The most ironic moment in OWS to date

[Lithium381]

NYC Bum: O snap, theyre handing out free food in the park. Time to blow my EBT on H&B, heroin, the liquor store, or just withdraw all of it from the ATM. I love NYC!

not sure if the free food in the park had anything to do with the decision making process there, that may have been the status quo.

 

[PeshakJang]

Care to provide any evidence at all for these 100s of thousands of dollars being siphoned off? TIA!

You are a well known bullshitter if it fits your agenda besides having chronic issues with reality.

If I'm a well-known bullshitter, does that make you the outhouse?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203687504577000320434317092.html

Once a rag-tag group that relied on donated pizzas for sustenance, the protesters camped out in a Lower Manhattan park are grappling with a new problem: how to manage and spend the nearly $500,000 they've raised in five weeks.
Donors have showered the Occupy Wall Street protesters with more cash than many expected, and that has prompted a flurry of requests for spending. It has also spurred members of a movement that has thus far prided itself on its decentralized structure to consider steps that would require the formation of a real organization, with officers and a board of directors.

So they start protesting corporations, refuse to have any centralized leadership, and in a matter of weeks they are talking about establishing a board of directors to oversee their finance committee.

Once donations started pouring in, staffers met with members of Occupy Wall Street's finance committee and told them they needed to start keeping receipts and accounting for spending. They now work with a lawyer and an accountant to track finances and are attempting to release a full cash-flow statement online.

So, who's got the debit card?


Not to mention the flood of accounts coming out recently about door-to-door solicitations of donations for fake causes, with the money going straight to OWS.


They managed to turn from a bunch of rag-tag hipsters into a global, corrupt corporation in only a few weeks... and the IRS doesn't even know they exist! I'll bet GS will be wanting to ask how they did it!

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

$500,000 raised in 5 weeks and they can't afford to feed at few homeless? And they have the audacity to preach about corporate greed and economic disparity...give me a break.

 

[Ldir]

$500,000 raised in 5 weeks and they can't afford to feed at few homeless? And they have the audacity to preach about corporate greed and economic disparity...give me a break.

Give us a break. Lots of Wall Street firms make that in an hour. Do they open their cafeterias to the homeless?

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Give us a break.

Hypocrites don't deserve a break.

Lots of Wall Street firms make that in an hour. Do they open their cafeterias to the homeless?

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/charities-struggle-with-smaller-wall-st-donations/
"The changing nature of Wall Street giving has touched many corners of the nonprofit world. While companies represent a small percentage of overall philanthropy, financial firms accounted for the largest amount of corporate cash donations in 2010, roughly $2.11 billion, according to the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, a group backed by various industries that aim to promote their giving.

The pullback is most problematic for charities with a financial bent, like those that counsel low-income borrowers or train aspiring entrepreneurs. Wall Street has historically been the main source of money for such organizations."

 

[Ldir]

Hypocrites don't deserve a break. I'll give you one anyway. That's how I roll.



http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/charities-struggle-with-smaller-wall-st-donations/
"The changing nature of Wall Street giving has touched many corners of the nonprofit world. While companies represent a small percentage of overall philanthropy, financial firms accounted for the largest amount of corporate cash donations in 2010, roughly $2.11 billion, according to the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, a group backed by various industries that aim to promote their giving.

The pullback is most problematic for charities with a financial bent, like those that counsel low-income borrowers or train aspiring entrepreneurs. Wall Street has historically been the main source of money for such organizations."

They should. The make a million times as much as OWS. So why don't they open their cafeterias to the homeless? They can afford it.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

They should. The make a million times as much as OWS. So why don't they open their cafeterias to the homeless? They can afford it.

OWS raised only a paltry $500,000 in 3 weeks. Tell me...just how many millions do you think they need in their Paypal account before they should feel compelled to spend a nickel to help the economically disadvantaged among them?

And please remind me again...what is it that OWS is protesting? Greed? Economic disparity?

 

[airdata]

The most ironic thing about OWS is the people speaking out against it.

You can tell these people because they will say things like hippy over and over or try to make jokes about the #occupy movement.


These people likely don't know how banking works, or to the extent that government positions are bought and sold. That or they don't care. In either case, it really puts them in a position where they don't really have any right speaking on any of it since they're clueless.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

The most ironic thing about OWS is the people speaking out against it.

You can tell these people because they will say things like hippy over and over or try to make jokes about the #occupy movement.

Reminds me of all those yucks we got calling people 'teabaggers'...ah, now those were the good ol' days.

 

[Ldir]

OWS raised only a paltry $500,000 in 3 weeks. Tell me...just how many millions do you think they need in their Paypal account before they should feel compelled to spend a nickel to help the economically disadvantaged among them?

Lots of Wall Street companies earn a million times that much. How many billions more do they need before they open their cafeterias to homeless?

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Lots of Wall Street companies earn a million times that much. How many billions more do they need before they open their cafeterias to homeless?

Sigh. Despite the billions they give to charities, I personally wish Wall Street would help out directly with feeding the homeless there. OWS sure as hell isn't going to do it.

 

[Nebor]

Lots of Wall Street companies earn a million times that much. How many billions more do they need before they open their cafeterias to homeless?

:hmm:

 

[Lithium381]

OWS raised only a paltry $500,000 in 3 weeks. Tell me...just how many millions do you think they need in their Paypal account before they should feel compelled to spend a nickel to help the economically disadvantaged among them?

And please remind me again...what is it that OWS is protesting? Greed? Economic disparity?

here we go again, trying to draw a line in the sand.... define "fair share". how much is "enough" . . .