Why I am Starting To Hate NYC -- Unbelievable.

[Cowlesy]

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A massive protest was held outside City Hall in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, where it seems people have just about had it with the recession.

Anxiety has turned into frustration, and that frustration has boiled over at City Hall where tens of thousands of people took to the streets to vent to city and state officials.

Organizers estimate that 50,000 people have lined Broadway with a message to Gov. David Paterson that cuts are not the answer to fixing New York's budget problems.

The protesters are made up of a widespread coalition of labor unions, community groups, and even families uniting to have their voices heard. Dubbing it a "Rally for New York," they are rallying against proposed state and city budget cuts to public services, education, health care, along with other programs that impact families and the economy in New York.

CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez says the group is calling for fair share tax reform, and increasing the income tax of new Yorkers earning $250,000 or more, generating $6 billion and they hope to prevent the cuts.

Sorry, I will move this to the vent, but I hate this shit. These people are protesting for all the wrong reasons. They're pissed off because the State is so broke, that it can no longer feed them. They're so attached at the hip to the State, that they protest when the hand has nothing left to give.

50,000 fuckin people on a Thursday afternoon. Let me guess. Most of these people don't have jobs, and have plenty of time to go protest because their welfare is getting cut.

Reality check assholes. The State is broke, and your ass is going to have to struggle to survive. That's life...join the rest of us in reality.

[Stary Hickory]

As usual stupid liberals are protesting reality. NYC tried it their way and it's broke time for common sense and hard work to take over.

It's just like the French, they did the same thing. They want X amount of stuff but want to produce only Y amount of stuff. They can't even balance a simple freakin equation.

I guess they are running out of "bad" people to steal from.

[brandon]

Yea the same thing happened in Philly recently when the city tried to close a couple libraries to make up for a budget deficit.

People are morons. This is why government will never work.

[jbrace]

This is what happens when we fall into hard-times. The people get upset and lean toward socialism. They feel the goverment should bail them out. They're are getting poorer while the elite are getting richer.

[Cowlesy]

The more the State takes from me, and gives to these people, the more those people will defend and love the State.

It may just be time for me to go work somewhere else and let them take from someone else's pocket.

[MsDoodahs]

On a positive note, one of my female cousins bought her very first gun yesterday.

:)

[Original_Intent]

It will be interesting to see what happens when farmers start keeping their own food to feed their families and local communities and shipments to the big cities slow down or stop. And if they try to take "flyover country" by force they are going to end up with a gun in their face.

[Lord Xar]

Los Angeles is right behind that mentality.... special interest groups are running ads about the same things... deep cuts to education, pink slips to teachers.. its all soooo f'ing stupid.

[Cowlesy]

lol, I ranted to one of my buddies in Texas...he summed it up pretty well.


Think of all that money you spent on an education...and the time studying to better yourself.


Just think....you could have sat around smoking pot, using your food stamps to drink malt liquor on your porch and now we would be making your house payment for you.
Oh yeah...you can get a "stimulus" check so you can go buy a big screen TV to watch what ever the fuck stupid reality show is on television now days.......


When the faucet runs dry...that is when we will be glad we have armed ourselves.


You can come live in Texas.....the newspaper isn't quite as bad...but still run by a bunch of libs.

[MsDoodahs]

It will be interesting to see what happens when farmers start keeping their own food to feed their families and local communities and shipments to the big cities slow down or stop. And if they try to take "flyover country" by force they are going to end up with a gun in their face.

Yep.

Imagine Katrina like scenes in all the big cities...without the standing water, of course.

:eek:

[Cowlesy]

http://www.dullhawk.com/resources/_wsb_504x328_Flag.jpg

[manny229]

Cowlesy,

Have you seen this commercial? Its been playing up here on for weeks, they also have a radio version. I think about moving every time I listen to it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEpriunsdgA

[nbhadja]

Those idiot liberals should have to try and break in houses and steal the tax money themselves. That way they would all be legally shot :D.

[Cowlesy]

Cowlesy,

Have you seen this commercial? Its been playing up here on for weeks, they also have a radio version. I think about moving every time I listen to it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEpriunsdgA

Unreal.

The first 5 seconds sum it up well.

[A. Havnes]

If the State didn't do all this nannying in the first place, they wouldn't have gone broke!

[angelatc]

http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/recession.budget.protest.2.951551.html



Sorry, I will move this to the vent, but I hate this shit. These people are protesting for all the wrong reasons. They're pissed off because the State is so broke, that it can no longer feed them. They're so attached at the hip to the State, that they protest when the hand has nothing left to give.

50,000 fuckin people on a Thursday afternoon. Let me guess. Most of these people don't have jobs, and have plenty of time to go protest because their welfare is getting cut.

