:52:10 PM
John
Maxine,
Are you really that much of an idiot? Respectfully submitted!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:52:21 PM
Frank Wilgus
Remember Al Capp's comic strip "l'l Abner"? During a period of student unrest, late 60's early 70's, he characterized them as "S.W.I.N.E.", Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything. A very fitting moniker for todays rabble rousing trash.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:52:57 PM
Floyd
Obama reminds me of those who have been given everything and never had to do "blue collar" work. Given his lead, we would follow the path of Greece.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:53:01 PM
Bill in Boulder
Having been raised as a child in a third world country I was accustomed to seeing .50 cal emplacements on downtown street corners. People here do not realize just how good they have it. As was said of Gandhi "The British ran the only government in the world that his tactics worked against! The Soviets would have been washing him off the walls of Lubiamka Prison!" Occupy protesters wanting to put their money where their mouth is should join up with the protesters in Syria.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:54:20 PM
larry eltoft
Obama,
Be a man and resign before you do more damage to our great country.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:55:12 PM
WAYNE LEAVITT
MS. WATERS
Do you really think these "protestors" represent
the 99%? If so, you are misguided yourself and "brainwashed" as most of them are.
These people are LAZY and want a handout (FREE-BEE)
In all honesty = they should be protesting CONGRESS and you people have caused most of the financial problems of the country - DEBT, etc
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:56:05 PM
One VA Patriot
"Holder’s stated mission for the trip was to sign law-enforcement agreements with authorities in the area and review a case resulting in the seizure of condos from a Medicare fraud sting in the region,..."
Taken from the BlogSite, The Daily Beast, this was a report on Eric Holder's trip to the Caribbean. But could it be a secret mission to seize Charle Rangle's property?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:57:19 PM
Dave C
Occupiers have no clue regarding how far real Americans will go if pushed into a corner to protect their livelihoods, property, and loved ones. NYC may have VERY restrictive gun laws; that does NOT mean that the smart citizenry abide by them. No real man would allow the government to remove his right to defend his property and family. I suspect that the anarchists will get a real surprise if they decide to dance to, "Burn, baby, burn." Better to go to court for breaking a dumb law to defend one's property and family than to watch your business be destroyed and see your loved ones get hurt or perish at the hands of amoral cretins. The 2d Amendment lives!!!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:58:58 PM
Anita McKinnon
The protestors are simply people who want to live well without working. They want people like me (I've worked since I was 17, taking a few years off to have my two children, and still working at 68) to provide them with a home, food, and extras like cell phones, ipods, etc. Unfortunately, you've never really worked either, and have been handed almost everything you have by other people. No wonder you don't understand what's going on. You are a disgrace to the office you hold, and in my opinion, you are a traitor to the people of the U.S. Your "hope and change" is destroying the greatest country in the world, and I believe you are doing it deliberately, with malice aforethought. You've misled many people, but you are changing even their minds with your actions. I can't wait for November, 2012. It can't come soon enough. Then you'll be looking for a job, like so many people you've put out of business or cost them their jobs with your regulations. You shall reap what you have sowed.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 12:59:01 PM
Bill Byford
The so called "Occupiers" are nothing more than a granola bar, if you take away all of the nuts and fruits, all you have left are a bunch of flakes. They are the 1%, 1% of useful idiots.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:00:31 PM
Pat
Barak Obama is a liar, plain and simple. The Democratic Party is the Communist/Socialist/Globalist Party, and way too many of the Republican elected officials are either communists/socialists themselves, or with few exceptions, they have not the courage to stand up and represent us. God help us.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:01:55 PM
notfooled
Maxine wouldn't know an honest day if it kicked her in the butt. She opens her big trap every chance she gets, while saying absolutely nothing of value to anyone. As for "that's life", hopefully we'll all be saying the same when her lazy a$$ is kicked out of Congress. How such a total DOLT ever got elected is beyond belief!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:03:18 PM
dloew
The treas grow leaves. "We wait!" They fall and we burn them. The snow comes we remove it, because it is in the way of walk and drive. Rats from sewers and other source invade your properties. You set traps and remove them. Somehow I equate the "garbage" collected in Central Park and other places as element detrimental to the continuing of Health, Liberty and True Freedom. It will eventually destroy itself, (with a little help from the "Right Places"!)
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:03:55 PM
RAYMOND CURIALE
I wonder if you had been molested or raped at the protesters encampment if you would continue to say, "That's life and it happens.'
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:04:28 PM
MKBUC
Go home take a shower, get something to eat, sit down and look around at the blessings you possess. Get up off the couch and go find a job. Be productive human beings!!!!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:04:37 PM
julie badger
Ms Waters, The Black Caucas suprised me with the vile name calling and lies about the Tea Party and Republicans. You've lost all credibility and are not worthy of respect or trust. You are not doing your job of representing all Americans. Democracy is deteriorating and the Republic is moribund. God Bless America Sincerely, Julie Badger
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:05:44 PM
BOB MULLINS "Veteran"
Maxrzine...from one of your and Obamao's admired leaders:
“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”…
who also said:
“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
What side of the struggle will you both be found?....do even know who spoke these words that you admire?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:07:03 PM
matthew
Sadly, I'd have to say Mr. Obama had it almost right when he said, "People are frustrated and the [Occupy] protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works." Worse though, is that the "talking-head-in-chief" was overly verbose ... he should have forgotten the protester plattitudes and concentrated on his final four words, "our financial system works." Then, if he was a wise person and not a classist, he would have shut his mouth ... enough said.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:07:16 PM
Jim 62
"Please keep comments civil and brief. Obscene, profane, abusive and off-topic comments will be deleted".. Well I guess there's nothing I can say then.....
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:07:53 PM
alphabet man
She is another communist hypocrite.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:08:59 PM
Thomas W. Farley
The 99%.... anything to do with the 99 atributes of allah? "All 57 of the United States"(2009 campaign) anthing to do with the 57 staes of islam?
These shills are doing obama's bidding. When violence is called for, obama sends in the unions. There will be unions at today's actions.... watch for the violence. If we all weren't so busy trying to hold our own lives together, we could be out countering these jerks. That is why the gov't is making it so hard for us to keep what we have. It keeps us from the renewal of the American Revolution, a sorely needed remedy for out of control government. Our government, at all levels is the domestic enemy of our constitution that we veterans are supposed to defend against. And here I sit writing instead of fighting. Shame on me and the rest of the people that want to take back our country but are afraid of losing everything we worked for. Guess what... we are going to lose it if we do nothing!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:09:35 PM
notfooled
Obama, think this support won you any favor in the U.S.? The grand usurper just keeps opening his trap and digging himself in deeper! I'm lovin' it! We, the people, are on to your socialist agenda and know you are as anti-American as they come. We will "dethrone" you, boy-king, and then prosecute you to the enth degree. Your days are numbered, boy, as are the days of your cronies, your czars and your fellow usurpers. We're taking our country back!!!!!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:09:56 PM
Ken W
OK, the "Occupiers" have rights, I'm OK with that.
What I'm not OK with is how "their rights" trump everybody else's.
They also got this backwards; The Beatles song "Revolution" did nor promote or condone, rather it was an anti-thesis to Revolution.
When the New Yorkers get their NY attitude going I'm reasonably sure that Mayor Mikey will do something about these mis-creants
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:13:50 PM
Grant
I want to see is libertarians occupying Congress. Then we will have our country and our freedom back.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:14:54 PM
matthew
Sadly, I'd have to say Mr. Obama had it almost right when he said, "People are frustrated and the [Occupy] protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works." Worse though, is that the "talking-head-in-chief" was overly verbose ... he should have forgotten the protester plattitudes and concentrated on his final four words, "our financial system works." Then, if he was a wise person and not a classist, he would have shut his mouth ... enough said.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:15:19 PM
Sam
B. Hussein Obama: You are a half-black, muzlum, liberal-progressive-socialist/communist, anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-liberty, tyrannical but mediocre dictator, Kenyan usurper to the office of POTUS and there should be only one thing left for America to do, after impeaching and removing you from office. You should be tried for High Treason, found guilty and summarily executed immediately, by a joint military firing squad, publicly, on the Mall in D.C..
I would also wish to see most of your cabinet, your administration and your political party, following their impeachment, also tried for High Treason and stand with you before that firing squad. That day should then become a National Holiday, almost as grand as the 4th of July, recognizing the day that Patriotic Americans took our country back from the likes of you and your ilk.
That would be this old mans profound wish and I certainly hope I live long enough to celebrate that wonderful holiday ...
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:16:09 PM
Mike
OWS is made up of a bunch of fools !!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:19:38 PM
MK75Gunner
Mark,
I thoroughly enjoy your columns and usually you are spot on. However, you are incorrect in your analysis of the use of the tank poster. This symbolism is actually tied into Revolutionary Organization 17 November - a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States; an active terrorist group during the 1980's. This group which goes by N17, (look familiar?) also murdered the CIA station Chief and two US Navy attaches in their bloody history. Make no mistake, the people behind this are not ignorant, the symbolism and the date that this is to take place is no coincidence. The Greek military crushed a student rebellion with the use of tanks and a number of students were killed, hence OWS portrayal of not just one person but many standing behind him, not one tank but many behind it.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:19:51 PM
John Thomas
If you let the government pick winners and losers, it makes sense that the winners will be a minority. In this case, you can make a pretty good argument that the government favors unions, some well-connected corporations and banks, and other pernicious groups like AARP over the rest of us.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:22:29 PM
Chris in California
Mike is right except that they are fools and tools. They have total lack of any understanding of how life really works and they expect everything to be given to them without earning it. Sorry, that doesn't work in the real world and if to many people insist on it then the whole system will collapse. We are on the verge of that now. Maxine waters is as corrupt and ignorant as anyone, clever and devious but stupid and power hungry. Sooner or later like the french aristocracy, heads will roll. Her's will be among them and I hope she doesn't think for a minute that her own constituents won't be the ones to do it. She deserves their full ire and hate for what she has done to them.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:23:33 PM
Joan B
In the words of Forest Gump, Ms. Waters, STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:24:05 PM
John Nelson
The occupy protestors proved themselves to be vandals that cost the City of New York $500,000. The media bragged about the bank account Occupy was able to open at Wells Fargo. New York has a District Attorney. New York Management (Mayor, Councilmen, District Attorney) needs to get off their butts and go sue the protestors to pay for the extra police and damage costs suffered by the city. Hold the Occupiers accountable. I don't care that they protested. I care that they wantonly vandalized the park and cost the city half a million dollars that has to be paid by the tax paying citizens. For New York City Management to shrug their shoulders and let the tax payer pay is malfeasance.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:24:38 PM
MK75Gunner
In addition to my previous post; look at the phrase in the poster "resist austerity" There is no austerity being promoted anywhere in the United States, in fact our Government is talking about spending even more of our money! However, the Greeks brought forth the proposed austerity measures in their country which predictably were met with violent protests by marxist groups. I warn all my friends and fellow Patriots, this is not a local or even US only movement, this is a global push for the ultimate goal of toppling the US and capitalism and installing a marxist/socialist government and economy in its place.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:25:21 PM
Ed Chapman
And her ethics investigation is probably a distraction to "Maxine the Mouth" Waters.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:25:45 PM
Ed Orr
Have ANY of you done one single thing for our country rather than TO it? Explain to me ( a 100% service connected disabled veteran) so that I might understand why you feel so compelled to use the right to freedom of speech in an attempt to destroy this nation. You are in actuality spitting on the graves of every man and woman who gave their lives to afford you that right of free speech. Obviously you want nothing less than anarchy which will play directly into the hands of this communist leaning president. Anarchy, then martial law...could it lead to a suspension of the upcoming election by this man who views himself as our king? By the way also please explain how you come to the conclusion that you are owed something by everyone else from the time you are born till the time you die.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:26:41 PM
Alan Wetter
Maxine Waters response regarding these slobs is what I expect from her. I'd like to know one thing, When did it become O.K. for our government to become filled with socialist communists? I think it's time to get out the can of raid.
