I hope I don’t need to write about how these are so NOT similar to the Tea Party movement.
Instead I direct you to the final sentence in a Washington Post story.
Nearby, someone had set up a board for people to write suggestions for what the movement’s goal should be.
They included calls to “demand jobs for all,” to “talk about imperialism,” to “talk about campaign finance reform” and to “give out chalk to everyone to write slogans on all walls as we march.”
So basically the protesters want to “talk” or they want “free goods” or they want you to provide them with a job. [side note: The title of the article is "Wall Street protesters hope to plant seeds of a national cause". FREE CHALK!]
Contrast that with a Reagan QOTD from JK.
You grew up in a different world,” the student said. “Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers. …” Taking advantage of a pause in the student’s litany, Reagan said, “You’re right. We didn’t have those things when we were young. We invented them.”
Luckily this country is still made of people like that and the Tea Party attests to that. Those Wall Street Protesters are not the norm and Victor Davis Hanson reminds us of what this country will do very soon. He walks through a lot of reasons, but this rings very true.
When Obama leaves office, there will be a sense of psychological release in the business community that will lead to a far greater stimulus than printing more money.
While I wasn’t old enough to pay too much attention to Vietnam War protests but do remember the riots after MLK’s killing, I look at these “crowds” and look at a bunch of (generally) rich, white college age students and aging hippies and the occasional passersby.
The contrast to the Tea Party couldn’t be any more clear: TP folks wanted to limit spending and govt. reach and OWS (Occupy Wall Street) regurgitate slogans attacking successful people with no coherence.
Should be an interesting fall!