Sorry - I tried to watch it, I really did. But as soon as he said that the NYPD were sending down criminals to discredit them I shut it down. I just couldn't wrap my mind around "okay, Mad Dog - we're going to let you out of pre-trial confinement to live among the protesters for a few days. Don't forget to come back now!"
Man, the prisons and corporations and government are ONE! The fact that you can't see this show's how slaved you are to their system, man.
Hey, remember when you guys were claiming at every crazy Tea Partier was a plant? Because I remember.
The NYPD sent in criminals to make the movement look bad? Bloomberg may be an asshole, but that's a bit of a stretch. I hope they've got brighter fellows than that defending Occupy.
Lets say that the occupiers got their wish and somehow all big corporations are shut down. What kind of world do they think they would be living in then? Could the infrastructure of small mom and pop restaraunts, grocery stores, etc give the people the necessities of life. We would immediately be in a post apocalyptic hell world.
Funny, I don't remember my town being a "post apocalyptic hell world" in the days prior to Super Wal-Marts. You went to the local grocery store (Warehouse Market, Homeland, Skaggs) for your food. And would society really collapse if Olive Garden went down? Let's ask Mewa about that one.....
I agree that Enlisted Person is more than a little retarded. While he may have stumbled onto it accidentally, he has a point. Norfolk Southern, BNSF, CSX, Union Pacific, Schneider National, J.B. Hunt, and Swift are pretty big and important companies. Combined, they haul about 70% of the heavy freight in this nation. My local mom & pop grocery store would have a hard time staying in business if they can't get goods to sell.
When I was a kid, there were 4 grocery stores in my home town and they were all locally owned mom and pop stores. Today, there are 2 supermarkets and they both belong to chains: Fasmart and Food City.
Sears has been around for a long time and they didn't destroy mom and pops. And they were just as much hated in their day.
Any one of you ever read "Atlas Shrugged"? It was first published in 1957 and yet it describes exactly what's going on today. We need the big companies to function or there won't be a country. We can't go back to what it was a hundred or more years ago because we were an agricultural nation. Big corperations own the farms now and hire Mexicans, not some loser locals, to work on them. If transportation stopped bringing goods, then in three days we would be looking at empty grocery stores. Just a little food for thought. YES the pun was intended.
Large corporations are needed, and I say that as someone who tries to do business with small, locally owned companies on the retail consumer end of things as often as possible. A population our size and level of technological development needs long-distance commerce and good transportation and communications infrastructure, and the subset of the economic left that always leaps to "big is bad" (I'm reminded of a movement while I was in college to boycott Citibank in which nearly all of the arguments revolved around "they're big, and therefore evil!") is idiotic.
Just out of curiosity, how does food selection and freshness compare between the current situation and the old situation?
Bear in mind I haven't lived in that town since I was 18. In the old stores, freshness was fine. Probably more selection today because the new stores are bigger and there are more products on the market today.
Of course not! Don't be ridiculous! They just think they're entitled to the goods and services of those corporations for free.
