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I HEART [URL="http://www.blackfive.net/main/2011/10/total-failure.html"]this[/URL]:

[I]If there is any coherent message that can be gleaned from the Occupy Wall Street “movement”, it is that our system of public and higher education can now be declared a total and complete failure. The fact that there exists no accountability at any level of our Education-Industrial Complex is perfectly clear for all to see. It seems fair to say that responsibility for this can be laid squarely at the feet of the teacher’s unions and their members who have perpetuated an economic structure in education and a curricular agenda that has been allowed to defy gravity for 40 years.[/I]

I'm sure this won't sit well with some but I'd like to hear the counter position to Froggy's post.

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I like his write up however there are other issue's also. Accountability issue's run rampant. Parents don't want to take accountability to help their child with their homework. Teachers not taking accountability for the failure rates of their classes. and as the writer states or eludes to is districts are forcing the older more experienced teacher out the door cause they cost too much for salary and retirment when they can bring in cheap young just out of college non experienced teachers to do the same job, which is pushing the info the kids need to pass the SOL. Students don't pass the SOL the Gov does not give money to the school. Teachers are basically not allowed to elaborate on the material because it's all about kids passing their "Standards Of Learning" tests which lets the Gov. know if the kids are getting/understanding the material.

In VA they talk about "No Child Left Behind" but if the kid can't keep up then they find a disability for him and he gets a modified SOL test. Then there is the Latino population. I asked a Principal once if the Standards of Learning test was given to them in Spanish so they would understand the question and answers and I was told no thats against the rules. The test has to be given in English. So here are tons of students across VA who can't read or write English and are in special classes which gives them the info in both English and Spanish only to be forced to take a test in English which they can't understand. Which by the way counts against the school for their % of failures.

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[quote=SBXVII;846627]I like his write up however there are other issue's also. Accountability issue's run rampant. Parents don't want to take accountability to help their child with their homework. Teachers not taking accountability for the failure rates of their classes. [B]and as the writer states or eludes to is districts are forcing the older more experienced teacher out the door[/B] cause they cost too much for salary and retirment when they can bring in cheap young just out of college non experienced teachers to do the same job, which is pushing the info the kids need to pass the SOL. Students don't pass the SOL the Gov does not give money to the school. Teachers are basically not allowed to elaborate on the material because it's all about kids passing their "Standards Of Learning" tests which lets the Gov. know if the kids are getting/understanding the material.

In VA they talk about "No Child Left Behind" but if the kid can't keep up then they find a disability for him and he gets a modified SOL test. Then there is the Latino population. I asked a Principal once if the Standards of Learning test was given to them in Spanish so they would understand the question and answers and I was told no thats against the rules. The test has to be given in English. So here are tons of students across VA who can't read or write English and are in special classes which gives them the info in both English and Spanish only to be forced to take a test in English which they can't understand. Which by the way counts against the school for their % of failures.[/quote]

That's BS. They are not forcing out teachers they offer them early retirment packages which some CHOOSE to take or they keep teaching. It just sound worse when they use the word "forcing" to make a point.

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[quote=RedskinRat;846618]I HEART [URL="http://www.blackfive.net/main/2011/10/total-failure.html"]this[/URL]:

[I]If there is any coherent message that can be gleaned from the Occupy Wall Street “movement”, it is that our system of public and higher education can now be declared a total and complete failure. The fact that there exists no accountability at any level of our Education-Industrial Complex is perfectly clear for all to see. It seems fair to say that responsibility for this can be laid squarely at the feet of the teacher’s unions and their members who have perpetuated an economic structure in education and a curricular agenda that has been allowed to defy gravity for 40 years.[/I]

I'm sure this won't sit well with some but I'd like to hear the counter position to Froggy's post.[/quote]

The unions are part of the blame but i think its more of a parent problem or the lack of parents involvement problem. I don't think anyone running for office will stand up and start telling parents they are a bunch of Fu%$ offs so they blame other things. I do believe that probaly 20% of the teaching force probably needs to be fired and replaced and thats were the union is the problem. Not sure how you fix the parent problem.

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I wonder how bad those camps and people smell?

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[quote=firstdown;846835]The unions are part of the blame but i think its more of a parent problem or the lack of parents involvement problem. I don't think anyone running for office will stand up and start telling parents they are a bunch of Fu%$ offs so they blame other things. I do believe that probaly 20% of the teaching force probably needs to be fired and replaced and thats were the union is the problem. Not sure how you fix the parent problem.[/quote]

it's actually only the bottom 6% of teachers that need to be fired last time i did some research on this. 1 in 25000 teachers ever lose their license... its over 1000% more likely for a doctor to loose his license, and that just seems wrong.