( Source posted on Scribd.com )
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:27:33 PM
Fred
Talking to Maxine Waters is tantamount to talking to a tree trunk. Any of her utterances are complete gibberish and completely un-American. She is the crowning disgrace(along with James Cliburn and Nancy Pelosi) to an already disgraced institution, our national Congress. Her constituents, who continually reelect her, are in dire need of a psychological intervention.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:28:20 PM
George C.
Amazing! A website which always portrays itself as abiding by the Constitution, but suddenly has a problem with those who chose to exercise that right. No problem with those 'useful idiot' Tea Party folks protesting healthcare for those who don't have it, but a big problem with those who have a problem with the massive income inequality.
A word of advice:
The ones who have the right to remain silent should be those that prefer the income gap to remain, and for those who wish we remain at 40,000,000 uninsured with a privatized healthcare sysytem.
Thanks
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:28:22 PM
julie badger
Dear President Obama, I believe you have America, Liberty and the most classical liberal Constitution ever divised with the oppressive, authoritarian philosophy of the radical communists
you brag about seeking out. As President you should be representing all Americans. That "flawed document" stating the law of the land means nothing to you and we are now a lawless nation. It's nice that C.A.I.R has the ear of the White House and DHS. I don't.
I'm the "enemy". I'm a history buff and I've heard your rhetoric before and I know where it leads. You have problems with American history. I support the 2nd Amendment. I wish you did.
Sincerely, Julie Badger
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:28:45 PM
Professor Kent
And this presidential advice comes from a man who has never really worked in a real job ... rather he and his family elect to take advantage of every opportunity to us our tax dollars for fun - travel - entertainment - focused mostly on themselves!
The latest bumper sticker is spot on:
"Your only entitlements are
your work and paying taxes"
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:29:50 PM
Jon Schulte
Response to Ms. Waters - "That's life and it happens"? Does it distract from their goals, or detract from their goals (just want to be clear on your statement)? So if any Tea-Party demonstrators behaved similarly, this would be your response? Why aren't you calling for these useful (and violent) idiots to "go to hell"? It would seem that any action is acceptable, so long as the goal conforms to your political perspective...socialism at any cost. If I were one of these mayors, I'd turn the firehoses on the lot and cite them for littering if they so much as left a scrap behind.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:30:10 PM
E. Sarracino
Ms. Maxine,
That's not "life" and "it should not happen".
Thank you.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:30:33 PM
MK75Gunner
In addition to my previous post; look at the phrase in the poster "resist austerity" There is no austerity being promoted anywhere in the United States, in fact our Government is talking about spending even more of our money! However, the Greeks brought forth the proposed austerity measures in their country which predictably were met with violent protests by marxist groups. I warn all my friends and fellow Patriots, this is not a local or even US only movement, this is a global push for the ultimate goal of toppling the US and capitalism and installing a marxist/socialist government and economy in its place.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:30:56 PM
lfodft
Thank God for Maxine! She is the quintessential Libtard! We want people to see and hear her rants and equate them with the entire Democrat Party. We could not have created a more positive ad for the constitutional conservatives in this nation than Maxine!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:31:24 PM
Timesawasting.
My response to Dobbs' deputies is "BRING IT ON BABY.".
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:35:16 PM
RD
Is "That's Life" what Waters would say to Rep Giffords who was shot in the head by an anarchist?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:36:31 PM
Fred
Rather than a long dissertation I would merely agree with the remarks of Sam, above. He nailed it right on the head.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:36:33 PM
Wil
the poster child for the repeal of the 20th Amendment wandering aimlessly for a cognative thought.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:37:03 PM
Tre Rebstock
If the protestors who became violet were Right-wingers, Ms. Maxine would be screaming for their heads from every balcony and pulpit she could comondere.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:41:11 PM
Michael Murrray
The occupiers are protesting crony capitalism. Why can't they see that bailing out their collective tuition bill is the exactly same as bailing out big business? What should we bail them out with? More worthless printed paper? Some people worry about China owning a trillion in U.S. debt, and that is nothing.
Our (U.S.) debt (in Treasury bonds) is also held BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT to the tune of 1.4 trillion by the Federal Reserve, and 4.6 trillion by other federal entities including the so called social security "trust fund", federal pension fund, and others. DOMESTIC INVESTORS (you and me) add another 3.2 trillion. This means that of the 15 trillion we owe as a group, 9.2 trillion of it WAS BORROWED FROM OURSELVES. NO PROBLEM, RIGHT? We'll just print more paper
When this bubble bursts, get ready for a reality check FROM HELL.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:43:23 PM
Eduardo Basurto
I retired at 70. I'm now 80. I worked for a living all my life. No handouts. I saved, went to school, married and had a family. Each day I wake up giving thanks to my Father God Almighty for living in a FREE society that allows me to stay here or live if I do not like it. Anyone breaking the law MUST pay the consequences and this includes ALL elected politicos and non-elected Federal judges...Some MUST be impeached and others put in prison.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:43:41 PM
lfodf
Never go to a gun fight with a knife! You libtards are never gonna learn and if you had the cognitive reasoning of a toad you might be able to articulate at least one grievance. "The man be holding me down" is not a legitimate grevience. Here's some help. Try, "we would like the govt to get out of the way, in the realm of taxes and regulation, and allow the free market capitalism that built this country to thrive and create jobs." See how its done? Then when the "pigs" allow you an audience you need to be ready with examples of how that needs to take place.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:43:42 PM
Tre Rebstock
Wait! Tell me again how it's always the gun-toting right-wingers that always start the violence?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:45:21 PM
Edgar B Hoffpauir
If this that is normal to you and distracting from the message happened to you would you still say they are right? I have not heard or seen you at any of the protests spending some nights and days there. If you were you would have bodyguards all around you.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:47:02 PM
Richard
Just a bunch of usefull idiots, who don't even know they are usefull idiots. I thought they were educated, but I guess it is just in basket weaving and porn art.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:48:13 PM
vvvw
Democrat Projection Party: YOU are evil.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:49:54 PM
Jon Schulte
My response to the Occupiers - is saying I'd give them the one finger salute profane? If in NY, I'd would walk with a taser and zap any one of them that tried to interfere with my right to go about my business.
I heard a recording from one idiot yesterday that said something about the money being wasted on bailouts that could instead be used for paying off mortgages. Pinhead.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:50:08 PM
lfodf
Know you haven't read it, you socialist dip stick, but you keep doing what you are doing and we the people are gonna follow the "duty" outlined in the Declaration of Independence and begin watering the tree. Ask your handlers if they know of what i speak and then conduct yourself accordingly. History has generally been unkind to tyrants in the long run.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:52:09 PM
Cheryl
So Maxine, go "sleep" amongst them for the remainder of their Occupy "season". Let's see how you fare without in the NY weather without toilet facilties, hairdressers, makeup artists, chefs, your various "aides" and sycophants. You wouldn't last a week!!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:54:06 PM
GARY METZINGER
President can take his socialist/communist administration, agenda and OWS cope outs to any nation in the world which will accept them. I'm sure China, Russia and others would be more than willing to have these valuable people in their cast of billions and millions. May they go out in the real world economy and compete and be satisfied with their achievement!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:55:06 PM
RK Sprau
Remember what I said, revolution is coming and who is pushing the buttons. I said this in Feb or so. I've seen posted, maybe we should have a revolution, now when Liberals are doing it...I also said fine tune your message, don't look like a bunch of drop outs from clown school. Alas, my warnings has fallen on deaf ears. I could say it started with Bachmann who advocated shooting congressman and senators. Is this the new low we've sunken to?
In the square, that's a true patriot, standing up for freedom, not arguing over policies, willing to die for freedom, not saying I belong to the majority when you don't.
I'll be honest, Cain has shown the more stupid you are, the more people vote for you. let me quote him
"I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out," he said to a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter while on his campaign bus on Monday, the afternoon after his interview with the paper's editorial board. "I want to talk to commanders on the ground. Because you run for president (people say) you need to have the answer. No, you don't! No, you don't! That's not good decision-making."
Let me quote a Reagen Adviser Bruce Bartlett, Ex-Reagan Economist: Idea That Deregulation Leads To Jobs 'Just Made Up'
We have real problems and real issues to deal with and this cowboy mentality isn't going to deal with it. Being ultra conservative will lead to a state sponsored religion (See the 7 pillars of faith. Bachmann and Perry both belong to it.
Let's don't act stupid, let's be the adults.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:55:12 PM
david white
Hope you get fired
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:56:20 PM
MikeH
There seems to be no answer to the moronic behavior of a bunch of losers looking for a free ride on the backs of those of us who produce.
