Occupy Wallstreet List of Demands

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Dobies.

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Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
 
Am I the only one that thinks some of these are completely fucking idiotic? Example: open boarders, free college edu, guaranteed living wage, 20$ minimum wage.
 
Those are some outrageous demands. Some of them make sense but not on that kind of scale. Our government is trillions of dollars in debt their is no way we can afford to spend trillions of dollars on anything right now.
 
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right off their website. not a real list.
 
Free college edu: We got that in quebec.

Garanteed living wage: We kinda got that.

20$ minimum wage: We are halfway there

Open Boarders: What's the fuckin problem, there shouldn't even be boarders in the WORLD we should be able to travel and work anywhere we want.

Most of these things are legit, except those trilion dollar demands! hahahaha!
 
haha right because what one idiot posts online speaks for the entire crowd? even when the people organizing the crowd are publicly saying this is not what they think.

the list is funny as shit, I wont argue with that. its what every dumbass who knows nothing about the world wants. still not a great way to attack the protest as a whole.
 
haha ok those pictures are fuicking funny. i really laughed at

"i have 80k in student loans, how do i pay that back now"

"warren buffet is smarter then you"
 
This one is my favorite:

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I have my degree in accounting. And let me tell you, if you have an accounting degree and cant get an accounting job you are a shitty fucking accountant. Plain and simple.
 
It isn't a bunch of lazy fucks. It's people waking up and realizing that the top 1% of our country has an insane amount of control on our "free market" and also has an insane amount of control or sway in our government.
 
haha isnt a accounting degree a bcomm? not a bsc? anyway, I

think there are some intelligent points these protesters could be making. that

said, blaming wall street for your loans or unemployment isnt exactly helping

yourself.

 
This. I don't know why these old students and unemployed people are trying to ruin what Occupy Wallstreet is about. Forgive all student loans? Really now? The deeper issues behind this protest are what need to be looked at. Not all the stuff you see in the news that makes you think it is just stupid as fuck. The top 1% of our country has so much control of both our "free market" and our government. How do you ever get anything done in this "democracy" when our governments opinion is swayed by lobbyists. In order to have a lobbyist, you have to come from lots of money or a big and rich corporation. Protest is the only chance we have to really get our voices heard anymore.
 
Me too and agree completely. I saw that picture and had to take two.

^Quasi most accountants have (at least that I know and work with) have a BS and an additional year of graduate education in a program such as an MPAc. In order to get a CPA license you need 150 credit hours in most states.
 
no. they're lazy and making excuses for their non-productive lifestyle. we as a society shouldn't reward bad behavior.

also don't blame those who profit off of government regulations, they're just getting paid. blame the government that allows this kind of environment to thrive.

 
That's my biggest beef with occupy wall street. I have no idea what they're saying. It's turned into an outlet for people to whine that they don't have enough money.

And my avy works! YES!!!!!
 
you serious? how is standing up for inequality and corporate accountability a "stupid cause"?

it's a fact that the wealth, power and control over the economy and governments are concentrated in less than 1% of the global population. people are waking up to that fact and are realizing how fucked up it is.

one example of an injustice that most people already know: nike outsources jobs that could be done domestically just so they can markup their products costs by over 100% of their production cost? nobody benefits from that except the CEOs of the company. either pay them fair wages or bring those jobs back to the US. outsourcing those jobs keep these companies fom developing their economy because they depend so heavily on these jobs that can barely bring food to the table for the worker's families.
 
From your link: "Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands."
 
These people are Ass Clowns.

The stock exchange is like Costco. They sell products. Some products are better then others. Some are overpriced; some are under-priced. Wall Street is what investors make it into. Volatility is many people buying and selling. The only guys who are happy on Wall Street right now are the ones who are shorting the shit out of everything. Stock prices go down, people's investments go down, 401k's evaporate, because investors are selling. There are many reasons why people are selling. The economy sucks, consumer confidence is in the toilet. They may have been laid off and have to tap into their retirement to survive. Wall Street has nothing to do with it. This is like boycotting a car dealership because the value of your brand new car dropped significantly the moment you drove it off the lot.
 
I think you're missing the point. They're not targeting wall street specifically or the stock market specifically. In fact,t hey're not targeting anything specifically. They're using wall street as both a metaphorical representation of the sorts of things they are protesting and as a physical place of protest to do so.
 
i'm all for people getting out there and exercising their rights, but most of these demands are absolutely ridiculous.

ending all debt??? domestic and international? how do you think china is gonna feel about that? how could that ever even happen? people in new york city tend to think they run the world, but if they think thats an attainable goal in the globalized world market then their absolutely kidding themselves. its like they think if they wish hard enough for it anything will happen.

however, i agree that we should be doing more to keep america's wetlands and rivers intact tho. perhaps not an immediate trillion dollars, but the world is running out of fresh water in case you hadn't heard. and i also agree that we need to update our voting system. personally i think registration to vote should be mandatory, and a simple paper ballot is still the easiest, most reliable method. the racial and gender equality amendment would require massive change in enormous institutions but overall i think our country would benefit. those are really the only things i can tag along with.

 
Maybe I am missing the point. Choice of venue for a protest seems to be somewhat important. You don't picket in front of Taco Bell if you concerned about the welfare of the Giant Panda.

By protesting on Wall Street most people are going to assume that they are protesting capitalism and the free market system.
 
this is a bad example. I really hate when I hear people complain about how nike is taking advantage of poor countries. What is a fair wage in a company that doesn't have jobs? what would happen to a country if the most desirable job was a factory worker?
 
Step 1: Claim you're a rugged individualist over the internet on a ski forum.

Step 2: Realize that you couldn't ski (besides hiking up a hill to ride down on rough wooden planks), or type, or be on the internet, or (more than likely) be able to spell "rugged individualist" without society.
 
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