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Way to generalize FD. There are actually some Tea Partiers and Ron Paul supporters there.

They are anti-government in many ways too.

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[quote=SBXVII;846627]I like his write up however there are other issue's also. Accountability issue's run rampant. Parents don't want to take accountability to help their child with their homework. Teachers not taking accountability for the failure rates of their classes. and as the writer states or eludes to is districts are forcing the older more experienced teacher out the door cause they cost too much for salary and retirment when they can bring in cheap young just out of college non experienced teachers to do the same job, which is pushing the info the kids need to pass the SOL. Students don't pass the SOL the Gov does not give money to the school. Teachers are basically not allowed to elaborate on the material because it's all about kids passing their "Standards Of Learning" tests which lets the Gov. know if the kids are getting/understanding the material.

In VA they talk about "No Child Left Behind" but if the kid can't keep up then they find a disability for him and he gets a modified SOL test. Then there is the Latino population. I asked a Principal once if the Standards of Learning test was given to them in Spanish so they would understand the question and answers and I was told no thats against the rules. The test has to be given in English. So here are tons of students across VA who can't read or write English and are in special classes which gives them the info in both English and Spanish only to be forced to take a test in English which they can't understand. Which by the way counts against the school for their % of failures.[/quote]

In VA immigrant children are allowed one year to learn English so they may take the tests and be counted. If that seems a little impractical then the fact that a great majority of them don't read any where near their grade level when the arrive either should make the impractical seem asinine.

Teachers have one year to teach a kid English AND how to read. Brilliant!

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Teachers aren't the main problem with our system. Certainly there are bad teachers, there are bad workers in every job field, but the problem is so much deeper. We simply don't take education, as a populace, seriously enough. Our society doesn't hold anyone in the system accountable. Like everything else we let special interests and politics steer the decisions.

I can't seem to find myself truly interested in this. Arab Spring felt real and compelling. Young people truly wanting/needing to make a change in how their countries, and the world, operate. This feels like "look at us! We're protesting too! We are soo cool and counterculture"

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[quote=SmootSmack;846915]I can't seem to find myself truly interested in this. Arab Spring felt real and compelling. Young people truly wanting/needing to make a change in how their countries, and the world, operate. [B]This feels like "look at us! We're protesting too! We are soo cool and counterculture[/B]"[/quote]Exactly! I wish Rudy G. was mayor of NYC right now.

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[URL="http://occupyherbstreit.tumblr.com/page/2"]Occupy Herbstreit![/URL]

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First, I whole heartedly agree with the lack of message with the Occupy movement. Needs to be stronger, with an emphasis of what is wrong (which are several obvious issues) and what needs to be changed. Its an obvious put off when some are interviewed and they do have an good answer or they say they're looking for a handout to pay for their college education.

Most interesting to me, once again, is the hypocrisy on the right. Its seems like an opportunity to get together and demand change in accountability practices within what is the institution, "wall street." Does the right remember who created the anti-wall street movement? Remember the tea party, the anti bailout movement which created it? Remember main street vs wall street Sarah Palin speeches (stolen from Paul)? I dont get it anymore...Cantor says "mob" but when tea party demonstrates, its democratic right? I just dont understand...it seems like a perfect opportunity to look at reason why our economy collasped, here is a big hint....it wasnt because the government was involved.

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[quote=Chico23231;846923]First, I whole heartedly agree with the lack of message with the Occupy movement. Needs to be stronger, with an emphasis of what is wrong (which are several obvious issues) and what needs to be changed. Its an obvious put off when some are interviewed and they do have an good answer or they say they're looking for a handout to pay for their college education.

Most interesting to me, once again, is the hypocrisy on the right. Its seems like an opportunity to get together and demand change in accountability practices within what is the institution, "wall street." Does the right remember who created the anti-wall street movement? Remember the tea party, the anti bailout movement which created it? Remember main street vs wall street Sarah Palin speeches (stolen from Paul)? I dont get it anymore...Cantor says "mob" but when tea party demonstrates, its democratic right? I just dont understand...it seems like a perfect opportunity to look at reason why our economy collasped, here is a big hint....it wasnt because the government was involved.[/quote]

Agreed.

