Wall Street Protestors Have Met the Enemy and It Is They

David P. Goldman "The fact is that no-one likes a fast buck more than the American public. Wall Street was the enabler, but Main Street was the addict. Americans stopped saving as long as home prices rose; when home prices started to fall, they started saving again.

"That is why the Wall Street protesters are foolish and petulant. American households levered a $6 trillion net inflow of foreign savings during the decade 1998 through 2007 into a bubble that benefited them far more than it did Wall Street. "

Obama Confirms Fears About New Financial Regulator  "In so doing, the President confirmed fears that the new agency would be a free-ranging political tool pursuing populist ideological goals. Even other financial regulators have been wary of its open-ended power, concerned that it will undercut their efforts to ensure economic stability. The President’s call to action should add to their concerns."

An Open Letter to the Self-Proclaimed ’99%’  "So the 99 percenters need to do a few things, in my opinion. First, they need to put aside the notion that the world owes them a job. It doesn’t, and never did. They need to assess what makes them worth hiring, and then act accordingly. If you don’t have any marketable skills, get some. They need to put aside the delusion that they represent 99 percent of their fellow Americans. They don’t and never will. They need to come to grips with the fact that their unrealistic view of the world is not only getting in their way, it’s a big part of what has made our economy as weak as it is.


"Will they 99 percenters heed any of this? Eh, at most maybe one percent will. It’s best to keep our expectations realistic."

George Will: Elizabeth Warren and liberalism, twisting the ‘social contract’

George F. Will  "Elizabeth Warren, Harvard law professor and former Obama administration regulator (for consumer protection), is modern liberalism incarnate. As she seeks the Senate seat Democrats held for 57 years before 2010, when Republican Scott Brown impertinently won it, she clarifies the liberal project and the stakes of contemporary politics.
"The project is to dilute the concept of individualism, thereby refuting respect for the individual’s zone of sovereignty. The regulatory state, liberalism’s instrument, constantly tries to contract that zone — for the individual’s own good, it says."

The Ladies of the View



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Ann Coulter: This Is What a Mob Looks Like

Ann Coulter  "I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point."....

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"The modern tea partiers never went around narcissistically comparing themselves to Gen. George Washington. And yet they are the ones who have engaged in the kind of political activity Washington fought for.
...."The tea partiers didn't arrogantly claim to be drafting a new Declaration of Independence. They're perfectly happy with the original.
"Tea partiers didn't block traffic, sleep on sidewalks, wear ski masks, fight with the police or urinate in public. They read the Constitution, made serious policy arguments, and petitioned the government against Obama's unconstitutional big government policies, especially the stimulus bill and Obamacare.
"Then they picked up their own trash and quietly went home. Apparently, a lot of them had to be at work in the morning."

From Hero-Worship to Celebrity-Adulation

The Weekly Standard  "....It’s the two young Marines in Iraq who made a split-second decision in the last moments of their lives to open fire on a truck hurtling toward the compound where they were standing guard, thereby preventing the bomb-laden vehicle from entering before it blew up and so saving the lives of their sleeping comrades. It’s all those willing to risk their lives to save the lives of others.

"Celebrities may think adulation is their due and that special rules apply to them. On the latter point, they may be right. But real heroes of the kind who risk their lives for others do not demand adulation. On the contrary, they more often than not rush to deny that there is anything special about who they are. They specifically disavow any status of superiority as a result of their heroic deeds."

Postmodern Class Warfare

Victor Davis Hanson   "And when we really do see street violence — looting in Britain or flash-mobbing in America — angry youths usually target high-end electronics stores and fashion outlets, not food markets or bookstores. They organize on social networks from their laptops and cell phones, not from soup kitchens, bread lines or dank basements.
"Class warfare is now not about brutal elemental poverty of the sort Charles Dickens or Knut Hamsun once wrote about. It is too often the anger that arises from not having something that someone else has, whether or not such style, privilege or discretionary choices are all that necessary. Endemic obesity, not malnutrition, threatens America — including the nearly 50 million Americans who are on food stamps."

