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Independent filmmaker James O’Keefe dressed as a Wall Street Banker and spoke with anti-capitalist protesters at “Occupy Wall Street.” Some of the protesters were doing some seriously high-end pan handling.

Infamous anarchist, Lisa Fithian led Thursday’s events, attempting to disrupt the Mortgage Bankers conference at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago.  The protest was one of 5 feeder allies that eventually led to the Art Institute, where protesters threw vulgar comments and screams at families entering the Art Institute.

I caught a one on one with Lisa right before the feeder rally started. Lisa promised peace and non violence.  There were reports of 24 arrests, including at least 1 arrest for battery on a police officer.

I saw this on an Ayn Rand BB, so I am not sure to whom gets the credit.  Suffice it to say, it wasn’t me, but I wish it was.

HOW THE TAX SYSTEM WORKS

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for some beers and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.

The fifth would pay $1.

The sixth would pay $3.

The seventh would pay $7.

The eighth would pay $12.

The ninth would pay $18.

The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. ‘Since you are all such good customers,’ he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.’ Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free, but what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everyone’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).

The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).

The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).

The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).

The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).

The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

‘I only got $1out of the $20,’ declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, ‘but he got $10!’

‘Yes, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘I only saved a Dollar , too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I did’

‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks’

‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor’

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

In response to a petition put out by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Tea Party Nation has posted an online petition reminding House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor that the Tea Party represents the true 99 percent of Americans who support freedom and liberty.

In an email announcing the petition, Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips wrote:

For the last three weeks, the far left anarchists of Occupy Wall Street have been the media darlings.  The media has been overlooking almost everything about them, including their insane and often contradictory demands, just so they could say there is a liberal version of the Tea Party.

The Democratic National Committee has now gotten into the act, starting a petition drive to send 100,000 signatures to John Boehner and Eric Cantor, insisting that they surrender to the far left demands of the George Soros driven Occupy Wall Street crowd.

We need to stand up and tell America that the Tea Party is America.  Occupy Wall Street is not.  We need to tell everyone that the Tea Party is the majority.  We are the 99% that love liberty and freedom and we reject they tyranny of mob rule and socialism that Occupy Wall Street wants to impose on America.

On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DSCC) issued an email decrying Cantor’s characterization of the protests as “mobs” and asked supporters to sign their online petition.

“Protestors are assembling in New York and around the country to let billionaires, big oil and big bankers know that we’re not going to let the richest 1% force draconian economic policies and massive cuts to crucial programs on Main Street Americans,” the DSCC email reads.

Several Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, have expressed support for the protests, now spreading across the country.

“We share the anger and frustration of so many Americans who have seen the enormous toll that an unchecked Wall Street has taken on the overwhelming majority of Americans while benefitting the super wealthy,” Reps. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) said last week.

The Tea Party petition simply reads:

Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor,

I stand with the Tea Party.  The Tea Party represents America.  Occupy Wall Street represents socialism, tyranny, failure and oppression.
We want you to stand with us and for America, against the tyranny that the far left would impose on America.  We want you to stand against the poverty and suffering they would impose upon America.

America is the greatest country in the world. Freedom and liberty is what makes America great.  Occupy Wall Street wants to extinguish both.

I urge you to stand for freedom and liberty and stand with the Tea Party.

“If the far left is sending a petition with 100,000 signatures on it we need a petition with 250,000 signatures,” Phillips said.

The petition can be viewed by clicking here.

via Tea Party Nation starts online petition against Occupy Wall Street protests – Spokane Conservative | Examiner.com.

Fake union rent-a-mobs scapegoat Wall Street – National Conservative | Examiner.com.

If you can’t beat them, imitate them.

Apparently desperate to manufacture the illusion of public support for their economy-killing crusade against th free market, the Constitution and everything this country stands for, Democrats have sent in their bought-and-paid-for armies of racist criminals (ACORN) and rioting mobsters (unions) to pretend to be a spontaneous popular uprising like the Tea Parties, only against capitalism.

Of course, the only problem with this–aside from being such a disturbingly fake Hitler-like attack on the national debate–is that it is based on a mass-produced Orwellian lie. As I have demonstrated repeatedly, Wall Street did not destroy the economy. Democrats and their non-stop, illegal nanny state attacks on the free market did.

The problem is that companies have learned to stop supporting liberty-minded patriots (conservatives) who will keep Federal tyranny out of their way, and to start supporting “compassionate” dictators (Democrats) who will throw everyone else under the bus to do their bidding and rig everything in their favor:

• Enron designed the left’s Kyoto economic suicide pact
• Goldman Sachs almost single-handedly engineered Obama’s illegal partisan Wall Street takeover (as I noted here)
• BP funded Obama’s campaign while investing deeply in the “green” energy racket (as I noted here)
• Big Pharma helped design ObamaCare to arrange massive payoffs for themselves at everyone else’s expense
• Wal-Mart attacked its smaller competition by promoting the Democrats’ senselessly destructive Minimum Wage hikes

What’s wrong is not that individuals, companies and special interest groups get to exercise their fundamental constitutional right to petition government for redress of their grievances (lobbying). And speech-trampling campaign finance laws always amount to nothing more than a pointless, often disastrous re-arrangement of the loopholes (as I have explained here).

The problem is government–specifically, the fact that it makes absolutely no attempt at this point to represent the American people or to even pretend to follow the Constitution.

Companies are not the evil Disney villains plotting to rape, pillage and plunder America into oblivion that these sleazy class hysterics of the left relentlessly smear them to be (attack the victim to justify more government control). Most of them run their operations legitimately, while providing critical jobs, products and services to the economy. And the ones that don’t, get punished, either by losing their business to the free market, or by direct government intervention.

Those who seek a world without corporations fail to realize that we already have Amish communities to show us what such a world would look like. They are more than welcome to take their own families back to the Stone Age and live like Luddite fanatics, but there is no need to impose such absurd lunacy on everyone else.

Incidentally, the most hilarious aspect of this phony Astroturf bowel “movement” is the fact that the unions hiring and herding these violent, lawless, bigoted animals into the streets to crucify successful job-creators are the very groups that are forcing American jobs overseas, by making it impossible to fire incompetent workers, making seniority more important than performance and by absolutely raking employers over the coals for personal gain.

Protests against union greed would at least make sense.

And of course, these self-serving leftist parasites then turn around and excoriate their victims for daring to survive their endless assaults (by moving their operations overseas), while blaming “Republican obstructionism” for the economy (for the hate crime of objecting to fiscal suicide, Marxist treason and open war on the Constitution), as if Obama hadn’t already been allowed to spend more than nearly every president in U.S. history combined to fix this Democrat-created economic disaster.

Apparently, Obama is just permanently immune to being held accountable for any amount of failure whatsoever, even though everything he has done to “fix” this economy simply turns out to be another partisan political payoff that in no way stimulates growth (as I noted here).

And by the way, if Democrats now having slightly less than 100% of the power in Washington is suddenly what’s wrong with the economy, then what is to be said of the fact that the economy never tanked in the first place until Democrats took over Congress in 2006 and had full control for over a year?

Continue reading on Examiner.com Fake union rent-a-mobs scapegoat Wall Street – National Conservative | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/fake-union-rent-a-mobs-scapegoat-wall-street#ixzz1aSCgBKbY

Rep Jan Schakowsky speaks to a confused group of bussed in supporters during a Columbus day Occupy Chicago Rally.