Saturday, October 08, 2011

Occupy Wall Street - Proposed unproposed list of demands

Re-post

Posted Sept. 25, 2011, 3:46 p.m. EST (12 days ago) by anonymous

Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands.

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
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CNN LAUGHS AT OCCUPY WALL STREET SERIOUSLY SPREAD THE WORD


CNN has lost it, worse than FOX
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Occupy Wall Street - Quiz

By: By PETER CATAPANO New York Times

All of a sudden everybody’s got an opinion.

Last week, amid loud complaints that the Occupy Wall Street protests were being unfairly ignored by the media and the nation’s politicians, the media and the nation’s politicians started paying attention. And so the gnat-like media buzz of late September quickly became the barking dog of October, and now — well the whole thing has gone completely honey badger. The honey badger, as you may know, is known for its relentless nature, and in this case seems to have dragged an elephant into the room. Thus it has become a matter that politicians, including several presidential candidates, and public figures of all species could no longer ignore. In the past few days, they have stepped up and made their views known.

Want to know who said what this week about the protests? Here’s a little Occupy Wall Street quiz.

1. “I for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country.”

2. “I think it expresses the frustration the American people feel.”

3. “They blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington. And at some level, I can’t blame them.”

4. “Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself!”

5. “We are the 1 percent.”

6. “God bless them for their spontaneity. It’s young, it’s spontaneous, it’s focused and it’s going to be effective.”

7. “This is like the Tea Party — only it’s real. By the time this is over, it will make the Tea Party look like … a tea party.”

8. “I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare.”

9. “What they’re trying to do is take away the jobs of people working in the city, take away the tax base that we have.”

10. “I’m very, very understanding of where they’re coming from.”

(Answers: 1. Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader 2. President Barack Obama 3. Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve 4. Herman Cain, Republican presidential candidate 5. Signs taped to the windows on the eighth floor of Chicago’s Board of Trade building. 6. Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader 7. Russ Feingold, former Democratic senator 8. Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate 9. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg 10. Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts)

If you look at the results, you’ll see a sort of historically familiar pattern: Democrats sympathizing with the protestors, Republicans railing against them and Michael Bloomberg worrying about his city’s tax base.

As The Hill and many other outlets reported, and our little quiz shows, the week brought a torrent of quips from congressional Democrats in support of the protestors, and another torrent from the right that vilified them. So is this turning into yet another red and blue battleground? Another gridiron for the clear cut ideological split between the two parties?

It’s complicated.

The Times’s Mark Landler considered specifically the political implications for the president, who can now see the protests from his front door. Opportunity or threat? Like I said, it’s complicated:

Anti-Wall Street protesters marched past the gates of the White House on Thursday, bringing their message of economic injustice to the capital and posing an opportunity, but also a threat, to President Obama, who presents himself as a fervent defender of the middle class. …

To hear some Democratic analysts tell it, the mushrooming protests could be the start of a populist movement on the left that counterbalances the surge of the Tea Party on the right, and closes what some Democrats fear is an “enthusiasm gap” between their party and Republicans in the 2012 election.

But that assumes the president is able to win the support of these insurgents, rather than be shunned by them.

Mr. Obama, in a series of recent hard-edged speeches around the country, has channeled many of the grievances of the movement known as Occupy Wall Street deepening economic inequity, a tax code that gives breaks to the wealthy and corporate interests and banks that profit from hidden consumer fees.

Yet the president also oversaw a bailout of those banks, appointed a Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, who is viewed by the protesters as a shill for Wall Street and pushed a reform of the financial industry that many in the movement condemn as shamefully inadequate in curbing its excesses.

Like Landler, Josh Kraushaar at National Journal also notes Obama’s newfound “populist” stance, and deems it a risky tactic for the president’s re-election:

Liberals have long argued that a message calling for the wealthy to pay their fair share is broadly popular—and indeed, most polls show voters support abstract proposals calling for higher taxes on the rich. But it’s rarely worked in practice. If taxes were raised as part of a comprehensive economic plan raising revenues and cutting spending, that’s one thing. As part of a political argument designed to mobilize the base for his reelection campaign, it’s bound to be received less warmly.

