Carolla is totally spot on (though I wish people could make their point without the F word).   You give kids trophies for participation and say you are all equally good and then you grow up and enter the real world only to realize we AREN’T all the same and your success is dependent on how hard you work.  Then a lot of people realize they’ve alway been losers and don’t know how to function in society.  At that point, they proceed to blame society for their failures and demand to be compensated.   Thank you Adam for explaining OWS to a T!

According to Carolla, the Occupiers weren’t born out of a hatred for
corruption, greed, or white collar crime, but, rather, years of being
told that they deserve a medal no matter what.

Yes, but not just a medal, mind you. They deserve the life of their choosing simply because they exist, regardless of what they do or do not do to provide it for themselves.

Self entitled pricks who thinks the world owes them a living. And now
we’re getting the first wave of these douchebags. And now they grew up,
and its fine if you grow up in this little snowglobe of a life where
everything is awesome and everyone gets participation trophies and
theres no losers and everything’s awesome. But then you get out into the
real world and you realize – I’m a f*ckin loser. You’re not doing that
well. You’re not making that much money. And they’re feeling shame.
They’ve been shamed by life. Because they havent been prepared for life.
Because they’ve had so much smoke blown up their f*cking collective
asses by the time they get out in the real world, they realize the real
world doesn’t give a f*ck where you’re from or what your mommy said you
were or how pretty you were or what you do. All those lies that were
told to your parents about how special you are and how nobody was
created like you, and all this bullshit advertisements – Nike and all
this ‘theres just one you!’ and ‘you take it all’ and ‘it’s your world’
and and all that Reebok shit – doesn’t mean shit when you get to the
real world and you’re just looked at as peon #27 who’s putting in an
application and guess what? I don’t like your attitude, douche. Get your
f*ckin feet off my desk and hit the bricks. I’m not hiring you.” Now,
your plan is to come back and throw a brick at my window. Thats your
plan. This is whats going on. Its this envy and shame and theres gonna
be a lot more of it.

And thus we see in Adam Carolla, the uni-browed caveman in action.  A man famous for being funny to some for having video’s of girls on trampolines while drinking beer and making obscene comments.  The only thing that’s changed is he no longer shows the trollops on trampolines.  Jimmy Kimmel left him in the dust years ago.

It’s an interesting theory although it doesn’t entirely explain the Occupiers that weren’t born in the 80s but are instead in their 80s.

They’re the leftover waste products from the last time we did this. They’re the ones that were teaching their kids that they’re all special, unique flowers. They’re the ones who came up with participation trophies. And they’re a damned small percentage of the Occupiers because everyone else grew up and realized what bullshit it was.

Amen Michelle! Adam nailed it exactly.

Nowhere is sub-par participation rewarded more than on the right.  The entire right wing b(l)ogosphere is a system designed to reward substandard civic participation.  Head over to the FOX Nation and observe people cheering each other aggressively for misstatement of fact.  Head to Gateway Pundit and see praise heaped upon the dullest man publishing on the intertubes.  World Net Daily can lead as a chronic mis-informer on all matters Obama and still serve as a sacred place for many.  Even Gordon Bloyers, with his unwatched Youtube channel, can attack Rachel Maddow for her small following and receive a slap on the back and a thumbs up from his fellow conservatives.  The internet has allowed the right to develop a real time means to reward the dull and angry as if they were bright and passionate.  Here at Mediaite, the right wing mob simply creates extra folks to reward comments that would sink without the easy cheat.  Adam would have us look at little league when the worst offenders are adult partisans in plain view. 

That is perhaps one of the greatest rants of all time. He absolutely nails it. 

…says the fellow with 28413 likes, a few dozen of which earned.   

The OWSers  not the 99%ers- they are the 47%ers- the lazy libs who pay no federal tax and yet use everything that Fed tax dollars pay for.

“It’s an interesting theory although it doesn’t entirely explain the Occupiers that weren’t born in the 80s but are instead in their 80s.”

Jon, there have always been loser libs.

I love Mediaite. It’s doing a great service by bringing people together, even if they often curse out one another and make a lot of ignorant comments. I have no idea who this Carolla fellow is, but he must have had a terrible upbringing to be spouting such drivel. Having brought up one daughter, and showering as much love as possible on her hasn’t made her into some whining, selfish person. All our kids are special and it’s easy to imbue them with a strong work ethic. It would be great if Mediaite would go easy in digging up schmucks like Carolla and letting them spew forth such nonsense. Also,having visited the OWS site in New York many times, I found most of the young people there incredibly on the ball and doing an enormous service for us all in exposing the corruption we’re mired in.

says another 47%er loser lib.

How telling that Michelle puts more stock in the ravings of Adam Carolla than the observations of Colin Powell.

I think that tells us everything we need to know about how she processes information.

Caveman?

By dawn, trash, flattened tents, strewn clothing, bedding and the stench of urine were the legacy of the Occupy LA.
 ”It’s
so contaminated that it doesn’t even make sense to sort it out,” said
Jose Garcia, sanitation superintendent of the city north central
district. An estimated 25 tons of trash and debris were to be
carted away by mid-afternoon. Workers were finding bottles of urine
throughout the camp. “That’s probably the biggest hazard there,” Garcia said.

http://tinyurl.com/d6rrqhs

But he speaks for Michelle.

LOL!

It also allows them to live in an alternate reality where facts simply do not exist or matter. 

Is there some sort of point you’re trying to make, Greg?

What she means is that she’s more conservative than Cornel West or Harry Belafonte.

Liberal pukes will be baffled by Carolla’s rant. Their species lacks the common sense of a lug nut to grasp why their ideology, if left unchecked, would doom what made this country great. This country wasn’t built on a bunch of pussies who declared everyone a winner that would provide a perpetual tit to suck on, but rather hard work, belief in one’s self and unbridled passion to succeed in life.

Do you have any video of these “incredibly on the ball” people? Exactly what corruption did they expose? Did they expose Jon Corzine?

“So, what was it that inspired the Occupy movement? Was it a growing realization that the privileged had been gaming the system, making transition between social classes nearly impossible? Was it annoyance at a corrupt collusion between politicians and banks, one that kept those responsible for ruining our economy for future generations out of prison? ”

Nope, it was hate, jealousy & boredom.  

Accolades are not compensation. If you want to see subpar participation having been rewarded, look at the guy in the White House.

Colin Powell? Ah, you mean the Colin Powell whose assistant leaked Valarie Plame’s name to Robert Novak and when he told Powell about his leaking of her name, Powell did the incredibly dishonest thing of not telling the president about who leaked the name and let a DA run wild with baseless accusations of who leaked the name?

That Colin Powell?

The Colin Powell who sat silent when the press was accusing Karl Rove and Bush of leaking the name?

That honorable Colin Powell? 

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Posted at 11:00 AM ET, 08/29/2011 Colin Powell’s cheap shotBy Jennifer Rubinhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/colin-powells-cheap-shot/2011/03/29/gIQA2Q0smJ_blog.html

Compromise is highly overrated. The Founders didn’t compromise their values. Powell is simply wrong.

wow- the OWSers were jealous of others money, now their jealous of another’s number of “likes.:

You can’t make this stuff up.

I’m all for compromise, but I like the kind Ronald Reagan supported, which was bringing the other side around to your way of thinking, not rolling over and playing dead, like the left wishes we would do. 

LOL… yes… you pretend to be the “unique flower” of Mediaite through the digital whittling of thousands of little rewards for yourself… rewards only properly designed by your peers based on observed excellence… and still Pablo misses the irony of stating, “because everyone else grew up and realized what bullshit it was”.  If it is such B.S., why do you spend so much time in the same self gratifying pursuit?

You seem to think about me a lot.  I really get under the skin of you libbies.  I can’t tell you how happy that makes me. 

” your success is dependent on how hard you work”
Doesn’t that contradict an earlier statement by you that some children are simply gifted and others aren’t therefore they’re not on the same playing field? Because in that instance it doesn’t matter how hard you work. I think you may need to elaborate. maybe we should just treat all children like crap?

+ envy

Have A couple more beers Adam.

Have A couple more beers Adam.

“I found most of the young people there incredibly on the ball and doing
an enormous service for us all in exposing the corruption we’re mired
in.”

How many of these “on the ball” spoiled, intellectually challenged pukes were camping on the steps of capitol hill demonstrating corrupt government policies that encouraged and sanctioned loans to individuals that never should’ve been made (which started this whole mess)? How many of these “on the ball” spoiled pukes understand how their government has sold them out. How many are camping out on Barney Franks lawn? Your liberal indulgences and selectivity are repugnant and you can take your drivel and shove it where the sun don’t shine.

Obama has guided us effectively out of a right wing generated crisis despite the obstruction of that same wing.  Time to present yourself with a dozen likes for your dishonest attack you unique flower you!  

You missed the point entirely.  That earns you half a dozen “likes” all by itself!

It’s nothing personal. You just make yourself such an easy target because your posts are so ridiculously illogical and whenever you’re confronted with facts you move onto the next thing.

OWS, the Pee Party!

Ain’t that the truth!

There is a place for it. But Reagan compromised by allowing tax hikes in trade for spending cuts that never materialized. He signed amnesty in exchange for border control that never happened. There’s really no point in compromising with people who won’t hold up their end of the bargain.

It still matters how hard you work. There’s plenty of wasted talent out there.

This is the best explanation of the OWS parasites out there. The Ace man is dead-on!

When these parasitic ass-douches put their iPhones, Laptops, Cameras, Cars, Big Screen TV’s, etc etc etc to the side, and start a commune — free from all the products they enjoy; made by the Big Evil Corporations/Capitalist Pigs they so deride, maybe then — and only then, could you take these smelly, disgusting, hypocrites seriously.

Fight the power man!

By dawn, trash, flattened tents, strewn clothing, bedding and the stench of urine were the legacy of the Occupy LA.

“It’s so contaminated that it doesn’t even make sense to sort it out,” said Jose Garcia, sanitation
superintendent of the city north central district.

An estimated 25 tons of trash and debris were to be carted away by
mid-afternoon. Workers were finding bottles of urine throughout the
camp.

I’ll expect Tommy Christopher’s missive on Adam Corolla’s D list celebrity status later this afternoon.  I mean anything from Keith Olbermann’s and Ed Schultz’s biggest fan to make his sacred cow movement feel better, right?

And, uh, what exactly are your credentials, doofus? Powell’s dog will probably achieve more in his lifetime than you will in yours.

If a thing doesn’t add some sort value to my life, I have no use for it. This is probably why you’ve NEVER seen me mention the tremendous number of “likes” my comments have generated. I find it at most mildly amusing. I don’t need to be told that I’m making good points. I know they’re good points when I make them. 

I think you’re just envious, Greg, which is why what Corolla says troubles you so. It strikes too close to home. 

Exactly.

Michelle, didn’t you get the memo? Reagan is a RINO now.

Now you know why the writers at Mediaite stand in solidarity with the OWS.

He has? Who’s gonna explain that to him?

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/obama-americans-not-better-off-than-four-years-ago/1

That aside, I was referring to him getting there in the first place.

Very timely.  I guess it’s best to kick the hornets nest when the hornets nest is being taken down.  Very brave Mr.Corolla, you just continue to prove that Jimmy Kimmel drew the ratings for The Man Show.

My credentials?

I don’t sit passively by  as innocent people are dragged through the mud because I am ashamed of what my assistant did.

You obviously have no honor, integrity, principle or rectitude.

The truth and you are strangers to each other. 

Hate, jealousy and boredom inspired some gentlemen to dress up as natives and destroy the private property of the East India Company in Boston Harbor.

Grow up.

You have no point and no brain.

No, he was imperfect, like most humans. Except Obama, of course. If he’s actually human and not a supernatural force made flesh.

exGOPman, didn’t you get the memo?  YOU are irrelevant now.  

And JFK is a far right conservative.

Pot meet kettle.

A dozen fake people follow you and “like” the “good points” you make. I simply had the audacity to notice and then explain your hypocrisy. But now your the sad victim of “envy”. Good stuff.

you’re a pussy and only pussies like your comments…

Taxes were raised 16 times while Reagan was in office!

Most of these protesters certainly don’t hate capitalism. It’s an old and tired tactic to try to paint dissidents as anti-capitalistic or even un-American. They are mostly patriotic Americans who
see injustice in an economic and political system that favors the rich in an
unfair way to the detriment of the whole economy, and our democracy.

Capitalism does work, it does drive innovation but the fact is, we have sabotaged it by allowing our politicians to be openly bought by capitalism’s massive accumulated wealth. 
Dissent is as American apple pie, our country was born out of the the ashes of dissent and revolution.

Insults are worth lots of likes on both sides. Good move on your part!

