Wall Street Freedom Fighters Release Their Demands

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Oct 4, 2011 5:12 PM
The brave souls occupying Wall Street have set forth their demands as follows:
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.


Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.


Demand four: Free college education.


Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.


Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.


Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.


Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.


Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.


Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.


Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.


Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.


Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
It's literally impossible to write comedy this good. I love you people...you keep the spring in my step.

http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/
Oct 4, 2011 5:12pm
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queencitybuckeye

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Oct 6, 2011 9:51 AM
Why not just make the minimum wage $1000 per hour and we'll all be rich in a year?
Oct 6, 2011 9:51am
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Oct 6, 2011 9:56 AM
That is the most idiotic list I have ever seen. Literally. These people have no concept on how the world works if they believe that these demands are realistic.
Oct 6, 2011 9:56am
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Oct 6, 2011 9:59 AM
I just got off skype with my father who is retired and has way too much time on his hands and spends an unhealthy amount of time watching Fox News.

He actually thinks this is a real movement and is concerned that it has spread to other cities.
Oct 6, 2011 9:59am
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Oct 6, 2011 10:05 AM
Manhattan Buckeye;923545 wrote:I just got off skype with my father who is retired and has way too much time on his hands and spends an unhealthy amount of time watching Fox News.

He actually thinks this is a real movement and is concerned that it has spread to other cities.
This is why one should not use sarcasm and then wonder why no one "gets it". There are no thoughts so ridiculous that no one believes them.
Oct 6, 2011 10:05am
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Oct 6, 2011 10:13 AM
It's definitely hard to read sarcasm.
Oct 6, 2011 10:13am
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Oct 6, 2011 10:22 AM
Can we also bring back the 8 track?

I say what till winter they will go away cold, wet and hungry like most dredge on society individual end up anyways.
Oct 6, 2011 10:22am
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Oct 6, 2011 10:30 AM
Manhattan Buckeye;923545 wrote:I just got off skype with my father who is retired and has way too much time on his hands and spends an unhealthy amount of time watching Fox News.

He actually thinks this is a real movement and is concerned that it has spread to other cities.
Never forget - Adolf Hitler was an elected official. The masses can and will do bizarre things without proper leadership.
Oct 6, 2011 10:30am
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Oct 6, 2011 10:30 AM
Obama is working on demand #6.
Oct 6, 2011 10:30am
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Oct 6, 2011 10:33 AM
QuakerOats;923566 wrote:Never forget - Adolf Hitler was an elected official. The masses can and will do bizarre things without proper leadership.
These aren't masses, at most it is a few thousand of smelly unemployed hippies trying to be relevant.
Oct 6, 2011 10:33am
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Oct 6, 2011 10:38 AM
These people are out of touch with reality. I think I preferred their demonstration when no one knew what they wanted.
Oct 6, 2011 10:38am
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Oct 6, 2011 10:42 AM
Funny shit. Those demands were good reading.
Oct 6, 2011 10:42am
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Oct 6, 2011 10:46 AM
It's actually kind of funny to hear some of them speak. A few were asked why they were protesting and they didn't have an answer.
Oct 6, 2011 10:46am
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Oct 6, 2011 11:03 AM
LOL!!!!!
Oct 6, 2011 11:03am
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Oct 6, 2011 11:12 AM
I was just reading the list and wow. Dwccrew is correct.
Oct 6, 2011 11:12am
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Oct 6, 2011 11:27 AM
Skyhook79;923567 wrote:Obama is working on demand #6.
#6? Heck I can't find any that are not right up his alley.
Oct 6, 2011 11:27am
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Oct 6, 2011 11:31 AM
Either this js a joke or these are the dumbest people alive.
Oct 6, 2011 11:31am
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Oct 6, 2011 11:45 AM
I agree with some of the sentiments expressed in this list but some are completely stupid. Like forgiving all debts. Doesn't really make sense.

However I would support an increase in infrastructure spending as we're lagging behind in that.
Oct 6, 2011 11:45am
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Oct 6, 2011 11:48 AM
QuakerOats;923608 wrote:#6? Heck I can't find any that are not right up his alley.
My thoughts, exactly. :thumbup:

But this is a funny list...right? Not to be seriously considered...right? Who would dream up such lunacy as open borders, a $1,000,000,000 "stimulus", forgiving student loans (right up Pants' alley), single-payer healthcare, abandoning oil, giving money to green energy pirates, and Valerie Jarrett's fave - Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment?

Who would do such things?
Oct 6, 2011 11:48am
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Oct 6, 2011 12:06 PM
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-occupy-wall-street-20111006,0,1992639.story


obama now blaming the banks (I guess blaming Bush isn't working that well anymore). He is fomenting this stuff, he supports the "occupiers". And of course, why wouldn't he ---- he is an activist/agitator.

Change we can believe in ........
Oct 6, 2011 12:06pm
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Oct 6, 2011 12:09 PM
A trillion is crazy , but I dont disagree with infrastructure spending. Everything else is just screams ignorance.
Oct 6, 2011 12:09pm
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Oct 6, 2011 12:15 PM
pmoney25;923635 wrote:but I dont disagree with infrastructure spending.
The very minute we can afford it, me too. We're broke.
Oct 6, 2011 12:15pm
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Oct 6, 2011 12:18 PM
I Wear Pants;923614 wrote:However I would support an increase in infrastructure spending as we're lagging behind in that.

In theory, I might agree, except that I'm not sure where we're going to be getting this trillion dollars.
pmoney25;923635 wrote:A trillion is crazy , but I dont disagree with infrastructure spending. Everything else is just screams ignorance.
Quite frankly, it all screams ignorance. Any request to increase Federal spending right now is lunacy, because we have no money to spend.

Any request to increase Federal jurisdiction or authority is lunacy, because the Federal government already has far too much.

I liked their starting point for this (getting the Fed and big business out of each other's pockets), but they've landed WAYYYYYY off target.
Oct 6, 2011 12:18pm
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Oct 6, 2011 12:48 PM
O-Trap;923653 wrote:Quite frankly, it all screams ignorance. Any request to increase Federal spending right now is lunacy, because we have no money to spend.

Any request to increase Federal jurisdiction or authority is lunacy, because the Federal government already has far too much.

I liked their starting point for this (getting the Fed and big business out of each other's pockets), but they've landed WAYYYYYY off target.
This. They are right to be protesting banks, but the Federal Reserve is the bank they should be protesting. They bail out Wall Street and keep the cheap money and credit flowing so that Wall Street can gamble for free while we all pay higher prices for everything. How this protest started out wasn't far off of this idea, but then Soros and the unions got involved and turned it into Red Square.
Oct 6, 2011 12:48pm
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Oct 6, 2011 1:19 PM
queencitybuckeye;923537 wrote:Why not just make the minimum wage $1000 per hour and we'll all be rich in a year?
By today's standards, we'd be rich, just like today, we are rich by 1920s standards.

Minimum wage gets upped to $1000 an hour. Suddenly, a #5 value meal at McDonalds is $1257.99. ;)
Oct 6, 2011 1:19pm