Greedy Occupiers start fighting over donations...

[valvano]

this is hilarious

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/they_want_lice_of_the_occu_pie_9xKCxcI4aectFYkafMb 8UJ

[kaiser soze]

greedy?

how so - because they raise money and then don't get it to help their cause?

this is why you are a fucking idiot, you think people who work for money don't deserve it. Raising money for a charity to fund it is not greedy.

[valvano]

greedy?

how so - because they raise money and then don't get it to help their cause?

this is why you are a fucking idiot, you think people who work for money don't deserve it. Raising money for a charity to fund it is not greedy.

read the article again idiot. the top guys are keeping the money instead of distributing it out to the various groups. you know, sort of like how they accuse CEOs and big business of not sharing the profits?

[RobMoney$]

“The other day, I took in $2,000. I kept $650 for my group, and gave the rest to Finance. Then I went to them with a request..."

LOL.
Nice to know they're just keeping portions of donations for themselves while protesting Wall St.'s greed.

[Adam]

LOL.
Nice to know they're just keeping portions of donations for themselves while protesting Wall St.'s greed.

I think you misinterpreted "kept for my group" as "kept for myself". A group is generally more than one and from reading the article it was to service their immediate needs, the $1350 they gave to the cause you can see as a +60% tax which is like valvano suggests, the greedy CEOs pay, right? We wish.

This "greed" is likely to happen. The message is still on track but people on forums, blog & news outlets across the web with their own agendas will try to spin it other ways on both sides (as with all politics and as I'm trying to here). Problem is the most of annoying of these go to extremes of arguments. I was watching Have I Got News For You last night and they had a toryscum on who was complaining that protesters went to get coffee in the morning from starbucks on the OccupyLondon protests. Some how basic modern needs of protesters aren't allowed when we're all part of the same game not through their fault. If the aggressive expansion of corporations weren't allowed to happen then the protesters would of gone to an independent shop where the workers would be the owners and partners rather than scraping minimum wage which suppresses those who do want a modest income from actually getting there in the first place.

All the protesters want is some inclination that the 1% hear the needs of the rest. It doesn't have to be a massive shift like their incoherent voices might shout just a bone or two thrown their way. If the gap of the richest and poorest decreased during this financial crises then these protests wouldn't be there at all - show that is what is gonna happen and the majority will go away.

[Turchinator]

the Pulse Working Group needs money and a shed for drum heads.

The Finance Committee- dives on whatever dollars are raised by all the OWS working groups
The Comfort Working Group has to fill out Paperwork for thermal underwear. F*#k Finance
Looks like the Kitchen Group is getting more funding.
The General Assembly has to approve it all.

THIS IS OCCUPY WALL STREET

[RobMoney$]

I think you misinterpreted "kept for my group" as "kept for myself". A group is generally more than one and from reading the article it was to service their immediate needs, the $1350 they gave to the cause you can see as a +60% tax which is like valvano suggests, the greedy CEOs pay, right?


So the next time I solicit donations for a Breast Cancer Walk/Run benefit, I can go ahead and use some of that money for items I will need for the event like, say, a new pair of Nike's?

I am acting as an agent for Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer foundation when I solicit donations for a run/walk that I participate in. Those funds do not belong to me, and they didn't belong to this group soliciting for the Occupy Wall St. effort.

That's just my view of the situation.

[Adam]

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[valvano]

I never read about anything close to this going on at Tea Party Rallies

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/10/24/pair-living-with-occupy-boston-protesters-arrested-for-selling-heroin/

[Bob]

I never read about anything close to this going on at Tea Party Rallies

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/10/24/pair-living-with-occupy-boston-protesters-arrested-for-selling-heroin/

i'm sure you looked very hard

i for one am shocked that a large, loose, and disorganized collection of grassroots protestors has a shitty bureaucracy

i hope the banks win

[Mil Mascaras]

I want to see protesters get their craniums cracked.