OCCUPIED

Wall Street has had some unruly guests lately who want to be a voice against economic disparity.

We can agree on the premise but disagree about how to fix the problem.

And here's a laugh.  The official line now being floated in the media...is that the youthful protesters are a "Tea Party-esque" national movement leaning toward the liberal end of the spectrum.

Huh?  Occupiers are liberal Tea Party-ers?  I don't think so.  Tea Party rallies did not break the law, they chose to work within the system, they knew why they had assembled, and they were NOT paid to attend rallies.

Besides, isn't it interesting that the Occupiers even COMPARE themselves to the Tea Party?  Thought the Tea Party was racist, violent, and ignorant.

RACIST

Even though that brand was repeatedly thrown against the Tea Party, it's doubtful that it ever stuck.  Why?  Actions speak louder.

In 2010, Tea Party-ers voted in an Indian-American Governor of South Carolina, the first Latina Governor of New Mexico, a Cuban-American Senator in Florida, and TWO conservative African-American Congressmen (South Carolina and Florida).  AND it's been huge fun to watch these perceived racists "RAISE CAIN".  Perhaps the other side, then,  could explain why they single out a certain group of people to defame.

America was born to tolerate disagreement.  And I disagree with the stated course of taking someone else's wealth for a more "just" society...when half the country does not pay income tax.  One wonders who is running the "just" scale.  And as has been reported over and over, if ALL the money was taken from the top 2% of Americans, it would not dent the debt.  So why make Custer's last stand on top of the rich?  Something else is in play.

VIOLENT

The only violence to report about the Tea Party were a couple of provoked skirmishes when SEIU thugs attacked individual Tea Party-ers.  But now Occupiers have been arrested for their rowdy blocking of the Brooklyn Bridge and 700 were carried away.  Wonder...if the Tea Party had caused such civil disobedience, would New Yorkers have cheered the inconvenience?

IGNORANT

Let's see...how would I prove a lack of ignorance?  Yeesh.  I just know that the Tea Party movement began as a reaction to the last two administrations and their increasing regulation/spending/size of government.  The faces in the TP crowd were all ages, but many were older; retired folks can turn out in the middle of the day and they know how their taxes have been wasted and why debt cripples.  Speaking for myself, it takes a lot to get this old girl up and out of her faux leather recliner...but concern for country is motivating and needs no coaching.  Tea Party-ers understand their cause.  And when they went to the national rally in DC, they revealed their commitment by picking up the tab.

On the other hand, the Restoring Sanity Rally saw big buses bringing in people and providing lunches and some union workers were even paid for the day.  While Tea Party rubes are thought to be uninformed, many of the Occupiers interviewed revealed nonsensical platitudes.  One interviewer asked what they wanted if capitalism were to be replaced.  The young man's blank stare revealed that he apparently hadn't read the CliffsNotes on that question.  They can't seem to get their rhetoric around what they want, so here's a MSNBC reporter coaching their fuzzy focus.   http://www.breitbart.tv/nbc-news-ratigan-to-occupy-wall-st-protesters-i-love-what-youre-doing/

C'mon.  Let's get serious.  We have anarchists in the streets who are the polar opposite of the people who rallied peacefully and then picked up their trash as they left. Comparisons to the Tea Party are ridiculous.

Here we have youth whose anger is stoked and manipulated, while the government they elected coddles them over and over.  Yes, you can stay on Daddy's insurance till you are twenty-six.  Yes, you can have another extension of unemployment for two years.  Yes, you deserve a guaranteed house and job.  Yes, the rich are mean not to share and you should hate them.  This unconscionable madness cripples people.

Sure there are some sincere young people in the streets looking for a cause in order to "make a difference".  They get it right when they say abuse of the system exists.  We just don't want to swing the pendulum clear to Cuba.  Let's reform, not completely overhaul the system.  Youth may be naive and predictably passionate about something they haven't lived yet, but every generation has a learning curve.  The youth are not what we worry about.  

We need to be aware of other forces that would use this disruption for a darker purpose.  These are dangerous times, America.  Congress needs to fix our inequities and loopholes before The Land of the Free tumps over.