I think this is just the right's chance to poke at the left over their tea party bashing.

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DIE LINKEDIN DIE
DIE ZIPCAR DIE
DIE KELLOGS' DIE
DIE PFIZER DIE.
DIE PHARMACUTICALS YOUR MOMMA JUST USED FOR SOME SERIOUS ILLNESS DIE IPOs(wtf are they, surely another tool of corruption) DIE
Youthful stupidity at its finest. (and I'm a 22yr old spring chicken myself.

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[quote=Chico23231;846923]First, I whole heartedly agree with the lack of message with the Occupy movement. Needs to be stronger, with an emphasis of what is wrong (which are several obvious issues) and what needs to be changed. Its an obvious put off when some are interviewed and they do have an good answer or they say they're looking for a handout to pay for their college education.

Most interesting to me, once again, is the hypocrisy on the right. Its seems like an opportunity to get together and demand change in accountability practices within what is the institution, "wall street." Does the right remember who created the anti-wall street movement? Remember the tea party, the anti bailout movement which created it? Remember main street vs wall street Sarah Palin speeches (stolen from Paul)? I dont get it anymore...Cantor says "mob" but when tea party demonstrates, its democratic right? I just dont understand...it seems like a perfect opportunity to look at reason why our economy collasped, here is a big hint....it wasnt because the government was involved.[/quote]

What Cantor said was stupid unless he was talking about a spicific group that was causing problems. I personaly don't have a problem with what they are doing but they don't have very clear msg. They aslo complain about not having a job but I'm guessing their not out looking for a job while protesting.

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[quote=hooskins;846881]Way to generalize FD. There are actually some Tea Partiers and Ron Paul supporters there.

They are anti-government in many ways too.[/quote]

I'm guessing your referring to my statement about how they must smell. I don't think I'm generalizing when they are camping in an area without any real bathrooms or showers. So if you cannot shower or wash at some point you start to stink. Also the local resturants have had to close their bathrooms because they kept trashing them.

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there is an "occupy baltimore" camp thats been going on for a week or so now in downtown baltimore. i usually vote democrat, dont mind paying taxes which seems to go to the poor and lazy, i like to grow my beard when work allows, ex-hippish type but dang, these occupy baltimore people for the most part seem to just be lazy types who want to say they are doing something by doing nothing.

me and my lady drive by there saturday night around 7 pm, there some live rap show, the guy is talking about how white people built jails to put black guys in, racism in the south ..then he proceeds to drop the n word a few times. my lady was like WTF? she wanted to get out of the car and curse them .. right in downtown baltimore they are blaring their crap ass rap dropping the n word, talking about some BS racism shit at 7 pm on a satruday night right in the inner harbor where there are families with kids walking around. (i like hip hop so im not just hating to be a hatter)

funny thing is, we drive by there around 10:30 am the next day, everyone of those lazy ****s arent even up yet . . . theres probably about 100 or so of them.

they talk and have signs saying they wants jobs . . theres a million freaking jobs out there for you to make 30-40k a year. go to the baltimore city gov website. sorry theres not a job out there wanting to pay unkempted white people 100k a year to save whales or something that you also get to sleep in for . .

i just dont get it. wish baltimore city would kick them people out. homeless people cant put up tents in the park where this occupy things is going on but a bunch of nonsense, lazy 20 something granola eating yahoos can?

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[quote=over the mountain;848570]there is an "occupy baltimore" camp thats been going on for a week or so now in downtown baltimore. i usually vote democrat, dont mind paying taxes which seems to go to the poor and lazy, i like to grow my beard when work allows, ex-hippish type but dang, these occupy baltimore people for the most part seem to just be lazy types who want to say they are doing something by doing nothing.

me and my lady drive by there saturday night around 7 pm, there some live rap show, the guy is talking about how white people built jails to put black guys in, racism in the south ..then he proceeds to drop the n word a few times. my lady was like WTF? she wanted to get out of the car and curse them .. right in downtown baltimore they are blaring their crap ass rap dropping the n word, talking about some BS racism shit at 7 pm on a satruday night right in the inner harbor where there are families with kids walking around. (i like hip hop so im not just hating to be a hatter)

funny thing is, we drive by there around 10:30 am the next day, everyone of those lazy ****s arent even up yet . . . theres probably about 100 or so of them.

