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OWS... JUST ANOTHER BUSINESS AS USUAL?

source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/they_want_lice_of_the_occu_pie_9xKCxcI4aectFYka...

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Even in Zuccotti Park, greed is good.

Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank, and donations continue to pour in -- but its reluctance to share the wealth with other protesters is fraying tempers.

Some drummers -- incensed they got no money to replace or safeguard their drums after a midnight vandal destroyed their instruments Wednesday -- are threatening to splinter off.

“F--k Finance. I hope Mayor Bloomberg gets an injunction and demands to see the movement’s books. We need to know how much money we really have and where it’s going,” said a frustrated Bryan Smith, 45, who joined OWS in Lower Manhattan nearly three weeks ago from Los Angeles, where he works in TV production. [...]

The Finance Committee dives on whatever dollars are raised by all the OWS working groups, said Smith, and doesn’t give it back.

The Comfort group has an allowance of $150 a day, while larger working groups, like the Kitchen group, get up to $2,000.

“What can I do with $150?” said Smith. “We have three tons of wet laundry here from the rainstorm -- how do I get that done? We need winter gear, shoes, socks. I could spend $10,000 alone for backpacks people need. We raise all this money. Where is it?”

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  • CitizenHill
  • NickerBocker09
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      NickerBocker09  

    • Ok so lets just drop the OWS and stop protesting against corporate greed!

      Or we can look at where this article came from... Murdoch owned tabloid.

      What I love most is that the article is completely false right in front of everyone's eyes. Every day the Finance Committee gives money to the different sections of the OWS movement in Wall Street (as do the other ones in each city to their respective section). So they are not just sitting on top of that money. Plus they cant just use all that money in one day, they need to save a huge portion of it because they have little way of predicting the amount of donations they will get in the coming months. Their expenses will rise drastically as winter approaches and more offensive natures by wall street rise up.

    • 7 months ago
  • ahiguy
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      ahiguy  
    • NickerBocker09:

      I don't think it will be the offenses of Wall street that'll drastically rise expenses of OWS, but the offenses of nature itself (aka 'winter')... needless to say, it'll be interesting to see how this scenario will play itself out, whether you believe it is founded in fact or hyperbole.

      ... and do you think that OWS activists will eventually also come to realize that the demise of the system they're decrying (i.e. free market capitalism) is the 'result' of, but not the "cause' of the chicanery by "Banksters et al," but by those we call our "representative" govt (i.e. the 'state')?

      There is another 1 percent out there, those who do live parasitically off the population and exploit the 99 percent... a tiny minority that lives off the productive labor of the overwhelming majority.
      I'm speaking of the state, which even today is made up of a tiny sliver of the population but is the direct cause of all the impoverishing wars, inflation, taxes, regimentation, and social conflict.

      This 1 percent is the direct cause of the violence, the censorship, the unemployment, and vast amounts of poverty, too.
      The 1 percent do not generate any wealth of their own. Everything they have they get by taking from others under the cover of law. They live at our expense. Without us, the state as an institution would die.
      The state is the only institution in society that is permitted by law to use aggressive force against person and property.

      It is the same with every tax, every regulation, every mandate, and every single word of the federal code. It all represents coercion. Even in the area of money and banking, it is the state that created and sustains the Fed and the dollar, because it forcibly limits competition in money and banking, preventing people from making gold or silver money, or innovating in other ways. And in some ways, this is the most heinous intervention of all, because it allows the state to destroy our money on a whim.

      The state is everybody's enemy. Damned few of the protesters get this...
      They are right that society is rife with conflicts, and that the contest is wildly lopsided. It is indeed the 99 percent versus the 1 percent. They're just wrong about the identity of the "enemy."

    • 7 months ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  

    • Let's see New York Post is categorized as a "tabloid" and is owned by News Corp.... Faux News.... Rupert Murdoch...

      So.... Let's say for the sake of argument, the story seems to be true... And?

      The protestors have known all along certain interests have tried to claim ownership, and hijack the movement. As far as what the media reports, they do put their preferred slants on it, the protests have had a wide cross-section from all political backgrounds...

      The truth, they are going about it wrong, they aren't putting pressure on the correct individuals more directly, and to the delight of many, although they're gaining supporters they're also spinning wheels....

      The people they're protesting hardly notice them, it's business as usual, and short of showing up in significant numbers outside the homes, offices, and hang-outs of culprits of the crisis only the people living right there care... They also need to go directly after the corrupt politicians in a non violent, non threatening way. Protest outside their houses, offices, and favorite places they (the politicians) spend their ill-gotten means...

      But yeah, there happens to be a certain amount of division among them, many of them are all to eager to adopt the ways of their oppressors... Also the majority of them aren't all that particularly oppressed, and are employed,,,,

    • 7 months ago
  • 2hellnwait
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      2hellnwait  

    • ~ Oh my!
      Reading the comments on this articles blog, this one posted by Shannon Smith gave me a chuckle:
      "Oh, the sweet irony! Instead of "redistributing the wealth", the fat marxists at the top of this dung heap are sticking it in their pockets. Welcome to Communism 101, ya morons."

      ~ Sweet irony indeed!

    • 7 months ago
  • DanCastro
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      DanCastro  

    • How stupid can OWS people be? With a simple "three card monty" they could use those brains to steal Trillions from the brain dead by monetizing mortgages and selling them as "good" when you know they are "doa" and instead they "ask" for help! Truly the 1% are turning over in their graves (or soon should/will be? ;-)

    • 7 months ago
  • sharin
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      sharin  
    • DanCastro:

      Dan, please don't buy into the veracity of this article - always consider the source of junk like this. This one comes from the NYPost - a Murdoch owned rag (tabloid) - a paper that regularly makes up stories out of thin air

    • 7 months ago
  • DanCastro
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      DanCastro  
    • sharin:

      Sharin, thanks, no I wasn't buying into the BS (much more of which will come as the elections approach). I was trying to be "sarcastic", but obviously didn't pull it off! ;-) I appreciate the check in. I trust OWS people a lot more than I do the corporate media, birthers, corps., Wall St. or the banks! ;-)

    • 7 months ago
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