Dupuy: American autumn: Children of the lost decade revolt
Tina Dupuy
Tina Dupuy is an award-winning writer and the managing editor of Crooks and Liars. Tina can be reached at tinadupuy@yahoo.com.
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Accuracy posted at 3:17 pm on Tue, Oct 4, 2011.
Tina Dupuy,
You are way off concerning the Tea Party, who represents a broad cross-section of freedom-loving patriotic Americans consisting of Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Independents, college graduates, and more. Futhermore, the Tea Party movement continues to grow by leaps and bounds in spite of all of the criticism by the Liberal mob.
Cerulean posted at 6:53 pm on Tue, Oct 4, 2011.
This is a very good column, Tina. There only one thing I might change just slightly, ‘So when criticism is lobbed at the tea party as being an astroturf re-branding of the Republican Party; sponsored by the billionaire Koch Brothers, Forbes, D. Armey (all rather boring self- interested pukes) and their interest groups along with right wing corporate media, it’s because it is.’ Yes, the Know-Nothing tea party is a coddled group of whiners.
It is tragic what young people are facing at this time. It will pass – things will get better, but it is good to see them voice an opinion.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 8:13 pm on Tue, Oct 4, 2011.
Well, President Obama was screaming from the podium " Down with Wall Street, Down with the Millionaires and Billionaires" and guess what he got his wish for a new "Red Army" know as the Occupy Wall Street Solidarity Movement. Have you seen these "freaks" ??? Wearing white "War Paint" on their faces. Dread Locks, tattooes and body pierced from here to there...and I do mean "there".
What is President Obama going to do now that he has "uncorked" the oil lamp and these "Anarchist Genies" start acting like their "London-Looters" brothers and sisters...across the Pond....torching the New York Stock Exchange or some other "Capitalist Castle" ???
New York Mayor Bloomberg doesn't have the "you know what's" to roust out these 700 "Red Guard Wanna-be's" with the N.Y.P.D. He remembers seeing the L.A.P.D. being castigated by the Ultra-Left Wing Liberal TV stations and the Newspapers during the Watts and Rodney King Riots. But guess what...President Obama ain't gonna call in the National Guard to flush this crowd down the sewer until all "Heck" breaks out and Dolce & Garbani is looted....lol.
So President Barack Hussein Obama...how do you like the "Obama Revolution" now ???
You might not even make it to 2012...you might just end up being America's first......"3/4 Term President". At least Bill Clinton did it with someone else....Obama "did it" to himself.
Arizona Willie posted at 8:45 am on Wed, Oct 5, 2011.
America's multi-billionaires would do well to be studying the French Revolution.
History repeats itself.
mnjcpa posted at 11:42 am on Wed, Oct 5, 2011.
It's amusing the characterization and libeling of the decent people in the Tea Party. "Yet the tea party is given credence and credibility as a swell of a movement to give rich people and corporations more tax breaks." If you actually read their agenda Tina you would find they are normal, hard-working, middle class Americans that are sick of the liberal agenda that has perverted the principles this country was founded upon. A similar movement - but unnamed - was what brought Reagan in to office after the disaster that Carter left this country in. But then all I had to read was that you attended an "Occupy Wall Street" event to know what this piece was about. I expect the labor unions to jump on board with this debacle which is the face of the Democrat and liberal agenda. The average American is going to see through this farce. What do I want for free? Free markets, freedom of religion, private property, freedom from union bosses, freedom from Obamacare, cap & trade, subsidizing spoiled brats dancing in the streets, freedom from the America haters - and demand that we pay for it. That's what the Tea Party stands for.
Slabside posted at 11:46 am on Wed, Oct 5, 2011.
France was ruled by King Louis during the Revolution. Obummer might want to study what happened to him.
VofReason posted at 12:16 pm on Wed, Oct 5, 2011.
Yes I definitly trust snot nose kids that are on twitter and have never held a real job or had any real responsibility in life much more that middle aged middle Americans that have worked all their life for what they have. Yes, Tina has a real point here. Down with Wall Street. Will all live in a big hippy dippy comune and tweet eachother all day and get a check from the thoughtful and supportive Government who will get the money from the evil rich. What a knucklehead.......
VofReason posted at 12:55 pm on Wed, Oct 5, 2011.
One more thing, anything after you say that the Wall street hater nuts are like the (ahem) peaceful Arab sping falls flat
sockratties posted at 6:07 am on Thu, Oct 6, 2011.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!
Many Wall Street protestors have put more effort into this protest than they have into trying to get a job. If they always take more out of the system than is put in, it's sure to implode. One reason they are the “lost decade” is because they have spent the last 10 years or so feeding at the trough of subsidized education and inflated mortgages while demanding services provided by borrowed money. It’s hard to feel sorry for those that are complaining about not getting theirs when they’re not the ones paying the bill.
Yes, Wall Street is greedy. Making money by manipulating and moving wealth from the middle class to the upper class is what they do. No new wealth is created and nothing of value is created. Wall Street is in the business of accumulating wealth, not creating it. If they can’t use it to make more, they’ll hang on to it until they can.
The middle class and Wall Street have a symbiotic relationship. The middle class makes money by selling time and expertise. (The lower class only sell their time and are easily replaced so they can’t demand a high income.) Education, expertise and innovation enable the middle class to earn more than what is required to survive. This discretionary income makes the middle class able to buy homes, autos and durable goods that fuel the economy and, as the cycle continues, provide a return on Wall Street investments.
Investment is the way Wall Street can enable the middle class to produce something of value and create new wealth. Wall Street moguls are not about to risk wealth unless the business climate is predictable enough to assure a return. We can blame Washington; severe polarization, negativity and special interest groups form the stormy investment weather that makes financial institutions unwilling to invest in our economic recovery. The only way we should want the government involved in business is to assure that special interests and abuse don’t again become part of business.
sockratties posted at 6:22 am on Thu, Oct 6, 2011.
Slobside n Willy...
It wasn't just the French Revolution. It was actually fairly calm after the initial riot. It was the reign of terror following that really did the job. It lasted for months and was a continual purging of perceived enemies of the people and fired by competing political factions. For many it was an opportunity to purge rivals which were often vicims of contrived conspiracies.