they talk and have signs saying they wants jobs . . theres a million freaking jobs out there for you to make 30-40k a year. go to the baltimore city gov website. sorry theres not a job out there wanting to pay unkempted white people 100k a year to save whales or something that you also get to sleep in for . .

i just dont get it. wish baltimore city would kick them people out. homeless people cant put up tents in the park where this occupy things is going on but a bunch of nonsense, lazy 20 something granola eating yahoos can?[/quote]

I'd love to see the unemployment office head down to one of these camps and find out how many are collecting unemployment while protesting. I'm sure they are not out looking for jobs between protest.LOL

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@OTM: They remind me of this thread:

[url]http://www.thewarpath.net/parking-lot/37253-the-new-generation.html[/url]

Only willing to "work" if its doing exactly what they want to do and being paid what they determine is fair. I got a cousin that goes to UPenn and is about to graduate with really fancy sounding double majors. I was talking to her at a wedding and was like what do you want to do and she said go into consulting. I was like don’t you need experience for that?

Im guessing the main issue the protesters have are that concessions, bail outs and handouts are being given to big Wall Street firms. I guess whats really really really confusing to me is why they are protesting Wall Street and not the government?

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[quote=firstdown;848579]I'd love to see the unemployment office head down to one of these camps and find out how many are collecting unemployment while protesting. I'm sure they are not out looking for jobs between protest.LOL[/quote]

Kinda like the tea baggers screaming keep your gov't hands off my medicare.

Neither side is immune from ignorance & stupidity.

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[quote=firstdown;848579]I'd love to see the unemployment office head down to one of these camps and find out how many are collecting unemployment while protesting.[B] I'm sure they are not out looking for jobs between protest.[/B]LOL[/quote]

Remember you can collect unemployment until you find a job YOU want to do. You just need to apply for 2 jobs a week online which can be done while protesting:

[IMG]http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/10/03/WS_AP111002038474_620x350.jpg[/IMG]

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Zuccotti Park smelled like an open sewer -- with people urinating and defecating in public.

And some couples have taken advantage of the free condoms distributed by organizers to do the nasty in full view of other protesters.

“It kinda makes me think of what Woodstock must have been like,” said one protester, Sarah, 19 from the Upper West Side.

“I haven’t hooked up with any guys ... but one of my friends did have sex in a tarp with a guy last night.”

The free chow offered to protesters was boosting the crowd.

“People say they are here for the cause, but the real reason is the free food,” quipped Cameron, 26, of Jersey City.

“On my third day, they had smoked salmon with cream cheese. You know how much smoked salmon is a pound? Sixteen dollars. I eat better here than I do with my parents!”

“I got warrants. I’m running from the law,” boasted Dave, 24, a scrawny, unshaven miscreant in filthy clothes from Stamford, Conn. “I’m not even supposed to be here, but it’s as good a spot as any to hide.”

Wanted for burglary, the drug-addled fugitive said some of his hard-partying pals clued him in that the protest was a good place to be fed, get wasted and crash.

“I’ve been smoking and drinking in here for eight days now,” said Dave, booze on his breath and his eyes bloodshot as he lay sprawled on a tattered sheet of cardboard. “I need to get some methadone. Every day, I wake up, and I’m f--ked up.”

Drugs can be easy to score -- a Post reporter was offered pot for $15 and heroin for $10.

Read more: [url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/it_nyc_lam_sterdam_bmE4vlV5aDUWhBRv9IbaiK#ixzz1b3Ygm1Yn]Squatters and drug addicts invade Zuccotti Park and Occupy Wall Street protests - NYPOST.com[/url]

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[quote=firstdown;848579]I'd love to see the unemployment office head down to one of these camps and find out how many are collecting unemployment while protesting. I'm sure they are not out looking for jobs between protest.LOL[/quote]

im currently looking for a new job closer to home.

ive been down to the HR dept in baltimore, about 3 blocks from the occupy baltimore, there are a ton of good paying jobs through the city and state. i also go to the maryland state and balt city websites.

alot of these 30-55k jobs dont require anything more than a GED, 1-2 years of accredited college or some basic background in HVAC, plumbing etc.

hell you can be an absolute complete idiot with zero experience and make about 32k right now as a cashier at the clerks office in the courthouse. be a compliance officer, a correctional officer making 45k a year, a police officer starting around 50k . . . . park ranger making 42k . .

im kinda limited b/c i need to find a job in the legal field but if i didnt have to find a job as an atty i easily could be making a comfortable living do something with a HS diploma.

