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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (449181)	10/4/2011 11:01:02 PM
From: DMaA	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Here's the salient difference for me. Every where the Tea Party rallied they left the place cleaner than they found it. These animals are defecating in the street.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (449181)	10/4/2011 11:51:45 PM
From: alanrs	Respond to of 793914

"There is an opportunity for the Tea Party people to do some economic education and win over some of the anti-Wall St crowd, it seems to me." I totally agree. I've read the various demands and they are ridiculous, but the underlying sentiment isn't. What I hear is anger at the way things are, the fact that nobody seems to looking out for the good of the country. My impression is that most of the demonstrators are young so they latch on to emotional demands/solutions. The message I get is "I'm not sure exactly how things should be, but I'm sure how they are right now isn't it". A feeling of having been abandoned by society, left to their own devices, tricked. Sure, if one gets a degree in Comparative Sanskrit it's tough to get a job, but even that is part of having been abandoned since they've been taught/told to do just that, study whatever suits you, non-competitive everybody just get along, ribbons all around for participating, only to find out that all that just isn't so. Their target is fuzzy, their demands are uninformed (again, also part of being let down since they were either taught no economics at all or, more likely, bad economics). And I'm even okay with their target in that wall street has become just another arm of the government (or maybe the other way around). To paraphrase the Mayor of Chicago, "never let an angry mob go to waste". A little economics might go a long way. Don't know how one would get that message through. Maybe by prosecuting some of the more egregious fraud, teaching by example. I'm not saying this well, another half baked thought when I should be in bed sleeping. Maybe it will clarify itself later. Watched the third 2 hour installment of the PBS show on prohibition, missed the first two parts. Some great old footage. Seemed to recognize some of the people I run into on these threads, just to be a little snarky. ARS

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (449181)	10/5/2011 2:19:03 AM
From: SmoothSail	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793914

an opportunity for the Tea Party people to do some economic education and win over some of the anti-Wall St crowd, it seems to me. Might be ... if they knew why they were there in the first place. They're protesting against corporations, people who have money, banks, etc., but they don't know anymore than that. A lot of those that are participating are there only because of the emails that MoveOn.org and Media Matters are sending out asking them to show up - and a lot of them are being paid to be there.