Occupy Wall Street: America Reaps what Obama has Sown

Occupy Wall Street's Anti-capitalist Crusade  "Regulation, government control and entitlements are the problem and the last thing we need is more of them. We need far less of them if our economies and our nations are to survive. They won't if capitalism is fettered or destroyed and neither will we. What are the demonstrators demonstrating for? It isn't prosperity and freedom that's for sure. If they get their way and capitalism is fettered or destroyed everything and everyone will be much worse off, not better. Capitalism must be freed to do its magic, not hobbled. That will make everything and everyone better off and that is what demonstrators should be demonstrating for. Freeing capitalism.
"Economics, history, sociology, psychology and reality tell us exactly the same."

Welcome, anarchists, to your 'hunk' of fairness for the next generation - the shared sacrifice of poverty.   ..."You occupied a national landmark born of architectural and engineering visionaries, paid for by others. You required removal by police force. Police that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come because you are the pillaging marauding band of anti-Capitalism."

Neal Boortz: Some amazing rhetoric  "Hopefully you realize that capitalism and free enterprise is under attack in America.  The socialists, fascists and communists have always been out there .. but now they think that they have someone in the White House who supports their agenda, so they are emboldened."


Occupy Wall Street Jumps the Shark  ..."George Soros ... threw in his lot with the thousands of Communists, anarchists, eco-feminists, malingerers, and professional protesters who have been baiting and taunting police in lower Manhattan as part of a mass demonstration that began September 17.

"Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) also jumped on the anti-Wall Street bandwagon. In a move that ought to permanently disqualify him as a GOP presidential candidate, Paul gave aid and comfort to the radicals who want to destroy America. “If they were demonstrating peacefully, and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed — I would say, good!” Paul said.  (Emphasis added.)

Weasel Zippers: Here Come The Goons: Country’s Largest Unions Join Wall Street Occupiers…"The cavalry has arrived in Lower Manhattan. Representatives from no fewer than 15 of the country’s largest labor unions will join the Occupy Wall Street protesters for a mass rally and march today in New York City."

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The Left: A Century of Fostering Racial Tension

Last century's leftist politicos left behind copious evidence of race-card playing.  "....I covered a Tea Party event headlined by Cain in suburban Cobb County and then his announcement rally in May in downtown Atlanta.
"At that rally last May I learned something from a gregarious black friend. Spotting my friend’s Uncle Sam hat and Cain buttons, another black man, who was hanging back to blend in with fellow black Atlantans who were at the park for other reasons, struck up a conversation. And then I learned just how much pressure black conservatives feel from fellow blacks. Why it was just about as bad as being on a college campus!
"This is no accident. White radicals have been fostering this kind of infighting for nearly a hundred years. Divide and conquer — according to class, no less for blacks than for whites — has been the modus operandi of the Communist Party since at least the 1920s". (Emphasis added)
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No, Mr. Obama has not significantly played the race card to this date, but many of his supporters (see below) have. And given his propensity to blame everything else for his failures, and the likelihood of his legacy being one of failure, you can count on Mr. Obama blaming racism at some point. I fully expect the closer to the next election we draw, the more we will see Obama divide this country along racial lines. He has already divided America into warring economic classes; don't you think racial enmity is even more firmly embedded in his DNA? TD

Actor Samuel L. Jackson: Tea Party Racism 'Pretty Obvious'  ""It’s pretty obvious what they are," Jackson told us. "The division of the country is not about the government having too much power. I think everything right now is geared toward getting that guy out of office, whatever that means," he said, echoing Freeman. "It’s not politics. It is not economics. It all boils down to pretty much to race. It is a shame." "

Quotation in Eric Holder's wallet: 'The Black US Attorney Has Common Cause with the Black Criminal'  "According to Department of Justice whistleblower J. Christian Adams, AG Eric Holder has a certain something in his wallet. It is a quotation -- and he has carried it for decades. It essentially says, to quote Adams, "Blackness is more important than anything, and the black US attorney has common cause with the black criminal." It's not surprising that Holder would feel this way about black lawyers and criminals.
"Because in his case they're one and the same."