Is this why we have the 2nd Amendment, tear gas and jail space. The chain gang concept is still available if they demand employment.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:56:48 PM
Cheryl
You need to flush your own commode sometimes Mr. "President"!!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 1:59:22 PM
Carol Berry
I think the occupiers should take Ms. Water's advise to the Tea Party, and go to H ---.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:00:47 PM
Don
I will say this to Rep. Maxine Waters:You can run your trap all you want, when we get our elected officials in office that think and act like Tea Partiers and do the will of the people, not your so called 99%', which, by the way, does not, and never will represent me. Our representers will, at last, see justice done to you for your ~~alledged~~ ethics violations, along with the Rep. from the south that stored all of his ~~given~~ bounty in his freezer, then, will face the music. You can run, but you ca'nt hide. So, ramble on Ms. Waters, the gig is up!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:03:07 PM
RJ
I'm one of the 3.34 to the power of -9. (I in 300 million if your math is rusty). Sign me up for the Unoccupy movement. My 30-06 is ready to go.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:06:48 PM
Anita
I have great respect for the office of President of the USA, but no respect for the current incumbent. He supports the OWS, saying they are frustrated. Think how frustrated the balance of people in this country are with his continual spending sprees, not only to his "cronies", but for himself and his family. I sincerely believe BHO is a traitor to this country, who wants nothing more than to destroy us. God help America. We need it with that man as president. Obama hasn't actually "worked" in his life, so no wonder he doesn't understand the idea of "you work for what you get". He's used to being handed anything he wants from his "backers". Come on November 2012!!!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:07:21 PM
Don
Here's my burning question. Why are'nt these useful idiots protesting Fannie and Freddie and the biggest perpetrator, Barack Hussein Obama?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:07:35 PM
Robert Waldron
Maybe someone should do the same to her office and see what she would sat then
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:10:41 PM
Leo Jordan
These protesters are so ignorant of true history and conditions of mankind under the kind of mob rule in the past, they have indeed become "useful idiots" to the destructive elements in America. There will never be a perfect government nor society, but the American "experiment" in a democratice republic is the closest thing civilization has ever seen.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:13:12 PM
Phil
What is it with leftists and bad smells? It can't be coincidence, it is nearly universal. Do you suppose poor hygiene effects ones capacity for critical thought?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:13:34 PM
Randy
Hey, Maxine, you seem to have some secret knowledge about the "the goals of the protesters." Care to fill the rest of us in, because this nonsense has been going on for 2 months and heck if I know anyone who knows what these people want.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:14:08 PM
Kristin Morris
I am a member of the 99 percent. In fact, I am one of those folks whom you, President Obama, claim is suffering at the hands of the rich. I just want to take a moment to ask what that means? My husband lost his job June 3rd, less than a month after my son was diagnosed with cancer. Because we had great insurance from his previous job and COBRA allowed us to keep it, and unemployment benefits kicked in allowing my husband to seek new employment, we weathered that storm. We weathered the storm of the previous year as well, when my husband lost his 20 year bank job due to the collapse of bank profits from a fiasco begun during, not the Bush administration, but the Clinton administration, when the democrats pushed for easier access to loans by people with bad credit. Because it was a slim year for us in 2010, we had ZERO tax dollars withheld from our paychecks, yet received $5000 from the federal government when we sent in our return. Who gave us that money? The 1%, that's who. I am so grateful to the 1% for continuing to deliver the goods when the rest of us are scraping by. Even though relatively speaking we are currently considered "the working poor", my family enjoys a lifestyle heads and tails more luxurious than those of a generation before, because of the advancements made by people who invest in advancements - the 1%. Finally, I want to state boldly that those who hold to constitutional conservatism, who believe in states' rights, individual liberty and the democratic(which includes electoral college, thank-you-very-much!) process make up a vast majority of that 99% the tiny group of rabble-rousers claim to represent, and they do not represent us at all. If we fall as a nation, it will be at the hands of those in OUR number who have become lazy, complacent, apathetic and who take for granted their freedom. Thank you for letting me "occupy" your time for a moment.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:16:00 PM
MerryJWhitney
If the self-described "99%ers" want to know the real crux of the problem they're protesting, they have only to look in a mirror. THEY are the army of knee-jerk radical-wing-Democratic Party voters, supporters and promoters that embrace corrupt and irresponsible governance, silence and demagogue all reasonable voices, and violently oppose all efforts toward feasible solutions.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:17:05 PM
W Cowles
These people should be occupying the schools that they attended to get their tuition back, they are more stupid than the Hippies of the 60s.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:17:43 PM
Bill DeFelice
Waters is in over head.She has been a Practicing left wing commie/puke,al-Qeada loving slug,her whole congressional term.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:19:37 PM
CTH
Maxine Waters is a plain and simple idiot. In addition to which her problems with the ethics committee should prevent her being quoted in any respectable publication.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:19:52 PM
Hamilton
I know a lot of the Occupy Wall Street Protesters have socialist blood in their veins. They don't like anything capitalist in nature. They don't like profits. They see profits as unfair, because they don't have any. Their resentment is soul-deep.
However, we shouldn't disregard or discount them. There might be some validity to their protests. To many, Wall Steet looks and acts like a monopoly. The business is populated by a select group of individuals, with select credentials. The rules of the game aren't generally known by the public, and there's a common perception that, outside of executing trades for clients, they bring very little added value to the economy, and their work doesn't justify their compensation.
Monopolies invite corruption and foster inequity. If corruption in the industry justifies reform, then the Wall Street Protestors deserve our attention, and society's action.
We can protest Wall Street greed all we want, but we mustn't let that distract us from the real culprits: government. Obama and his socialist cronies would like nothing better than for these Occupy Wall Street protestors to distract us from the fact that legislators have given themselves the permission to profit from insider trading, which is a crime for everyone else. Obama would love for us all to forget about his bailouts and Obamacare. There's just too much to list. Reread Michele Malkin's piece in this past Monday's Patriot Post. That's more aggravating fuel for the fire.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:20:53 PM
Brrrrr
As my Australian friends would say to the OWS gang: Bugger off!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:21:03 PM
Bill DeFelice
If any WSO threatens me,or mine with a flamable devise,they will be dealt with,severly and with extreme prejudice.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:22:59 PM
Cathy
It is unfortunate that harsh weather will likely end the protest. I wish they could peacefully protest days and weekends, sleeping in their homes. It is about time the majority stood up and said "fleecing the majority is wrong!" You may want to blast me, but I believe my surgeon is worth than a baseball player with a 50 percent success rate. Half empty stadiums are proof this is not supply-and-demand. Capitalism has run amoke and hard work is no longer rewarded"
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:24:13 PM
Randy Roeh
Stop your socialist attacks on our free enterprise economic system. Your interventionist ways only undermine the most prosperous and fair economic system that has existed throughout history. Stop lauding those occupy protesters as indicative of a broader public sentiment. Those occupy protesters are just a bunch of lazy malchontents that want want someone else to pay their bills. So do the nation a favor shut up and stay out of the way.
Cordially,
Randy Roeh
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:24:41 PM
Mike McGinn
@ Don
You ask, "Here's my burning question. Why are'nt these useful idiots protesting Fannie and Freddie and the biggest perpetrator, Barack Hussein Obama?"
You answered your own question. It's because they are idiots. And they are useful to the left because of the fact they are idiots.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:28:54 PM
Bill DeFelice
Frustrated?The American People are frustrated with your failed commie/muslim ideas!Your criminal actions(fast+furious)to name one,Your arogance,(big trips by air,paid for by us)You,never working a day in your life,calling Americans Lazy!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:29:30 PM
Al Hensen
If you would use "paypal" I would be happy to donate to your publication................
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:30:31 PM
Roy S. Acryin
Start burning and you just might be at the wrong end of a fifty caliber machine gun or M16 since you don't represent the 99% of anything. You probably represent less than 3% of Americans, and we are getting sick and tired of your debauchery and adherents to communism!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:31:46 PM
Don
Socialism don't work, Dummy! What works for me is "Don't Tread On Me !!!!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:35:28 PM
d daxx
Hey, imposter, put on your loin cloth and go back into the Kenyan jungles where you came (from)!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:36:02 PM
Harry
Maxine Waters has demonstrated what an idiot she is. She would not be so eager if they were after her. She has no sense, solutions nor credibility. People like her offer nothing to the American people.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:37:46 PM
Gilbert Doan
Sorry. Not printable.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:37:49 PM
Charles Baker
I'm from a small town in NC. During an earlier time when fire-bombs were being tossed in cities across the country, our police chief met a large group of demonstrators who were threatning arson. He assured them that free speech was welcome but if firebombs were thrown "You'll be picking up dead bodies off the street". There were no firebombs thrown here! We need a thousand more like him.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:37:49 PM
d daxx
To Hamilton above: You are slightly in error, the real problem in not only our once great Republic and all over the world is society. The people are to blame for being mental cowards. They, throughout history, have always had the opportunity to take control of their lives and in essence the government but have always failed to do do!
The 20th-century philosopher George Santayana concluded in The Life of Reason: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:39:59 PM
SheriffofCourtland
Waters is risible, and beneath contempt. Let's not waste time on her - There is a once-great country to resurrect.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:40:11 PM
Mike McGinn
Mark,
Great retort to George C. and his whinings!
One of my favorite quotes comes from Winston Churchill:
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Income gaps will ALWAYS exist until the day when all men have equal capabilities, equal talents, and equal motivation (which will NEVER happen). Health insurance is not a right, its a choice. It is nothing more than a financial tool used to mitigate risk.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:40:34 PM
Harry
Obumma has no answers, because the problem is over his head. He is not a leader, knows nothing about what is going on. His main purpose is to get reelected.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:41:04 PM
Roibn
They are a continous threat to all around them, including liberity. Time to get rid of these "terriost".
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:43:35 PM
Evan Francis
Mr. President,
Your support of the values of OWS-type people is in direct opposition to the values of Tea Party-type people.
Your obligation as the leader of our free Republic is to support the values of the Founding Fathers of that Republic. Instead, you are supporting values that fly in the face of who we are as a nation.
Your support of our Founders values and the Constitution are not optional if you were sincere when you took your oath to support and defend our Constitution against enemies both foreign and domestic.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:44:19 PM
Terry Winmill
Maxine is a sad fact of life too!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:44:52 PM
Mike McGinn
@ Don,
Sir, you ask, "Here's my burning question. Why are'nt these useful idiots protesting Fannie and Freddie and the biggest perpetrator, Barack Hussein Obama?"
You do realize that you've answered your own question? They aren't protesting Fannie and Freddie because they are idiots. Idiots are easily led, like cattle to the slaughter, thus they are useful to the left.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:45:35 PM
Alton
The occupiers in many cases are the products and offspring of the sperm donors of the 60s with 45 years more of Socialist education under their belts for those who hung around long enough to absorb it. And for you folks who consistently vote Democrat, this is what you are perpetuating. The downfall of this nation didn't start with Obama and his clowns, they just excelerated it with a pedal to metal. this is our last chance to save our America, Let's roll.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:51:58 PM
Bud
You occupiers should leave Mom and Dad's care and get a damn job!
If you have your way you will use up/screw up everything in the country and then NOBODY will have ANYTHING. Then the people you are supporting in your stupid behavior will tell you where to sit, when to breathe and how much you can eat, if anything!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:57:13 PM
Bill
Get a job. Flipping burgers andf asking "Do youwantfries with that" is more productive than what you are doing and probably is within the ability of your brains.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:58:32 PM
Hamilton
To: Kristin Morris
Yours is a touching story but it aptly illustrates the essential American problem that Liberalism may not have caused, but certainly is aggravating. And that problem isn't the 99% you're part of; that problem is the roughly 50% that you may be part of.
Every day of every year, almost 50% of our population works, or doesn't work, but is absolved from paying any federal tax, because their incomes are deemed to be too low. Some even get subsistence payments, as you said you and your husband received. It's the Liberals who persistently create and enhance entitlement programs, not to fix a problem but, in my opinion, to increase government dependency. And it has worked. That 50% number wasn't always 50%. It's a number that used to be much smaller but has steadily risen over decades and decades.
I'm not blaming you and yours. By your description, your husband has a work history. That's wonderful but so do the 1%, and so do all kinds of other percentage groups, excluding some of the bottom 50%. The progressive tax rate system and these various entitlement programs have fostered a giant dependent class in America, and it's growing. Obama and the Democrats want this to happen because even though the bottom 50% are absolved from paying taxes, THEY ARE STILL ABLE TO VOTE. AND KNOWING FULL WELL WHERE THEIR MEAL TICKET COMES FROM, HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY DECIDE TO VOTE???
