Occupy Wall Street Protests not working? What do you think?

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The deficit is a real problem. But its not a CURRENT problem.

Every economist under is telling the government to spend money NOW, and worry about paying down the deficit later once we're out of the recession. The government is one of the single biggest spenders in the US economy. When the government spends money, like any entity that spends money, it creates demand and jobs. Its not like we don't have things to spend money on either. Doing things like improving our infrastructure and making investments in green energy (reminder: Solyndra was funded under Bush's watch and supported by many Republicans as well as democrats. It also made up only one percent of the total funds going to Green Energy) WILL create jobs, and in the case of certain infrastructure projects such as a railway system, would create permanent jobs such as railway maintinence, etc.

We will have to pay down our deficit. But a good way of doing that is by getting out of this recession (which would increase consumer spending and thus increase government revenue), ending two trillion dollar ways (ones already ending, though Republican are refusing to count that as savings), and ending the Bush tax cuts. These three things I just listed are the cause of half of our deficit. Of course, we can't end the tax cuts in the middle of a recession, just like we shouldn't cut spending in the middle of a recession, because both would hurt the economy. We also need to cut discretionary spending and military spending (just cutting that down to 2007 levels would save us a trillion over a decade) and fix medicare (purposefully vague on this because this is a whole issue in and of itself. Needless to say I don't support vouchers, I do support medicare for all, which would be cheaper by virtue of having a much larger, more healthy group of people to draw money from).

There's more I'd like to say, but I've things to do. I am actually fairly well off, I might add. You don't have to be poor or lazy to support this movement. You just have to have the perspective that the system is screwed up. Oddly I didn't even touch on that here.


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Regarding the protesters being white, first of all not everywhere, in Philadelphia there are more black protestors, but Whites are perhaps more driven to succeed than other races."


And dude, please. This is racist. Whites are no more "driven to suceed" than other races. I know some pretty lazy whites.