What the MSM?!? ...the message is pretty en clear...But there is no leadership to the group and there seems to be some confusion about their message."
Occupy San Antonio!
Seriously, what's it gonna take?
Exposing the corrupt M$M
Seriously? This isn't a joke...
More than a bunch of spoiled stoned kids from the suburbs.
The only question I have about all these 'Occupy xxxxxx' is, does none of these people work?
I think they are too stupid to maintain a job.
".. there seems to be some confusion about the message"
My confusion about the message is that when wallstreet was being bailed out the left was all for it. Now 3 years later they are ing about the very thing they supported.
Not so sure about that. Frankly, I recall everyone, left and right, ing at TBTF.
I have a difficult time believing thats the case. I would adventure some of them are actually employed.
OK, This is true. Still, some of them were definitely from the bottom of the barrel.
Well everyone ed but was the left that passed the bill. Dems voted 243 to 3 for for it while the GOP voted 145 to 47 against it. I recall liberals on this site criticizing the idea of letting them fail.
So why the sudden uprising 3 years later? Something smells fishy.
Their handlers now tell them to be against it then, so true to form, they revise history.
I think your memory is a little fuzzy. Here are the roll calls:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LI...n=2&vote=00213
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml
Not to mention that the legislation came straight from the executive at the time, and both presidential candidates supported it.
You have incorrectly assumed that the protesters are something called "left".
"Left" and "right" are ambiguous. Probably as ambiguous as you can get. The amount of people who pigeonhole every single person, group, or topic in to a "left" or "right" camp is fascinating. It is truly indicative of how completely idiotic most US citizens are.
Maybe he just got the votes wrong...
Both parties were right into that scam
I just used the vote tally's from here
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-101
Even your links show dems voted overwhelmingly for it. Remember the first vote failed because republicans voted against it.
Still the question remains why is the left suddenly opposed to bailing out wall street 3 years after the fact?
TARP doesn't pass without GOP votes. And I mean a good amount of votes, not just 1 or 2.
Talk about rewriting history...
Well these protestors would certainly qualify as "left" from the interviews I've seen. But ok let's leave left and right out of it. Why are these people protesting something that happened 3 years ago?
You got the wrong vote. From your link:
This was the March 2008 House vote to pass the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, also called the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. The bill was never approved by the Senate in this form. It was later co-opted by the Senate as the "vehicle" for the quick passage of the economic stimulus bill, by replacing the entire text of the measure with the stimulus bill.
The TARP was voted in Oct 2008.
125 Republicans voted for the TARP, 123 rejected it.
212 Dems voted for it, 71 rejected it.
Why not? Is there some kind of expiration date to vent frustration?
My bad. Still the dems overwhelmingly supported bailing out Wall Street.
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