Liberalism is all about a bleeding heart in places like houses of worship, but it's all about power in the political arena. Liberal politicos say they want to help the poor but all they ever do is to tax the rich. The Liberals' only solution to "poverty" is the immorality of income redistribution.
I'd rather see America with a much more robust economy so that your husband would have little chance of getting laid off. I would rather see a more equitable wage scale in America, so that the bottom 50% can not only support their families but can pay their fair share of taxes to boot. I'd rather see the bottom 50% being proud to pay their taxes and concerned about how much they're paying and where it's being spent - so they have a clear idea of how they should vote. I'd rather see them have a vested interest in the taxes they pay, instead of seeing them cast their votes over spending initiatives that tax other peoples' money.
But we don't see any ideas like these from Obama and the Democrats, do we? All we get from them is the same playbook: let the rich make their money so the government can steal it away from them and redistribute it. And let that bottom 50% get bigger and bigger and the top 50% get smaller and smaller (so the tax takers outnumber the taxpayers), and we (meaning Democrat-controlled government) will be in charge of it all, as if we were kings. We can make ourselves rich in the process because who can go against us?
Obama and the Democrats make legality out of immorality. This is the classic road to socialism. The USSR had a constitution too, but socialism devalued it down to the worth of the parchment upon which it was written, and nothing more.
And after all this, does anyone really wonder whether Obama is a socialist?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:01:59 PM
John Hnatek
Maxine Waters' display of "Twisted Logic" is one of the worst cases I have ever witnessed.I can't figure out who is worse, Maxine or Barney Frank.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:07:33 PM
Michael W. Reece
How dare you, you ignorant,petty,petulant charicature!? How dare you?!
I read in a reference to the "Occupiers'" Brutal assaults at some of their rallies that you stated, "That's life and it happens. That's a distraction from the goals of the protesters."
Michael W. Reece
Simpsonville, South Carolina
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:09:06 PM
Bob
And you want to take my guns? A guy who has never even gotten a parking ticket in his life. A guy who has never stolen, destroyed others property, nor interfered in others commerce. A guy who has never threatened to burn Macy's. And you side with these maggot "occupiers" and there threats of violence against me? Out of my cold,dead hands.madam! Out of my cold dead hands!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:12:07 PM
Kathy Norman
Ms. Maxine,
Your and your fellow Congressmen and Senators have championed people that show zero respect for property and other peoples livelyhood. Yet, you lived in terror or the tea party. No trash in parks, no burning of propety, no looting! Now I ask you, what group would you be proud to call someone you would back? Think hard on this one as most people think the WSO people are less than desirable! It is not surprising that you would think this is Life and it happens..aren't you from the same area that burned east L.A. to the ground! I suppose that was Life Happening also. Thank you, K. Norman
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:20:17 PM
Bob Gowens
To paraphrase on old adage: It is better to not speak and thought to be and idiot than to open your mouth and remove any doubt.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:29:14 PM
Bill
To Bob Gowens - Maxine has proven it, over and over and in spades. Maybe life will happen to her? What does this say about her constituents who blindly keep re-electing her; maybe they find her entertaining -it is Hollywood after all.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:35:28 PM
Kathleen Norman
When you were running for president you were running against Republicans, however when you became president you failed to realize you were president to all citizens. You have had nothing but disdane for anyone not feeding your gigantic ego. You have divided America like no one else. Yes, I read my Bible, I own a firearm, I am not lazy, I think I live in an Exceptional Country, I want to leave my land richer than when I got it, I want my grandchild to have the freedoms that I had until you decided to Socialize this beautiful nation. I believe in hard work and loving my God, Country, Family, Neighbors and always lending a hand in need. You Mr. Obama run from every hard problem, waste the taxpayers money on cronies, jetting around like that is free fuel. Stop, come back into the oval office and work with ALL people in the government and Private Business Owners to right the ship we call our country before it sinks into the abysse! You Sir, have no idea what you are doing and are unwilling to learn..how very sad for our once and soon to be great nation..Thank you, K. Norman
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:36:42 PM
Bob Gilvary
Please attempt to burn a city. It'll give law enforcement reason to eradicate you like the vermin you are.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:38:21 PM
Mr Fish
"Give a person a fish and that person will eat for a day. Teach a person to fish, that person will be able to eat for life". WTO must be takers of one fish.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:43:01 PM
Father OMalley
I pray for those poor souls that are being used by their own future tyrants, socialist leaders. Taking from the producers for redistribution is morally bankrupt. Jesus never said, "Take from the rich" for any reason. He was angered at the tax gatherers in his father's temple. He was angry at government not businessmen who employed skilled labor, the producers.
There is nothing Christian or charitable about this violence and it certianly isn't about the right to persue liberty and happiness.
Instead it is the demand for less freedom. Less freedom to choose. They deny the second gift of God, free will.
I pray that these poor souls have a Damascus road moment.
God Bless,
Father O'Malley
www.fatheromalley.com
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:45:17 PM
ilene Martzen
Ms. Walters, "That's life and it happens. That's a distraction from the goals of the protesters." I find the statement insensitive, without compassion, and a bit cold. Lack of self restraint and lack of self discipline on the streets does not reflect "That's life and it happens." It reflects selfishness, greed, and thoughtlessness.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:46:55 PM
Fed Up
OWS protesters = Impatients, indolents, expectant, spoiled children who only know one word: Give Me!
Obama and his entourage = Socialists who want "change for America."
Communist Party of America = Instigators, agitators, and malcontents who only want OWS protestros and Obama as tools to install there communist form of government.
Seems like they have a game plan and are sticking by it, because it has been working.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:48:53 PM
billy396
"People are frustrated and the [Occupy] protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works." - Obama/Soetero
No, the occupy protesters are infantile fools who know nothing of real, true history, or liberty, or even freedom. The (Occupy) protesters and your union thugs that have joined them are so delusional that they believe all they must do is complain loudly enough and their debts will vanish, per your unconstitutional "executive orders". Speaking of that topic, do you remember when you stated that you wouldn't try to rule by executive fiat, since "That's not the way our government works." I suppose that you think this is your crisis that you can use to do whatever you personally want to our country. Your quote about "not having time to wait for Congress to act" shows that you have no respect for your sworn oath or respect for our Constitution. You, sir, are a liar and a thief. You lied your way through your oath of office and you're trying to steal the best parts of our American free-market system. I truly hope that you have your troops ready to fire on American citizens, because you'll eventually bite off more than REAL Americans will stand for. You are a sorry excuse for a President, and your liberal, leftist allies won't save you from the fate which you so justly deserve. May God have mercy on your soul, because REAL patriotic American citizens certainly will NOT, since you're trying to kill our country.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:50:06 PM
Robert S.
Matt. 15:18 "What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person."
Scripture doesn't need the proof of Maxine Waters to make it true, but she has done it just the same.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:51:22 PM
James R. Lansford
I was ten years of age when the horrors of the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. Even without TV I could imagine the destruction, but even I was able to find in my heart the defense of our land being begun.
Today, I am thinking of the price paid by our families during that struggle and am ashamed by the lack of understanding shown by the poorly educated rabble which say they believe that they should be the partakers in our system of government without any input of their labor or selves. What a geoup of thoughtless, worthless people!
Those of us who lived with the privations of most of the people during that war look at the very good style of life enjoyed by even most of the OWS mob and are sure of only poor education in the building of our great country is to blame.
My cry to the people of our country .. LIVE UP TO THE JOYS OF A FREE COUNTRY AND DON'T DESTROY IT WITH THOUGHTLES GREED.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:51:57 PM
billy396
Major Stu, you are a poet. Your thoughts should be published in every newspaper in this nation.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:53:55 PM
Barbara Olsen
People like Maxine Waters think we Americans do not realize what is happening. At least some of us do. These riots are usually set up by Communists, and when they get out of control, martial law is declared. That is when the Communists move in.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:57:31 PM
Call Me Mom
The fact that you have to resort to violence shows your immaturity and worse your total lack of knowledge regarding how the government of this nation is supposed to work. How many of you have contacted your legislators regarding the issues that seem to upset you so?
How many of you are even upset by the same thing? I have yet to hear a comprehensive message coming out of any of these protests beyond "We have a group working on that" and we want what we don't have and we deserve to get it because we want it."
Grow up, learn some history, learn how to work within the system and do so.
Yes, it's more boring than camping out in a park and getting lots of media attention, but that's how adults do things. At least those adults who really want the best for themselves and their neighbors.
Since you are known by the company you keep, you may want to look around and see who is supporting you. You have the support of Nazis, communists, socialists, islamists, and even the KKK. Enemies of our nation flock around you like birds because you are serving as the "useful innocents" they can use to promote their own agendas. Agendas which will cost lives and the first to go will be you. Wake up. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:58:45 PM
Father OMalley
I am a conservative cleric for one very simple reason. I believe with all my heart that you are the best person to choose how to run your own life.
Progressives must be specialists all the time. They must be specialists. How else could they know how much is "just the right amount" of CO2 in the atmosphere? How else do they know who to give our tax dollars for subsidies and entitlements? They are so morally superior they take a percentage, determined by them, of your personal property, income, and spend it as they see fit. It's now theres.. they just allow us to keep a certain amount. How much you keep is determined by special interest groups that do not have OUR interest at heart. Stop taxing income. Stop the hidden 30% tax on everything we buy. Then dear, dear Maxine, there would be little reason to protest. Tax consumption by all instead. You will no the tax is too high when people stop buying.. No mystery there..
God Bless,
Father O'Malley
Posted November 17, 2011 at 3:59:21 PM
Norris Hines
Just like her pal pelosi she is a fruit cake and people who keep electing them are are nutty to.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:01:49 PM
Norris
Raise arm with one Molotov cocktail in it, make it their last.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:05:55 PM
Call Me Mom
The fact that you have to resort to violence shows your immaturity and worse your total lack of knowledge regarding how the government of this nation is supposed to work. How many of you have contacted your legislators regarding the issues that seem to upset you so?
How many of you are even upset by the same thing? I have yet to hear a comprehensive message coming out of any of these protests beyond "We have a group working on that" and we want what we don't have and we deserve to get it because we want it."
Grow up, learn some history, learn how to work within the system and do so.
Yes, it's more boring than camping out in a park and getting lots of media attention, but that's how adults do things. At least those adults who really want the best for themselves and their neighbors.
Since you are known by the company you keep, you may want to look around and see who is supporting you. You have the support of Nazis, communists, socialists, islamists, and even the KKK. Enemies of our nation flock around you like birds because you are serving as the "useful innocents" they can use to promote their own agendas. Agendas which will cost lives and the first to go will be you. Wake up. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:08:03 PM
Fed Up
"Michigan Lawmaker Tries to Lure Jack Daniel's Amid Tax Dispute in Tennessee' Fox News.Com
No doubt a county run by tax and spend liberals~
Question for the entire country though; where will al the businesses go when Obama and the socialists in congress have their way with "taxing the rich" (i.e., small businesses and job creators)?
I think we are already seeing where they are and have been going.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:16:37 PM
Jordan Smith
It is no wonder that the Republican controlled congress now has a 9% (all time low) approval rating. Maybe they believe what is written here?
