Occupy Irvine?

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They could set up in front of PIMCO headquarters.  The Fannie bailout increased the Total Return Fund's worth by a billion dollars overnight.  Could you imagine these people at Fashion Island?  ;D
 
irvinehomeowner said:
I try to read their signs to get a better idea of what they are trying to represent.

One I read yesterday was:

"End Capitalism"

Huh? So what do these guys want? Marxism? Communism?
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I misremembered, it was:

"Capitalism is the problem"

My question... what is the solution? I hate it when people point out problems but not solutions. And I don't think "Tax Wall Street" (another sign) is a good enough answer.

The OC Register had a funny comic today:

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(image from www.grimmy.com)
 
I think those "protestors" need to read Scott Adam's (the writer of Dilbert) blog:
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/that_top_1_thing/

I'm a big fan of the Occupy Wall Street movement. And what I like most about it is the ambiguity of their demands. There's a deep honesty to that. It is okay to say the system is broken while also saying you don't know how to fix it. I'd feel uncomfortable if the protesters had specific demands. I don't want my economic policy coming from "guy in tent."

But I worry that the media needs specificity in order pit pundits against each other. It's no fun having two people agree that unemployment is too high. You need one pundit to recommend a specific solution so the other can say he's crazy. Ideally, you also need a villain for your story. That's the standard media model.

So I've been watching in horror as the media tries to transmogrify the honest ambiguity of the Occupy Wall Street movement into a sort of tortured logic with convenient villains. Everyone starts with the same facts:
- Some CEOs are overpaid
- Some banks take advantage of the system (while others fail)
- Some billionaires pay a lower tax rate than other people
- Some CEOs, some bankers, and all billionaires are part of the top 1%
- The top 1% are getting richer while the 99% are getting poorer
- Unemployment rates are obscene.
- Corporate profits are up.

From that set of facts, the illogical conclusion I'm starting to see is that the top 1% are stealing the nation's wealth. Villains! But how many people in the top 1% are engaged in some sort of evil? Is it 1% of the 1%? That's my best guess. I know a lot of people in the top 1%, and all they do is go to work. They hardly ever perpetrate evil. But they do create jobs for the 99%.
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He goes on with more salient points and expresses exactly how I feel.
 
Yeah... was trying to find out more info on their "purpose".

Still confused... as Scott Adams calls it... "ambiguous".

I wonder why they don't set up in front of The Irvine Company instead the City Hall... wouldn't that be more appropriate?
 
I think the choice of city hall has to do with freedom to assemble on public property.  There's no constitutional right to camp on private property.
 
Liar Loan said:
I think the choice of city hall has to do with freedom to assemble on public property.  There's no constitutional right to camp on private property.
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That makes sense... couldn't they camp on the sidewalk in front of TIC (which I believe is in Newport Beach)?
 
So I pass by Occupy Irvine today and there are no sign holders or protesters. Just guys sitting on the wall playing the guitar and singing songs.

Maybe it was the time I was passing by but it seems more like Occupy Shanty Town than some type of public protest.

The homeless finally have found a place to stay in Irvine.
 
Wow... new grass already in at the old Occupy Irvine site.

I'm too lazy to bust out the Google-Fu but when did they leave?

Where did they go? Santa Ana? Or maybe John's Creek?

Yesterday I helped the kids with a LemonAID stand on MLK-day... as I was holding the sign standing on the corner (for almost 2 hours)... I felt it would have been funny had I wrote "Occupy Lemons" on it.
 
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