edit - FD, the whole point i wanted to make before i went on my rant is i think the same thing every time i pass them. theres a stack of papers with about 100 job openings 3 blocks north of occupy baltimore waiting to pay people money..... i want to grap a stack and start handing them out to them.

double edit - hell, my pregnant lady takes a bus or walks a mile to work part time at 10 bucks an hour! i couldnt be more compassionate to the cause and helping people but cmon man, while maybe a few really do want to change the status qou (which is messed up), most seem like its just something to do and justify living that lazy sleep on the couch lifestyle. DONT BLAME PEOPLE LIKE ME B/C YOU LIKE SLEEPING IN AND HAVING A RESPONSIBILITY FREE LIFESTYLE! ya ****s! enjoy your life and your choices, ill enjoy mine and at the end of the day im not going to blame someone else for the choices i made.

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This video is HALARIOUS:

[url=http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/06/organizer-admits-to-paying-occupy-dc-protesters-video/]Occupy DC Organizer | Washington Hispanics | The Daily Caller[/url]

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[quote=mlmpetert;848596]Zuccotti Park smelled like an open sewer -- with people urinating and defecating in public.

And some couples have taken advantage of the free condoms distributed by organizers to do the nasty in full view of other protesters.

“It kinda makes me think of what Woodstock must have been like,” said one protester, Sarah, 19 from the Upper West Side.

“I haven’t hooked up with any guys ... but one of my friends did have sex in a tarp with a guy last night.”

The free chow offered to protesters was boosting the crowd.

“People say they are here for the cause, but the real reason is the free food,” quipped Cameron, 26, of Jersey City.

“On my third day, they had smoked salmon with cream cheese. You know how much smoked salmon is a pound? Sixteen dollars. I eat better here than I do with my parents!”

“I got warrants. I’m running from the law,” boasted Dave, 24, a scrawny, unshaven miscreant in filthy clothes from Stamford, Conn. “I’m not even supposed to be here, but it’s as good a spot as any to hide.”

Wanted for burglary, the drug-addled fugitive said some of his hard-partying pals clued him in that the protest was a good place to be fed, get wasted and crash.

“I’ve been smoking and drinking in here for eight days now,” said Dave, booze on his breath and his eyes bloodshot as he lay sprawled on a tattered sheet of cardboard. “I need to get some methadone. Every day, I wake up, and I’m f--ked up.”

Drugs can be easy to score -- a Post reporter was offered pot for $15 and heroin for $10.

Read more: [url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/it_nyc_lam_sterdam_bmE4vlV5aDUWhBRv9IbaiK#ixzz1b3Ygm1Yn]Squatters and drug addicts invade Zuccotti Park and Occupy Wall Street protests - NYPOST.com[/url][/quote]

All thats pretty poor. People running that should try to remove these types. Silverlining, $15 sounds like a steal for NYC.

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[quote=Chico23231;848623]All thats pretty poor. People running that should try to remove these types. Silverlining, $15 sounds like a steal for NYC.[/quote]

If they removed those people they would have like two protesters left.LOL

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[quote=Chico23231;848623]All thats pretty poor. People running that should try to remove these types. [B]Silverlining, $15 sounds like a steal for NYC[/B].[/quote]


[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]thats because the greedy capitalists cant patent nature's herb, brah[/FONT][/COLOR]

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[quote=mlmpetert;848588]Remember you can collect unemployment until you find a job YOU want to do. You just need to apply for 2 jobs a week online which can be done while protesting:

[IMG]http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/10/03/WS_AP111002038474_620x350.jpg[/IMG][/quote]

I wonder where they are getting power from?

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[quote=mlmpetert;848769][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]thats because the greedy capitalists cant patent nature's herb, brah[/FONT][/COLOR][/quote]

not to take a sarcastic funny comment and totally take your words literally . . . but im going to.

dont they patent as intellectual property and make a ton of money off genetically modified/altered crops.

like i ever so slightly change the strain of corn so that it can grow in rocky soil. or i modify the genetic make up of a grain . .etc. i then patent it and nobody can use it unless they pay me, the man?

there are a million ways to be a billionaire . .why oh why did i spend my college and law school days drunk and stupid?!?

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[quote=firstdown;848991]I wonder where they are getting power from?[/quote]

Al Gore is on a hamster wheel just outta the shot

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Apparently they are Raider fans with bad teeth.