30 years of Reaganomics has destroyed the country. Before Reagan, we had continued high GDP growth and less than 1 trillion total deficit. If only we could undo the damage of 'trickle down' we would all be better off. Glad to see the country has woken up and people are protesting the greed of the so called Capitalists. America is sliding in all areas now. Healthcare, National Debt, income inequality, crime, education, etc. Europe leads us in most categories, but we should all fear the so called evil Socialism. Yea, France is better than us in all the above mentioned categories, but we should fear them. Maybe we should try to be MORE like some of the European countries. I am not sayign they are better than us at everything, but we are certainly no better with what we have.
Talking points and opinion pieces are great...facts are even better.
Just Saying
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:18:45 PM
Old Marine
If these dead beat trash OCCUPIER's ever show their useless butts on my street, I would suggest they show up with with the Red Cross Blood Collectors behind them so they can fill whatever shortage they might have at the time. I hope they bring body bags also............No animosity you understand, but this is MY AMERICA and I will defend it from foreign and domestic enemies to my death. I took that oath when I enlisted in the Marine Corps, and I haven't forgotten. One nation under GOD!!!!!
Semper Fi,
The Old Marine
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:19:47 PM
Stone Cold
Dear Comrade Congresswoman,
Why were you not so benevolent towards the Tea Party?
Let's review, the Tea Party obtained permits, paid for security and in most cases left the venues cleaner than they found them. The occupiers, well not so much.
Please explain the difference.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:28:32 PM
Carol, Fed Up
Mr. Alexander missed another important point between "Tank Man" and the occupiers. The lone man who stood against the tanks was peaceable. And, contrary to what the "occupiers" seem to think, they do not have a right to just assemble. They have a constitutional right "PEACEABLY to assemble." There is a great difference between the 2 concepts. Oh, and while I'm at it, Occupiers, there is a difference between "free speech" and "camping out"!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:28:41 PM
M. Carey Gilbert, Ret. Navy
Ms Waters, you have NO IDEA what racism is and, and your age you really don't want to find out.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:36:59 PM
Larry Elliott
Someone needs to give Maxine a female canid slap that'll spin her head around, then tell her, "that's life and that's what happens." These fools had better hope that their bodyguards are well paid and well cared for because when the poop hits the air movement equipment they may well find out what REALLY happens.
Maxine could be dumber, but she'd have to work a lot harder than she's ever worked before to do it. She's just been working on natural talent so far.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:37:32 PM
JoAnne Duke
One should think twice before taking seriously what this ethically troubled woman has to say.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:37:59 PM
mary dean
spoken like a true democrat = lets get rid of her too with oboma soon i hope god bless america - a christian country
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:39:42 PM
Jeff Stevens
Mr. President: Free enterprise and liberty cannot be seperated. You cannot have one without the other. Financial markets must have regulation or greed will corrupt them. Politicians must be regulated or greed will corrupt them. People must be governed or greed will corrupt them. My point sir is simple, use a common sense approach to government and regulation, don't over burden or over reach your authority, and let free enterprise, free markets, and personal liberties work together. I am not a supporter of any of your policies because I believe your real interest is to create a socialist state in American and redistribute the wealth to people that do not deserve it and will most likely use it up as fast as a tank of gas in an SUV. Then sir, they will will expect more. Quit giving everyone fish and teach them how to fish so they can provide for themselves. Regards, Jeff Stevens
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:40:15 PM
sandy miles
We've never had free enterprise. The 1% and welfare recipients are both taken care of by the government. Who bailed out the banks and wall street the last go around and who got screwed? I don't like the occupiers but I do think they've started a conversation in this country about how corrupt and greedy our government, wall street and large corporations are. Lobbiest buy government. Both parties are involved. So please stop all the BS rhetoric... anyone with a brain knows what's going on. We need a third party, we need term limits and we need to get rid of the financial situation that buys politicians.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:41:38 PM
JOAnne Duke
To those young strong protestors who want jobs, there are farmers who are desperately looking for someone to come and work in their fields.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:41:42 PM
Don't Come 2 Texas
Ms. Maxine,
PLEASE go down there and spend as long (or short) as it takes for something to "just happen" to you as it has to so many other leftist "ladies".
On the other hand, I've seen you up close. NOBODY is that desperate.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:42:19 PM
Please Come 2 Texas
To the OCCUPIERS: Please come to Texas and try that CRAP. I have a 30 caliber response for you.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:44:33 PM
Larry Elliott
The whining crybabies at the various "Occupy" protests who act like they have the right to do whatever they please will learn, either sooner or later that the piper has to be paid. It may well be a painful and expensive lesson for them all. They're just lucky that the police are so well trained and have sucked it up so far. When it comes time for the protesters to cowboy up, I'll bet we'll hear a lot more whining and complaining from them. They, like the protesters in the '60's and '70's seem to believe that they have an unlimited right to protest and disrupt, while the rest of us have no rights at all.
I can only say, "lock and load one magazine 30 rounds, fire if attacked."
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:44:41 PM
noliberalsever
Ms Waters, you are exemplary of what is wrong with our country today. You are truly a racist and to make matters worse, you seem to be intellectually challenged. By extension, I am going to assume that your constituency is like minded.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:46:54 PM
Gerald
Mr. President, the occupiers are, instead of trying to restore our eonomy and country, intent on ruining our economy, destroying our Costitution, subvertingour freedoms and converting our society to Socialism. I have every confidence that they will fail and you will not become the Director (Dictator)of a banana Republic which you have said was your desire. I admit you did not say it as fluently as I just did buyt your intentions are plain if one just follows your history of writings and speeches. I pray that you will re-think your plans befo0re it is too late.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:48:06 PM
Len
First of all, Bloomberg let this whole scenario get out of hand. We have a bunch of Marxist taught and leftist led people who are a minority trying to dictate to the majority what should be done. If they don't like it here, then move somewhere else, out of the country. Our country wasn't supposed to be a place nor was it intended to be a 'nanny state'! However, liberals have managed to create a 'nanny state' where the younger generations expect everything to be handed to them on a platter. They should be working or trying to find work. I didn't create their college debt nor did I create their circumstances. They are victims of their own choices and decisions. Guess what, there are consequences for decisions whether they be good or bad!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:48:13 PM
Larry Elliott
Obama is right that the majority of the citizenry is upset at how the economic system is working, or better yet failing to work. What he doesn't understand is that the system is not working the way it was intended to work. It was never intended that fat cat bankers and crooked politicians should be able to loot the public treasury to enrich themselves and their cronies. It was never intended that wealthy and crooked Demorats like John Corzine could steal their clients funds to enrich themselves. Of course our Glorious Leader would never admit that.
As long as the protesters demand an end to capitalism they're fine, when, like the Tea Party they demand fiscal responsibility (that he's called for from everyone but government and himself) they're anti-government and racist. I just hope that I live long enough that I can see him proven wrong, inept, and totally corrupt.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:52:40 PM
Tom Delaney
I can only say to Maxine what she said to me........."Go to Hell."
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:53:25 PM
Richard Ryan
Obama`s remark are what we have come to expect from the Kenyan-born, communist thug.
Richard Ryan
Lamar,Missouri - Birthplace of Harry S Truman
Posted November 17, 2011 at 4:58:53 PM
Gary Chambers
What is this 99% stuff? These creeps are less than 1% doing their form of protesting. Other wise they are 100% certifiable nutcases. I do hope they do not plan on calling me part of their 99% because I am not with them in any way, shape, or form. I am in agreement with Larry Elliot, Lock and Load.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:03:34 PM
Barry L. Hughes
To Mr. Obama, The Occupiers and MS. Waters:
You are phonies.
People such as myself are the true 99%. We are the ones paying for 99% of everything you have. Why? Because you have spent 99% of your time whining about how everyone has ridden your backs into prosperity. In actuality it is because we, the true 99% have worked our backsides off providing tax fodder for you to waste, squander, steal, siphon, shank, raze, thieve and thoroughly misuse, your entire worthless lives.
We, the true 99% are the ones who weren't able to afford college, so we WORKED (I know, a 4-letter word to Community Organizers) multiple jobs, studied (without the benefit of ganja, man) followed the rules and laws and now... see paragraph one. You won't see us whining about the rich man, because we, the true 99%, understand what it takes to get there and how many people benefit when we/they actually DO get there.
We, the true 99%, are ashamed for you, of YOUR sons and daughters who have sold themselves to an evil and licentious idolatry called communism, because we TAUGHT our children to think for THEMSELVES despite your attempted indoctrination.
We, the true 99% understand that you will pass into oblivion (see Hell) as you spend your time in jail, the charity ward (which we, the true 99% pay for) dying of syphilis, AIDS and downright stupidity, waiting for another handout, food stamp, welfare check, fix, toke, etc., while we continue on. Hopefully some of you, the fake 99%, will see the light, as many 60's radicals have, and join the ranks of the true 99% before... see the beginning of this paragraph.
Yes, you are phonies. Isn't it funny?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:04:48 PM
June9245
Obummer is full of crap like all Socialist.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:06:50 PM
Gerald
The Occupiers state that the first amendment to the
Constitution gives them the right to do what they are doing. Wrong! The Constitution gives citizens the right PEACABLY gather and seek redress from the government. What? PEACABLY
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:16:41 PM
Kent
Mr President,
The occupy protesters are giving voice to their frustrations. However, it is over how branches of government have interfered with our financial system, not the system itself. Most are simply too uninformed to know the root causes of their financial pain, and the rest are instigators with their own agenda. Had Mr Dodd and Mr Frank both lost their jobs years ago, most of the countries financial distress would have been avoided. But then, we'd still have people whining that life isn't fair, because they can't show enough income to qualify to purchase a certain product for a certain price.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:23:52 PM
Richard
My wish is that Maxine Waters would be subject to rape by one of those individuals she so fondly supports. Maxine, What goes around comes around.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:28:57 PM
Greg
Maxine Waters is certifiably insane. As are her supporters. Not just stupid, but insane.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:29:30 PM
tony rinna
Wonder what she would say if one of her kids was raped or killed at one of these protest. she would be calling for god and anybody else to avenge her kids.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:31:12 PM
Jane
President Obama, you have caused these riots called "Occupy". Class warfare is not going to solve America's problems, and neither are any of your policies. What you are doing and saying have just added fuel the fire!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:31:22 PM
Gary Chambers
Just a thought. There are those of us who believe that obama may find a catastrophe of some form where he will feel justified to install martial law and suspend elections so he can "Stabilize" the country. But actually will allow him to retain control and become another Chavez. This FLEA Party movement may well be what he has been planning. So far there is one major problem for him. obama must somehow eleminate private ownership of guns. The U N treaty may well give him the power to end private ownership of firearms. obama could very easily draw millitary support from the U N to take down any rebellion against him.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:31:35 PM
Greg
The "Occupiers" are useful and ignorant tools of the radical left. As are all rabble roused mobs. Always have been, always will. Deluded, self centered, blinded, and fetid.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:33:03 PM
Ibin Misled
I swear as god is my witness... if after the 2012 election the ballot box does not wrestle the constitituion from the hands of the socialists in power right now. December 21, 2012 just may be the end of the world because if the ballot box doesn't clear the deck in washington... we will have little choice but to follow the dictates of TJ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:42:54 PM
Col Ron
I had a copy of that famous "Tank Man" picture on the wall of my office for many years as an example of the kind of courage that made this country great. While I no longer have the reference, about a year or so after the picture was taken, I read an article from a very reputable source that the Chinese government had executed him.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:58:05 PM
DARRELL lynch
Madam, If your marxist brats try that violence in THIS state, ,there will not be enough police to protect them. Here, we do not allow this kind of adolescent behavior. We spank the punks, and send them home, crying!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:58:54 PM
Jeff
You're nothing.