Are you high?  We are out of a financial crisis?  Damn, you guys are seriously partaking of the kool aid.  Obama is a catastrophic failure as president.  Completely unqualified and incompetent.  Do you not understand that the majority of the country is sick and tired of his Marxist policies being forced down their throats?  That is why he will be a one termer, just like his idol Jimmy Carter.

How many tea partiers are demonstrating specifically about policies creating the environment where bad loans are made? Show me that picket sign in a photo from a tea party protest. How many tea partiers are camped out on Barney Frank’s lawn? Oh, none? Are you afraid that his front yard has AIDS?

Your conservative hypocrisy, selfishness and megalomania are ten times more repugnant than any perceived liberal faults, and you can put back your drivel in the same dark place from whence it came.

Awesome work. This stuff kills on the right wing b(l)ogs, but you will likely get a few likes for each curse word here.

Libs always go personal when they’re on the losing end of an arguement.

Exactly!  The current field of GOP’ers won’t agree to tax hikes, because past experience tells us that the Dems are bald face liars and will reneg on the tax cuts.  Show us the cuts FIRST and then we will talk. 

They hate that capitalism doesn’t shower them with the stuff they DESERVE, dammit!

Look at all the GOP presidential nominees. There’s your real proof. Herman Cain? “Thanks for participating, Herm. We got all our money and are jumping ship, so you’re now the C.E.O. of Godfather’s Pizza.”

What was ridiculously illogical about my first comment?  Do tell, I was never in the GOP.

Haha, great observation. 

Not bad… a little stale, but not bad. You hit the major points that generate right wing applause.
- Questioning my state of mind? Check!
- Combining Obama with a hyperbolic descriptor? Check!
- Unqualified meme? Check!
- Incompetent? Extra Credit!
- Marxist? Check!
- Jimmy Carter reference? Double Check!
- “forced down our throats”? Jackpot!!!

- Reference to macro-economic factors that might be used to measure recovery? Nah… who needs that… You are a Winner! Please collect your medals!

No, Greg. You’re the victim of your envy. It isn’t eating me up. It doesn’t bother me a bit. And it isn’t doing you a bit of good.

Maybe it bothers these fake people of yours. Maybe you could take a poll.

Nice projection, there, Pabby.

LOL

You OWSERs break just like a woman.

You are missing his point.  My son has been in sports for the last 9 years.  I thought giving everyone a trophy the first few years was fine.  But once they get to a certain age, they need to realize that not everyone is created equal.  You have to actually do better than someone else to gain recognition.   If you continue to treat everyone the same, regardless of how well they do, then they go out into the real world thinking everyone is rewarded equally, regardless of how good you are or how hard you work.  He never said you shouldn’t shower them with love, but you aren’t doing them any favors if you tell them they are great at something that they actually suck at.  How is that helping them?  Sure it might make them feel good now, but then they try out for American Idol thinking they have a great singing voice and Simon has to tell them they are horrible, then they are devastated. 

Yeah. Just like that!

The TPers don’t have to demonstrate- they won.

Why would TPers camp out on Barney’s lawn? That’s trespassing which is against the law- that’s something only lawless OWSers would do.

Ah, so this is why conservatives want to privatize K-12 schools. You all want the schools to be their own islands of Lord of the Flies.

It all makes sense now.

It’s not a real school that teaches about life unless children die.

You really need to get a dictionary- your understanding of the word “projection” is de minimus.

My quote, “guided us out of the crisis”.  Evidence?

–GDP has recovered to pre crisis levels.
http://www.tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/MSUN-8MXFSY?OpenDocument
Obama’s approach of tax relief and minimal stimulus spending have helped us to out-recover our financial doppelganger. England pursued the opposite strategy of austerity and minimal tax hikes resulting GDP that continues to lag.  

–Employment numbers are heading in the right direction after an inherited free fall.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bUsEtBaOq7Q/TrPc0pDVjyI/AAAAAAAALNs/RvjmroAnDd8/s1600/EmployRecOct2011.jpg

Obama is correct that we have a long way to go.  I was correct to notice that he guided us out of crisis.

its not a curse word its a noun you twat-waffle…

http://dauckster.posterous.com/a-31-year-old-video-clip-absolutely-worth-you

Phil Donahue on the Socialist side of Greed and why he’s wrong.
Capitalism is being the best you can be.

Go to your room young man.
I have told you before not to use that language in public.
~Mom.

This horse-face needs to hook up with fellow nag Coulter…maybe we’ll get the next Seabiscut.. 

Wow- your ignorance is astounding- the Boston Tea Party was in response to the Tea Act of 1773.

You are a living justification for more funding for public education.

It’s called an election shitforbrains. We don’t have to lower our standards to occupy or camp or desecrate on anyone’s lawn. Your petulant liberal primitive brain should know, shifts in policy are made through elections. We do it through the ballot box. WE THE PEOPLE voted turds like you out of office and it’s only just begun. Go ahead, continue with your little occupy game you freakin loser.

NEVER seen me mention the tremendous number of “likes”

tremendous

NPD

Certainly “unique flower”.  I will remember that each time the other Greg pats you on the back.  Fine work indeed.

Actually, what Adam Carolla’s explanation tells you is that he understands relatively little about the OWS movement that has been sweeping not only this country, but the world.

He obviously was describing you.

I thought the most significant part of his rant was when he describes the ‘entitled’ at the LA Auto Show with an ok car and being pissed off no one wants to buy it because there’s a nicer car nearby that someone put a lot more effort into and instead of working harder (or better) to bring a better car next year he rants and throws crap on the other car to sabotage the other person’s success.  These douches aren’t interested in earning their rewards, they want those who are better off to reward them.  The point of the article about 80yr olds is missing the point.  True, our schools and the media have been politically correct the past 25yrs, but the liberal progressive douches who believe that crap have been around since Unga Argh figured out how to sharpen a leg bone.

Lord of the Flies? Heh.

Oh I and Adam understand it perfectly.  So do most people considering everyday OWS is in the news, their approval goes down.  People see them for what they are, entitled thugs.

You are a bright young fellow! Excellent work! I wish I had a way to reward you with a silver star. I’d put it right there on your chest… no over… over… yes, next to the booger… you are a special young man! Yes you are!

Poor thing, that’s why libs like  JFK, Obama and Chris Matthews send their kids to private school.

Matthews sent his kids to St. Albans which charges about $35K a year so his kids would not have to associate with minorities.

Yeah, that was great.  He missed the point.  Lets tell him how great that was!  

Tom and I like that.  That was a good one.  I like that one a lot.  It was hard to think up but soooooo worth it.

Does Adam think he can dismiss the fact that there are people of privilege who game the system & bend the rules in order to exploit & monopolize the general public at the risk of compromising the financial stability of our entire country? It sounds like what he is trying to do is to pour blame & shame on people who feel they have worth already, but who are simply looking for fairness. He seems to lump everyone in the same category of youth-coming-of-age-disillusionment… but what about the blue collar workers laid off, middle class who have lost houses in foreclosure, veterans who  come home to poverty & no health insurance, students who have outrageous debt but no jobs capable of relinquishing it, and average voters who feel their rights have been usurped by lobbyists & special interests? He sounds rather angry, and full of shame in his myopic house of cards he has built for himself…. trying to legitimize his own avarice. There are people, like myself, who are quite content where we are in our lives, living within extremely modest means, but who are not content with the status quo being that of complete opulence. He sounds as though he was raised being quite content as a spoiled brat, and that everyone who does not live up to his standard of douchebaggery & exploitation, are losers. Seems like he has a few things at stake here himself, if he is so full of rage. Perhaps a few million to lose? Otherwise, it wouldn’t be such a big deal to him.

The only point you have is the on on the top of your head. You are quite the cry baby.

–GDP has recovered to pre crisis levels.

That’s not a recovery.

Obama’s approach of tax relief and minimal stimulus spending…

What planet do you live on?

–Employment numbers are heading in the right direction after an inherited free fall.

Obama inherited a 7% unemployment rate. It’s been downhill since. You can call 9% “out of a crisis” all you like, but expect people to laugh at you. Like me. Heh.

Your application of your education, or lack thereof, is astoundingly poor!

Are you one of those conservatives who think the OWS is stupid because they’re not protesting the government?

What does throwing tea into the harbor and destroying private property have to do with protesting a government act? Could it be because the British government was using the tax to help the East India Company tea monopoly and suppress tea choices in the colonies? A government/commercial relationship that was a little too cozy for the colonists’ comfort?

Could OWS also be seeing a government/commercial relationship that’s a little too cozy for our comfort? The answer is YES.

Think for once.

Macro-economic factors like “inherited freefall”, Greg? Heh.

type all you want, you’re still a pussy…

Bush, Rove….innocent people?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Good one.

At least you didn’t mention Dark Lord Cheney.

The political campaign financing and the election process are both rife with corruption and fraud.

That is why you like it so much!

That is also why OWS wants the money out (repeal Citizens United) and no private commercial (and proprietary) voting machines without public transparencies. But you don’t want that because that would mean conservatives would lose elections. “Protect the fraud!,” you say.

The tea was being forced upon the colonists by the King, from his approved and taxed supplier. They declined it.

It wasn’t about tea options, it was about tea taxes. You really don’t know a damned thing about the Boston Tea Party, do you?

Nowhere does Bershad or the usual types ever consider the toxic role government played in creating this economy.  In a week where the poster boy for “there’s nothing wrong with FNMA” idiocy announced his retirement, one would have thought that some of the blame might just rest on the government’s meddling in capital markets.  Bershad apparently think the those darn rich people and Wall Street are completely to blame.

That’s not a denial of what I said.

You’d like to think so, thought that’s based mainly on your own biases, as opposed to any actually basis in fact.  It’s not unusual for people who stand up against the the dominant power structure in any particular time to be demonized by the proxies of the individuals with the lion’s share of money, power and influence in this country.

Your success is evidently not based on how hard you work. In some cases it can be. But lying, lack of morality, the ability to game the system and having connetions matter a huge amount. I trust this needs no explanation. denouncing people for protesting Goldman Sachs running the country makes sense only if you believe people should be shafted by useless bankers.

“They declined it.”

Cute. Simple. Easy to digest. Proves you know much more than I do (#sarcasm).

OWS declines the current system, too.

It sounds like what he is trying to do is to pour blame & shame on
people who feel they have worth already, but who are simply looking for
fairness.

Worth is not a feeling. You’re either of value to someone or you’re not. As you view “fairness” does that mean free stuff?

Right on, Adam! Those lowlife leeches aren’t entitled to Jack squat, unless of course their daddy is rich and went to Yale or they inherited a family fortune in which case they’ve “earned” special treatment.

“Making transitions between the social classes nearly impossible” is perhaps the most moronic thing this author has ever posted on Mediaite.

That’s a rather innocuous statement. Everyone has value to some and no value to others. And everyone as a human being has worth. What I am referring to is the worth that is equated to personal integrity, regardless of  financial or social status.

We are in recovery… as Obama rightly noted a recovery that is too slow and more painful than it needs to be. No one in the mainstream… from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times would dispute that.

Stimulus spending was on the small side of the proposed plans. The plurality of the stimulus was tax relief. The next largest share grants to State governments. The smallest share was direct Federal spending.

Employment gains have not kept pace with population growth. Again, the recovery is slow. The economy has added jobs rather than shed them. This is an indicator of recovery.

Of course you laugh. Sad men often laugh without merit.

The worst part is they had the power in the last Presidential election to elect the ass douche bag and chief as President.

Could not agree more. The Democrats have proven themselves to be untrustworthy through repeated actions and deeds. They can caterwaul about the lack of compromise until their faces turn blue and their lungs and hearts explode. You don’t compromise with liars and renegers. They have reaped what they have sown, and they will forget how to even spell compromise when they find themselves in perpetual minority.

Won’t Get Fooled Again.

Your contribution the discussion is de minimus, and you don’t even have a modicum of understanding of how to use phrases like “de minimus”.

Job losses Pablo… inference is your friend.

Which is more costly for the middle class who pay their honest share of taxes, the rich using loopholes to minimize their taxes or those who game the system to get money they aren’t owed, don’t need, or do need but only as a result of their own mistakes?   Those who need help should get it, those who screw up need to stop being coddled.  Its fine to help them when they are in need, but not without requiring them to make an effort to stop screwing up (be it drugs, mental issues, lack of training, etc)  Not all people in need are that way because if their own misdeeds, but many are, and those of us who bust our ass to earn a paycheck shouldn’t have to keep paying for them when they won’t bust their ass to try to stop needing help…

Keep up the practice. If you increase the speed of this particular retort you might then consider yourself a master and move on to the next skill.

AND NO…. fairness does not equate to “free stuff”… where on Earth did you get that? I suppose that is from your own perspective. Fairness means a life without coercion and monopolized politics through corporate   skullduggery. Fair work, fair wages, fair policy…. fair is LAWFUL, REASONABLE and BALANCED, not FREE. I don’t know what dictionary you are referring to.

