Occupy: Destroying jobs, that's what we do best!
Occupy succeeding in killing jobs
For anyone who is paying attention, it is obvious those behind the Occupy movement are not only hard core socialists, but they have an agenda. They want to damage the economy and cause as much disruption as possible.
Now, their work is starting to pay off.
From the Daily Caller:
Police and business leaders in the very liberal city of Oakland, Calif., are pushing back against Democratic political leaders who have abandoned efforts to clear rioting protesters from a downtown park.
Roughly 1,600 protesters loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement have announced plans to shut the city’s downtown area and its critical seaport on Wednesday, and accused the police of injuring one protester who is a military veteran.
Hard-line activists “are getting rewarded for their behavior, and the law-abiding folks, the taxpayers, the 53 percent who are trying to run businesses and promoting the community … are being put out of business,” Phil Tagami, a downtown business developer, told The Daily Caller.
The mayor’s inability to curb the protests, he said, “is a serious blow to not only public safety, but also to public confidence [and] our ability to lease our property, to have businesses operate without disruption,” he said.
The protests, he said, are “hurting not Wall Street, but Main Street.”
“Oakland is a town that has worked hard to improve its reputation … [it is] very multicultural, diverse and tolerant,” partly because it has a growing population of homosexual and lesbian parents who have fled San Francisco, he said. “Those who want to have a family move to Oakland,” he said.
City residents are also trying to push back against Oakland Mayor Jean Quan.
A group of nearly 100 residents has begun a recall petition charging the mayor with failing to protect the city, and with lacking a “rational solution to mitigate the chaos.”
In New York, at Wall Street, the Occupy Wall Street mob is finally costing people their jobs.
From Ny.Eater.com:
Marc Epstein, owner of the five-month-old Milk Street Cafe in the FiDi, says that he was forced to lay off 21 staff members earlier this week because the Occupy Wall Street movement is hurting his business.
DNA Info reports that sales at the restaurant have dropped 30% since the protests started. Epstein partially blames the police barricades that are in front of his cafe, but also the fact that there just aren't a lot of lunchers in the FiDi these days:
Now, Wall Street is deserted....The only people who walk down Wall Street are people who have to walk down Wall Street. It's transformed from a beautiful pedestrian mall to a police siege.
He's contacting the city about getting those barricades moved, but Epstein thinks his business could shutter in about three weeks if nothing changes.
Congratulations Occupy Wall Street. You are achieving your goals. You are costing people their jobs.
Tags: Occupy, costing, jobs, movement, people, street, unemployed, wall
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Permalink Reply by Larry Cumbie on -
And our government, federal, state and local is just going to stand by and let it happen because......"It is the will of the people?" No, it is the will of the people that this poorest excuse for a President in the history of the country leave office immediately. It is the will of the people that the opposition party (Republican) have a qualified candidate ready to go. It is the will of the people that Constitutional sanity be restored to Washington and every state house. It is the will of the people that Washington get on with the business of government and let the business community get on with the REAL business of America: American business!
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Permalink Reply by Doug Nicholson on -
Well said, Larry!
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Permalink Reply by Debrajoe Smith-Beatty on
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Interesting.
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Permalink Reply by glenn h burke on -
more to the point my these kid have nothing better to then this wow ,I worked my why though school 5 degs and now I'm worth 1.2 mil get a dam job .
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Permalink Reply by Victoria Knox on -
Mark: In addition to the list compiled by The Blaze we should also take note of the corporations that are donating goods and services to OWS. Like Shop Rite supermarkets sent over cases of bottled water. And at least one chef at a downtown NYC hotel is cooking for the Zuccotti Park encampment. Whole Foods posted something on Facebook, and I commented that their 14th Street & University Place location was too close to the vermin occupying Zuccotti Park and that I would be doing my shopping uptown at the 86th St. Fairway. If the corporate honchos at Whole Foods (it is run by a Libertarian) realize that they may be losing customers then they might goose Bloomberg to shut this thing down, already.
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Permalink Reply by Roland C. Cartier Jr on -
I would'nt donate a dang thing let them deal with their own demise. They made their bed now sleep in it!
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Permalink Reply by John Smith on -
I could clear the streets in one day with a platoon of Marines...
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Permalink Reply by George Graham on -
A platoon of Marines would indeed clear the street in probably less that one day. The only problem is using our federal troops for civilian law enforcement is a violation of Posse Comitatus. On the other hand, a constitutional militia under the control of the state's governor would have the same effect and would be entirely constitutional.
Most Americans only understand the phrase; “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” while ignoring the preceding phrase, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state…”
The Founders didn’t say a militia would be nice to have. Rather they said, to paraphrase, if Americans want to maintain a system of freedom and liberty, a well regulated militia is necessary.
Click this link to read about the Swiss Militia - the model our Founders used when constructing our Constitution.
http://itistreason.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/the-swiss-militia-a-mod...
Oh, BTW, our National Guard is NOT the militia. Especially when they fall under federal control.
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Permalink Reply by Roland C. Cartier Jr on
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As an Oathkeeper I firmly believe that when the rest of our citizens are being affected by this mess it should be cleared ASAP! Semper Fi! Already tweeted and done!
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Permalink Reply by Debra Rae steinman on
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Thank you, I tweeted it already!
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Permalink Reply by Debra Rae steinman on
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I mean, I tweeted it as soon as I read your link :)
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Permalink Reply by JULIE AMOS on
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Theses people are in league with the devil ! Can they really honestly think to end Capitalism will give them a better life !?! Here in St. Joseph , Mo. , they have been trying to get a rally going for weeks , fortunately very people have attended . If I thought it would not be dangerous to go there and point out the facts about the Revolutionaries behind this movement , I would go and talk to them , but there might be a few crazies . Interestingly the man who started it here came from Boston to get it going. These people are insane , they want to create violence,chaos I think to usher in Martial Law so the fraud in the White House can be king of America. On GBTV , I saw a beautiful poem , a wake up poem by Lawrence Tribble - AWAKEN- One man awake , awakens another . The second awakens his next door brother . The three awake can rouse a town , by turning the whole place upside down . The many awake can cause such a fuss , it finally awakens the rest of us. One man up with dawn in his eyes surely then multilplies . This should be our song to the sheeple of America !
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