Don’t any of these people understand how armed revolutions get started?  Turn any peaceful society into an unwanted aristocracy–beware the consequences.

Three notes from the past week:

Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez’ movie ‘The Way’ about a walk along the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain, a pilgrimage, opens today in many places.

Planned Parenthood is going to be investigated by Congress. If you watch the program ‘Blood money’ (last Sunday, EWTN) or other programs it will be clear why this is very necessary.

Bishop Zubik of in Pittsburgh was accused of pedaphilia – his accuser has a rap sheet as long as your arm, and it was a false accusation. The Bishop probably won’t press charges against the man.

Just wondering if anyone is going to acknowledge the passing of Reverend Shuttlesworth this week, a major civil rights leader, whose death was overshadowed by Jobs’ passing . . . .

These protestors are setting the example. They are creating the protest infrastructure and testing the waters.   The govt is also watching closely because they know its only going to get bigger and possibly violent.

What you see protesting now are mostly mid to upper-middle class students and some homeless regulars. The millions of angry and desperate people have yet to take to the streets.

We can watch the sideshow protests or focus on the main event.  If the eurozone is hit with a string of chain-reaction sovereign-debt defaults, no amount of recapitalization will protect banks enough to prevent a repeat of 2008′s panic, according to The Economist.  Remember 2008, that was not pretty, lots of mattress stuffing and canned goods provisioning. 

  Occupy Wall St should move to the Congress in Washington DC  in order to bar access to corporate lobbyists.  Prevent anyone from reaching congress who doesn’t represent him/herself!  Only true citizens have the right to speak to congress!  Battle for our rights to free speech.�
  Also occupy K Street where most lobbying firms are housed to prevent them from leaving or arriving at their offices.
  The battle should be a battle for the right to speech.  To eliminate the rights of corporations to speech and to take back our government from their influence.
 

Oh wow Matt Continetti gettin’ a little testy!

Git ‘im.

the Republicans show how out of touch they are by their comments about ‘Occupy Wall Street’  - they are so used to speaking to their uneducated true believers that they do not know how to have a real debate based on real facts – they only know how to use fear and ignorance – prime elements of an ideal Koch brothers society  

Matt Continetti is obnoxious.

I think the problem with the economy is mal-distribution of wealth. That’s what underlies the debt AND what underlies economic bubbles as wealthy people chase phantoms to invest in.

Okay, whining about what the news is or is not covering is pretty worthless.

“If you don’t have a job, blame yourself”? what an idiotic comment. The Wall Street bankers trashed our economy, led to millions of job lost, employers are reluctant to hire new workers, because their hands are tight. How are people going to get a job?

Who subsidized the roads his trucks go on?

I’m confused.  Are the wall street protesters out there against the MEGA-corporations or that guy who called in about creating a SMALL business?  Although Ray has a good point, it’s completely off topic

I think Ray has a trucking company because the government built the internet system. I also bet he got a great public education. He probably also benefited from government programs to help him buy a house. I think all the 99%’s want is a fair shot. The education system which gave Ray his chance to be a successful just doesn’t exist anymore.

Government may not create jobs. I personally do not agree. But government can certainly create demand!!!

How about we just not expect things to happen overnight and shut off the news for one week?

To the caller from Nashville: Amen brother!

To Tom: Please address the caller’s issue re: legality. Let’s face it, not one Wall Streeter is in jail as a result of the fraud committed during the financial crises. Why?

Regarding the trucking company gentlemen who just called in. That’s great that he was able to build his business. He kind of sounded like a protester in his last sentence though – does he not get that? He said something like : ‘create economic environment favorable to business growth’. That’s the whole point of the protests, we don’t have that! People are protesting that it’s harder to do what he was able to do nowadays. People feel that financial and other corporate lobbyists have effectively purchased the government as a means to un-level the playing field. I’d expect it might be harder for him to build his same business from scratch today without being severly stymied by regulations and a business environment tailored to benefit larger established competitors. Protesting is as American as bootstrapping sir. You were fortunate to start a business during a time in American history that was prosperous thanks to people who fought hard for the many rights we enjoy and don’t want to see go away. Don’t assume your good luck equals superior business acumen. Don’t you forget that. 

Does anyone else see the Occupy Wall Street protests as being the polar opposite of the Tea Party Rally’s?
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The Occupy Wall Street protestors seem to want more government control over our lives and over companies while Tea Party People want to return the power to the People by moving power out of Washington and back to the states and local governments like it was up to the New Deal.
 

Hey, maybe the Republicans are afraid that Mr. Obama’s jobs plan just might work!  Otherwise, wouldn’t they pass that bill so they can gloat when (if?) it doesn’t work? They don’t want to take that chance.

I love that Tom got the most boring idiot to represent corporations. The best thing for job security is growth, which is accomplished by layoffs? Maybe the best thing for an executive’s job security, but not most Americans. Thanks for not letting her get away with that one, Tom. Mmmm hm.

