OWS Aiming to Shut Down West Coast Ports
Sorry , yet another OWS thread. I saw this story pop up today and I decided to read it, unlike most days where I usually ignore this kind of stuff. What was different today was the fact that the contents of this select story really bothered me.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-12/goldman-s...
Here is a quote from the article.
“This isn’t about the truckers,” Charles Rachlis, 55, a government scientist from El Cerrito, California, said in an interview at the Oakland protest. “We have to shut down the wheels of capitalism at the port. This scares the bejesus out of Wall Street.”
Shut down the wheels of capitalism?! are you kidding me? These people are nothing more than socialists that want equality. The root of their argument is basically this:" You have more money than me because you went to college and worked your ass off. I didn't and now I'm pissed that my wages don't keep up with inflation. Now give uncle sam more of you tax dollars because you make more."
There is nothing in this country that says it is a right to be equal. This is capitalism, period. Socialism strives for surplus and progressive distributions while capitalism seeks individual profit. If these people want wealth equality, go live in some other country. If a country does in fact practice capitalism and does have some type of wealth equality that is a somewhat lower Gini coefficient, then that equality comes from sound monetary and fiscal policy. These people are protesting all the wrong things.....They need to occupy congress and D.C. because that is where the majority of their grievances are derived from, not Wall St. or some poor port worker that is just trying to make a living.






this is some serious
this is some serious backwards shit as this will affect many working class people and small businesses that depend on shipments.
These people are pathetic.
These people are pathetic. They blindly think unregulated capitalism got us into this mess.
If the Snapple truck driver's
If the Snapple truck driver's reaction at DB last month didn't put things in perspective (I'll run you over and kick the shit out of you if you get in my way), I'll spell it out: ports and the trucking game are the mafia's turf. They're so entrenched that during WWII, FDR sent a cabinet level administrator to negotiate with them to ensure that supplies for the war effort weren't interfered with. I put the mafia in the category of useful idiots: the good they do is unintentional and if fear and violence keeps people from getting too aggressive with the shipping industry, the government will NOT intervene.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm just saying: Fucking good luck with that, you're on your own.
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sorry this is off topic, but
sorry this is off topic, but I saw this article from WaPo where Biden predicts that the economy will create 500k jobs each month in the next few months haha!!!! what a laugh these guys are
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/04/biden-...
Dontcha' know unemployment
Dontcha' know unemployment went down to like 8.6% this month. This had nothing to do with people saying fuck finding a job, and more to do with Obama's wonderful fiscal policies that he has been touting for the last 3 years.
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UFOinsider wrote: If the
If the Snapple truck driver's reaction at DB last month didn't put things in perspective (I'll run you over and kick the shit out of you if you get in my way), I'll spell it out: ports and the trucking game are the mafia's turf. They're so entrenched that during WWII, FDR sent a cabinet level administrator to negotiate with them to ensure that supplies for the war effort weren't interfered with. I put the mafia in the category of useful idiots: the good they do is unintentional and if fear and violence keeps people from getting too aggressive with the shipping industry, the government will NOT intervene.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm just saying: Fucking good luck with that, you're on your own.
This. First these protesters are going to ruin the holidays for blue collar truck drivers more than anyone else. Second their are way scarier people who have vested interests in keeping shit moving through ports than GS.
Sean518 wrote: their [sic]
their [sic] are way scarier people who have vested interests in keeping shit moving through ports than GS.
This. What I think most OWSers fundamentally fail to understand is how the wheels of the world keep moving. You can't just screw around with entrenched channels and expect to get away with it. They're going to piss off all the wrong people. Legitimately would not be surprised to see several OWS people wind up dead if they go through with this. And, of course, they'll blame it on Wall Street and Washington.
"The disdain of profit is due to ignorance."
- F.A. Hayek
^^^^^"never fuck with a mans
^^^^^"never fuck with a mans livelihood during a recession"
things well get
things well get worse.....social unrest will spread more and more...these ppl dont know wtf they are doing...if you starve a nation they will fight for ANY cause
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I hate to quote songs,
I hate to quote songs, but:
"Son, the first amendment protects you from the government, Not from me"
...pretty much sums the mentality of the people down on the docks. I don't think anyone's going to get killed, but I can toally see a good ass kicking - or the threat of it - scaring them on to some other place to harass people. Weren't they occupying foreclosed homes or something last week?
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UFOinsider wrote: I don't
I don't think anyone's going to get killed
If the Mafia gets pissed off, they will. They won't take smack from a bunch of potheads.
"The disdain of profit is due to ignorance."
- F.A. Hayek
AAttiKKus wrote: UFOinsider
I don't think anyone's going to get killed
If the Mafia gets pissed off, they will. They won't take smack from a bunch of potheads.
Yeah, but they tend to like staying out of the news. More likely, a couple of truckers with attitude will be enough to convince most OWSers to steer clear. If the ORGANIZERS target the docks, yeah, then it will get real.
More to the point, I like the poster above who pointed out that the ones that will get hurt are the blue collar workers...the working class, if you will...that would be hurt the worst.
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It's relatively common
It's relatively common knowledge that the mafia is highly involved with operating the ports... they're not going to allow this.