Excellent point! I think that you rank as a modern day Jeffers… no wait, a Twenty First Century Madis… err… perhaps a “post aughts” Adams. Yes exactly! Very wise… very thick.

Who is this moron!

Who is this moron?

Amen Adam….

OK. Conflating private schools with Lord of the Flies is supremely idiotic and not worth any further response.

There. 

Too many lemmings in OWS don’t know how to differentiate. Define “rich”. Yes, having a million dollars is rich, but what about the folks with a BILLION, which is 1000 times a million? (I wonder if these folks even know that difference).
Would they expect somebody who got an “A” in a class to give 20% of it to a kid who cut class and smoked dope, instead?
Sure, if some kid managed to get a 400 (no, not 4.00) GPA because Daddy bought it for them, then it might be expected that they share it.
It’s all relative!

“Assdouchery” (LOL!) Who is that woman?

How much time have you have actually spent at an OWS gathering? Or speaking to people who actively support the movement with their time and effort?

Until you’ve had actual, real world encounters with these people and talked with them about what they really want — and not what Adam “Girls on Trampolines!” Carolla tells you what he imagines they really want — you have no credibility on this topic at all.

Actually, I’m growing more impressed with you than I first imagined. It must be very difficult for you to drag your knuckles and type at the same time.

OWS should declare independence and find someplace to settle. Hell, I’ll help ‘em pack.

“Greed is toxic” sayeth those who insist they’re not getting enough pie. 

True. There’s a bunch of those types in there.

Um, no… greed is a sin. That’s the premise of my argument. Don’t twist my words, Satan. The love of money is the root of all evil.

But Adam is such a punk, such an absolute low-lifed nothing.  Why does anyone watch, listen to, or otherwise observe this cretin.  Crude, rude, totally empty.

“Nailed it”,really?  The last time Carolla nailed anything, it was a three hundred pound comedy groupie at the Laugh Factory in Dubuque, Iowa. in 2003.

You should receive rewards for busting your ass each day.  I know people who work 40+ hours a week who are paid so poorly that they have to live in cramped living quarters with other family members because they cannot AFFORD the things they need on what they are paid.  The CEOs of the companies they work for are doing just fine, but the people who do the real work are barely scraping by.  

The American Dream used to be about working hard and getting rewarded for hard work…but now it has become a hamster running in a wheel–no matter how hard one works, it’s next to impossible to get ahead.

Like a Boehner!

I was never in the GOP, I notice you couldn’t tell me where I actually went wrong with my first comment, so I guess you agree with me. 

Who determines what is “fair”?

God, could the right wing in this country be any more stupid?  Don’t bother to answer, it’s a rhetorical question.  Their inability to grasp, even in the simplest terms what the occupy movement is about is really mind numbing.  I have to question though, do they really not comprehend what the income disparity has done to this country or are they as I said, just plain dumb?

Good one, Greg. Despite total opposition from rightwingers, we are making slow progress in the right direction. Imagine if McCain/Palin had actually won in 2008! Deluded rightwingers think the country is going to throw out Obama and all the Democrats. There’s really no evidence that this is the scenario. The extreme right (TP’s) is much less popular than Obama. What is absolutely clear is that rightwingers are willing to throw the vast majority of Americans under the bus in their lust for power and control, and more and more people are beginning to understand how despicable and unpatriotic these people really are. 

I will get flamed for this so here goes…

I do believe the same as Adam with the over all point.  I do believe that we do have a self entitled generation of people who look down on jobs that are beneath them and have training in degrees that don’t do shit.  It is a big point to be made.  This is a problem with Randian philosophy.  For every special, I am the creator person out there, there are still people who have to clean toilets.  Its the reverse of the Communism myth of lets share everything, because people instinctively want their own stuff.  If you look at it scientifically, we are all social apes and not everyone gets to be an alpha male or female.  In a society of all alpha’s either a new pecking order is started or the pack dies out.  Its just the way it is.

However…

If the tea party was taken over by the same corporate interests and politicians it was originally rallying against, (look who is leading the Republican Polls, not exactly a Washington outsider) than the OWS crowd was taken over by the same people that they were stressing they weren’t.  The same young entitled, liberal arts, hippies that give everything there a bad name.  There were some good points to OWS (just as there were to the original Tea Party).  There needs to be rules.  That is not saying communism or European style socialism, but you can’t have a game with no rules and not expect there to be a mess and people cheating the system.  What caused the collapse was the scaling back of banking rules, wall street rules, a shrinking manufacturing base, and entire wealth built on non-liquid assets.  This created a bubble and it popped.  Now the government bailed out all the big banks (a big Tea Party talking point) yet did nothing to correct this behavior (OWS talking point).  So in a way, Adam is not only talking about the OWS crowd, but a lot in wall street.

We need balance.  The discrepancy between rich and poor should fall and we need a fundamental change to our economy.  We apparently can’t or wont go back to a manufacturing base and we cant play the stock market by itself. I would like to see us address these problems instead of pointing fingers.

“A man famous for being funny to some for having video’s of girls on trampolines while drinking beer and making obscene comments.”

are you talking about Adam Carolla or an evening out with Teddy Kennedy and Chris Dodd?

What Sarah Palin can teach Occupy Wall Street
http://thestilettoblog.com/2011/12/01/what-sarah-palin-can-teach-occupy-wall-street-.aspx

As I said elsewhere, the problem is with defining “rich”. A billionaire is 1000 times more rich than a millionaire. These days, when houses are so expensive, having a million dollars is quite nice, but not like being a millionaire decades ago and not really so “rich”.
Too many OWS folks lump all “rich” together when some actually WORKED to get it and others got politicians to manipulate the system so they can skim off money from others to get rich.

Someone should inform him that we’re not all white guys in 1964.  Hard work doesn’t get you anywhere when the system is set up for you to fail.  And what, does he think a CEO works 250 times harder than every average worker in the company?  What a clueless tool.

It’s just as idiotic as what Adam Corolla said.

how so?

Well, by definition, fair means tempered & honest. We are not living within a system that is impartial. The inequality is a result of corporate extremism. The status quo does not give fair opportunity to the working class. This is apparent. Otherwise, none of us would be having this debate right now. Who determines it should be the government, who makes the laws, as well as the market, but both have been compromised by the powers that be. Obviously, those who have the power to monitor & control the government & markets also have influence over the way they’ve been navigated. The free market is not free if a handful of people are calling the shots. The same goes for the government, which is SUPPOSED to be FOR the PEOPLE, not political elite. Do you homework and you’ll see how corrupt it all has become. The average person does not have a prayer against this kind of oligarchy… however, the American people as a cohesive force can change the course of it all if we recognize it for what it is and take action. Lethargy & apathy is what the magnates want. Fairness will only exist if the ones in control are fair. But as it stands, we are divided by extreme partisanship, so that does nothing but fuel even further malfeasance within the ranks of those in charge.

apparently neither do you…

He is historically accurate.  The Tea Act of 1773 was used to bolster a trade monopoly by a British run company.  They basically controlled all route of trade from Asia to Europe to the America’s.  Now some of the colonies were growing and selling tea to the new world.  This would not do, so East India Co pressured Parliament to pass the act.  It tripled the taxes on tea sold out of the colonies and rolled them back on East India to the point it was almost free.  This tax, pressured by a private company while the colonists had no representation, started the tea party.

Show me times in history when greed as worked to the benefit of everyone…

Served w/ CP in Vietnam, good man, however, he doesn’t address what Adam is ranting about, the new entitlement, pampered society we’ve created, sure I don’t like the F word, but let us not be prude, the guy is talking reality, crude, cruel and real…you either lead or get the hell out of the way…I don’t have Adam as my role model, I am just agreeing with someone that has hit the nail in the head

This is such total BS. OWS are factually accurate that the political system is controlled by rich people and banks because it benefits them. Obviously. Smart people like Frank Luntz know this, which is why they are training Republicans how to mislead the public.

Yes cause right wing trolls who post anonymously on web sites are obviously in the 1%

Uggh, another economic illiterate buying into the essential Marxian flaw. No, worth in a good or service is NOT directly tied to how many man hours are put into its production or by how “hard” it is worked on. It is worth what someone is willing to pay for it, period. Economic inequality is real but there has never been and, never will be, a society where it doesn’t exist. The only societies that come close are places like North Korea. Focus more on the standard of living rather than the “economic inequality” of a society. The poorest souls in the US are in the top 5% worldwide! Shit, there is a far greater disparity between the incomes of Eastern Europeans and Western Europeans than there is between American whites and blacks. A CEO never made more money because he got greedier. The disgusting relationship between banks and the political class, and the way they manipulate the economy, needs to be fundamentally altered. Like allowing these failed enterprises to FAIL. But the fact that you actually look around at your family, friends, co-workers and neighbors and think “hard work doesn’t get you anywhere”….is just plain sad. Whoever you read or listen to, they’re not helping you and please refrain from having children if that is what you’re going to teach them. Think on this, there is a 75% turnover rate in the top 1% tax bracket in the US. Meaning 75% of the people that were in the top 1% in a given year, aren’t there in 10 years….more than half are only in the top 1% for a SINGLE year because they either sold their house or 401k. If you honestly believe that you can’t have a better life unless a CEO makes less from his company, or someone who makes more than 250k in a given year is taxed more, then your education was lacking.

So by that argument you just made, the same people who are now CEOs and get bonuses for a failing company are part of the problem too yes?

Movement within the social classes is dynamic and not limited to the upward direction. A thriving economy doesn’t guarantee upward movement any more than a down economy guarantees downward movement.  

BULLSH#T they didn’t compromise!  The whole system of government was set up for compromise.  That’s why SLAVERY lasted for another hundred years!  That’s why the constitution wasn’t ratified til 1787 and that was after the Articles of Confederation.  That is why we have three branches of government and the checks and balances. 

Ideally those we’d like to see target for tax increases are as the President says, the ones making over one million per year.  Then only the amount over the first million is to be taxed at an additional 3.5 percent. However, I personally would like to see the top 400 weathy Americans taxed at 99%, so they’d have to live on only $3.5 to $5 million dollars per year.  Man, they’d really have to slum it then.

So why protect policies that work the other way? If your argument is that it is dynamic, then those policies are just as moronic.

Inadvertantly hit the like. I recind it now!

“You are not special.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. 
You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all a part of the same compost pile.”

Tyler Durden

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-01/raise-taxes-on-rich-to-reward-true-job-creators-nick-hanauer.html.

He knows what he is talking about and what he says should be obvious to anyone with half a brain cell. Your fantasies don’t change the reality.

I knew that I liked Adam Carolla. At least he is not part of the brainless Left in the US praising the vermin-infested anti-capitalist Marxist assholes known as the “Occupy” movement.

I wish the police would crack down on these anti-American OWS stinkers once and for all. Spray them with Lysol or use a tire iron – as long as we drive them back into the sewers from which they came, I don’t care how it is done.

The children of ANY President are required to have non-stop Secret Service protection. How would that work out in a  “Public School” in Washington D.C., Tom?  How disruptive would that be?

Right wingers need to stop this nonsense.

–Cobra

“But Adam is such a punk, such an absolute low-lifed nothing.  Why does anyone watch, listen to, or otherwise observe this cretin.  Crude, rude, totally empty.”

I think you typed that wrong.

Here, I believe, is what you meant to say:

“But Obama is such a punk, such an absolute low-life nothing. Why does anyone watch, listen to, or otherwise observe this cretin. Crude, rude, totally empty.”

Much, much better. And far more accurate.

Absolutely.  I have no problem with a CEO making what a hundred of their employees make, but much beyond that I think is a waste.  I’d think it’d be great for there to be an international agreement and local-country laws that executives of a company can’t make more than x-times their average employee, but in practical terms if we were to do that only in USA most big companies would just move leadership overseas, and if we did just to publicly traded ones the best CEO’s would stay at a private company, or you’d see a phenomenon of CEO’s working at multiple companies at once.  Its a thorny problem, but at the end of the day nobody is worth a thousand times what I am or you are or your neighbor is, assuming we’re all capable and willing to work as hard as each other.

Let Me Be The First To Call Colin Powell A RINO !!!

 Same old libtard shit…..Trash the messenger.
Never……NEVER offer up valid arguments because you will bare your ass for all to see.

Excuse me? Why can’t society take responsibility for raising the current & last generation of SELF-ENTITLED ASS DOUCHES AND MONTERS? 

Maybe we should look at ourselves to see what we have done to our past & current generations.  Most of the kids now love to what the KARDASHIAN girl implode and explode on TV.  What message does JERSEY SHORE send or many of the other inane shows on TV.

instead of replying why dont you take some time and learn how to not be such a pussy. you know, maybe start a business and you can give all your money to the poor instead of wanting us to pay for you losers…

Ranting is Adam’s stock-in-trade.  Who cares.  He is a High School football start that couldnt get into college football and was put on academic probation his first semester then dropped out.

