The Demands of Occupy Wall Street have now been published

[FCTP]

Here they are.  Shall we give them their demands?  

 

From the Occupy Wall Street website, via Picket and Loesch:

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.

 

[Bob Collins]

This is NOT their official list of demands only one persons forum blog. 

Admin note: This is not an official list of demands.  This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org.  This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly.  There is NO official list of demands.

[Marty Cleghorn]

I would have thought this was a joke but after a month of observing these losers I believe it.  I had no idea my parents raised 7 children with such good principles, work ethic and intelligence.  Of course that was more than 20 years ago before the new crop of politically correct, failure-to-educate systems were fully in place!

[Kurt R Langenfeld]

I HAVE ONLY ONE THING TO DAY

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE LIVING HERE GO SOME PLACE WHERE Y'ALL CAN ENJOY COMMUNISM BECAUSE WE WON'T TOLARATE IT HERE.

[JL Gawlik]

I L❤VE this! A person who actually lived under Socialism/Communism talks to 'useful idiots' on OWSNYC:

Communism Survivor Meets Occupy Wall Street:

Socialism loses another skirmish with reality.

by  John Hayward

10/27/2011

A former Soviet citizen decided to ask some Occupy Wall Street characters holding “FIGHT FOR SOCIALISM” signs what they think socialism is.  Hilarity ensues, as we learn socialism means “we wouldn’t have people unemployed,” and the difference between North and South Korea is that “workers in North Korea get paid.”

 For some reason i can not embed the video go to: 

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47150

One of the defining characteristics of the OWS crowd, and one of the (non-violent) things that sets them so far apart from the Tea Party, is that OWS people generally have no idea what they’re talking about – a point made even more powerfully, and almost as humorously, by OWS’ encounter with Peter Schiff.  They’re not just “wrong,” they’re delusional. 

This is partially a result of sustained exposure to our public education system and media, but also a natural result of single-minded focus on a perceived problem without making any real effort to understand it, or think seriously about the “solutions” and their ramifications.  That’s one reason the OWS crowd is so completely uninterested in exploring Big Government’s role in all the stuff they’re upset about.  Children expect parents to attend their needs when they cry. 

A more thoughtful exploration of Occupy Wall Street’s complaints would reveal that the “parents” are a major part of the problem.  That notion terrifies children, so they do not grapple with it.  Unruly protests by small groups don’t “persuade” many individual citizens – certainly not on the scale necessary to implement collectivism “voluntarily.” That’s impossible anyway, because collectivism always requires massive amounts of coercive force.  Unruly protests by small groups do have a chance of attracting the attention of those who can deploy massive amounts of coercive force.

Problem = too many poor people and too many rich people.  Solution = take from rich, give to poor.  They don’t waste much time contemplating the mechanism necessary to implement that solution.  The “Occupiers” dream of a world in which their notion of morality will be imposed.  They trust their brilliant demigod leaders to handle all the messy details.

“Abolishing capitalism” means abolishing liberty.  These people are okay with that. They’ll soon recover from losing another skirmish with reality.

[Peter Plastridge]

Like I said, are these people we are educating in our school system?? God help us. They probably don't even understand that a corporation is just a form of ownership and that anyone can form a corporation, profit or non profit.

[Isirio Abelon]

BOO....HOO...... HOW ABOUT OUR DEMANDS. (1). WE DEMAND THAT THESE MORONS GET A JOB TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE IN TAXES.  (2). WE DEMAND THAT THESE MORONS MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS. (3). WE DEMAND THAT THESE MORONS TO LEAVE THIS COUNTRY IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT. (4) WE DEMAND THAT THE MEDIA SHOULD IGNORE THEM. (Some of them can not even speak English when they get interviewed by the Media) %$#@*duhh... (5) DEMAND #5, SEE DEMAND #1.  ADIOS. 

[Tracy]

Peter speaking of carrots and eggs, I saw an interview last night where an occupy lady complained that everything we have comes from a corporation.From food(how dare those evil farmers grow food for us!!!) to clothes to whatever, she complained about it all...I wondered when she was going to remedy her situation by growing her own food, sewing her own clothes, and building her own technologies such as phones and cars and fancy Ipads and such. Not holding out much hope for that though....

[Peter Plastridge]

These demands are a product of the failed education system of this country.  These are the same people that when you ask them where the carrots or the eggs come from they will answer the grocery store.  They have no clue about production work and compensation.

[Mary Jane Travis]

what are they thinking?? (not) -They want everything given to them, erase all debts that THEY incurred,  and in turn they do nothing to support themselves and others. Twenty $ an hour for min. wage?? Even McDonald's won't survive.   Who is to protect our country from "the bad guys" when we have open borders. ?? They certainly won't join the military. Just gimme, gimme, gimme and continue to be slobs  at OW and destroying property, and others' livelihood -oh, and continue collecting  money for protesting

 

[Robert G. Deardorff]

Of course I could not support Demand one, two three, five, seven, eight, and nine. However, I would like to see Banking, Monetary, Money

1.      Merge Federal Reserve inside the Department of Treasury.

2.      The Federal Reserve subject to scrutiny of the Office of Budget and Management.

3.      Redeem dollar over a period of 112-years replacing it w/ U.S. Gold & Silver Certificates

4.      Distribute U.S. Gold/Silver Certificates simultaneously at the same rate redeemed dollar are withdrawn over a period of 112 years. [1]

5.      End The Central Banking-Money Inflation System, with its ever increasing 50-percent taxes, plus constricting regulations that have all but ruined the American Economy.

 

Oh but, I said all that stuff over thirty-five years ago. Gee how time goes by, and you won't read a think about any of it in the Wall Street Journal, see it on Fox or locally. Robert G. Deardorff 10/26/11