[img]http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/101511_0384.jpg[/img]

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^ I honestly feel bad for that guy.

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Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.

“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.

“I had umbrellas stolen, a fold-up bed I brought because my back is bad -- they took that, too!”

“I’m not getting paid, but I’m not gonna stand for it. [B]Why people got to come here and do stupid stuff?[/B] All it does is make people not wanna come here anymore,” Wyman fumed.

At one point yesterday, Wyman and other volunteers briefly scuffled with a man who was standing near a park entrance with a pail calling out: “Donations! Donations!” -- and pocketing the cash people tossed in the bucket.


Read more: [url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/criminal_occupation_oh3CnKANUqYHrGPCaZaLRK#ixzz1b9jlDJ3o]Thieves preying on Wall Street protesters - NYPOST.com[/url]

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[quote=over the mountain;848992]not to take a sarcastic funny comment and totally take your words literally . . . but im going to.

dont they patent as intellectual property and make a ton of money off genetically modified/altered crops.

like i ever so slightly change the strain of corn so that it can grow in rocky soil. or i modify the genetic make up of a grain . .etc. i then patent it and nobody can use it unless they pay me, the man?

[B]there are a million ways to be a billionaire[/B] . .why oh why did i spend my college and law school days drunk and stupid?!?[/quote]

you sound like a 1 percenter brah...

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[quote=mlmpetert;849105]Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,”[B] said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale. [/B]

“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.

“I had umbrellas stolen, a fold-up bed I brought because my back is bad -- they took that, too!”

“I’m not getting paid, but I’m not gonna stand for it. [B]Why people got to come here and do stupid stuff?[/B] All it does is make people not wanna come here anymore,” Wyman fumed.

At one point yesterday, Wyman and other volunteers briefly scuffled with a man who was standing near a park entrance with a pail calling out: “Donations! Donations!” -- and pocketing the cash people tossed in the bucket.


Read more: [URL="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/criminal_occupation_oh3CnKANUqYHrGPCaZaLRK#ixzz1b9jlDJ3o"]Thieves preying on Wall Street protesters - NYPOST.com[/URL][/quote]

An 18 yr old legal team volunteer. LMAO

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[quote=Alvin Walton;849066]Apparently they are Raider fans with bad teeth.

[IMG]http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/101511_0384.jpg[/IMG][/quote]

not to jump to assumptions from a pic but alot of ppl in so claifornia have no front teeth b/c of smoking meth!

yeah! i should be able to smoke meth at my janitor job and make 56k a year! yeah! so waht if other people making that money had to go through years of school wake up in the morning, shave and actually do work worth anything! i deserve money to! on my own terms and conditions .. and schedule and what I want when I want! yeah! ... and i probably still wont show up but demand my paycheck anyway.

edit - there are currently only 9 jobs avail with balt city. interestingly a crossing guard makes 9-10k a year, not sure of the hours. seems like a good job to have and still collect welfare on. im thinking about it.

recycling coordinator - 55 to 70k a feakin year . . .unbelievable.

maryland state gov has over 250 avail jobs

Re: 'Occupy' types
 

[url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20122659-504083.html]Protester allegedly raped at 'Occupy Cleveland' - Crimesider - CBS News[/url]

Re: 'Occupy' types
 

[quote=mlmpetert;849105]Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.

“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.

“I had umbrellas stolen, a fold-up bed I brought because my back is bad -- they took that, too!”

“I’m not getting paid, but I’m not gonna stand for it. [B]Why people got to come here and do stupid stuff?[/B] All it does is make people not wanna come here anymore,” Wyman fumed.

At one point yesterday, Wyman and other volunteers briefly scuffled with a man who was standing near a park entrance with a pail calling out: “Donations! Donations!” -- and pocketing the cash people tossed in the bucket.


Read more: [url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/criminal_occupation_oh3CnKANUqYHrGPCaZaLRK#ixzz1b9jlDJ3o]Thieves preying on Wall Street protesters - NYPOST.com[/url][/quote]

Maybe she should dump her "American bourgeois" socialism and accept the fact that while people may not TOTALLY act in their "self-interest", they OFTEN WILL. [B]Besides, that laptop was made by an EVIL CORPORATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/B]

Re: 'Occupy' types
 

[quote=firstdown;849157]An 18 yr old legal team volunteer. LMAO[/quote]

Free labor is free labor. [I]Self-interest!!!!!![/I]