Others have identified Geithner as a flashpoint figure, the key player in Obama’s administration who would serve as a target for Republicans and protestors alike:

Joseph Cannon at his blog Cannonfire poses this challenge: “If you are part of the movement, ask yourself: Do you truly want to gain power — to get things done — or do you just want to complain? In my experience, most leftwingers tend to view the exercise of power as a form of bad taste. Yes, power does corrupt — but without it, what can be accomplished?” Then: “I propose that the OWS forces make a muscle and land a solid initial punch, aimed at a specific target. Timothy Geithner. The Secretary of the Treasury must go.”

Among his six reasons for the wisdom of this tactic, are these two:

Forcing Obama to take an unwelcome step establishes once and for all that the OWS movement is not a stalking horse for the Obama campaign. It says to the world: “We don’t work for this president. Either he starts working for us, or we’ll find someone who will.” …

Demanding that Obama fire Geithner forces the president to make a choice. Right now, he’s trying to square the circle, solidifying the base while asking the Wall Streeters for cash. Obama can have one or the other but not both.

Not surprisingly, many on the right squirmed to find the Tea Party drawn into the discussion. Among them was Donald Douglas at American Power, who wrote, “The comparison between Occupy Wall Street and the tea parties is bogus, of course.” He continued:

And it’s frankly obscene that folks think Obama should benefit politically from these protests. The White House has been in bed with Wall Street. The dilemma for the Democrats is how they can channel the protests against the Republicans without getting caught up in a generalized anti-government tsunami in 2012. As was clear at the press conference yesterday, the president will basically lie through his teeth, blaming the economic crisis on his predecessor and waging a morally bankrupt class war on the high-income earners.

Rich Lowry at National Review also scoffs at the comparison: “The Tea Party had such an impact because it had a better claim on the middle of America than its adversaries. It wrapped itself in our history and patriotic trappings. It plugged in to the political system and changed the course of the country in the 2010 elections. The Left went from denying it, to ridiculing it, to envying it.

“Occupy Wall Street is not a real answer. It is both more self-involved and more ambitious than the Tea Party. It represents an ill-defined, free-floating radicalism. Its fuzzy endpoint is a “revolution” no one can precisely describe, but the thrust of which is overturning our system of capitalism as we know it.”

The president wasn’t the only one getting called out by commentators for their positions on the protests. Of the many who came forward this week, Cantor came under particular scrutiny. Steve Benen at Political Animal offered a withering view of Cantor’s “mob” statement:

At this point two years ago, Republicans quickly became outraged if Democrats dared to criticize so-called “Tea Party” activists. After all, how could Dems have the audacity to disparage law-abiding Americans speaking out against abuses that offend them? How could Democrats have the gall to condemn sincere patriots who want to have their voices heard?

Two years later, Cantor is entirely comfortable chastising Americans who disagree with his failed, regressive economic vision as a “mob.” How tolerant of him.

by: By PETER CATAPANO New York Times
7 Oct 2011

But just as important is this notion that progressive activists are “pitting of Americans against Americans.” I’m not sure what that means, exactly, but I suspect the oft-confused Majority Leader believes it’s divisive to support economic justice, to demand tax fairness, and to expect responsible corporate conduct.

The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn had a relatively circumspect view of the protests and the ensuing political turf battles — probably a reasonable reaction, given that the movement is likely to be around for a while. Cohn writes, “This movement could run out of gas or take what I would consider a wrong turn. It could, for example, inflame tensions between blue collar and white collar Americans, rather than improving solidarity between them. It could also become captive to its fringe elements. For now, though, I’m happy to see people getting organized to promote a left-of-center economic agenda, however vague its agenda — and however uncertain its future.”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/the-occupy-wall-street-quiz/
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