New Spin: Media Claims “Occupy Wall Street” A Left-Wing Tea Party
Posted by Jeff Dunetz
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The goals of the tea party were all about returning this country to what made it great, following the road map of this country’s success — the Constitution — along with the the traditional American values of freedom, celebrating individual success, and personal responsibility.
The Occupy Wall Street Folks have a list of demands, courtesy of Martha’s Vineyard organic farmer Lloyd Hart; most of them are unconstitutional and antithetical to traditional American values. The Occupy Wall Street folks’s goals are all about tearing down institutions. They are looking to create dependency on the government, to take away freedom and blame all of their problems on others. Under the Occupy Wall Street demands, no one would ever have to work hard ever again. If they had their way, everyone would just be able to take more from an endless supply of government cash. All loans would be forgiven and everyone will have a salary whether they work or not.
- 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 hour.
- 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.
Respecting local laws vs. 700 arrests on one day, using the guide book that made America great — the Constitution — vs. tearing down its fundamental principles such as property rights, affirming personal responsibility vs. eliminating responsibility, a sense of independence and pride in one’s accomplishments vs. allowing others to do everything for you, celebrating success vs. penalizing it — those are but a few of the fundamental and irreconcilable differences between the tea party and the Occupy Wall Street group. For the media to imply that they are even remotely the same is pure wish fulfillment.
