The Demands of Occupy Wall Street

[WinePusher]

People at occupy wall street have released unofficial lists of demands here and there. There are apparently many out there and they don't seem to correspond to eachtother, but here's one unofficial list of demands:

-Demand 1: 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 2: 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 3: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
-Demand 4: Free college education.
-Demand 5: 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 6: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
-Demand 7: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of Americas nuclear power plants.
-Demand 8: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
-Demand 9: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
-Demand 10: 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 11: 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 dont mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
-Demand 12: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
-Demand 13: 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.

http://toddkinsey.com/blog/2011/10/08/o ... f-demands/

1) What do you make of these demands? Are they reasonable or unreasonable?
2) In a list of demands seperate from this list, OWS protestors have expressed disapproval towards the ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commision. Do you agree or disagree with the ruling?
3) Although absent from the list of demands, OWS have expressed disdainment towards what they percieve to be a growing gap between the top 1% of society and the remaining 99% of society. What is the truth regarding wealth and income inequality?

[otseng]

WinePusher and Slopeshoulder, I am quite tired of the bickering between you two. As seasoned regulars here, I would expect better behavior from the both of you.

Either way, I'm a better person for your intervention...NOT.
(Note: the NOT connotes humor and contradiction, so I'm really saying I'm not a better person and that your intervention is useless to me. I hope this parenthetical clarification has been useful).

Folks, IMHO, I am really GOOD at what I just did. Oh yeah, you know what I'm talkin' about. Hell yeah!!
Dang that was fun!!
Bed time...

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Congratulations, you managed to type up an entire post on here without cussing. Must have been so difficult for you.

Right, I forgot. You don't have a 'command' of rhetorical devices or vocabulary so it really shouldn't be of any surpise that you'd ask such a question like this. But it's not my job to educate you in basic vocabulary Slopeshoulder, go get the motivation to do it yourself.

Ask him next time before you run around handing out worthless, unwanted advice.

You have a superb command of grammar? You really don't because paragraphs fall under the category of grammar and you admitted here that you don't know that, so your 'command' of grammar is extraordinarily weak.

You should go study actual writing so you can incorporate actual style into your posts. According to actual writing standards, what you wrote is considered trash, not 'stylistic flourish.'

Of course I couldn't resist. You flaunt your hundreds of capitalization, punctuation and grammatical errors around this forum and have the nerve to lecture a new member on the subject of capitalization and punctuation? And you do it in such an arrogant manner. And I don't despise you. I don't care about you. I do know that you despise many people on here as evidenced by all your juvenille cussing, but that's your problem. I'd hate myself if I was like you and despised people over the internet .

All you're doing is throwing out words you don't understand since you possess no knowledge of politics or political ideologies.

What did you just do? Publicily display your arrogance. Yea, you are extremely good at doing that. And you thought it was fun, you have no shame .

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