If anyone is going to accept that what Adam says is true, then one has to apply the same “ass-douche” label to the current generation of Wall Street brokers and financial advisers of the same chronological age. When those twenty- and thirty-something “ass-douches” notice that their commissions and bonuses decline, do they work harder to maintain the same level? or do they manipulate the system in order to get more for doing less because of market conditions?

It’s only fair not to discriminate based on ideology when disparaging how an entire generation of Americans were educated.

Me thinks the douche is the one named Adam Carolloa. Use to like this guy,but the more he talks the more he shows what a dipstick he is. OWS has nothing to do with everyone getting trophys,but everything to do with how bad this country has tilted is favor of a few and not the many

“I wish the police would crack down on these anti-American OWS stinkers
once and for all. Spray them with Lysol or use a tire iron – as long as
we drive them back into the sewers from which they came, I don’t care
how it is done.”

Because that’s what Jesus Christ would do.

Then there are those who don’t realize that they are losers and post on message boards to overcompensate.

 
 
Carolla is only saying what most people are saying. You liberals don’t think this same conversation (minus the cursing) isn’t taking place in most barbershops or around most water coolers and dinner tables?

Did you fools really think that a bunch of mangy marxists in masks playing sleep away camp for two months was going to help your cause? OWS has accomplished nothing positive but plenty of negative.

But the best part is that the mainstream media spent what little credibility they had left on these OWS parasites. Yes, those Grandpa’s and Grandmas at those Tea Parties were extremists. But these OWS skells who are raping and robbing each other, vandalizing property, agitating the police, pooping in public parks and calling for violent revolution are wholesome all american sweethearts. Ha ha.

Please OWS, come back in the spring and stick around to next November.

What an absolute load. Colin Powell and Richard Armitage admitted Armitage’s role in the Plame leak.
They then stayed silent because THEY WERE ASKED TO BY THE FBI. Powell did exactly as he should have given the circumstances.

I guess if you disagreed with Powell then he would be raving and Carolla observing. This is logic 2nd grade style. Thus they need you at ESPN and you can gradually made your way to a grown up site when you learn what it means to actually be able to process information.

Amazing then how I sold tons of pure junk on Ebay I’d collected over the years. I guess you can never have too many 50 dollar science fiction paperbacks or vintage boards of space man watches at 250 a pop and issue 29 of Savage Sword of Conan for 20 bucks.

Actually it does need explanation and a lot of it. It’s called facts. No one’s interested in how you are pre-disposed to view the world from a keyboard.

I’m guessing you’re one of the ones who had the all “A’s” report card. Well, welcome to reality cuz the world doesn’t exist to soothe your feelings about yourself and prop up an unremarkable personality with a giant ego on top.

You have not raised children and you have no idea what you are talking about. The young people I have known and watched grow up: Went to school, studied, graduated, got jobs or went into major debt for a college education. they have served in the military in the first gulf war, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan and n ot a single one asked for a hand out or A FREE RIDE. There are some screw ups, but they are the few and some of the circumstances that they survived would make you head spin. Our children have solid work ethics, many of them are working longer hours, harder and for less wages and take home pay. they have inherited a society poisoned by the venom of greed and arrogance and treasonous behavior by WALL STREET HUSTLERS and corporate thieves. they have seen this society accept the lies of Bush/Cheney without ramifications. They have been betrayed by the politicians who consider their oath to party more important than their obligation to serve the common good. They have seen their civil rights eoding because the previous generation was driven by fear to allow unheard of damages to our democracy. OWS is hopefully our redemption. Finally there is a common voice that says Enough is enough and democracy may be unwieldy but it is a far better system of govt than the one proposed by the TPARTY NATION that would take our country backward into the 18th century. Our children deserve better because we brought them into this world with the promise that their lives would be better than ours.

Says the woman who sits on her ass all day and collects money from the government.

The actual book is quite different from the Classics Illustrated comic book version. Just a head’s up.

Groucho Marx was just as ridiculous and his political acumen was spot on. Don’t confuse sober and serious.

ESPN awaits.

This is how the righties think how liberals think.  Their black and white world view is so distorted.  

oh please, the entire constitution was a compromise between opposing groups. 

I go by the version where Milhouse is accused of eating the food, but it was actually a wild boar. The children were eventually rescued by … oh, let’s say Moe.

It needs no explanation. If your parents are rich you are likely to be rich, etc. Your fantasy doesn’t change the reality.

Looks like Leedog has gone over to the dark side with all of these Michelle LIKES. 

Huh? 

Adam Carolla? We’re all here taking time to comment on what Adam Carolla thinks? Adam Carolla? Good Lord, we really do have screwed up priorities!

Both Carolla and Bershad are “Ass Douches” to use your phrase. You guys don’t know what you are talking about. Which is what happens when you get your news exclusively from FOX, which you obviously do. Note that a recent Seton Hall University study says that people who don’t watch any news are now better informed then people who get their news from FOX. Shocking isn’t it. Additionaly Adam Carolla is functionally illiterate yer he does not know how to read. Yes let me repeat that Adam Carolla does not know how to read English. He’s your leader now, a typical egomaniacal Republican.

It may have been yesterday, but I think it was today he said something like, “Okay, here’s the deal, you have to engage in a sustained chant about something at least once every 15 minutes or you’re just a vagrant.” Carolla’s podcast is the most consistently funny thing on the “airwaves,” and he’s actually un-pc – which in our culture really means one thing: he’s willing take on protected classes. For example, his rants about the absolute devastation of suburban So Cal over the past 30 years are epic.

I’ve just listened to Carola for the first time, and find the power of the vitriolic language, the vituperative furies bursting with such visceral, unhinged and vulgar multiple primal angers, it is stunning. This boorish ego-fop dwarfs even Limbaugh, O’Reilly, and Beck in the unrestrained violence, ugly bombast. What does this man actually do? His reptilian spontaneous frothings aimed at perceived generational and distant and abstract horrors of OWS’ers, so brightly display such an embarassing ignorance, someone should tug his coat, get him to physically meet and engage in diaogue, listen to actual Occupy folks like say, the librarian of OWS at Zucotti Park that wrote of the NYPD destruction of the People’s Library’s 5,400 books so movingly, or Chris Hedges, or Naomi Klein, or the retired Police Officer from Philadelphia who joined the huge national expanding numbers of Occupy sympathizers. Or me. What a pathetic, grim and dangerous stupidity bleating for intervention. The very stuff fascism is made of. Beware this little monster.   

I don’t think I can say it any better than Matt W did here but I’ll give it a shot. If your mind set is ………awwww F-it read Matt’s post again.

Carolla for president !

If he doesn’t get that, at least appoint him as the Supreme Overlord of the Education Department.

I wonder what Adam calls the police, firemen, nurses, teachers, construction workers and those of us over the age of 22?

Perhaps he should rethink his rant and do a bit of research into who this movement encompasses, it might just add some relevance to it all.

The whole system of government was set up for gridlock in the absence of agreement. And the Constitution was ratified in 1788. And the system of government had nothing to do with slavery. That why it was ended by a Civil War.

Yes, but that deal having been made, we don’t need to renegotiate it.

Yawn.

If you need to be schooled in the intellectual differences between Carolla and Powell, you’re not just grade school, you’re a toddler.

The first? You’re a few years late.

No, the political system is controlled by politicians. The banking systems is controlled by baks, except to the extent that it’s controlled by the government.

No, you’re in a class by yourself, huff.

They were in private school in Chicago too, the University of Chicago Laboratory School. Why is that?

You’re tracking his sex life? Does his wife know about this? Whose twins did she have?

This tax, pressured by a private company while the colonists had no representation, started the tea party.

Right. The tax, not the frigging tea selection. Duh.

Right. And insisting on more of it, taken from someone else who doesn’t deserve to use it as they see fit is…greed.

Thou shalt not covet.

I’ve got some bad news for you.

Three inconvenient truths for Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street needs to recognize some realities about what drives income inequality.

It works both ways, is the point.

What makes you think they’d keep earning past the $3-5 million? Why would they bother? And then what happens to everyone who would have earned along with them?

That’s why our current policies are so upside down. When the American
middle class defends a tax system in which the lion’s share of benefits
accrues to the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that
happens is that the rich get richer.

We don’t have one of those. We have a system where the rich pay the lion’s share of the taxes and the bottom 47% pays nothing and many of them collect from the pot instead.

What is it that makes you think higher taxes are going to make things better for poor people? Taxes go to the government, the same place y’all keep telling us the rich are running.

Jesus is not allowed in the public square. Did you get the memo?

The police? What does OWS call the police? Hello!

What’s so new about what he’s saying?  Minorities in America have been saying this for five to ten years now.  Now that we’ve become a diverse society and Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and on and on have been growing so fast in all segments of what’s going on in this country, mainstream Americans think they’re ENTITLED to have what came to them real easy 10 to 20 years ago.  So instead of competing, re-educating themselves, working out harder to be better, they just want to complain about how everyone else is speeding past them by leaps and bounds. 

But they don’t want to work for it. They refuse to work hard like the rest of us to earn it.  Sometimes you get sick of hearing the same line over and over again whining about whether we’re leaving a better place for our children.  Our children need to put down the flipping Wei’s, the video games and the texting units and pick up a book or Your Baby Can Read and get back to competing and not complaining. 

George Carlin called it the p#$#%yfication of America and that sometimes is what it seems.  Not saying some of those pricks on Wall Street don’t deserve some of the flack they are getting but some days American seems so weak.  Blame the government, blame Wall Street…hey like Adam says look in the mirror and take some responsibility for your own position in life and stop depending on everyone else to help you up or stop thinking that hard work is no longer part of what’s needed to succeed in a tough economy. 

Bottom line nobody in America is entitled to jack.  Those days are long gone. 

Just the 1st in this thread…in the catfishjuggling style.

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hence why we have a democracy, we vote for who want and they debate with those who disagree with them. It’s been going on since the founding of our nation. 

oh please. some were there for the party, others for a place to get free stuff and pretend like they were making a stand on something and some were there playing their grad school, new societal games that always end in nothing. your post is dribble and nothing more.

but obviously all posters on here are getting some of their news from mediaite, just as you are, yet the feel completely different about a subject then you do. so your whole post is nothing but b/s

adam may very well agree with that

come on man.  have you seen the guy over the years.  he has a quick wit, a real quick wit.  your post is elitist snobbery and nothing more

I worry about a Carolla flame out a la Michael Richards.

He sounds an awful lot like other heavy drinking self loathing atheists who unfortunately were born without the empathy gene — hence they are full of anger and guilt.

Or maybe it is all a big joke and he really does have a s sense of humor after all. :)

Adam is wrong in my view. It isn’t about a participating trophy or wanting something that is unearned. It’s about wanting to play the game on a level playing field. When people see banks bailed out and those same banks refuse to re-fi them so they go into foreclosure – they see an uneven process. When they see someone stealing groceries get jail time and bankers swindling folks out of millions getting slaps on the wrist – they see an uneven process. http://wordsofwhizdumb.com/2011/10/sec-and-citi.html

I don’t agree with many of the OWS approaches – but I think it is incorrect to label their efforts as those who want something for nothing. It is closer to say that they just want an equitable system for achievement – ones that do not favor the haves over the have nots.

they also set the standard for democractic ideals with that compromise

Ask Herman Cain, he can explain how multiple partners are possible while being married.

Their money makes money, the lie about them all being “job creators” is a complete fallacy.  The only thing they have to do to make money is call their money manager.  Additionally the money they’ve already made continues to make money, they’d have to be a tea-party moron to stop making money out of spite.  They can’t possibly spend all the money they already have as the top 400 have as much wealth as the bottom 150 million Americans they don’t know exist.

A Stranger Saved My Life

                                                            
By

                                                     
© 2011 Ted Kraven

      For the past year I was living on
the streets and under roadways in Stamford, CT. On November 2, 2011 my luck
changed.  A stranger gave me a
dollar and I bought a Powerball ticket. 
It won the $254.2 million jackpot! At first I was elated. Then sad. All
this money, nothing decent to wear. No place to go. Friends and relatives out
of sight and out of mind.  I smelled
like a skunk and I’m  hungry.

      I was  in a state of shock. Could this little piece of paper be
worth all that money?  Yes. But I
didn’t like it. Too much too soon. I needed time to become a civil citizen once
again. Lots of time to meditate on my good fortune. What should I do next?

    
Wait.  That lawyer who
befriended me this past summer.  He
gave me a hundred dollars. I still had his business card in my empty
wallet.  A bicycle messenger heeded
my wave and used his cell phone to call. 
Roger took me to lunch.

