[Dragaera] Off-Topic Discussion: Occupy Wall Street

[andy]

Eh, legislature has become the biggest arena for regulatory capture. 
Business used to focus more on penetrating the commissions and governing 
bodies tasked with overseeing their particular bailiwick, and influencing 
congress critters was the means to that end.  Now industry is quite simply 
going for the jugular, and you have private entities like Koch industries 
starting political entities such as the tea party.  I always have been and 
remain a firm believer in sunshine laws, with full disclosure in bill 
creation and campaign financing.  If there was some bloodless way for the 
OWS movement to help with that (such as kicking the moribund journalism in 
the country square in the jibblies so they get off their chubby butts), I'd 
be whole heartedly behind them.  The whole thing just seems incredibly 
amorphous and goal-less (is that even a word).  It's the anti tea party. 
OWS seems to have vast intelligence and no point, whereas the tea party had 
zero intelligence and the great focus of a fat kid on a biscuit.

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From: "skzb" <skzb at dreamcafe.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 4:19 PM
To: <dragaera at lists.dragaera.info>
Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Off-Topic Discussion: Occupy Wall Street

> Well, I was there for a couple of them in New York.  Yes, over-all, I'm 
> sympathetic; but I worry that the "no politics" policy is going to end up 
> being channelled into support for the Democratic party, and we'll have a 
> whole new generation of apathetic people.  But the outrage is real; maybe 
> it'll turn into something.  We'll see.
>
> On 11-12-14 04:07 PM, Jonathan Carey wrote:
>> Given that Steve has a strong passion for political systems, I thought
>> it might not be too off-topic to ask on his take on the recent OWS
>> movement.  I presume that Steve would be a "sympathizer" like myself,
>> but I'm not really looking for a "do you agree or not" answer to the
>> central premise of OWS itself (provided he'd like to answer at all),
>> I'm more interested in his general thoughts on the movement.
>>
>> OWS = Occupy Wall Street
>>
>> My apologies if this somewhat hijacks the purpose of this list, but
>> there hasn't been a lot of discussion of late, so I figured it
>> wouldn't hurt too much.
>>
>> Jon
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