Another example of why Occupy Wall Street is a bunch of morons

This is a very short post.  It’s a picture I took the other day in Seattle.  I think it is a pretty clear example of what so many of the people in this group are like.  We blame bankers and financial industry “big wigs” for causing an economic collapse that was, as usual, caused by government being…… well, government. 

This is how they like to get their message across.

Herman Cains 9-9-9 fumble…. and recovery?

Herman Cain was the first GOP Presidential candidate to release any sort of detailed plan for what he would do as President to help the economy out, but should he have been?
Yes, of course.  He has made tremendous headway with this plan, and it’s honestly not THAT good of a plan.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m actually a Cain supporter.  I’ve listened to his radio show off and on for years.  I’d have listened more if my schedule would have allowed it.  The man is smart.  He’s practical.  He knows things. 
Putting that aside for a moment, 9-9-9 is an abortion of a plan.  I’m STILL supporting him, because I don’t think he’ll get it passed as is, and I think with some changes and modifications it will be much more close to what his real goal is anyhow.  That’s the Fairtax, which is exactly what this nation needs. 
The reasons I say the 9-9-9 plan isn’t good are threefold.  First, you’re adding an additional tax without repealing another.  I love the fact that the overall tax rates go down.  I love the fact that it’s plain, simple, and easy.  I love the fact that it would replace a 10,000 page monstrosity of a tax code with something more like a leaflet.  I hate the idea of the feds having another avenue to get money.  I know that the Cain plan is to get this, then move to the Fairtax, completely eliminating the income tax.  What if he can’t do that while in office?  What if he dies in office and his VP disagrees?  What if he plans it for his second term and gets defeated (which I would not see happening – in Cain wins this one, he will be in for 8 year, I promise you, and we’ll all miss him when he’s gone). 
You see my point?  If they get another tax path, there will be very few in DC who will let go. They will keep it, and slowly it will increase and have extra pages added until it’s the same monster we have, only it will be attacking on an additional front.  Not what we need.
Next, while it’s catchy as can be to say 9-9-9 all the time, it’s not a serious plan.  I believe Cain feels like it’s a serious plan right now, or perhaps he feels like it’s an avenue to a serious plan. He’s wrong.  Brilliant, but wrong.  It has given him one hell of a boost in the ratings, but I believe he could have gotten that same boost by touting the Fairtax.  I also believe he should be touting the Fairtax.  Come up with a catchy phrase.  Like “fairness in taxation – not just for the Democrats anymore”.  Sounds good to me.  Fairness, and equality in what we pay.  What a wonderful idea.  Unlike the Obama idea of “fairness”, it doesn’t increase the taxes I pay to give someone else more money back at the end of the year who hasn’t paid anything.  I can dig it.
Third and final.  What happens when he gets into office and tries to push this through?  I don’t believe for a moment that he’ll be able to get 9-9-9 through Congress. I don’t think he could get the Fairtax through right now, either, but the Fairtax is a plan with $20 million in research backing it.  Even the people that don’t support it know that it could work.  At least, the ones who are honest and have more brains than Hank Johnson.  Hopefully, he’s one of a kind.  If a legitimate plan, strongly backed and well researched, hasn’t passed yet, or even been legitimately debated, how in the world can he expect to get this new plan passed through?
What does he need to do for a recovery?  Easy.  He needs to add to the 9-9-9 plan.  Specific, spelled out time tables to transition to the Fairtax and repeal income tax permanently.  It must be included as part of the bill.  It must be passed with the rest of the plan.  To do otherwise leaves us wide open to additional taxation, not a change in taxation.
It it's current form, the 9-9-9 plan simply isn’t a plan that would work.  Period.  That' doesn’t mean I’m taking my support elsewhere, because I believe that Cain, Ron Paul, or Newt Gingrich are the only candidates with what it takes to be a strong, conservative leader and fix some of the things that are broken.  Of those three, I believe that Cain is the only one with a chance to win.  I will be caucusing for him, and I will do what I can to see him in office. 
Heck, if I had my way, I’d have a beer with him election night after he kicks Obama’s lower Obama!

Occupy <insert city here> protests

Is it just me, or does it seem that the Occupy Wall Street crown gets a little more out of line each and every day?

Lets start with sheer volume.  The Tea Party Patriots movement that spawned protests all across the nation a few years back had 0 arrests attributed to it.  The OWS folks have (last numbers I got were this morning ) 1525.  That’s a lot of people being extremely stupid for a group that’s supposed to be protesting against corporate control and greed. 

Add that to the fact that you can go to any OWS protest in whatever city you find (me being local to the Seattle area, I see these schmucks out at Westlake Center every morning on my way to work – something they should try) and ask them what they are protesting.  Some of them will know the generic answer “Corporate Greed”.  Not all of them, which is really sad since it’s written on their signs, but some of them will get it.  Now, ask them some more questions.  Define corporate greed.  What do corporations do that makes them greedy?  Are all corporations greedy, or just some?  What about Apple?  Are they a greedy corporation? 

I see you’re holding an iPhone.  Does that mean you’re supporting corporate greed?  I see you’re wearing an Abercrombie shirt.  Oh, I couldn’t help but notice those Nike shoes you’re wearing.  Do you choose which corporations you support, or do you just go with the current trends and support whoever is coolest, because the cool are allowed to be greedy?

I trust you all are starting to see the point?  The Occupy Wall Street Movement, in itself, is not such a bad idea.  Corporations have caused damage by using their lobbiests in DC to try to get themselves into advantageous positions.  That is a bad thing.  OWS folks, you’re right!  The problem is, they have done so because the Government allows, even encourages and rewards, such behavior.  If I had the money to lobby for something that was advantageous to my business, don’t you think I’d do so?  Of course.  I’d be stupid not to.  These corporations that the OWS’s are complaining about would also be stupid not to.  It’s business, and it’s a competition.  That’s why iPhones don’t cost $1000.  If they did, you’d all buy Android devices instead.  DUH!

If these OWS folks want to really make a change, they need to march on DC.  March on the Capital. Camp on Pennsylvania Avenue. Protest in front of the White House.  All the little state branches should be occupying their state capitals.  The GOVERNMENT controls things in this country, and they do a piss poor job of it, I might add.  I have managed and owned several businesses.  The one thing they all had in common was that I was over-regulated, and spent far more time doing ridiculous loads of paperwork, often redundant, to send in to various government agencies, where people who are paid by the taxes that you and I pay would sift through it (eventually) and then do whatever needed to be done with it.  Whatever needed to be done often resulted in me paying them more money. 

Occupy Wall Street figured out the problem, but blamed some of the other victims because the OWSers aren’t rich and the other victims are.  Sounds like Obama rhetoric to me.  We’ve been hearing “blame the rich” for 3 years. Blame them long enough and they’ll find somewhere else to live.  They who are you going to work for?

You can occupy whatever you want.  Without the “evil rich”, you’re going to have a hard time finding a job, eating, or doing much of anything else.  Enjoy!

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