OWS protesters

[fishinRod]

Be it OWS or Tea Party, I'm just excited to see someone other than the asses and elephants getting attention. We have a wasteful, greed-driven, extremely bifurcated political system in major need of overhaul, and the OWS'ers are doing their part to change things for what they feel is better. And financially speaking, I think the OWS'ers have a pretty good point on inequality. If the 1% doesn't trickle more down they're going to lose control to civil unrest and then we all lose. Instead, when we need them the most, they hole up and sit on enormous cash reserves because their money making machine is broken!The OWS'ers want money for nothing, the Tea Party wants gov't for nothing, now if we could just find a balance somewhere between it all. But that can't happen, because those producing our mass media wouldn't be able to sensationalize and financially capitalize on such simplicity. And without entertaining media what would we do with our evenings and weekends!?!? Well, I know a few of us that could make do with a little fishin'...

and when Obozo and his strangle hold of regulations is gone, the money making machine will be fixed

[WhiteMeat]

and when Obozo and his strangle hold of regulations is gone, the money making machine will be fixed

I wish it were that easy. I personally don't think the president has all that much power over the daily lives of Americans; more of a figurehead to let us know the intentions and activities of his party. Not to say that the executive branch is powerless, but it's congress, senate, and the courts that really control our laws and lives.

[Ranger R61]

There seems to be a awful lot of things happening. If congress doesn't do what he wants, he makes an executive order.

[fishingpox]

How about working for it...hmmmmmmm

Be it OWS or Tea Party, I'm just excited to see someone other than the asses and elephants getting attention. We have a wasteful, greed-driven, extremely bifurcated political system in major need of overhaul, and the OWS'ers are doing their part to change things for what they feel is better. And financially speaking, I think the OWS'ers have a pretty good point on inequality. If the 1% doesn't trickle more down they're going to lose control to civil unrest and then we all lose. Instead, when we need them the most, they hole up and sit on enormous cash reserves because their money making machine is broken!

The OWS'ers want money for nothing, the Tea Party wants gov't for nothing, now if we could just find a balance somewhere between it all. But that can't happen, because those producing our mass media wouldn't be able to sensationalize and financially capitalize on such simplicity. And without entertaining media what would we do with our evenings and weekends!?!? Well, I know a few of us that could make do with a little fishin'...

[WhiteMeat]

How about working for it...hmmmmmmm

I agree! We need to work for our pay and we need to pay for our government!

That being said, wages should be fair and government should be held accountable. But how do we define a fair wage and what is acceptable gov't spending? The devil's in the details...

[deathb4disco]

The national media is basically a collection of huge, publicly traded corporations. They have a vested interest in making the OWS protesters look like idiots.

The OWS people are doing a fine job of looking like idiots all by themselves. They don't need the media's help. Besides, the media has been cheerleading the OWS movement from the start.

The whole 'liberal media' thing is such a joke.

It's no joke. For two outstanding examples of media bias, take a look at their treatment of:

1) OWS vs. the Tea Party and

2) John Edwards and Herman Cain

As I noted above, the media loves OWS but went out of their way to slander the Tea Party. They practically blamed the Gabby Giffords shooting on the Tea Party and virtually ignore the violence of OWS.

As for Edwards, the media had to be dragged kicking and screaming to even cover the story. The National Enquirer had been on the story for months before the NY Times, Wash Post, CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN/MSNBC issued the first word about it.

We all saw what happened to Herman Cain. The media couldn't wait to jump on a black conservative.

[deathb4disco]

But how do we define a fair wage ... ?

Let the free market decide.

... and what is acceptable gov't spending?

What we're doing now is unacceptable:

Federal Spending Trends and Federal Budget Trends

[Cane Pole]

Our government is corrupt. The leader is the most corrupt person to ever hold the office. Worse than Roosevelt. Insider trading, bundlers, buy offs, pay backs? POS.

[Cane Pole]

What you leave out here is the worker ought to put in a full day for "fair" pay. Fair is a fairy tale. I see folks burning the bosses dime on the internet. Fair? I see the project people daily. Fair. Fair is just a progressive "feel good" word. The "fair" word is just this years replacement word for hope and change. Vote Nobama. Burma Shave.

[fishingpox]

Don't cheat the lazies out of feeling good about taking advantage of the system. Especially don't cheat the politicians out of their self worth.

What you leave out here is the worker ought to put in a full day for "fair" pay. Fair is a fairy tale. I see folks burning the bosses dime on the internet. Fair? I see the project people daily. Fair. Fair is just a progressive "feel good" word. The "fair" word is just this years replacement word for hope and change. Vote Nobama. Burma Shave.