      He had me sign my lottery ticket and
placed it in a bank safety deposit box. A furnished apartment was available in
his building. He vouched for me and I moved in wearing a new suit of clothes.
But I couldn’t sleep the first night. I would have been more comfortable in an
alleyway. However, I was willing to endure insomnia.

         My attorney friend
was also a CPA and he advised me to delay cashing in my ticket until early
2012; by then we would have a viable, legal plan for avoiding huge tax
bites.  I agreed to follow Roger’s
advice because I never had a clue about managing more than a few thousand
dollars. With the winning lottery ticket as collateral, I borrowed $50,000 from
Roger’s bank and he cosigned the loan.

      I walked the streets of Stamford
looking for that stranger who financed my win. He deserved a substantial reward
and I intended to make a down payment. After a few days of walking around city
streets I failed to see the kindly gentleman who reminded me of my father. Eventually
I’ll have an artist sketch his face and hire a private detective to find him.

      On Sunday November 13, I decided to
visit Zuccotti Park in New York City and observe the Occupy Wall Street
protest. My idea was to pass around some free money to those altruistic people
who stopped their lives to dramatize our freedom. I prepared a hundred
envelopes with sums ranging from $5 to $100, totaling $10,000, and made my was
down to Liberty Square.

    
The scene was organized chaos. Lines of police ringed barricades around
several hundred tents and they warned onlookers to keep moving along the
sidewalks. There were those with protest signs and others handing out flyers
for a variety of causes. Med students in white jackets offered free flu shots.
One middle aged man and woman were engaged in a shouting match over who stole
her loaf of bread and a sandwich. The odors of blue smoke, whisky and burning
wood were quite prominent.  A trio
of young ladies with a flute, conga drum and banjo sounded well rehearsed. I
dropped $20 into their basket.

      I began passing out my
envelopes.  Inside each with the
money was a message:

                                           
FREE MONEY!

             
TO ALL THOSE WONDERFUL PEOPLE OCCUPYING WALL STREET!

      I just want
to express my appreciation and compassion for your mission to challenge the
unfair and reprehensible attitude demonstrated by corporate greed.  And I’m putting my money where my mouth
is, a token amount certainly, considering I won $254.2 million in the CT
POWERBALL LOTTERY!!! I will spend it wisely. For example:  more stem cell research, seat belts on
all school buses, free loans to indigent veterans and a 24 hr. cable TV channel
with job offers in the USA.

                                          
     Sincerely, Ted K.    (tedkrvn@gmail.com)

      When I was a kid I read Horatio
Alger’s stories “From Rags To Riches.” 
That’s my life in the 21st century.  During the financial crunch of 2008 I lost my job, soon ran
out of unemployment insurance, extinguished my savings, borrowed from friends
and relatives and finally turned to panhandling.  I lost hope and considered suicide.

    
A week after my foray in Zuccatti Square I have over a hundred emails.
Although some plead for money, the majority merely applaud me for my kindness
and wish me well. This one would sum up the latter:

    
“ Dear Ted:  Your willingness to look back to the many who still are
without basic survival tools, is your greatest gift!!   The money you
won is secondary to your spiritual level of awareness.   It’s great
that you have been given the money and that you will dedicate a good portion of
it to those in need.

      Yesterday, at Zucotti park in Manhattan
you handed out envelopes with money to some of us.   I received one
of those envelopes and my heart was full knowing that you will be working to
solve some of the myriad of problems out here in society.

      I am a New York City special education
teacher “whistle blower” and will be doing my part in Federal
court against the NYC Board of Education to ensure that funds be used for
special education students. I thank you again for your awareness and
generosity.  Sincerely, Xiomara
Hayes”

     To recite the title of one of my favorite
songs, “I’ve Got the World on a String,” thanks to a stranger who helped saved
my life. Along with Powerball.

Ted Kraven  (tedkrvn@gmail.com)

Read Ellen Schultz book, “Retirement Heist.” Then you’ll know why some Occupiers come from the ranks of the 80-year old bracket. Their success was based on hard work and business agreements for deferred pay as pensions. Then, the pension fund was the only place that had money (worker money, not corporate money), so oops! it disappeared or spun off with a bankruptcy-headed division, and the fake accounting gains could fuel bonuses. Those bonuses weren’t made by selling widgets but by adding wiggle room to the books.
And “spiraling pension costs” are the tally of fully funded worker pensions bundled with unfunded supplemental executive retirement plan IOUs.

At first, the gentry assumed they would be most fit to govern. The thirteen colonies really were individual and independent states. But businessmen needed cash. Then the farmers in New England were put in jail for lack of cash to pay taxes. In jail, they missed the planting season, and lost their farms for dirt cheap prices to someone else. A bunch of farmers marched on the court house to try to stop the trials. They recruited an honored Revolutionary general to train them to work together–Daniel Shays. It was only after this problem that the Continental Congress even realized it needed a Constitution and some federal power to put down “rebellion” in any one state. The Constitution was unheard of in 1776.

One more thing: The Federalist Papers are NOT part of our official national documents. They are a series of newspaper articles put out by the first ever PAC.

See above:
Ellen Schultz and “Retirement Heist.” The person with the best lawyer is the last man standing, hard as you worked and ironclad as you thought your pension was.
Dissent and Daniel Shays brought the spotlight to federal interest in local issues.
The elected representatives, even then, did not work for their constituency population, but rather to keep an elite in the place of power because it was, after all, born to lead. The dirt farmer was good enough to fight for independence, contribute through taxes, and participate in the popular voting, but he was not invited to think or perhaps was not believed to be capable of it.

Yes, being born with someone else’s wealth available to you is a bootstraps sort of meritocracy.

One reason that worked for you is that you were entrepreneurial and also corporation-free.
If you had an executive committee from about 1990 till now, something weird and incremental would have eaten away at your collection and when you finally noticed–and hollered–a court would have ruled that your statute of limitations had run out.
The Occupiers are not left or right; they are bottom.

Yes. The funniest thing is to hear someone whose legitimate benefits have already been frozen, compromised, or repossessed, identify with the 1% who did it. I think there is a Stockholm Syndrome for victims of corporate fraud.

Wow. You would fit in with the founding fathers who were aristocrats and actually better than the rest of us unremarkable citizens.

Corrolla doesnt have a f’in clue, he must be a brainwashed Foxbot.  Yes, the top 1% pay 40% of federal INCOME taxes but  the average working American pays 95% of the  Federal payroll taxes. Indeed the ave working American pays a higher tax rate as a percent of his income than do millionaires and especially billionaires. Warren Buffet says his TOTAL burden is 17% while his secretary and janitor’s is 30-35%! 

Our top 1% are paying ONE-THIRD the tax rate they were back in the 40′s to 70′s! So stuff it Adam dooche. 

Listen to the anger of Carolla! He is saying that these kids who are putting their bodies on the line for a more just society and for accountability for Wall Street – those responsible for tanking our economy, and working towards changing the corruption of our political system by a very small and  very wealthy elite is because they are entitled?  This is very dangerous, hateful, and divisive rhetoric.  There is no love or sense of justice in what he said.  He did not make one substantial point.  He said nothing of why this protester are protesting besides they are envious and entitled.  See, he sees these protesters as he views himself – as just out for himself and greedy.  They are not upset that they aren’t succeeding, no, they are angry that the game is rigged.  I think he doesn’t see that these occupiers have evolved beyond a state of existence of the exploitation of bikini clad girls jumping on trampolines, beer chugging misogyny and Neanderthal grunting.  See, I believe most of these protester believe in the possibility of a better world and are willing to work towards creating it.  It is not envy – it is a sense and understanding of our growing economic inequity.  It is a desire for justice for all, not just those with all the wealth.  They understand that the current evolution of our economic system is destroying the planet, impoverishing many for the enrichment of the few, and has totally hijacked our political system.  They know that if allowed to continue on it’s current trajectory our world will be a place where these kids have no desire to live, or want to pass on to their children.  They believe in progress, democracy, and justice.  They believe in caring for all in society.  They believe in love, not greed and hate. 

Adam is not very bright. This rant shows that he’s very shallow and has a myopic view of the world. What’s ironic is that he’s taking a group of people who are socially, racially, and economically diverse but have a common goal, and he’s generalizing them in the same way that he claims they are generalizing about rich people. The “Occupy” movement isn’t asking to be handed anything they aren’t entitled to. They are asking to be handed back control of their government. It was supposed to be by the people and for the people. Now it’s by the corporations and for the corporations.

Adam sounds very defensive, which is understandable since he didn’t come from wealth. He’s still scared that someone wants to take his new found money away, but I don’t think that’s the case. I’m going to write this speech of his off as a desperate attempt to capitalize on these protest to get himself some cheap publicity by saying something crazy.

Nice job Carolla. You sounds just as out of touch as Sarah Palin.

The rantings of a simplistic moron. I don’t know if Adam believes the sophomoric BS he is dishing out, afterall he is a radio talk show host and their job is to get a rise out of their audience, but if he does believe it he’s obviously not smarter than a fifth grader. 

As difficult as it may be for you to understand, cops ARE part of the 99% and before Management came down on them (the white shirts) to empty the parks, many were pro-OCCUPY. A number of retired cops (some officers) have also participated and even have gotten arrested for the cause.

I vaguely remember Carolla. Didn’t he used to have a lame MTV show or something?
Now, like Dennis Miller, he’s just another angry, whining middle-ager playing to the Breitbart crowd.

I was wondering when this post is going back to the point of original conversation. I dissagree with you on principle. Yes there is a lot of what Adam rants about going on, and we only have ourselfs to blaim (parents). However their(OWS) grivances expresses a multitude of problems that are very real and need to be fixed. It’s not like they screaming ”I’m an AMERICAN” in a foreigen country being “unfairly” treated.
They are screaming” Help…I’m an AMERICAN” in their homeland where there is no way for them to get ahead in a economic environment that is rigged for and by the “1%”.    

actually, you can do it.   The same secret service protects you in a public school, and Amy Carter was secure.  

Now, the DC public school system is one of the worst in the nation, so you wouldn’t want to go there.   Decades of corruption and teacher tenure.   The whole nation should be ashamed that we allow our kids to lose a good education to corruption and politics. I wish either Clintons or the Obamas would send their kids to DC schools.   The DC kids deserve for SOMEONE to fight for a better system.   

“What does this man actually do?” He gives percieved elitists like you a big fat shocking dose of reality. Nobody owes you jack sh**. Nobody is going to praise you for using such large and fluffly adjectives in a rather disjointed and difficult sentence sequence. Penetrating insight and elegance are found in brevity. Not rambling self stroking word masturb..I am sure that you can use your brilliant and colorful imagination to finish the sentence.

Listen to the rant.  She’s dead-on, and that why you’re attacking her.  Don’t hide behind the messenger, look at the message like most people do… 

That’s how you verify the veracity of a statement ? The speaker’s credentials ?
Is that the only tool in your box ? How about instead of “who said it” you go
for “is it true” ? Or do you have no methods for science and thinking in your
“education”?

Actually there was a big compromise over states rights. They kicked the can down the road and it led to the civil war. Move beyond what your high school history book says. There’s a lot of crap in it. There are a lot of good books on the subject.

In other words, he was an adult that made decisions he didn’t like because he had to get things done. The present group of Republicans think rightly, that their best strategy is to stand in the way of progress and blame Obama that nothing got done.

The filibuster was not part of this setup. 

We don’t want the MVP, we want a government that represents majority instead of the only the wealthiest 1%. We want jobs and opportunity. Deregulation and tax breaks aren’t going to cut it. The wealthy and the banks are sitting on the money, not creating jobs.

Ah, the sting of facts hurts doesn’t not exgopman (not that you ever really where right)? You hear the truth, cannot respond with facts and so smear and name call. GOOD LITTLE LIBERAL!! Now lick “O’s” behind clean like you’ve been taught!

Anyone not asleep, not suffering severe brain damage and not a mindless obamaton has seen the total failure that is obama. The “Socialist Paradise” in Europe crashes down around their socialist ears, and still barry tries to drive our country toward that model. The only real question left is whether he is criminally incompetent or criminally intentioned.

You have changed my mind with that thoughtful, original and data driven analysis. How could I possibly have been so daft? Cheers!

There is reality checks that get these ‘spoiled kids’ if you want to call it that.  College which will fail you in a heartbeat and NOT give a second chance.  The armed forces – who will line you out – break you and rebuild you if necessary.  And finally the working world – who you know gets you in but being a screw up will generally get you ridiculed for life.  So I am not worried about the idea that all kids get ribbons – they need encouragement at some point after all.  Adam is a disappointment all around.  I thought his time on Man Show was just enteratinment.  Turns out he is a toilet head – he wasnt’ acting.  Now he’s an old toilet head that no one really cares to hear it.  So rant on Adam – you still don’t matter or make a difference – want a ribbon?