What you believe in is a lie. In your intolerance, you require that everyone else believes in your falsehoods and shares your romantic misery. Yet, because you are nothing, you will accomplish nothing of value.
We far, far outnumber you. Yes, you can turn violent and when our patience is spent, you will also be...spent. All along, those using you as simple political pawns play on your idea that, in behaving as you are, you are actually becoming something out of your nothing. But in the end, defeated, dead, alive or in jail, you will still be nothing.
Back in the day of the Tsar, your ilk could spread the lies, control the information and get away with it. But today, there's too much good information too easily obtained for your, limited, champions in the press to cover for you, hiding your lies. You will lose, and although you are already a loser, you will have less when you are finished.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 5:59:25 PM
justmy02cents
One of Dobbs' deputies was a bit more descriptive: "No more talking. They've got guns, we've got bottles. They've got bricks, we've got rocks ... you're going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do. On the 17th, we're going to burn New York City to the ground."
By any reasonable i terpretation, the above quote is incitment to riot and probably a terroristic threat. Ray Kelly or the FBI should arrest the person quoted and give him/her a new place of abode.... the "tombs".
The complete loss of precious liberty and freedom can teach the anarchist a valuable civics lesson. Their rights end when they encroach upon MY RIGHTS to enjoy and peacefully use Zucotti Park absent the scum that has accumulated their daily.
Ray Kelly, NYPD in general and NYPD ESU specifically deserve or thanks and praise for doing their jobs effectively, respectfully, and without excess. Lord knows I would have been tempted to excess by the rabble in that park.
With regards to Mayor Bloomberg, he has failed to perform the job he was hired to do by allowing his misguided liberalism to stand in the way of his responsibilities to the citizenry on NYC.
NOTE TO THE MAYOR:
WWRD what would Rudy do .... should have guided your actions... you have failed us all and allowed a small minority to trample the rights of the vast majority on New Yorkers.
justmy02cents
Posted November 17, 2011 at 6:00:02 PM
Anh
Step down, Rep Waters. You are the distraction, and a disgrace to the House and your constituents.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 6:01:35 PM
Elaine
They are going to burn NYC to the ground? What will they do when the hand that feeds them has nothing left to give them?
I have two friends with 30-something children. I and my friends are baby boomers. My baby boomer friends spoiled their children rotten and both of their children have run home to mommy and daddy because they can't do anything, think coherently, or assume any responsibility for themselves.
I guess I'd have to say the parents of these cretins should have some of the blame for being enablers, spoilers, and bailing their kids out every time the kids should have been responsible.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 6:15:56 PM
Paulrod
Not for nuthin', but has anybody noticed that those three-color posters of Obama staring nobly into the future are almost exact replicas of a WWII poster of Mussolini? If memory serves, underneath Il Duce were printed, "Credere, Obedere, Lavorare", which (I think--somebody who speaks better Italian can correct me)means, "Believe, Obey, Work".
A little irony, Il Duce was a Fascist......
Posted November 17, 2011 at 6:25:23 PM
Linda Redondo
Ms. Maxine needs to retire. I know she is rich enough to do so and that way we won't have to hear her idiotic comments.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 6:26:09 PM
Kathy
Ms. Waters, you and your cohorts in crime are dead wrong to support the OWS because they are not the paying your salaries. We working people are supporting you and find it reprehensible that you support a 'movement' such as this which needs to be 'flushed'.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 6:26:53 PM
Carolyn
The reason we're all so frustrated is that you (Obama) have totally screwed up this country. I hope to heaven that people wise up and throw you out of office in 2012.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 6:47:36 PM
Ramona
So OWS is going to bring a bottle to a gun fight and burn down NY "No more talking. They've got guns, we've got bottles." !! When are we going to get serious with these anarchist??
Posted November 17, 2011 at 6:50:05 PM
Kelly Jarboe
I would be glad to respond to MS Waters but I'm not sure she would understand, So I guess the best thing is to say MS Waters it would be great if the House and Senate new the difference between the Tea Party Movement that was well organized and very peaceful and always on track with the Central theme of Less Taxes, Smaller Government and no Obama Healthcare. When the tea Party Crowds left thee was nothing left behind for the City to clean up or repair, these tings cannot be said of the Occupy Group, not even one of them.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 6:50:15 PM
Howard Reed
Hello America,
I have absolutely nothing positive to say about Rep. Maxine waters, since she has no redeeming qualities. So because of my Christian beliefs I won't say anything by shame on the people that keep her in power.
The Turban Torpedo
Posted November 17, 2011 at 7:32:44 PM
M Rick Timms, MD
These OWS folks better be careful what they ask for - They will not like the revolution we have planned. I for one am tired of the 47% riding in the wagon, complaining, and threatening my country.
Invest in precious metals now so you can give back later. Brass, lead and and copper jacketing. Various sizes available.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 7:35:03 PM
Peter
Obama claims, "People are frustrated and the [Occupy] protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works." The system he bemoans is free enterprise, ... but the system he LOVES is crony capitalism, and in this regard - probably only in this regard - the OWS childdren have it right. The one percent do carry a greater burden of taxation than the rest of us, but they have also a much greater return on investment.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 7:35:05 PM
Jim
Maxine, you and your cohorts are promoting chaos and anarchy. Be careful, sometimes it can backfire on you.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 7:35:18 PM
R.K. Smith
I say let them alone so they can show the rest of the people the lame stream media plays to how stupid and uncultured they are and maybe the Obama lovers will catch on and realize they want no more of anything he is involved in and help us vote him out,
Posted November 17, 2011 at 7:37:41 PM
JAMES J. BILENKI JR. (USN. RET.)
Maxine Waters,
You are Almost as physically repulsive as your politics are! "The last time I saw a mouth like yours,...It had a hook in it!" You've called us "TEA PARTY" citizens racist, told us to go to Hell, bad mouthed us and complained about the influence we had in getting rid of SOME OF THE UBER LIBERAL, LEFTWING, NUT CASES AND DEAD WOOD obama backside kissing, anti-American politicians such as yourself IN WASHINGTON!!! I have a news flash for you, you RACIST MORON...WE AIN'T DONE YET!!! You're going to be the next one to get the ax, and no matter how loud you hollar, scream and spew your filthy, black racist garbage, you'll still going to be getting on that bus and heading out of OUR NATION'S CAPITAL!!! We, this nations Good, Decent, Legal, Law Abiding, (Unlike your OWC spawn) Patriotic, Traditional, Hard Working, Justly Retired, Highly Over Taxed, Abused, Put Upon, Taken Advantage Of and Ignored, True, White Middle Class American Citizens, will be sending you and your lot packing!!! Obongo, you and all the other far left liberal "PRIMA DONNA'S" have destroyed enough of MY/OUR country for long enough now and it's way past time you get the Hell out!!!
You are a part of the worst administration, headed by the worst person, to ever sit in OUR White House. Notice I did not say --president!-- You will never hear me say his name and the word
--president-- in the same breath, as he'll never be my president and never was. You will never see me write his name and the word --president-- in the same sentence for the same reason! He, as well as you, are a freakin' discrace to your positions, this nation's Good, Decent, etc. etc. people and the nation as a whole. The SOONER we get ALL of you Destructive, Dangerous, Hypocritical, Left Wing Lunitics out of this nations government, the SOONER we can begin to un-do all the damage you've done, and get this nation back on her feet once more. So start packing your bags, and don't steal the silverware on your way out!
J.J.B.JR.(USN.RET.)
P.S.
I'm sorry I "Sugar Coated" my feelings toward Maxine Waters, but I'm trying to do better. Give me some time. I'm working on it.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 7:39:25 PM
Jim Stolfi
Hey Maxine, ignorance catches up with you at the next election!!
Have a nice day........
Posted November 17, 2011 at 7:48:07 PM
R.K. Smith
I wish someone in the media would expose Obama by having guts enough to ask him to reveal how much he has gotten from his investments in capitalism schemes of which i have heard amounts to a tidy sum in the millions of dollars a year from some of Soros' cronies?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 7:50:27 PM
Convet
I served this country in Southeast Asia for these KLOWNS? I should've stayed home and worked at a Burger King!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 7:54:11 PM
JAMES J. BILENKI JR. (USN. RET.)
Not that I'd advocate this but...
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin & Hirohito had the right answers to this kind of problem.
You could PROTEST & SAY ANYTHING AT ANYTIME in Germany, Russia and Japan!
But you'd only PROTEST & SAY ANYTHING, ANYTIME...ONCE!!!
J.J.B.JR.(USN.RET.)
Posted November 17, 2011 at 8:44:49 PM
James Wright
I've seen enough of Waters to know she is one of obama's useful idiots, more idiot than useful. We've seen some killings, infectuous diseases, left-over syringes and human waste piling up in the OWS camps, and Waters thinks these things are okay? I'll have what she's smoking. She most definitely marches to a different drummer...
Posted November 17, 2011 at 8:45:05 PM
Sandra Parker
As a grandmother, I am very apprehensive about
all the socilist movements going on in our
America. The leader, Obama, I believe, was
taken from childhood to be where he is now. He
is surely destroying our country and the brain
dead congress is sitting back and acting like
wimps. In their attempts to retain office, they
are letting this country be drained of its very
life blood. Why can I as a middle class citizen
see the future in horror when the people voted
into office act as though all is well. When a
congresswoman can actually say that rape, deaths,
filth is just a part of the Occupiers movement we know where her direction lies. The movement is to bring down America as quickly as possible. If Obama supports it, you know it is for no good. I
can not imagine that we have allowed this to happen so fast. But, alas, it has. We are speeding
to a bad end. We were the light on the hill and
Obama and his ilk have put a dark basket over us.
What will become of my grand children?
Posted November 17, 2011 at 8:51:08 PM
Jiggs
Did any of you clowns see the anti-protester signs over on Wall Street today that said, "Get a job!" or "Occupy a desk!" You bozos are baking up the wrong tree when you ask the government to create jobs. Government doesn't create jobs, entrepreneurs and the very ones you are protesting do. Oh, and you are also camped out in the wrong places. Another part of that faceless 1% you hammer away at are yourvery Representatives and Senators in Congress who have managed to vote themselves higher salaries every year for quite sometime. I saw where on New York City representative had managed since she has been in office to morph the 1 million she began with into 67 million today. I'm not part of the 1%, because I started out with nothing and still have most of it, and I'm not part of the 99% either, because what little I have accumulated on a non-union teacher's salary, I earned with hard work, something I doubt you know the meaning of. I'm sick of you and your whining and entitlement crap. Be productive, support the country, GET A JOB!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 8:53:19 PM
Flit Andersen
You know, for a bunch of commies that claim to HATE evil "commercialism" as much as these pink-o's do, they certainly are aware of the value of a buck.