Allen West to Samuel L. Jackson: Quit Crying Racism and Stick to Movies, Champ  "Well, Jackson's smears were bit too much for Rep. Allen West (R-FL) to take lying down. The fiery Congressman -- who is member of both the Tea Party and Congressional Black Caucuses -- appeared on Fox News this morning to upbraid the actor for his remarks and remind viewers whose economic policies have put millions of African-Americans in a world of hurt:"  (Video)

Thomas Sowell: Stop Whining'?  "How many people in the media have pointed out that the black-white income gap narrowed during the Reagan administration, just as it has widened during the Obama administration? For that matter, how many Republicans have pointed it out?"

Perry & the Macaca Media

Michelle Malkin  The media will leave no stone unturned to find evidence of GOP racism

"Another friend, Fred McClure, who is black, also could not recall ever seeing the rock and emphatically added that the paper’s stone-cold insinuation that Perry is a bigot “is not only untrue but also extremely unfair.”"
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"It stinks to be falsely accused of racism. Maybe Perry, now under siege by the ruthless race-card-playing media, will remember that the next time he’s tempted to accuse conservatives who disagree with him of heartless bigotry."

NRO:  Perry Gets Smeared  "The Post’s mainstream-media brethren are already calling N-gate a threat to Perry’s candidacy. Certainly it will be a test of Perry’s forcefulness. (In 1991, Thomas passed the test with his famous “high-tech lynching” comment, which rocked Democrats back on their heels.) But this isn’t about Perry. This is about a mainstream media that is more determined to carry water for Democratic smear campaigns than to inform its readers of the real problems facing this nation."

Brent Bozell:  Rick's Rock vs. Reverend Wright  "But many "minority legislators [read: Democrats] say Perry has a long history — dating to his first race for statewide office more than 20 years ago — of engaging in what they see as racially tinged tactics and rhetoric to gain political advantage.”
"What kind of offensive tactics? Guess what’s listed first: “Black lawmakers have been particularly troubled by Perry’s recent embrace of the tea party movement.”
"By contrast, does anyone recall the Washington Post being the first investigative journalism outfit to reveal the racist and anti-American and anti-Semitic rantings of Rev. Jeremiah Wright in 2007? Of course not."...

 Neal Boortz: Demands from the Occupy Wall Street crowd  "The Libtards occupying Wall Street have come up with a proposed list of their demands. You are going to enjoy these .. are you ready?"
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"Let’s let the Occupy Wall Street crowd run Haiti for a few years utilizing these demands and see how well that works out for them. Gawd help us.
"We should make this column by Peter Ferrara required reading for all of the unemployables occupying Wall Street:"
Economic Growth, Not Income Redistribution, Is What Helps Us All

"President Obama’s policies have been all about redistribution, spreading the wealth as he puts it, a polite phrase for plunder. That redistribution is in evidence from ObamaCare, to runaway government spending, to raising tax rates on “the rich.”
The results of those policies are in the latest Census report on September 14. Median real family income has fallen all the way back to 1996 levels. As the Wall Street Journal explained the next day, “Earnings of the typical man who works full time year round fell, and are lower — adjusted for inflation — than in 1978.”"

  The Left’s Pathetic Tea Party "Occupy Wall Street is not a real answer. It is both more self-involved and more ambitious than the Tea Party. It represents an ill-defined, free-floating radicalism. Its fuzzy endpoint is a “revolution” no one can precisely describe, but the thrust of which is overturning our system of capitalism as we know it. If elected Democrats dare associate their sagging party with this project, they need immediately to consult their nearest psychiatrist and political consultant, in that order.
"Occupy Wall Street is toxic and pathetic, the perfect distillation of an American Left in extremis."
Rich Lowry.

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