Reality check assholes. The State is broke, and your ass is going to have to struggle to survive. That's life...join the rest of us in reality.

That's the same point Hugolp made about the Greek protesters. They aren't begging for a chance to break free of government restraint - they're just begging.

[angelatc]

On a positive note, one of my female cousins bought her very first gun yesterday.

:)

We bought our first one over the weekend.

[Original_Intent]

This was sobering.

My boss who has always kind of dismissed Ron Paul and the whole Revolution calls me into his office today.

We sat and talked for about an hour and a half.

He now thinks that there are three courses for the country -

1) Government does a complete 180 on everything they are currently doing, and we have a couple more bad years, then a gradual recovery.

or

2) The U.S government is severely weakened or destroyed but most of our corporations/economy survive. Tons of unemployment, general instability as government is reformed into who knows what. probably full on socialism/communism

or

3) complete meltdown where we are plowing fields with horses again and cities completely implode (Mad Max scenario)

He was dead serious and frankly pretty shaken up as he now realizes option 1 just ain't gonna happen. It was sobering to see how much he has changed in the last year, but it does give me hope that people are getting a clue.

[Cowlesy]

We either educate these 'tards about what it means to be an American who believes in personal responsibility, or they become one of the masses.

[Cowlesy]

WTF!

Read this crap!!!!

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090301/OPINION03/903010308/1008/OPINION01

Detroit is FINISHED.

[aravoth]

A large group of homeless people did this same shit in front of Portland's city hall. They were protesting "living conditions". They are fucking homeless......... living conditions? They actually held up council members, yelling at the mayor, yadda, yadda.

I wonder just how stupid it's going to get when they run out of money for food stamps. The private sector and working people can only support these people for so long. More people join their ranks every day. And all because they couldn't figure out what a fracken savings account is.

[angelatc]

WTF!

Read this crap!!!!

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090301/OPINION03/903010308/1008/OPINION01

Detroit is FINISHED.

We get to see Conyers on the news quite a bit. It's a freak show. She has a law degree, but speaks in slang, and sounds as if she did not graduate high school.

The COBO center is FUBAR anyway. Conyers is mad simply because the deal that was struck doesn't have any mention of the council in it.

[Conza88]

Oh lordy. :eek:

[angelatc]

Oh lordy. :eek:

She could say that!

The other night, during a round table discussion, she responded to a criticism with "well you can tell him dat I got a law degree from UM, and they don't give no law degrees to stupid people. I ain't stupid."

No doubt she's the next governor....

[malkusm]

WTF!

Read this crap!!!!

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090301/OPINION03/903010308/1008/OPINION01

Detroit is FINISHED.

I would say it's unbelievable, but having grown up in a town that had race riots in the 60's, where the main street is not called "Main St." but "Race St.," and where racism is still common on both sides of the coin....not so much.

[qh4dotcom]

Bump

[Theocrat]

If the State didn't do all this nannying in the first place, they wouldn't have gone broke!

I think that would apply to the federal government, as well. Their only solution is more government intervention into everything. Socialism moves onward. May God have mercy on us.

[Cowlesy]

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" -- Margaret Thatcher

Pretty much.

[Malakai0]

Same reason they are protesting in EU countries unfortunately.

[Dary]

WTF!

Read this crap!!!!

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090301/OPINION03/903010308/1008/OPINION01

Detroit is FINISHED.

Yeah, but they sure got one hell of a hockey club. Go Wings!

[acptulsa]

The wealth of this nation has, to no small degree, been the wealth of the food production in the 'flyover states', yet we have been screwed by federal policies, ground under the federal heel and outvoted time and again since before the days when we not only provided the food, but the oil (like, in Oklahoma's case nearly one third of the oil all the Allies used during WWI). From the time FDR sent the National Guard into Oklahoma in the thirties to prevent our governor 'Alfalfa' Bill Murray from shutting down oil production to drive the price up to where oil companies weren't folding, to the 55 mph speed limit to the Official Monsanto Head of Agriculture, we've been outvoted and systematically screwed by 'one size fits all' laws that fit New Hampshire to a tee but didn't fit us at all, and by the simple two wolves and a sheep crap of laws that robbed farmers to pay New Yorkers. And now they even call us 'flyover states'. Bastards

Talk about Atlas being ready to shrug--every family farmer is Atlas.

So, if you ever wonder why people in the heartland have been sick of New York for years and years, now you know. And, no, if secession becomes a reality, you can't depend on the Breadbasket of the World to side with NYC. Quite the opposite.

It's a damned shame to be blogging about divisions that could demolish the integrity of this country.

[angelatc]

Yeah, but they sure got one hell of a hockey club. Go Wings!

They don't look like her either, though.

[klamath]

And this is why a revolution in this country would turn out to be anything but what we need.