Why do you Leftard always resort to personal insults?

Let us cut through the garbage. When people apply for jobs dressed unfit to work in the garbage dump, believing they should not work for less than employees with a proven track record, defecate on the floor in the restroom, and leave their trash in front of the office buiding for others to clean up. When people lose their jobs including termination for cause, they expect unemployment to be handed to them for as long as they can milk the system. Having less than a college degree, I worked hard and earned a mid-management position with a fortune 500 company. I started working on a production line with a major soap company and was accepted into sales as one of two people in the history of the company to achieve that status. I worked for 20 years between the two corporations and in the mid 80-s  earning a $70,000 annual compensation package. The company sold out to another corporation and I was one of many terminated at closure of the sale. I had to sell my home at a loss and move 1500 miles to the west coast. Instead of collecting my full 26 weeks unemployment, I accepted a job at minimum wage as soon as I relocated. Within two years, I was making more than $60,000 annually. I had a similiar situation 7 years later and had to start over again. My point is this: Forget the entitlements as a long term nanny, they are good as a temporary aid and not as way of life. FYI, during my working career, my spouse never worked as she stayed home and raised the children. Our children grew up and doing well. They also have had their financial ups and downs, however, they have not ever asked for entitlements or help from their parents. They now have children, some of which do have the entitlement mentality. This is taught as part of the public education curriculum today and that is why we see what we see with OWS. Combine that with over regulation by our government on business, public service unions out of control, and politicians more than happy to be the nanny as they want the votes. We give the useful idiots freebies and they will vote for us. They grow the government with both employment and entitlement and now have almost have of the population dependent on the the goverement for their survival. The unions and governemnt regulation have chased most of our manufacturing to other countries. The OWS crowd will never get attention to their message when the messengers have no pride, since of purpose and the entitlement mentality. The cost of per student in public schools is twice the cost per student in private schools. The difference in the quality of education is amazing. The more money we throw at public educatuin the worse it becomes. I attended a one elementary room school and a two room school respectively and received an education at the end of 8 years that compares to a 12 year education today. Classroom discipline combined with the three readin, ritin, and rithmatic is the basic foundation for self-esteem and success. We have to wean the pigs from the trough of free slop if this country is going to survive.

You
all are both making interesting points. I completely understand what is going
on with all of this thanks to your amazing commentary. So one of you is a
doofus and one of you is an honor less dog loving douche? Thank you for saving
America. When you stated that fact about the other commenter being able to drag
his knuckles and type at the same time, I was riveted. Highly constructive and
a great way to prove your point that…..the other guy is a dumb doofus. It
makes me wonder why our national media outlets don’t look to these message
boards for writers. Thank you again for random insults towards strangers with
no factual backing. Wait…Do you work for MSNBC?? AMEN

You
all are both making interesting points. I completely understand what is going
on with all of this thanks to your amazing commentary. So one of you is a
doofus and one of you is an honor less dog loving douche? Thank you for saving
America. When you stated that fact about the other commenter being able to drag
his knuckles and type at the same time, I was riveted. Highly constructive and
a great way to prove your point that…..the other guy is a dumb doofus. It
makes me wonder why our national media outlets don’t look to these message
boards for writers. Thank you again for random insults towards strangers with
no factual backing. Wait…Do you work for MSNBC?? AMEN

There is a un-comprehensible amount of misinformation and ignorance showcased in Adam’s rant and so many of the posts below. I really do worry for the US. Does Adam have his head buried in the sand, and is he ignoring the fact that a huge number of the protestors ARE successful, have their own businesses, are highly educated or over 30? News flash for those against the movement, only 13.1% of the protestors are unemployed. One third of those are above the age of 35. Let that sink in for a moment along with the realisation that the vast majority of basis for much of the attacks are fud (No they aren’t protesting about rich people stealing their jobs).

Some opposers of the movement are so out of touch with reality, essentially making stuff up a huge chunk of the time and ignoring the truth, hell, ignoring the very reasoning the people protesting are actually giving. Can’t believe so many people have such an ignorant and misinformed view of it all. But I suppose that’s what happens when you have a Fox News generation bred on a constant barrage of agenda filled sensationalist right wing or corporate propaganda. Much of the sentiment is regurgitated Right Wing speil based on factually incorrect nonsense.

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Now on to some other points.

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Firstly, the portests have no unified complaint. Of course they don’t, and why should they? It’s an impossible task to unify a problem when there are so many with the current government or political/financial system. Unifying it to just one, might even be a disservice to the cause which is actually much more over-arching than people realise. It’s an amalgamation of general negative discourse and disagreement of NUMEROUS flawed elements of the system. In-fact, since the movement started, I feel it’s helped to highlight even more. Especially on the subject of freedoms, rights and liberties of people, the press etc.

Then there’s the difficulty of laymen even explaining such complicated issues. Liquid assets, derivatives, toxic debt, betting against bonds and stocks you were promoting moments before, every facet of the financial scandal and corruption that exists today, and the power the corporations have over Government and the American people, or the cushty relationship they share behind closed doors (paying politicians off to push through damaging legislation etc)…it’s not stuff easily explained.

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Second, the protestors don’t know why they’re protesting. This is an ignorant assessment, one spoon fed to you by corporate media. Sure, a very small minority might be protesting for aimless reasons, or perhaps can’t explain the reasons eloquently, but the vast majority know exactly why they are protesting and do so with cause. The truth is, it’s not the protestors that don’t know why they’re protesting, that’s what the media wants you to think. It’s the opposition that doesn’t know why people are protesting, out of sheer ignorance or confusion and THAT is why they feel the protests are pointless, because they don’t have a clue about the points being raised. It is clearly evidenced by the posts in this thread and media speil, the opposition doesn’t have a clue. The main argument is that the protestors are all liberal hippes with no jobs that think rich people stole their jobs even though as mentioned, only 13.1% are unemployed (almost in line with the national average)!

Wake up America. Wake up. This movement is fighting for YOU, for your children, for your children’s children. You (the opposition) are defending a very small minority that has corrupted and infringed on you. A shady minority that has little to no accountability. That went to war based on lies and misinformation, a war that profited only small private contractors and cost YOU billions. A minority that led you to a global recession based on corrupt financial shady dealings that cost YOU, the tax payer billions of dollars. A minority that is enshrined in every facet of politics today and has complete corporate domination over government and policy that affects YOU. Corruption and illegality in government and corporation is skewing and distorting everything that was good about America. Wake up America.

So by you’re argument the founders did compromise. The reason i added slavery is that there were a lot of reps who wanted to abolish slavery but didn’t to gain support of the south.

So Adam, you’re the douche, get a real job and then we can talk about these people in the streets verses the people who are being paid by the corporations in the media, like GOP(Fox) News. Look at all the candidates in the GOP, most of them worked there. Right now Murdock news(Fox) is vetting their next candidate. The people in the streets didn’t cause the economic downfall. The people in the government that deregulated the banks did, the ones that robbed our pensions, bank accounts, and shipped our jobs to China for profits on Wall Street. These are the real douches and need to be gotten rid of with public funded elections. The people in the streets are the blow back of years of the gluttony at the top of the food chain.

Correct. In the real world what you are paid is what the market will bear.  Many variables go into compensation but only in occupations where you are literally producing something or carrying something is compensation tied to how “hard” you work.  And even in those cases if one is in a union, chances are they are being paid more than their actual market worth. In the case of CEO’s they are in kind of rarified territory because their decisions effect the economic lives of thousands and they can literally create wealth out of nowhere in the company’s equity by making the right moves. If a CEO comes aboard when the retained equity of a company is low lets say $300 million, and after a few years he has created such confidence that share prices have risen substantially and the equity is now $1.5 billion, is someone trying to make the argument that the CEO is not worth $10 or $20 million?

You hit it on the head. Life is shit, so don’t love your children. 

No, he means Colon Pow-owl, that nite-flyin’ duchy bagger.
C’mon, he’s an honorable veteran, not like “W”.

Wish we had real protestors who actually cared about this country instead of bought and paid for george soros employees.
There’s plenty of worthy causes like fighting for taxation and/or legislation without representation! I’m sick of my tax dollars going towards wars with non-imf complying countries, and/or the fake drug war against the common man, just to make sure some corrupt pharma companies an continue to corner the market. No real person would actually vote for these things. Only corporate entities would want these things because they stand to make more money, not because the us is in danger.

People who make their millions using unethical methods need stopped with new laws though. Like soros with his insider trading, and those fat cats who loaned money to fanny/freddie, then bet against them in the market knowing full well they would fail. Even though they’re driving fancy cars I don’t look at them and say “now there’s someone who made something of themselves”. Instead I say: “yeah I could take advantage of my fellow man to make a buck too, but I don’t because I have a soul”

You should be embarrassed to write the way you do. You have no idea how bad your writing is.

Considering this guy runs his mouth for a living, I think he’s fairly out of touch with the issues which Occupy has raised a flag for.  The Occupy Movement is NECESSARY for our citizens to expose the corruption which Big Business has infected our Government with.  Every single person occupying the streets and protesting Corporations is a hero and a patriot.  I was compelled to lend a hand and create some new posters for the movement which you can download for free on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/11/propaganda-for-occupy-movement.html

“A CNN source with very close to the U.S. Secret Service confirmed to me
today that threats on the life of the president of the United States
have now risen by as much as 400 percent since his inauguration, 400
percent death threats against Barack Obama — quote — “in this
environment” go far beyond anything the Secret Service has seen with any
other president.

http://pubrecord.org/multimedia/4273/during-sermon-arizona-pastor-tells/

 Uh-huh.  Yeah…the Obamas should sent their kids to public school just to satisfy internet nuts and conservatives.

  Oh that’s right, Obama’s President, so he doesn’t need “anything private” like the previous 43. He shouldn’t live in the  White House–they should be in the Lincoln Heights Housing Projects.  He shouldn’t travel by motorcade or Air Force 1, but on the Metro Subway line, or ride the bus.

 Conservatives crack me up.  Really they do.

–Cobra

It is their money to sit on, NOT YOURS. You don’t get to decide how they spend it.
You don’t believe in freedom, you think it is OK to forcibly remove someone’s income so it can be spent how YOU think it should be.
You don’t believe in freedom, you believe in gov’t forced fairness.
Which isn’t really fairness, it is destruction of people who do better than you so you can feel good about yourself sucking.

You don’t believe in right to liberty (you want heavy regulations to control others behavior)
You don’t believe in right to property (you want to sieze what others have because you think they have too much)

Majority rule is democracy.
We aren’t a democracy, we are a republic, and we are a republic because people like me don’t want to allow people like you and your non-existant 99% (more like 10%) voting yourself what we have earned.

You don’t believe in freedom or liberty.
You believe in COMMUNISM.

By playing on the a level field, do you mean getting spotted 5 or 6 runs every inning so the score is closer?

By the way, when will you admit you want soviet style communism?
Using language like “haves” and “have nots” is a dead give away to what is in your heart.

The Occutards call cops pigs, attack cops, then video tape the reaction and cry police brutality, just like the bolsheviks taught them.
The 99% is a number you lying marxists made up. You aren’t even a majority, let alone 99%.
JUST LIKE THE BOLSHEVIKS (russian for majority group) were a hated and despised vast minority, but managed to use lies, propanganda, and thuggery to convince people they were a majority.

Then in free elections THEY WERE CRUSHED.
So they had a coup, and with the military largely deployed to fight Germany, there was no one to stop it. By the time the Russian people realized what their version of people LIKE YOU had done, it was too late.

Maybe you should do some research and see what a useful idiot is, and what happened when the Bolsheviks won the Russian civil war.

But you would have to be interested in honest conversation instead of propagating your little ”it may be difficult for you to understand how smart I am” snot nosed progressive-marxist attitude.

No, the Tea Party wanted those people in jail too, but idiots like you were so busy lying about us and smearing us, you never heard that. The occupy movement is about communism, so stop lying.

It’s clear that you have not researched nor paid attention to what has
been going on at OCCUPY other than what Fox or other right wing blogs
may claim, but I had hoped that you and others would have done a bit of
reading on the topic. This is especially true since the movement will be
around for some time now, remember it’s not even 3 months old.

When OCCUPY first started (before management got their orders) the
police both in Wall Street and other sites felt favorably towards the
protests and some claimed they were with the protestors. After the crack
down, things have gotten nasty but that doesn’t mean the protestors
hate the police, although you do hear things in the media at times, but
those few are hardly the majority.

I do hate to break this to you, but not only is the movement widely
supported  (both nationally as well as throughout the world), but it
seems they have even gotten the GOP governors board nervous. They
recently set up a major meeting with Frank Luntz (the GOP wordsmith) and
he confessed his huge fear of how much OCCUPY is affecting the general
population. So much so that they had to figure out efforts to put down
the protest so that the GOP wouldn’t be left out of the discussion. I
suggest you Google.

