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Subject: PICKET: 'Occupy' demonstrations benefit from taxpayer bailouts
CJH    10/8/2011 11:38:32 AM
Occupy Wall Street protesters are angered about the bank bailouts, but do they realize their own protest is a beneficiary of a bailout too?

Quote - OWS protesters are beneficiaries from the $14 billion auto bailout (h/t Michael Barone). After all, money is fungible here. The United Auto Worker's Union threw their financial support behind OWS this week. According to the Village Voice: (bolding is mine) ​This morning the UAW -- the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America -- issued an official endorsement of Occupy Wall Street, which they deem "a movement for economic and political justice." They've said they'll commit resources to the movement and also activate their membership nationally "in support of reclaiming the American economy on behalf of working men and women, the poor, the elderly, the unemployed and our nation's youth." UAW members have already been showing solidarity at Occupy Wall Street protests and rallies in New York and in Boston on an individual level; this announcement puts the full support of another union behind the protesters at Zuccotti Park. - End Quote

 
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YelliChink       10/9/2011 2:21:25 PM
Like I posted in another thread. It's better for them to piss money away this way than funnel it back to Obama 2012.
 
On the other hand, they probably assessed that Obama 2012 has high risk of losing, thus are doing whatever they can to funnel money into their own pocket.
 
Things like this allow them to make a very large cut every day for "processing" the fund.
 
 
 
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CJH       10/16/2011 2:42:28 PM
Time will tell whether the OWS will evolve into a more serious form of mischief.
 
It depends on how desperate Obama and the Dems are over their prospects for 2012 as these prospects currently appear.
 
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YelliChink       10/17/2011 5:58:09 PM
Rumor has it that the White House is very displeased with unwillingness from Wall Street to contribute.
 
Therefore the annointed one unleashed American version of Red Guards to punish them.
 
 
 
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CJH       10/23/2011 12:42:07 PM
Shakedown is a popular game in DC.
 
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