i went to the occupy denver protest while i was down there just to see what it was like, and while its definitely not on the same scale as wall street or portland, i think it gave me a good idea of the type of people. and it really was a bunch of idiots blabbering on about nothing, most of the people talking or holding signs were just talking about pointless crap like "the rich are greedy" " we need jobs" "violence is not the answer" i saw two guys who talked to me about why the government was more at fault, and i really think they were the only two people i saw who had a clue. nobody else seemed to know who they were bitching at, just complaining cause they had nothing better to do.
actually my buddy went up to a guy complaining about how the corporations were greedy, all they want is money (no shit) they pay their employees a small fraction of what the CEO's make and asked him for 1/10th of whats in his wallet, obviously he said no, and he said, there, thats greed, your just like those CEOs. i lold.
people need to realize that yes, corporations are greedy, but every single fucking human on this planet is greedy, greed is what motivates us to better ourselves, greed is what motivates us to start business's and create jobs. if any of those hippies at the protest became the CEO of a large corporation, they would quickly see that it needs to be operated in a similar way. yes there are some shady things that they are able to get away with, yes there needs to be some change in wall street, but most of the problems, and our entire shit economy stems from our government. and thats what we need to be protesting.
like i said, i like the movement, even if it is just occupy wall street, i think good could come out of it, but when we see that the majority of the protesters are idiots who dont know what they are complaining about, and just want and opportunity to bitch. it can have the opposite effect. if some big wall street company said "ok occupy wall street, tell us what you want and we will do it" first of all it would be almost impossible for people to agree on what they want, there are so many different and opposing views in the movement, and a lot of ridiculous views. but when they finally did agree on something that company would probably be done within a week.
if the protesters got their way, and the corporations did change, id be surprised if there were any improvement. and not the opposite.
that and the whole 99% thing is retarded. the 1% are the people paying your taxes and creating your jobs and paying you money. if you just got rid of the 1% and gave the country to the 99% our country would fail.