 To compare OCCUPY with BOLSHEVIKS simply shows that you ahvent been
following the story nor the premise. Now to address your final attempt
at silencing me and/or others, might I remeind you that I am attempting
honest and civil conversatin and not using slurs nor making outrageous
comparisons…that my friend, has been demonstrated by you alone. I wish you well.

Hey now Cowboy, I’m of the belief that the Occupy and Tea Party groups have more in common than they realize. It’s a shame that they’ve allowed the spin doctors to drive a wedge between them. This is NOT about party lines… this is a GLOBAL protest!

Hey Tulsa: – of course that is not what I mean. I mean exactly what I said – a level playing field. When banks get bailouts and people don’t – that ain’t level. When lobbyists get an inordinate amount of attention because they throw money at congressman and regular folks don’t – that ain’t level. When corporations get to privatize their porfits and socialize their losses – that ain’t level. When banks get to borrow money at near zero percent interest rates while they were nearly bankrupt but won’t re-fi a mortgage holder – that ain’t level. etc. etc.

And no, I don’t want “Soviet Style Communism” (after all, everyone knows the Chinese style communism has proven to be far more successful) . That is merely a typical cheap shot to distract from the real issues. I personally have more money then I will ever use and have been a great beneficiary of our current system – on the other hand I do firmly beleive that a rising tide must float all boats. It ain’t as sinister as you would like to think. But go ahead, keep with the status quo and watch the erosion of the middle class continue and you won’t have to worry about nasty things such as communism – poverty tends to breed anarchy more than anything else.

Tulsa – you scream “communism” in every post you make. Just a suggestion, but rather then slamming a label on the movement (as a note – I have not seen a single “Communism Now” poster at any of the protests) be specific about the concern you may have. It is a weak analytical tactic on your part and is no better than when liberals called the Tea Party folks Nazis.

Well said Just – it was a good read – I liked the balance

Why are Rightards so dense?  You just insulted exGOP you moron.  

 The Constitution is one giant compromise between the states in the North and the states in the South.  You don’t know how wrong you are.

You you admit you were wrong?

Well done sir. 

Did you forget about the 7 trillion that we loaned the banks?  Did you forget that the banks made billions of dollars in profit from this bailout?  Did you forget that our economy is a mixed economy, because Capitalism has failed many of us, especially the old and the sick. 

The one thing I’ve noticed is that EVERY time Repuglicans (spelling intentional) get in office they find more ways to steal money from the taxpayers and when Democrats are in office there is more money for everyone.

Wayne, better talk with propaganda meister,”pollster” Luntz instructing righties on the  use of language to blunt and deflect the rising power of this huge national movement, literally “Never use the “99%” as perjorative, join the flow..exclaim;”We Get it!” and split”. Know Nothing approach-avoidance, deflections, cowardice. You’ve already permanently lost the message battle, so your emancipation from your stupidity begins when you alter the myopic absence of information you display and study the OWS phenomenon, displace your idiocies with knowledge of the subject you clearly are not cognizant of.

We now all see how to vividly display stunted bad writing in the sputtering instruction and presumptive juvenile, mercifully short bleating sounds you issue. Go read long passages of Joyce, it’s in the adult section of your library, surely you know where that is, right? 

“Not rambling self sroking word masturb would disturb chattering claques of semi-literate linguistic renegades from displaying grunted pretensions of perceptions prayed for, chantings, breying, howling in the darkness of their caves, yet permanently far beyond their delusions of insight ever penetrating limited cromagnon blunt yelps and yearnings, sadly, rapidly receding before the crushing realities of difficult sentence sequences that cognition requires for survival.

I have toyed with your childish impudence demanding I complete your nonsensical sentence, so now:

Your task: Correct your first blunder, your aversion to answering the question with substance regarding what your mentor’s actual function is beyond the ranting violence he broadcasts. Provide with the greatest possible objective precision a solid foundation of facts, proofs.Your “perception” of elitists is nullified by my specific contradiction of that assumption. You do not know more then what you have read, and if that is the basis of the statement, you instantly collapse into the tired Faux News, rightist nonsense of rejecting that which you do not comprehend, censor with a psychic auto-mechanism which denies the data’s face value and reaffirms your habitual truncated view. Perception is a subtly evaluative process capable of superimposing an interpretation that is potentially a demolition of an argument prior to it’s expression, as you so boldly demonstrate here with such inelegant bombast, logical incoherence. Your refusal to answer the question has an indirect propagandist effect in favor of OWS. That huge and growing, international movement is fighting against Wall St greed and illegality, the Bankster thievings, hedge fund pimps and parasites,like Koch brothers, inherited wealth Trustfunders like Trump, pigs at the public trough, now inhaling in the hundreds of trillions,the only class of people actually demanding and receiving “handouts” paid for by you and me. How’s your pension doing?
He who wants to fight correctly against his opponents must know his opponents well, and clearly Carolla, you, the cohort you ride with, know little about this embryonic movement,repeatedly, blatantly and stupidly default to fight past culture wars. Your on the wrong side once again. OWS is a world party. Every clearly thinking person, including numerous cops I’ve talked with at Zucotti Park, knows that the suppressions of OWS has led it to become stronger. Keep it up, your ignorance advances our arguments and retards your influence. Such foolish thoughts, so shortsighted, unlike OWS, an authentic, broad multi-generational, multi-class, patriotic impulse to salvage our nation from the wreckage initiated by Reagan and it’s carcass hanging on thestill vibrating debacle of the criminal Bush regimes destruction of the economy. It speaks to the millions and that is what you know and fear. The sham t-party actively destroying the national economy in Congress daily, confronted directly at last by a leaderless, spontaneous, democratic grass roots movement that has changed our nation forever. Despite barbarous, vulgar McCarthyite lunatics like your man, OWS is the hope and the future of this world. Learn about it, embrace it, join it.

Read the signs, listen to OWS, not your handler. OWS calls to the police, from the first day” We’re here for your pensions too!” “You are the 99% Join Us”. Read about the retired Captain from Philadelphia that joined with OWS, got arrested in Civil Disobedience..Mic check yo self!

Don’t play dead.

Buffett doesn’t earn any money though, so of course he doesn’t pay payroll taxes. His money is earned passively. And the reason for that, is when you don’t have W-2 earnings, you don’t earn any credits for Social Security. Remember Social Security? Its the reason for the payroll tax in the first place. Why should someone who won’t be getting anything from the system pay into it?

There’s some truth there. But something big is missing. 

Because the assumption of the rant is that there is equal social justice to go around. But sure there is not. 

Example: If a poor, unskilled person messes up, they get fired on the spot, or go to prison, no severance parachute. For millionaire investors and bankers, who ruined our economy with their creative unregulated financial ‘skills’, they get a bail-out and fat bonus in return for messing up on an epic scale. Because they are ‘too big to fail’? 

There is something known as ‘moral hazard’, a danger that is connected with these fat bail-outs. Sure enough, the OWS movement is a reflection of that moral hazard, as opposed to ‘envy’ being the force behind the movement. 

But who cares about that. It’s too complex for the chauvinistic mind. ‘Let them eat cake’. 

Good for Corolla!

“You give kids trophies for participation and say you are all equally
good and then you grow up and enter the real world only to realize we
AREN’T all the same and your success is dependent on how hard you work”

Yep, therefor a 3 percent marginal tax increase for billionaires is Stalinist. Or something. Libertarians don’t know how to compose intelligent ideas, so they always miss the point.

“The truth and you are strangers to each other”

Enjoy hell!

“Amen Michelle! Adam nailed it exactly.”

What did she nail? When did that happen?

“They hate that capitalism doesn’t shower them with the stuff they DESERVE, dammit!”

Yeah, billionaires think that people who get 33 dollars in food stamps are filled with a grandiose sense of entitlement.

Why don’t yu get out and try to find out what’s going on ? Who’s ever supplying you with “information” is hurting you.

Did you know that half the American population lives under the poverty level ? Did you know three quarters of them work ? Did you know that there are many more people looking for jobs then there are jobs? How many people do you know are saying they’re entiltled and not looking for a job? No one, I’ll wager. You need new sources of information.

PS: OWS is protesting our government’s subserivence to wall street, not wall street itself.

“Social justice” is what’s killing our culture and our country.  It doesn’t preach equal opportunity, which would be a great thing.  Instead, it preaches equal outcomes.  It’s exactly what Corolla is talking about.  We now have a “social justice” society where earning money doesn’t entitle you to it, but wanting some else’s does.  Who’s greedy – the person who wants to keep some of what she earns or the lazy ass that sits around demanding that he gets some of her stuff, for free.  And he gives nothing back in return.

You think that no matter what somebody does, he should have the same result as somebody who took all of their money, mortgaged their house, left their career and put everything into building a business.  Now that person is thriving, hiring other people (i.e., giving them incomes) and has a lot to show for it.  Not only that, he’s one of the top earners, who pay all the taxes in this society.  1% pay 50% of the taxes, while 47% pay nothing at all.

And the 47% freeloading, lazy bums drag their asses to a rally and are pissed at the 1% who pay for everything?  Are you kidding me?  And they all think they are entitled to same thing as the people who work their butts off and risk everything?

By the way, I agree with your point on the bailouts.  If you want to be pissed at something, don’t look to the people making business and jobs happen, look at the White House.  Obama received more Wall Street money for his campaign than all other previous presidents combined.  He has installed General Electric in the White House.  They have a domestic profit of $14 billion and pay no taxes.  Look at the crooks in Government, not those who are trying to make society work.

“Social justice” is what’s killing our culture and our country.  It doesn’t preach equal opportunity, which would be a great thing.  Instead, it preaches equal outcomes.  It’s exactly what Corolla is talking about.  We now have a “social justice” society where earning money doesn’t entitle you to it, but wanting some else’s does.  Who’s greedy – the person who wants to keep some of what she earns or the lazy ass that sits around demanding that he gets some of her stuff, for free.  And he gives nothing back in return.

You think that no matter what somebody does, he should have the same result as somebody who took all of their money, mortgaged their house, left their career and put everything into building a business.  Now that person is thriving, hiring other people (i.e., giving them incomes) and has a lot to show for it.  Not only that, he’s one of the top earners, who pay all the taxes in this society.  1% pay 50% of the taxes, while 47% pay nothing at all.

And the 47% freeloading, lazy bums drag their asses to a rally and are pissed at the 1% who pay for everything?  Are you kidding me?  And they all think they are entitled to same thing as the people who work their butts off and risk everything?

By the way, I agree with your point on the bailouts.  If you want to be pissed at something, don’t look to the people making business and jobs happen, look at the White House.  Obama received more Wall Street money for his campaign than all other previous presidents combined.  He has installed General Electric in the White House.  They have a domestic profit of $14 billion and pay no taxes.  Look at the crooks in Government, not those who are trying to make society work.

You mean like the ‘Now lick “O’s” behind…’  from nogard1951? That kind of personal insult? Nice, intelligent, ugly!

Actually, I believe that “the left” would really like to see some signs of life in “the right”. See Pablo’s response. He is right on.

Of course it matters how hard you work. But, it IS NOT the only thing that matters. The kind of education you have had access to, the kind of home environment you have had as a child, the economic downturns (I’ve lived through and been affected by several), your native intelligence all matter.Today there are a number of smart, well educated, accomplished people out of work. Do you think this type of person has not worked hard? Do you think that the person making minimum wage has not worked hard?
Excuse me, but the theme “it depends on how hard you work” is the mantra of those who haven’t lost their jobs, yet, and some Republicans.

Like what; unemployment insurance for which they contribute from their paychecks, or Medicare insurance, for which they pay, Social Security, for which they contributed long ago? Please, define what you are talking about. Do you mean a higher wage, better working conditions, better benefits like health insurance? What?

OMG, Latin phrases yet! Perhaps you should look it up

Never mind, barbabu, it’s that old “I don’t get the facts, so I’ll use my ability to insult the contributor” syndrome, characteristic of some Republicans.

“No, the politiacl system is controlled by politicians” who are controlled by those with lots of money! The banks will use any means available to them for making as much money as posssible – and damned the the small depsitor.

WELL SAID!

Huh?!

Don’t all of you realize that the corporations love the fact that you’re all so busy arguing over who works harder, while they continue to rape and enslave you?  Get to work you busy little drones!

PS – Corolla probably couldn’t even finish the 40, let alone winning a trophy.  What a stupid dork!

