Occupy Rants, Flames, and NSFW

[Shiftin]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thems is sum powerful words son.

That is itself one of the root problems of society, and a good example of where government should (imho), and in fact does in some cases (FDA, USDA) have a role in regulation (do things as cheaply as you can, but maintain this standard).

Except, there are humans in these jobs with no incentive to do things cheaply in the first place. What are your incentives if you can't get fired if you mess up and you can't get wealthy by being good at your job? Your incentive becomes making your job easy in many cases. It's hard to keep saving money every year, so if you do manage to do it one year, departments typically find another way to waste their leftover money so they don't have to work hard to save the same money next year.

I'm sorry if this isn't how it's suppossed to work, but it's how things actually do work, and its the root of why government is inherently less efficient.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

OWS comes off statistically similar to a randomly selected sample of US population even though they aren't at all randomly selected. Pretty much the definition of a popular movement. Compare to early tea party stats: old white conservative bigots.

A direct refutation of the "dirty unemployed hippie" fallacy still being propagated by the corporate media and parroted by idiots around the country and on this board.

[Aadill]

Originally Posted by Tommy_Wiseau [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OWS comes off statistically similar to a randomly selected sample of US population even though they aren't at all randomly selected. Pretty much the definition of a popular movement. Compare to early tea party stats: old white conservative bigots.

A direct refutation of the "dirty unemployed hippie" fallacy still being propagated by the corporate media and parroted by idiots around the country and on this board.

Out of about 20-30 people in Raleigh (the standard sized night time group in a normally low profile non protest town):

*** there is one man that worked for Nortel making over $100k+ a year as an engineer, worked for Bell South (I think it was Bell South.. I can't remember the details all that well) was in the National Guard, currently works as a pastor/handler for the homeless after being laid off from a variety of contractor jobs after Nortel shit the bed

*** a 55+ year old couple who both work and show up after work still dressed up in businesswear

*** a business owner that looks like a hippy

*** full-time college students

*** full-time college students that work

*** post-grad college students

*** post-grad college students with part time jobs

*** post-grad college students with full time jobs

*** a 57 year old handicapped homemaker mother of 2 or 3

*** a police force who either antagonize or made secret dropoffs of supplies