Need Input Here: Found This Googling... l Almost Ignored It (Forbes), But Did Not... I'm Glad...

[WillyT]

but I'm not sure why. Are minds slowly changing ???

Occupy Wall Street deserves more attention than the Tea Party - Forbes

Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2011/11/18/occupy-wall-street-deserves-more-attention-than-the-tea-party/

:shrug:

[roseBudd]

1. DUers on Facebook share this on your Wall

Sharing and liking is how the revolution will be televised IMO

[tech3149]

2. Good article and worth the read but he still doesnt get it

He gets close at points but still doesn't get it that the economic system is what is screwing up the whole deal. The largest of every industry, especially finance, defense, insurance, and fossil fuels buy off the government favorable treatment.

[WillyT]

3. That's Kind Of What I Got Out Of It Too...

Yet it curiously gives me hope.

:shrug:

:hi:

[intheflow]

6. Agreed, he doesn't get it in full - yet.

But he's thinking about it, he's wrestling with the idea in a serious way. I think it could be a good first step for most conservatives.

ONTH, I routinely put up articles I consider might sway conservative friends and family and they repeatedly come back again with completely asinine interpretations of what was said, it makes my stomach turn. Sigh.

[hootinholler]

4. Forbes is hotlinking Fishbone's photo

Bad form there Forbes, it's under CC, you are making money from it and using his flicker bandwidth to do it.

[roseBudd]

5. I think the author gets it...

"America has a growth problem. Has had one for a decade now. An inability to create jobs turned the first decade of this millenium into “the lost decade.” For the first time ever, America ended a 10 year span with fewer people working, the stock market lower, wages lower, fewer people insured, interest income non-existent due to low yields and tax receipts down – leading all the largest population states to the edge of bankruptcy and pension-system meltdown. Like post 1995 Japan, America seems to be in a permanent “Great Recession.”...

Occupy Wall Street is easy for a traditionalist to ignore. One could blame their attention on “left wing liberal media.” But there’s a trend here. Something worth understanding. Unless we invest in innovation to put people to work, this “movement” could become a much more serious business and social issue."

plus he totally slays the idiocy of tea

[WillyT]

7. I Took It As... He's In The Process Of Getting It...

Which, BTW... is a great thing.

The awakening... in progress.

:D

:hi:

[oldhippydude]

9. im not sure

those folks will ever grok

[roseBudd]

12. check the comments today, the author is replying to occupy supporter's comments...

I spend much time on business sites like The Economist, Forbes, Financial Times, etc.

Being macroeconomically literate IMO is important in light of the tea parties illiteracy

[supernova]

13. The comments are awesome

It's like a whole other Part II to the article.

The OWS supporters are really trying to teach him what OWS is about. And he's trying to understand, at least on an intellectual level, but admits that coming from a top down corporate world, it's difficult to comprehend. So I give him kuddos for trying to understand a completely new paradigm.

[roseBudd]

15. the paradigm is a long view, in the short term we have already scored significant success...

by changing the subject from the tea parties economically illiterate cut spending now by never raise taxes by even a penny

[mmonk]

8. Truth revealed has that effect sometimes.

[oldhippydude]

10. im not sure

these guys will ever grok

[eridani]

11. Apparently he doesn't get the fact that Teahadists are supported by Koch whore money

Whatever grassroots elements there ever were have long since been coopted.

[supernova]

14. He's definitely missed that bus

He doesn't seem to realize that to have a .. paraphrasing... polished bulleted agenda with a clear spokesperson/model in today's world automatically means that someone had to put up major $$$ for that.