praise from the right

[alice wellintown]

OWS is not a Left movement, but a venting of people from all over the
now very mixed and confused political spectrum who are pissed because
the bubble has burst and they have soap in their eyes. The Left will
claim victory, if, for example, Cuomo taxes the rich and cuts taxes on
the so-called middle class.  But what will that mean? And, why did he
do it? Did he listen to his father or to OWS or to his bean counters?

In Wisconsin,  the Left, or the Unions,  claimed victory after selling
out the teachers who actually had the guts to organize a sick out. The
unions sold the worlers out because all the unions want is the dues
and right to collective bargaign away the worker's rights.

A nurse who works a lot of overtime and is married to a Physician
Assistant, owns some inheriited property in Manhattan and has a decent
portfolio of stocks and bonds, in other words, a rich person by OWS
standards, but a poerson who can't afford to go on vacation just now,
will be taxed to pay for a bunch of things like the 7% Guarenteed Tax
Deferred Anuity, free medical, and pension  teachers get. How fair is
that?  Everyone should have the package the teachers have, but they
everyone doesn't and never will. So the unions, cartells of higher
wages and packages, suck up money by PAC and toss at candidates on
both sides. How fair is that?

It ain't never fair folks. Grow up and deal with it. The good news is
that capitalism has turned its crank and we are on the way up. Hang
on.

TO:  Occupy Wall Street

FROM:  Dead White Male Republican

The conscienceless stock speculator who acquires wealth by swindling
his fellows, by debauching judges and corrupting legislatures, and who
ends his days with the reputation of being among the richest men in
America, exerts over the minds of the rising generation an influence
worse than that of the average murderer or bandit, because his career
is even more dazzling in its success, and even more dangerous in its
effects upon the community.


 [W]hen wealthy men … indulge in reckless speculation—especially if it
is accompanied by dishonesty—they jeopardize not only their own future
but the future of all their innocent fellow citizens, for they expose
the whole business community to panic and distress.


The men of great wealth who are careless of the welfare of the average
citizen of our country are laying up an evil harvest for their own
children. … [T]he growth of misery in any one great class will
ultimately make its baleful effects felt through all classes.


 [Property rights] can only be preserved if we remember that they are
in less jeopardy from the socialist and the anarchist than from the
predatory man of wealth. It has become evident that to refuse to
invoke the power of the nation to restrain the wrongs committed by the
man of great wealth who does evil is not only to neglect the interests
of the public, but is to neglect the interests of the man of means who
acts honorably by his fellows.


The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists
that property shall be the servant and not the master of the
commonwealth.


The government ought not to conduct the business of the country; but
it ought to regulate it so that it shall be conducted in the interest
of the public.


The corporation must be protected, must be given its rights, but it
must be prevented from doing wrong; and its managers must be held in
strict accountability when it does wrong; and it must be deprived of
all secret influence in our public life.


 It is essential that we should wrest the control of the Government
out of the hands of rich men who use it for unhealthy purposes, and
should keep it out of their hands.


 Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is
the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy.


There can be no delusion more fatal to the nation than the delusion
that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in
judging any business or political question.


 We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return
we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly
endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.


 [I]n the long run, we all of us tend to go up or go down together.


—Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

(as curated by Patricia O’Toole)

http://theamericanscholar.org/weve-occupied-this-street-before/


On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> Conservative pundit likes occupy people, somewhat anyway . . . .
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-decadent-left.html?_r=1