Is The Occupy Wall Street Movement an Answer to The Tea Party Movement?

[Gaspar]

Algore and President Obama having Nobels are all you need to know about the validity of The Krugs Nobel.

They've lost all credibility since they decided to make overtly liberal choices on their awards.  Have they become like a star on Hollyweird Boulevard? Pay $5 or $10K to get your "award"?

. . .and Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat.

There is a wide gap between theoretics, their application and reality.  That is why purely academic minds do not fair so well in real market situations.  The Nobel committee selects recipients based on what THEY would like reality to look like, not on what it ACTUALLY is.

[Teatownclown]

Americans Support 99 Percent Movement Causes, View GOP As Defenders Of The Rich

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/26/353636/99-percent-movement-support-poll/

"The same poll found that Congressional approval has slipped to another new all-time low, with just 9 percent of voters approving of the job Congress is doing. That should be a clear message to Republicans who continue to gut vital programs and block proposals that have popular support, but judging by their response to previous polls showing similar results, it won't be."

[Gaspar]

Thinkprogress.com is awesome!  They offer the same polling accuracy as The Onion.

[nathanm]

Austerity cannot work in an entitlement society.  Unfortunately, big spending wasn't working either.

It doesn't matter what kind of society you have. If your economy is notionally free market capitalist, austerity can only make things worse.

guido, you continue to misunderstand OWS' point. The doctors and lawyers are not (as much) the ones who are poisoning the well of politics.

Gaspar, it's funny that you say that reality doesn't agree with Krugman's point of view, given that it actually does quite well. Fluke or not, his economic predictions have thus far been better than any of the right-wingers, who have been going into histrionics about the debt, claiming interest rates would rise uncontrollably, among other doom and gloom. It still hasn't worked out that way, despite two years of dire predictions. They claimed that austerity throughout the Eurozone would in fact improve the economy of countries that have gone that route. Again, no.

Maybe you'd rather listen to what Bruce Bartlett has to say? He is a Republican, after all.

[Conan71]

Americans Support 99 Percent Movement Causes, View GOP As Defenders Of The Rich

It's a great spin, but you and I know better than it just being the rethugs.

[nathanm]

It's a great spin, but you and I know better than it just being the rethugs.

Which is why it would be great to see OWS succeed in some ways. The Democrats might have to lay off their nearly-as-corporatist-as-Republicans kool-aid. I've got no problem with business in general, but they shouldn't also effectively run the political system. There is presently no counterbalance to their influence, which leads to dumb ideas being accepted as good ones, as happens any time you have a bunch of yes men populating an institution.

[Gaspar]

Occupy Oakland issues a warning to Oakland PD from Kevin's mom's basement.

[dbacks fan]

Occupy Oakland issues a warning to Oakland PD from Kevin's mom's basement.

The next picture of him will be a mugshot.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Occupy Oakland issues a warning to Oakland PD from Kevin's mom's basement.

I see O'Keefe has been at it again! 

I bet his handcuffs have a soft, furry cover....

[guido911]

The next picture of him will be a mugshot.

What a jack@ss. Well, that's our left for ya...

[guido911]

guido, you continue to misunderstand OWS' point. The doctors and lawyers are not (as much) the ones who are poisoning the well of politics.

You continue to provide lip service for the OWS. How many damned videos do you need to see wherein these morons demand socialism, communism, free healthcare, free education, and whatever else before it sinks in?

[Gaspar]

What a jack@ss. Well, that's our left for ya...

That's unfair.  While I have no doubt who this challenged young man voted for in the last election (if he voted at all), I seriously doubt he could sum up his political philosophy, and the reasoning behind it in a sensible statment.

There are Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and then there are just idiots.  I think he is probably the latter.

[Townsend]

You continue to provide lip service for the OWS. How many damned videos do you need to see wherein these morons demand socialism, communism, free healthcare, free education, and whatever else before it sinks in?

To be fair that's like saying all those crazy-assed videos of Beck, Palin, Bachmann, Trump, et al represented the mainstream tea par...

[dbacks fan]

For me, the more of these videos that keep coming out the harder it is for me to take most of the OWS people seriously. I'm noy saying that all of them are like this, it's just that the numbers seem to be increasing. I look at the TP as well, there are enough nut jobs and whackos on both sides, and to me the only thing the TP really accomplished was gridlocking gov't. I think that if the OWS get people elected into office of their thinking it will just create more gridlock. JMO

[guido911]

To be fair that's like saying all those crazy-assed videos of Beck, Palin, Bachmann, Trump, et al represented the mainstream tea par...

Which is precisely how the tea partiers, excuse me, teabaggers, were treated. You have been lobbing them in fairly routinely lately.