"Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators occupy a park near Wall Street in New York, October 3, 2011. The protestors, speaking out against corporate greed and other issues carried on their occupation of Zuccotti Park, near the New York Stock Exchange, despite mass arests over the weekend. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
Recently reading some splinter demands of the Occupy Wall Street disgrace, it was difficult to tell if I was reading a list of demands or “Manifesto in the Communist Party”. Here’s I’ve listed some of the reported demands.
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Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
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is this a joke?
These demands are very insane. Wouldn’t it just be faster to have one demand: Outlaw the United States of America?
Not sure where you found this list. You must be aware that OWS did not release this list as an official statement. Whoever did does not represent OWS in any capacity.
The “Proposed List of Demands” is an anonymous user submitted post on OWS’s Forum section. The administrator has added this note to the post:
Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/
Who cares if it is official or not. It’s the mentality of the occupiers. This is what your people want.
You’re just wrong. This is not an official list of demands. Your hatred for people who question the current system, who try to help YOU, GetOffWallStreet, despite your apparent financial misery, does not make your FoxNews based “opinions” more correct. If you wish to understand the movement, investigate it. Otherwise, stop complaining about democracy! This is the country we live in! We have the right to question it! Furthermore, and most importantly, Occupy Wall Street is mostly about Corporate-Government corruption. This is the main goal of the movement, reinstate Glass-Steagall and repeal Citizens United. That’s it. You and your ilk should review the reasons for your hatred of people not like you.
Under NO circumstances are the filthy hypocrites of OWS trying to help me. They’re trying to help themselves. Look at them. They even ejected the homeless because they didn’t want to share their own food. Yet they want me to pay more in taxes to cover up for their stupid mistakes and ridiculous demands.
Yeah….no reason to let facts get in the way when lies and deceipt work just fine to pit American against American.
The only thing i partially believe in is why in the hell can’t the people of america get a bail out but yet the american gov’t can bail out whom ever they decide. But if we fuck up its oh well feed them to the wolves. Then no one can get any loans if they have bad credit reports but im sure if america in its self were to be rated on our same credit report ratings as we as americans do they wouldn’t be able to get a loan through our own system kind of hypocritical if you ask me. America is like the crazy woman down the street who’s husband is cheating on them they go around and poke there nose in everyone elses business because there too afraid to face whats going on in there own house.
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