Every few months we rerun an analysis of how many jobs the US economy has to generate to return to the unemployment rate as of December 2007 when the Great Financial Crisis started, by the end of Obama’s potential second term in November 2016. This calculation takes into account the historical change in Payroll and includes the 90,000/month natural growth to the labor force, and extrapolates into the future. And every time we rerun this calculation, the number of jobs that has to be created to get back to baseline increases: First it was245,500 in April, then 250,000 in June, then 254,000 in July. As of today, following the just announced “beat” of meager NFP expectations, this number has has just risen to an all time high 261,200. This means that unless that number of jobs is created each month for the next 5 years, America will have a higher unemployment rate in October 2016 than it did in December 2007. How realistic is it that the US economy can create 16.2 million jobs in the next 62 months? We leave that answer up to the US electorate.

Macro or Micro economics are no longer the 21st century economics it is now called Political Economics.

Now we know what it’s all about.

http://youtu.be/awPLi8qyNGA

Real Tea Party and Occupy Wall St non-communists unite?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HGqgAaKqM&feature=youtu.be

OP staff…thanks again for giving under-achievers and other assorted dupes another chance to rail at others for their own failures. 

I think the occupiers are kind of cute, actually, and will miss their antics when it finally gets cold and rainy in New York.  

On the other hand, I’m hoping for the occupiers to get out of hand and give NYPD some serious stick time.  It’s better than a cup of Starbucks. 

Romney once again panders,

Romney Calls For A Bigger, Stronger Military

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/07/141158063/romney-calls-for-a-bigger-stronger-military

Romney said he wants to increase the military budget, mentioning
specific projects from naval shipbuilding to a missile defense system.
It’s a traditional Republican view of defense that was music to this
crowd’s ears.

GLOBALIZATION Part I
I can not believe that every one on radio or tv seem to be perplexed by the fact why jobs are not coming and stimulus is not working. These confused people seem to include even fed chairman.Did everyone say that jobs are going overseas? how can you NOT figure that out.
 There is a very high likelihood the this has a lot to do with globalization, where is the prosperity Clinton promised when he pushed free trade. The so called globalization in its current form for sure has the equalizing effect which means…..
US has such large trade deficit for so long it has long passed the critical point. It has AMPLIFYING effects on other problems. It is ridiculous to argue for a balanced budget without somewhat balanced trade unless the goal is to make people live like third world.
I think free trade is actually good as long as they are actually “TRADE”.
I understand that certain types of jobs need to go, but saying simply US can compete with anyone is super stupid(if you can not realize this by simply looking at the trade deficit and job problems then you r truly stupid -sorry to use that word).
if you have some sense of math, think time and scale as two of the many parameters of the economic model, when they are small the may not matter, but…

also think the labor market as a pyramid (few on top), if u remove the bottom jobs (now even the mid level jobs are leaving), then the effect is more likely that the whole pyramid drops down and become narrower (narrower means people on the top may benefit from this).

The excessively wealthy should invest in a program on the scale of the 1960s Apollo program that put twelve astronauts on the moon.  But this time, we should put, say, twelve “autonauts” into wearable computer systems which allow each user to conduct life-long research programs to know and manage themselves.  What does that mean?  It means democracy and social justice will not advance without a full-scale scientific and technological advance in self-knowledge.  The excessively wealthy would be the users of the first prototype “self systems.”  The long-term vision is a “self-knowledge revolution” in which every individual would be regarded as important enough to have, as a birthright, the technology to live a self-knowledgeable lifestyle.

This no doubt sounds, as my parents would have called, “way out.”  However, as an experimental psychologist and software engineer who has spent a career in artificial intelligence, I can see the feasiblity of using technology to make a huge increase in the human ability to know and manage themselves.  You’ve heard of the Quantified Self movement, as well as the Singularity Institute, but consider putting their missions together.  I have been written extensively about this vision for over 30 years and won’t try to provide all the arguments here.

Have you folks been noticing how a multiplicity of nit-wits have been offering up a plethora of inane pablum here, lately?

They are growing like fungus or parasites.  

These imbeciles are trying to sidetrack the critical thinking skills and well meaning, reasonable comments on this site with bogus, easily refutable ‘opinions’ which use drive-by shooting tactics to fluff up their fallacies and false agenda.

These paltry people trivialize important facts and pervert logical rhetoric.

Now, they have even taken to assuming multiple monikers in attempt to overwhelm and divert discourse on this site.

Watch out for these mercenaries, the are merciless.

Stay well.  Stay smart.  Stay vigilant.

Occupy Wall Street
Protestors bringing attention to the corruption in Wall Street, a good thing????
Has anyone asked who and what groups are behind the organization of these rallies????�
No, you say!
You might want to check and see before you grab your sign and join.

People constantly complain about Big Government! But when the shit hits the fan, we see who they hide behind! Big Government!!