I love New York. A weekend ago, on October 1, I walked through Washington Square Park and encountered a bunch of people with dachshunds. This weekend the park was full of Occupy Wall Street protesters who had moved uptown for the day, probably to let their bedding air out. Only in New York will you find events focusing on low-slung sausage dogs and high-flung profit hogs taking place in the identical place a week apart. Read More
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Dachshunds Occupy Wall Street
October 9, 2011
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dachshunds, Occupy Wall Street, Washington Square Park, class warfare, mobs, Eric Cantor, Herman Cain
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Oct 10, 2011 10:35 AM EDT
Occupy Wall Street is just the beginning. While Wall Street is symbolic, the problem begins in Washington, DC where there is little appetite for real change in the ruling classes, both Republicans and Democrats. The folks in Washington live and work in a bubble, never venturing far from their taxis, escorts or group when they are in the flyover states. They fly in and fly out, are in halls where they give their speeches, participate in conferences or cover a story. They rarely get out of their assigned roles. In Washington, DC things are fine, all getting very good salaries, good lobby/company paid for meals and plenty of money for rent or the mortgage. Most in DC don't have a clue about what's going on in the country. So if we want protests, they need to be in DC and soon. Without pressure nothing will happen except the continued flow of hot air that is generated on the Sunday morning talk shows.
- Michael Dowling