And, while not very adept at coming by wealth in an honest manner, they are are very good at STEALING it through graft, corruption and common thievery.
Barry the Bolshevik reminds me of "Die Hard" villan Hans Gruber who poses as a Grand Commando but is nothing more than a common thief. Every one of the fundraisers and insiders in the Obama Block have done very well with our dough. Andf not just the money we have now, but he has hocked us in to the next century as well. Obama's great-grandchildren will be sipping cool drinks on the Riviera u80 years from now wuhile we're still paying off his robbery of the United States.
It's enough to make the Founding father weep that we have become a nation so insecure in our fabulous heritage that we elect a charlatan like Obozo because it assuages some ficticious guilt nobody alive today deserves to feel.
I know I sure as hell don't.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 8:54:31 PM
Curt Lenhardt
President Obama sets up the straw man to give a target to the OWSers. His own bail out to Wall St. is the focus of these Useful Idiots, yet they don't direct their anger toward him. It is the full implementation of Free Enterprise and the vigorous prosecution of violators the will correct the inequalities and inequities the president has heaped upon our nation.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 9:14:02 PM
Julie
You protestors have too much time on their hands and are receiving support from other socialists. There is plenty of work available in this country. Somehow, it is below you to wash dishes, clean streets, plant, tend and harvest crops, clean hospitals and nursing homes, mow lawns etc. Obviously, you know of some place where "Occupied Wall Street" will look good on your resume and help you find work or you wouldn't be wasting your precious time doing this.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 9:17:18 PM
Les
I know just the place to install that bomb so Rep. Waters won't miss it. Or be missed.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 9:20:14 PM
Kirk Waggoner
Brutal assaults fall under the "That's life" category? So I guess then by extension I could put the snowplow on my F-350, lock it in 4X4, and go "plowing for protesters" and it would be OK? Where is your outrage? Where is your compassion for those assaulted? Where is your sound bite? Or is it only "wrong" when your political detractors are the ones doing it? The hypocrisy is grotesque.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 9:23:07 PM
Angela
If that isn't violence, then I don't know what is.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 9:36:47 PM
Thomas S Pierce
Response to Obama? NOT REPRINTABLE HERE.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 9:38:00 PM
JAMES J. BILENKI JR. (USN. RET.)
No Obama, ""THE PEOPLE"" are not frustrated!"
We're fed up!
We're fed up with your administration!
We're fed up with Waters!
We're fed up with Pelosi!
We're fed up with Holder!
We're fed up with the lies, the schemes, the blatent corruption, the racism, the anti-Constitutional attitude, the socialistic/communistic, unAmerican conduct from you, your spouse and your lackie cohorts.
WE'RE FED UP WITH ---Y-O-U---!!!
You're Ignorant, Arrogant, Incompetent & Highly Unqualified for that position, or any position in OUR government! Not only that, but you're a danger to everything Good and Decent about this country.
A country you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT!
You & your spouse are this nation's worst enemies!
Perhaps the world's worst enemies!
J.J.B.JR.(USN.RET.)
Posted November 17, 2011 at 9:41:21 PM
david.skypilot
Assaulting a police office with a razor blade is attempted murder. Would you like someone to try that on you, it would be another "That's life" moment.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 9:46:42 PM
jerry sweet
obama is a person who is a legend in his own mind.he has his followers,but then so did hitler.how'd that work out.just saying.its a shame that the black people had a chance to really make a decent mark for their people and our nation,but instead have put themselves into a desent into madness.i know some good moral blacks people who just say,they dont care what he stands for,he's black and he's in.but i also believe some black people hate what he is doing!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 10:04:22 PM
Walter
Maxine, Bloody riots are not life as usual in a Republic, (such as I am), they happen in a democracy, (such as you are).
Posted November 17, 2011 at 10:05:04 PM
adena
Why do you want to take a giant step backwards in civilized society? Making American cities look like middle-eastern & 3rd world places. Isn't the goal to elove, be MORE civilized & learn to help others? Distruction & anger will nevr create anything good. Let's move forward, as civilized people.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 10:21:14 PM
Bruce Purdy
Among other things, most of these Occupiers are to be pitied. They are uninformed through their own ignorance, but know no better because of the influence liberals have had on our educational system the past 30 years.
Many of the occupiers are there because of the free flowing party atmosphere. It would probably be pretty easy to score some good drugs, and get laid there!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 10:40:20 PM
BigSkCountry
"A Dictatorship is a long, never ending, narrow, straight road with no exits on it and you will stay on this road until all your freedom is taken from you." By José Reyes
Posted November 17, 2011 at 10:48:17 PM
James Seigfreid
Ms. Maxine, your time is coming very soon. One day you will be face-to-face with your maker, and He will say "Whoa---thought I flushed that!"
Posted November 17, 2011 at 11:05:56 PM
Sue Barasch
This country was built strong and true and free because of the freedom of the individual. Systems that rely on the government to supply everything have never lasted long...as Mrs. Thatcher said - with socialism the problem is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money. Until recently the USA was the strongest and most envied country in the world - most of us realize that you and your people are trying to destroy us but one thing you cannot destroy is our individual initiative.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 11:15:14 PM
Bob T Guy
The mayors and police chiefs of the cities these arrogant obstructionists are infesting are cowards or conspirators or gigantically incompetent. In any case they should all be run out of office and out of town on a rail. In the first 24 hours the water hoses, tear gas, rubber bullets, and bean bags should have been employed to send the rats packing.
Now they have tenure... You know how hard it is to get rid of a tenured professor. The rats of OWS now have sticking power because the officials sworn to protect and serve the good, law abiding citizens of their communities have abdicated their authority to a rabble with evil intent. Start with Bloomberg and throw out the whole inventory of mayors and cops who stood by and watched as the working men and women of their communities were insulted, accosted, robbed, threatened, suffered sleep deprivation, loss of income, and vandalized for MONTHS!!!
Posted November 17, 2011 at 11:49:25 PM
R. Weir
Ms. Maxine Waters can, in her own words, go to Hell!!
Posted November 18, 2011 at 12:12:16 AM
PJ
Study the rise of fascism in Europe. The tactics of the occupy idiots and their political exploiters are eerily reminiscent of Hitler's exploitation of street protests. Lenin espoused the tactic of letting useful idiots stir up the populace and then exploiting the situation. Mussolini did it with more style but Hitler was the master. So, who is pulling the puppet strings here? Maxine Waters is not capable of taking full advantage of the situation, but someone is.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 12:50:18 AM
chuck, Michigan
Ms. Waters in incoherent and purely and obvious corrupted and scared of these so -called activist. This is blatently obvious by her comments. What is she afraid of one may ask..... the answer is simple and logical, that is............. these so called activist have there focus pointed in the wrong direction. Maxi knows this, as does Obama. Sooner or later, a wiser and smarter member of this group will wake up, and rally a cry to focus on Washington, the source of the problem. Nobody can ever argue that it is pure capitalism that makes our country work. It is the capitalists that invest the money to support factories, building of homes, new ideas, and just about every aspect of modern life. One may ask how does this put the finger pointed to Washington and the old school Washington veterans. Simple, they have been in Washington long enough to learn how's to pilfer the tax money that capitalism creates. We all know if it were not for capitalism, then needed programs like welfare, medicaide, housing assistance, and even free clean needles for the addicts would not exist. But..... the boys in Washington are pilfering the coffers and lining their own pockets, period and end. So you see, Obama will continue to embrace this, when the states call out the national guard, Obama will interfere, one may say why would he do that? Simple again, look at Chicago and the history of political corruptness there. When Obama said "change" , he knew the common person in Chicago has been robbed of all their change, in fact he took much of it himself as he was "organizing", he went to millions of little people and said give a dollar, give two, help me get my message of change out. When they ran out of money, he knew he had to get to washington.... that is a place he said in his own mind, that change will turn into dollars, and so far, due to people like this ows croud, he has gotten away with it. So I urge the people, aim your disconcerted feelings in the proper direction before your very own artillary hits you on top of your own head! Washington are the thief's plain and simple, they make the laws, plain and simple, and if you keep up this rhetoric, and that is what it is all long as it is aimed wrong, it will be too late. May God bless us all, and our wonderful country! Protest on Washington people, that is the nerve epicenter! Maxi should be sent a one way ticket to hell for condoning such action, in fact she supports the illegal violence by her own words, she should be charged for every crime committed via the ows croud as an accomplice. She is a pathetic person. Maxi should be "flushed" out of her position!
Posted November 18, 2011 at 6:50:51 AM
Jonathan Oaks
These are the same folks as the Loyalists of the 1770s who tried to stop this country from its founding, except today's folks are pure idiots.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 7:50:51 AM
badspeller
Who put the notion in their noggins that this was a good idea?
Posted November 18, 2011 at 8:01:14 AM
Ragnaud Danaschule
If the American People knew what they know now about the imposter in the white House he would not be there. Much of the problem we have in Our Country can be attributed to the anti-christian, liberal(anything goes)philosophy that the imposter and many in Congress embrace.
Our job as Americans is to support and uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. This means we have to weed out the Social Communists in our government and make sure they are not elected or re-elected.
Our Freedom depends on it!
Don't be fooled by the lies and perceptions that "professional politicians" spew from their lips. Take the time to look at their past and their "positive" contribution to a "free" society before you vote! Do not vote by slick television ads that are designed by professional agencies to make their person look good or by media and talk show influences. It is too important to stop the destruction of America so Socialism can work it's way in! Do the homework and know the candidates!
Posted November 18, 2011 at 8:04:34 AM
Jonathan Oaks
We can't get that blasted marxist Obama out of office fast enough!
Posted November 18, 2011 at 8:10:13 AM
Allen, 45acp
There was a time when Communist were ferreted out of government and society by the FBI. The Communist policy was to overthrow the government of the United States and replace it with a totalitarian form of government. Namely Communism, where the government controls everything in your life. --- What happened to common sense?
Posted November 18, 2011 at 8:54:31 AM
Jan
"Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once." from the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Thank you for showing Tank Man, a REAL man.
My comment to the occupiers: Don't show your ignorance any more than you have to: don't make signs, don't talk.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 8:59:41 AM
JoeW
You meathead! Get a job!
Posted November 18, 2011 at 9:20:44 AM
gwelker
you have to be kidding. You should be run out of office
Posted November 18, 2011 at 9:33:27 AM
Frederick R Siemers
Dear Ms.Waters,
How many RAPES,ASSAULTS, AND THEFTS,were reported at the TEA PARTY rally's? How many protesters were arrested at the TEA PARTY rally's?
The Occupy Message is, everyone else go to work, pay higher taxes, and increase my Government Handout.
I am one American that is real tired of that message.
