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Hey, Bill, "Occupy Wall Street" is as lame as it gets. Why don't you go down there and see if you can organize those pre-extortionists into a union, and and have them ask building owners for protection money to keep their windows from being broken.

As I've said before, democracy only gives legitimacy to 51% of the people to lop the heads off the other 49%. What's far more important is human rights and free speech, which you have very little of in Europe. Shit, if you deny the holocaust in Germany, they send you to prison. If you insult somebod...

We've been to the moon, idiot! What's your legacy (and don't come back with that Empire crap)?

You can defend England and its royalty all you want, but it is a country from another era, and has no relevance today. Maybe if they learned to speak English.

That's all bullshit. There is no company too big to fail, and the U.S. government has no business bailing any of them out. Other companies will come in to pick up the pieces and business will be back to normal. Just because a company goes bankrupt, the factories and workers are still there. Maybe t...

... A good example is free-market Hong Kong, and when socialist China took over, it began to see the light, and learned why Hong Kong was so successful compared to mainland China. Your talking about communism not socialism. China learnt more from Singapore's democractic socialist capitalist model t...

I'm afraid you've got the wrong orientation. You seem to think free-market capitalism is some kind of corporation. It's millions of people and companies attracting capital to produce goods and services that people want to buy. Capitalism is a system, it's not something that can get too big. Compani...

chaz wyman wrote:It's not about them - but about the freeloading banks in your free market system.

What do you mean by "freeloading banks"? Specifically, what do you object to?

I agree with you. But what I can't understand is why you would condone a system where free market capitalism is allowed to get as huge as it wants...where it can literally bring down a nation when or if it goes bankrupt and then allow it to do just that. Think about it this way...suppose our countr...

Bill Wiltrack wrote:
Occupy Wall Street goes World-Wide!


occupying wall street - will it do any good
Answer: It already has...

It already hasn't, and never will!

You are dreaming, my friend! As far as I can see, you have a bunch of malcontents trespassing on private property, causing a disturbance, and not having the slightest idea of what they are doing or why. It's a mob mentality that will lead nowhere.

The trouble with you is that you seem to think that the rich get rich by stealing from the poor. I suppose you think that great Americans like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs became billionaires this way. What an idiot you are! Now you take the Queen of England, I think she's a billionaire and never did a...

Bailouts are wrong in America or anywhere else, and have nothing to do with free-market capitalism.

Who the hell says that a person or a bank that has money is under some obligation to lend it to ANYBODY? If you have money and want to lend it, fine, if you don't, it's nobody else's business unless you're a goddamn socialist!!!

Bill Wiltrack wrote:


Occupy Wall Street is AMAZING!

Occupy Wall Street is INSANE!