SERVING SOME TEA TO THE OCCUPY DC DEMONSTRATORS

Some happy capitalist try to talk and debate with some of the haters at the OCCUPY WALL STREET demonstrations:

OCCUPY DC: Come hear the noise?

I attended the Conservation International fundraising dinner in Washington DC on Thursday night at Union Station. It's an organization that tries to protect biodiversity and sustainable growth. But, that did not stop the radicals and Marxists who are at the center of the OCCUPY WALL STREET organization.
Yes the Leftists, Anarchists, Communists, & Trekkies were out there in protest. What they did not understand is when you stand just a few feet away the acoustics of the building just made their chanting sound like unintelligible background noise. I had to take my camera outside the reception area to get close enough to hear them.


One of the reasons they were there was to protest the fact the Robert Walton CEO of Walmart was one of the people being honored at the dinner. Well, I too had a beef with Walmart. So I figured why not go to the top! So after the dinner I went up to Walton shook his hand and then lodged my complaint. I pointed to my comfortable Earth Spirit shoes and complained that I had bought three pairs of them over the years at Walmart and then they stopped selling them. He smiled and said well maybe we can find you something to replace them.

OCCUPY IDOICY: SOMEBODY NEEDS TO PAY THIS GUYS TUITION BECAUSE...

You would think you can't make this stuff up though the Occupy Wall Street protestors seem to do it a lot:

DAVID BROOKS ON THE REALITY IN WISCONSIN

I don't always agree with New York Times columnist David Brooks but, I think he is spot on in his recent column concerning the goings on in Wisconsin. Here are some of the money quotes:

"Walker’s critics are amusingly Orwellian. They liken the crowd in Madison to the ones in Tunisia and claim to be fighting for democracy. Whatever you might say about Walker, he and the Republican majorities in Wisconsin were elected, and they are doing exactly what they told voters they would do. It’s the Democratic minority that is thwarting the majority will by fleeing to Illinois."

So much for the runaway Democrats who flee our democratic principles and their responsibilities when they can't get their way.

Brooks goes on:

"In Wisconsin and elsewhere, state-union relations are structurally out of whack.That’s because public sector unions and private sector unions are very different creatures. Private sector unions push against the interests of shareholders and management; public sector unions push against the interests of taxpayers. Private sector union members know that their employers could go out of business, so they have an incentive to mitigate their demands; public sector union members work for state monopolies and have no such interest. "

What the Liberal Democrats and their fellow travels in the teacher and other unions have to realize that the bad economy has finally caught up to them. Those of us who have be living under what GE executive Jeff Immelt called "the New normal" have been deal with it for awhile now. It's time for them to face reality and not keep plundering the taxpayers pockets because there is no more money there.