Self-avowed pundits are doing an exemplary job of illustrating WHY this GLOBAL grassroots movement has manifested.  We will remain non-violent (despite our societal tendencies) because we understand that from your dogmatic perspective it must SEEM impossible to ‘objectively’ view the world outside of the bi-partisan cognitive construct.  However, we assure you that logic, reality, righteousness, evolution, AND self-efficacy DO exist outside the confines of the false dichotomy into which we’ve been indoctrinated.  If you recognize your folly before it’s too late, we will certainly forgive you and your royal/obsequious lineage only because we’ve awakened to the
consequences of systemic domination and rampant imperialism a second (relative to human existence) before you and have recognized compassion for the
ignorant as a more admirable trait than punishment of the (un)knowingly evil . 
To Carolla and his ilk (political identification irrelevant): If the SOCIETAL MERIT derived from a certain occupation held a relevant correlation to the accumulation of wealth and property, if the sweat that fell from a worker’s brow equaled his family’s living condition, then perhaps we would be in support of  unregulated capitalism.  Until then, BE PREPARED to reevaluate the beliefs which you claim to be impregnable; we challenge you to arm yourself not with weapons, mass media sponsored slogans, speculation, free association, nor propaganda, but instead with scientifically derived knowledge and developed hypotheses.  If you do not currently understand or identify with the Occupy movement, MAKE IT YOUR OWN, we need your perspective and unique input.  This is likely as close to direct governance as we will know in our lifetime.  Study history.  Recognize that you are not the final permutation of humanity.  If empathy for your fellow human is too difficult, ponder the decisions we’ve laid upon our grandchildren.  Though it’s true distinctive differences in moral values theoretically set these ideologies apart -
Left=Right  DEM=GOP  Liberal=Conservative   
FOLLOW THE PAPER TRAIL
Together we can turn this ship around.

Adam’s got company, this guy announced in his local paper that he won’t enroll martial arts students unless they are over 35!
Google Master Safakhoohttp://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011112070323

Occutards??? And you actually think that someone will respond to you while you use such slurs?

Buy a clue TulsaCowboy and then maybe you will actually be able to debate with grown ups.

I watch fox very little. I work 50+ hours a week, and don’t have time for reading alot of blogs, but………
 I watched these stupid whiny gasbags firsthand.

I REJECT YOUR PREMISE.
== You aren’t 99%
STOP LYING, MARXIST.
YOU ARE LESS THAN 10%
THAT IS EXACTLY, EXACTLY WHAT THE BOLSHEVIKS DID.

The police “were” on your side. Until they saw who you really are. Then after having themselves slandered, smeared, videotaped and the video conveniently leaving out context, they decided you aren’t on their side.

You aren’t widely supported, and of course the GOP is scared. They are progressive wimps. Of course the population is scared, they are beginning to see the self entitled monsters they’ve created. And people just want to pay bills and go home, so they don’t confront you. Why risk getting beat up by professional protestors by calling you out for the envious, self-entitled, marxist people you are, when either pretending to agree, or ignoring is easier. Just like the average Russian did, because in their heart, they hated the Czar too, just like everyday Americans despise their gov’t.

Do you even know what the Bolsheviks did? Don’t give me that bull$h!t, I ACTUALLY KNOW HISTORY. And I didn’t learn it in school. I learned it from original sources by Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin themselves. And Mao. And Hitler. And Mussolini.

ALL ON THE LEFT. ALL IN FAVOR OF TOTAL GOV’T. ALL IN FAVOR OF SOCIALISM.
The only disagreements were how far to take it.

When 10 out of 35 (that was all you had, 35, what do you think of that 99%) got arrested in Tulsa, they were arrested because they think that they don’t have to leave the park (That the 53% actually pay for) by 9pm, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. The tea party didn’t get special treatment, why should you?
 
You are right. We can’t have an honest civil discussion. Because you are a self-entitled Marxist liar. I would wish you well, but I am honest. I don’t care. You are a threat to my rights to life, liberty, and property. You wish to use gov’t to take it from me. I didn’t steal anything. I don’t owe you a d@mn thing. Nor does society. Quit whining and feeling sorry for yourself, and go make your own way.

@ TulsaCowboyNot only do you obviously NOT know history, but your revisionist
writing of such is deeply flawed. If I ever actually wanted to be
assaulted with slurs and lies such as your own, I would simply continue speaking with ignoramuses or watch Fox
News.

You have disqualified yourself for any kind of intelligent debate.

@ TulsaCowboy

Not only do you obviously NOT know history, but your revisionist
writing of such is deeply flawed. If I ever actually wanted to be
assaulted with slurs and lies such as your own, I would simply continue speaking with ignoramuses or watch Fox
News.

You have disqualified yourself for any kind of intelligent debate.

They are the Ass-Douche Generation! Most of them can’t even read or write, add or subtract properly, have never held jobs, and have been on one type of prescription medication or another since they were toddlers for ADD and the like!
 
ADD was just another excuse for the Ass Douche’s Generations’ parents not to have to admit that their children were internationally intellectually subpar(first ever subpar generation in US history). Giving their parents the license to continue to tell the Ass Douche Generation that they were doing great in all aspects of their upbringing! When in reality they were doing worse academically, socially, and intellectually, than most children in Third World Countries.
 
Even though the Ass Douche Generation was failing in all respects. Their parents just shoved another trophy at them and said, “here you deserve this trophy for doing absolutely nothing, you win even though your an undeniable failure in all respects and by any conceivable standard”!
 
Instead of saying, “get up off your fat lazy, self-intitiled, illiterate @$$e$ and do something”! Why are we all suprised that they turned out the way they did?
 
My generation calles the Ass Douche Generations’ ailiments what they are, “mental retardation” and “social illiterates”!
 
The Ass Douche Generations montra is: “Somthing for Nothing”!

They are the Ass-Douche Generation! Most of them can’t even read or write, add or subtract properly, have never held jobs, and have been on one type of prescription medication or another since they were toddlers for ADD and the like!
 
ADD was just another excuse for the Ass Douche’s Generations’ parents not to have to admit that their children were internationally intellectually subpar(first ever subpar generation in US history). Giving their parents the license to continue to tell the Ass Douche Generation that they were doing great in all aspects of their upbringing! When in reality they were doing worse academically, socially, and intellectually, than most children in Third World Countries.
 
Even though the Ass Douche Generation was failing in all respects. Their parents just shoved another trophy at them and said, “here you deserve this trophy for doing absolutely nothing, you win even though your an undeniable failure in all respects and by any conceivable standard”!
 
Instead of saying, “get up off you’re fat lazy, self-entitiled, illiterate @$$e$ and do something productive you f#$&^$ losers”! Why are we all suprised that they turned out the way they did?
 
My generation calls the Ass Douche Generations’ ailiments what they are, “mental retardation” and “social illiterates”!
 
The Ass Douche Generations montra is: “Something for Nothing, Money for Free”!

They are the Ass-Douche Generation! Most of them can’t even read or write, add or subtract properly, have never held jobs, and have been on one type of prescription medication or another since they were toddlers for ADD and the like!  ADD was just another excuse for the Ass Douche’s Generations’ parents not to have to admit that their children were internationally intellectually subpar(first ever subpar generation in US history). Giving their parents the license to continue to tell the Ass Douche Generation that they were doing great in all aspects of their upbringing! When in reality they were doing worse academically, socially, and intellectually, than most children in Third World Countries. Even though the Ass Douche Generation was failing in all respects. Their parents just shoved another trophy at them and said, “here you deserve this trophy for doing absolutely nothing, you win even though your an undeniable failure in all respects and by any conceivable standard”! Instead of saying, “get up off you’re fat lazy, self-entitiled, illiterate @$$e$ and do something productive you f#$&^$ losers”! Why are we all suprised that they turned out the way they did? My generation calls the Ass Douche Generations’ ailiments what they are, “mental retardation” and “social illiterates”! The Ass Douche Generations montra is: “Something for Nothing, Money for Free”!

Figures you’d be the first to chime in. I like the way you switch between this handle and Tina_Tampa. Makes it seem like there are more then one of you trolling the comments.

                                                            THE
BEST PARTY

                                                            P.O.
Box 337

                                                            New
York, NY 10163                       

                                                            January
20, 2012

Mr. Brian Williams            

NBC TELEVISION

30 Rockefeller Plaza

New York, NY 
10112

Dear Mr. Williams,

    
I have always enjoyed your rise to fame. You remind me so much of Peter
Jennings. But not Walter Cronkite. He was a grouch, according to unpublished
sources. Anyhow, my name is Mrs. Yetta
Bronstein. I’ll be running for President of the United States of America in
2012, as an independent candidate, under a banner as THE BEST PARTY.

    
And why not? I’m over 35 years old, born in the USA and I don’t need a
Green Card. Also I have a common sense platform. When you introduced Mr.
Stephan Colbert for the same high office on your NBC news program Friday
evening January 13, 2012, between 6:30 and 7:00, I got so excited I forgot to
watch “Jeopardy” that follows you on another network.

    
My purpose in writing, Mr. Williams, is to request equal time, as you
gave Mr. Colbert, for my announcement. This is a Fair Practice rule under the
FCC regulations, which you might not be aware of. It is still on their books,
according to the scandalous Watergate leading prosecutor lawyer, Mr. Richard
Ben-Veniste.

    
Accordingly, Mr. Williams, until I receive my snow boots from L.L. Bean
and begin testing the waters in New Hampshire, here are a few of my planks.
Please choose from this list and announce them on your nightly news ASAP:

1.     Take
Congress off salary and put them on
a straight commission basis.

2.     Abolish
the Income Tax and substitute a Fat Tax. Entire family must weigh in on
or before April 15th and pay $5 a pound for the aggregate.

3.     Eliminate
the National  Debt by releasing 2.2 million prisoners in jail. Then
give each one 7 days to be adopted by a family, or be put to sleep.

4.     Place
a Suggestion Box on the White House
fence.

5.     Put
mental detectors, along with the
metal detector, in all Gov. Buildings.

6.     Auction
off American Ambassadorships to the
highest bidders.

7.     Halt
all space exploration to save
billions. Just wait until they visit us.

8.     Remember
my slogan: “Vote for Yetta and watch
things get betta.”

       Finally, Mr. Williams, let me
thank you for upholding the integrity of your news position and that of NBC-TV.
Maybe you will be invited to host “Saturday Night Live” sometime in the near future.

    
If you wish to contact me: (212) 714-8298  Or email: yettabronstein@yahoo.com

                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                        Mrs.
Yetta Bronstein

                                                                        THE
BEST PARTY

                                                            THE
BEST PARTY

                                                            P.O.
Box 337

                                                            New
York, NY 10163                       

                                                            February
3, 2012

Mr. Brian Williams                                                                                                               

NBC TELEVISION

30 Rockefeller Plaza

New York, NY 
10112

Dear Mr. Williams,

    
I have always enjoyed your rise to fame. You remind me so much of Peter
Jennings. But not Walter Cronkite. He was a grouch, according to unpublished
sources. Anyhow, my name is Mrs. Yetta
Bronstein. I’ll be running for President of the United States of America in
2012, as an independent candidate, under a banner as THE BEST PARTY.

    
And why not? I’m over 35 years old, born in the USA and I don’t need a
Green Card. Also I have a common sense platform. When you introduced Mr.
Stephan Colbert for the same high office on your NBC news program Friday
evening January 13, 2012, between 6:30 and 7:00, I got so excited I forgot to
watch “Jeopardy” that follows you on another network.

    
My purpose in writing, Mr. Williams, is to request equal time, as you
gave Mr. Colbert, for my announcement. This is a Fair Practice rule under the
FCC regulations, which you might not be aware of. It is still on their books,
according to the scandalous Watergate leading prosecutor lawyer, Mr. Richard
Ben-Veniste.

    
Accordingly, Mr. Williams, until I receive my snow boots from L.L. Bean
and begin testing the waters in New Hampshire, here are a few of my planks.
Please choose from this list and announce them on your nightly news ASAP:

1.     Take
Congress off salary and put them on
a straight commission basis.

2.     Abolish
the Income Tax and substitute a Fat Tax. Entire family must weigh in on
or before April 15th and pay $5 a pound for the aggregate.

3.     Eliminate
the National  Debt by releasing 2.2 million prisoners in jail. Then
give each one 7 days to be adopted by a family, or be put to sleep.

4.     Place
a Suggestion Box on the White House
fence.

5.     Put
mental detectors, along with the
metal detector, in all Gov. Buildings.

6.     Auction
off American Ambassadorships to the
highest bidders.

7.     Halt
all space exploration to save
billions. Just wait until they visit us.

8.     Remember
my slogan: “Vote for Yetta and watch
things get betta.”

       Finally, Mr. Williams, let me
thank you for upholding the integrity of your news position and that of NBC-TV.
Maybe you will be invited to host “Saturday Night Live” sometime in the near future.

    
If you wish to contact me: (212) 714-8298  Or email: yettabronstein@yahoo.com

                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                        Mrs.
Yetta Bronstein

                                                                        THE
BEST PARTY