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Well that "etc" is a HUGE etc. They were housed, yes, and sometimes fed, but were also treated like shit, left to fend for themsleves and in many cases women were giving birth there. No healthcare or even medical care when injured. It was slavery with a weekly allowance.So if they did deal in drugs, and I don't think they did that much, you can't blame them for seeking the income. I'm sorry, when the hell has the government ever been laxed with drugs?- Oni

That is just so funny.I wonder if the Reverend Gary Davis was a "hippy" when he recorded Cocaine Blues around 1905?And some images of that housing for migrant workers from the Library of Congress.

Finaly some action from these protests our guys threw a smoke bomb in to the stock market building and tore down the writing borza (stock market) from the building, the Italians got a better start they burned something down and ransacked the ministry of defense.

Typical strawman cherry pick, Jar. During the great depression that may have been more typical, when the nation was suffering a drought in the Midwest along with poverty and unemployment. Judging from the automobiles etc, that's likely what period this was cherry picked from.My post applied to the 1950s to 1970s when the conditions of the migrants would have been similar to a lumberman's camp in the West.The migrants were as grateful for the employment as the growers were to have them. The consumers were grateful for the abundance of food produced. It was a win-win for the nation in those days.Today it's a win-win for the drug cartels, for the politicians who allow its, for the Obama Democrats who afford them voting privileges so as to remain in power.

Too funny Buz.Now you change your time line to 50s-70s.Well guess what, I can tell you about that period as well, 'cause I worked picking crops in the 50s and let me tell you, there was no housing, no free meals, no health care.Or maybe you never heard of Caesar Chavez? Or maybe never heard of Deaf Smith County?Shall we discuss the 40s? I have pictures from then as well.By the way, the pictures I posted were NOT of the Dust Bowl or Great Depression, they were migrant farmers.

Do you mean the Lord's Resistance Army perhaps? The group that was declared a terrorist organization by President Bush. The group that has been accused of using child soldiers, rape, mutilation, sexual enslavement and mass murder. The group that is lead by a self proclaimed spokesman for god and medium for the holy spirit.Let me guess you heard this from noted drug addict Rush Limbaugh and took it for gospel truth?edited to add: Also the US troops are being sent to Uganda not SudanEdited by DrJones*, : No reason given.

Let's see: 25 cent gasoline was about 1960. Are you claiming there was no inflation prior to the 1960s?Wherever your money was invested, your return would have been eroded by inflation.I'd be interested to hear the numbers you use to derive "easy street" income from the equivalent of your life-time Social Security withholding.I've heard the claim many times, but a close look at the numbers usually shows that the assumptions are wildly unrealistic.One site, for example, posits an annual return of 10% and applies it to the maximum Social Security withholding in order to conclude that we'd all be better off without Social Security.Others use similar, wishful-thinking scenarios, such as assuming an employer would have given you the Social Security matching tax as a tax-free IRA, etc.None of the models I've examined have used a real world money market fund's track record to plug in average SS contributions and derive credible results. Nor do these anti-SS analyses consider the private cost of disability and survivor benefits.So what numbers are you using when you make this claim? If it's based on someone else's analysis, a link, name or web address would be good. Oh you wild and crazy guy! Edited by Omnivorous, : Sorry, AdminPD...written while you cautioned.

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The best way to Occupy Wall Street is to buy from your local independent merchants and local family farmers, put your money in small local credit unions or town banks and avoid purchasing anything made by the top profiteering corporations of the world. Take your money out of the stock market - it's condoned gambling run by the best loan sharking cheaters on the planet. You are all their rubes.If you see it advertised on major TV, boycott it. If it's advertised in magazines, boycott it. Advertising in fact is the best way of telling you when NOT to buy something - a great reverse barometer.Trust only your friends and their word of mouth and your own experiences.There was a time when lawyers and doctors and teachers were respected here in the USA. May stock brokers and big bankers sink even lower to the lowest of the low in respectability. They are slime.As long as we all keep feeding Wall Street, they will continue to devour our bodies and our minds with impunity by imposing their politicians upon us.This should be capitalism in action, folks.

Small potatoes.It would be better if we could somehow boycott the US military and the companies that profit from the tyranny, oppression and death they produce. $1.2 TRILLION, EVERY year, can be spent on better things.The Real US National Security Budget: 1.2 Trillion
The Real US National Security Budget: 1.2 Trillion – Mother JonesEdited by dronester, : added website

As you changed your post to say "trillion" instead of "billion", I shall withdraw mine. Which is a shame, 'cos I had some good sarcasm going there.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Dronester opines: I did boycott the military. They didn't get my ass.- nate

Yah sure, like all of the city folks are going to run out and find a farmer to by dinner, produce, home canned peaches, pressed cider, whole hog sides, live steers to butcher, lumber to build your house and garage with, etc, etc.You may be their rube, but I'm grateful for all that the free market enterprise system, including Wall Street affords me.If Wall Street were blown to bits tomorrow, can you imagine the panic you and all of those nincompoops out their yelling their fool heads off about ?? would be caught up in along with the whole nation? The impact on the economy and welfare of Americans would dwarf 9/11.

So, unlike the Tea Party, you supported TARP and other Wall St. bail-outs.I suppose you supported the rescue of the U.S. automotive industry for similar reasons.

You are a hoot. Let see here. Xongsmith mentions local independent merchants and local family farmers, credit unions and small town banks, which you actually quoted, but you build your whole argument on one thing, farmers. Either you are extremely dishonest or let you preconceived ideas so blind you that you can not even read what people write. Funny how I do not recall anyone advocating this. Do you have anything but strawmen to add to the conversation.