Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 01:01 AM - General
Posted by Administrator
The other day, I got bored, so, I decided to have a political chat with some protestors. You see, in our town were some Occupy Protestors which had been featured in the newspaper, there were about 50 of them by day and 20 by night hanging out on the street corner holding signs and later camped out in the park. The police told them to leave, 5-times, but they didn't. One night at 1:45 AM after shift-change with nothing to do, the police came in and arrested anyone who didn't leave.Posted by Administrator
It is illegal to camp out in the parks around here, and there is good reason for that, this is an up-scale neighborhood and these protestors are not from this local community, oh I suppose a few may have been but most of them came in from neighboring cities. Mainly, they are angry at the one-percent, which is indeed where I live. What bugs me is that when I talked to these folks they really didn't have any clue as to how the world works, what drives the economy, or how wealth is created.
They were angry about all sorts of things, and yet, their stories were all too similar, they made choices and are where they are, through no fault of their own. Now they want more, and all of them admitted to voting for Obama, every one of them. This is his crowd, this is what he created by pitting poor against rich, dividing the classes, promoting socialism, and all this class warfare.
Now then, I think everyone is a little miffed at the crony capitalism and the cheaters in various financial circles, but let's not throw out the baby with the dirty bath water. You see, if we are going to fix these challenges then we must differentiate between all us hard working free-market capitalists and all the cheaters, I am okay with that. One thing good about cheaters and cheating is it seems to be addictive, and addictions generally bring people down, thus, in the end they pay for it, unfortunately in the process they screw everyone else too.
To those protests, yes, I hear you, I don't like it either, but this blanket attacks on the rich or wealthy is just wrong, that's not what America is about, and I for one have a lot of animosity towards some of the things going on out there, for instance; High frequency trading pisses me off the worst, and now we have our nation's largest banks doing it. So is that the answer, let them scrape the cream off the top of the stock market, commodity market, currency markets, etc, between their derivative trading of everything from the Chuck E. Cheese stock price to cotton futures and to weather and carbon emissions?
It's all BS, a giant gambling casino which was suppose to capitalize American Businesses and industry, it's really sad. Of course, with the George Soros' of the world pumping $180 million into the election of a US President, doubt much is going to change, and the investment banks were all over the manure like flies during the Franks Dodds financial bill, so, you know, the Occupy Protestors might have had a point, but as it stands now, most of those I talked to were just angry and ignorant unsure of much of anything they were talking about. So, please consider all this.
By: Lance Winslow
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net


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