Throw them out, arrest and prosecute them,and cut off their handouts. A little hunger, and homeless nights, will do wonders for their motivation.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 9:39:34 AM
Frederick R Siemers
Arrest and prosecute any one that breaks current laws. A little time in jail will do wonders for their attitudes,
Posted November 18, 2011 at 9:45:45 AM
Frederick R Siemers
Dear Mr. President,
I am aware, how much you dislike Capitalism, and Free
Enterprise. The people that support both, are your sworn enemies. We will fight your Socialistic efforts. For the sake of America, I truly hope you are unsuccessful. This county has become a survival struggle between Un-Americans, like you and your supporters, and the Freedom loving Americans, who oppose you. May God Bless our American way of life. Since you are a Muslim,you do not support God either.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 9:56:57 AM
Charles E Pehl
To Maxine:
As Oliver Cromwell told the Long Parliament,
"In The name of God, go! You have sat long enough!"
Posted November 18, 2011 at 10:01:43 AM
leemcgee
"Love your enemy and drive 'em nuts." - Brother Dave Gardner (late 1950s stand-up comedian)
Posted November 18, 2011 at 10:05:16 AM
Chuck La Monica
To Maxine,
Unfortunately these poor soul occupiers don't appear to have a single clue as to what works in a Republic. Do you or they actually believe that berating the people directly responsible for creating jobs will actually work to achieve fairness they are after.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 10:30:19 AM
Robert
Maxine Waters has always been one of the useful idiots. The factshe has unfettered access to a microphone is both a good and bad thing. Good because we come to understand more fully the mindset of her ilk, and bad because she makes the rest of the useful idiots think they their cause is just. She will never change and she will never beanything more than just a useful idiot.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 11:25:57 AM
JR-C
Maxine Waters is the closest thing to a clown we have in the congress. If she had a brain she would be dangerous.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 11:26:32 AM
Tim Britt
You "occupiers" are nothing more than a sick mob spouting off diatribes you have been indoctrinated with in academia. You so-called 99 per centers want what you have not worked for. Why don't you target your sports and Hollywood icons? Your mob mentality certainly shows since none of you filed for nor paid any legal petition that would allow you to peaceably assemble; but rather you have shown that you are nothing but demanding squatters doing what squatters do--leave trash, filth, and feces behind. Your message is nothing but one of envy and greed; you want what someone else has. Your entitlement mentality is sickening.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 1:37:43 PM
shu
we have elected the enemy. In 2012 we will make the correction. Liberals will destroy America if they are not stopped.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 3:02:30 PM
Dave Cook
Occupiers of Wall Street, you have made your point,now go home, get a job and go to work. We believe in the free market that is given to all in this country. The socialist agenda that Dobbs and Waters has indoctrinated into you has swayed your beliefs in America and the ideals that our founding father and most Americans believe in. Your belief that somehow America owes you because you were born into this country is nuts. Ask Dobbs and Waters what their true agenda is.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 3:34:35 PM
Mark R. Spengler
As so often among ill-considered and un-educated "revolutions" against those who have either abused their power or positions, the OWS'ers have not clearly identified their "targets". They paint with a broad brush in the language of class warfare and therefore lose what focus and power they could have brought to the fight. "Wall Street" is not the culprit - certain sectors within Wall Street are: namely the investment bankers. Exposing and fighting the collusion and corruption among the investment bankers, Congress, the White House (both parties), and the regulatory (watch dog?) agencies would be a cause worth engaging in sadly, a never ending cause.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 4:10:15 PM
Gerald G. Jones
The Constitution provides for the replacement or approval of the House of Representatives every 2 years,the replacement or approval of a third of the Senate every two years but the President every four years. During four years a President can cause much trouble. The present one has threatened to change or remove the Constitution by speech, in writing and by actions with Executive orders. The only protection we have is placed in the hands of the Congress by means of Impeachment. I suggest all of us contact our Representatives and suggest that action be taken as soon as possible. The basis of impeachment is high crimes and misdemeanors. There are plenty of both and time is runniing out.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 4:28:47 PM
Anne Havranek
No one owes you a thing! Go work for what you need/want. Or don't complain if/when your stuff is stolen. After all, you are the ones who think everything should be re-distributed.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 5:42:36 PM
M Rick Timms. MD
To leemcgee,
Obama has dropped us from "Drag" down into "Race"....
...We are headed for the "etheric"
thanks Brother Dave.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 7:41:56 PM
Annie
My response to the OW movement: "We've got brains and you've got communicable diseases." Hardly a fair fight I guess.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 8:39:29 PM
beefheart
why didnt the garbage men take you out with the rest of the trash?
Posted November 18, 2011 at 8:59:07 PM
Donna
Get your AZZ out of the park or away from Macy's or the bank and get the heck out of New York. If you don't like America move along.
Try a socialist country where I am sure you will be understood and then run out of town.
Posted November 19, 2011 at 1:48:17 AM
Donna
I don't know you really are, but it is time to pack your bags and get out of our White House now. You don't even have to wait until you lose the election. Go now.
Posted November 19, 2011 at 1:53:22 AM
Dave Keesling
I can only dream of the day when Ms. Waters and her ilk go out to crap and the hogs eat her.
I expect this to be deleted.In fact, it should be.
When I hear the names bill ayres and maxine waters it causes my waters to rise. Sometimes drowning my ordinarily rational and courteous thought processes.
thank you
Posted November 19, 2011 at 6:48:52 AM
LaDonna
Maxine waters is nothing more than one of Obama's useful idiots.
Posted November 19, 2011 at 3:37:01 PM
India
"Impressed, I say, because however unwittingly, it fittingly reveals the abject ignorance of the organizers and their wholly uniformed perception of history."
Ah! I could frame this sentence and hang it on my wall! I just love it when a writer is able to distill the heart of an argument into such a consise statement. Mr. Alexander, you have a knack for pinpointing the bigger truth behind the headlines. Keep up the good work!
Posted November 19, 2011 at 5:46:19 PM
Harry Mathis
The buffoon, Maxine Waters, and her other Democrat colleagues are the reason that Congress is held in such low exteem.
Posted November 19, 2011 at 8:33:45 PM
Old Soldier
Anyone who has read Obama's books (ghost writtem though they may be) knows he has the mind set of an anti colonial Marxist. So his imperial presidency, bypassing Congressional oversight by use of Czars, and all the socialist pronouncements should come as no surprise. If the OWS crowd can create an excuse for Martial Law, we will have the makings of a Marxist coup. God Save the United States. The electorate is too dumb to save it.
Posted November 19, 2011 at 10:03:29 PM
Paul Prevost
MR. OBama bin Ladin,
Please go home. We do not want you as president any longer. I never voted for you to begin with. You have ruined my prosperity that I worked 40 years for. Go away and take all your flunky's with you. If I had my way you would be charged with crimes against the people of the united States of America.
Posted November 19, 2011 at 10:04:27 PM
Andrew M Pietri
Miss Waters is obviously a product of the California schools indoctrination program.
Posted November 19, 2011 at 10:55:21 PM
Roger Tully
Maxine has always been and will always be a moron. She is a disgrace to the nation with her idiotic replys to everything she has ever opened her big mouth to. Leftist to the end and to Bugs Bunny's replys to the likes of Maxine, "what a maroon" Just shows that Bugs is smarter than she will ever be.
Posted November 20, 2011 at 11:28:52 AM
Abu Nudnik
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else."
True, the State should be as small as possible while being effective but Bastiat is wrong about the State being 1) a fiction and 2) a place where everyone lives at the expense of everyone else. What a cynical view of the service industries that arose around the towns that formed a common market for farmers or were way-stations for the caravans or sheep herders!
Posted November 20, 2011 at 12:13:55 PM
Maxine Kutcher
That is a totally hypocritical and sarcastic remark, Ms. Maxine Waters. You know it and I know it. These protestors who commit acts of violence and rob others of their personal property are not intelligent citizens with a valid purpose. They are pawns being used for political purposes. These criminal types have infiltrated the Occupy movement and now the movement has no credibility. Also, you Mrs. Waters, blocked reform for Freddie and Fannie during the Bush administration. Now look at the Housing Market. Will the corruption ever end?
Posted November 20, 2011 at 11:32:40 PM
Vondell Hass
A person with his socialist education and associates needs our prayers for change in his heart, soul, and mind. "With God nothing is impossible."
Posted November 21, 2011 at 8:05:30 AM
fedup
to the 99 percenters,
your ignorance is only exceeded my your impotence.
the world is watching and we are laughing.
Posted November 21, 2011 at 8:34:17 AM
Jim Qualls
I was there during the Watts riots, I was pulling trailers out of buildings that were being looted, after it was over, I noticed that there were no jobs for people to go to, no stores left for people to shop at, and for many years after, no businesses were willing to locate there, so go ahead and burn down New York, while you are about it, why not Los Angeles, Chicago, San francisco, Oakland, and of course Washington, when you are through, where are you going to buy food, clothing, and other necessities of life?
Posted November 21, 2011 at 9:02:09 AM
William
I like to say is Obama's one term can't come to an end quick enough. It will take years to recover what he has destroyed in this country, trying to totally change our Constitution and make his own doctrinaire as he goes along. What bothers me is he still has a year left for his destructived ideas and politics.
Posted November 21, 2011 at 12:17:10 PM
Michael Francisco
Ms Waters: I am appalled and "pissed" (as you would say), that you agree with breaking the law. Shows all of us that given the chance you would to; oh, thats right, Congress believes they are above the LAW! Hope we can fire all of you soon so you can know how it feels for normal citizens right now in this country you so despise. May God rest your soul.
Posted November 21, 2011 at 3:06:48 PM
Sean Laughlin
Ms waters, your hypocrisy and arrogance know no bounds. In addition to the sweetheart deals that you and your 1% husband enjoy at the expense of the 99% of taxpayers who pay your salary, your tin ear is about to get a big adjustment. Even if we can't get you out of office due to the dependence of your constituents, we will overwhelm your more vulnerable socialist compatriots and render you irrelevant. Stand by to reap the electoral whirlwind and your banishment to perpetual legislative backwaters.
Posted November 22, 2011 at 12:37:43 AM
Ambrose Kozlowski
Ms Waters...You need to get educated about Marxism!
Posted November 25, 2011 at 3:07:59 PM
Ambrose Kozlowski
To the occupiers...You are protesting at the wrong places. Go to the White House and the Capitol. That's where you can do some good!
Posted November 25, 2011 at 3:13:06 PM
Ambrose Kozlowski
Mr. President...You should be promoting The Free Enterprise System and not siding with those thugs who want a socialist state. They want society to pay their way. Why should 50% of the country pay no taxes at all. They should pay so that they have a little "skin in the game". Taxing the rich will not solve our financial problems, but reducing our frivolous spending will.
Posted November 25, 2011 at 3:25:19 PM
Scott Freese
Master Obama! Guide us in how we will be your tools to "fundamentally Change" America into the Socialist utopia that you promised us!!!!! Your prophechies have come true, almighty one!!!! we crave your guidance, your blessings your approval of all things rightious and socialist!!!!!
The above came from a cabal of writers who would not be able to pour urine out of a boot unless the instructions were written on the bottom of the heel.
I THIS what the United Stated is heading for???? I sincerely think not!
All socialists are narcissistically addle headed morons whos' ability to think is limited by those who give tham permission to do so,. I will NEVER be one of them!!!!
Posted December 12, 2011 at 2:16:47 AM