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Occupy Wall Street - Movement

Posted: Oct 14, 2011

Would YOU like to join me in the worldwide Occupy Wall Street movement? We will participate in our respective locales.

We have had a lot of talk about organizing a walk-out day on the MTSOs. Let's take this opportunity to meet while at the same time pooling our efforts with others who share similar struggles as us! Let's dispense with the talking and start doing and put our money where our mouths are.

If you are interested in joining me, by all means post or email...

I look forward to the naysayers! Anyone and everyone feel absolutely and completely free to post any naysaying too!

Thank you.......sm - Old Woman

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but no thanks.

In order to "put my money where my mouth is" I would have to still have a job in order to have the money to do so. Sorry, but I like my job and what it means in the big scheme of patient care, not to mention the paycheck I receive every two weeks, to risk it on something that is not going to amount to a hill of beans.

But....hey....knock yourselves out....

Ditto - and co-sign

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I am SO there! Tomorrow is Oct. 15, a global - day of Occupation. It will - s/m

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not only be exciting, but with all the discussion groups and mini think-tanks that form at these rallies, there will be lots of ideas to be heard, and lessons to be learned.

The Occupy Wall St. / Occupy Together movements gives me something I haven't had in a long, long time. HOPE!

- Meerkat

Movement, don't let the naysayers get you down. - When people want to make a change -

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even if it's a change for the better, there are always people who fear it because it takes them out of their comfort zone.

Why sitting in front of a blank computer screen with "NJA" written on it all day, makes one feel comfortable, I don't know. I'm one of the lucky ones who doesn't have "NJA" very often, but I could type until my fingers bled, and I would still not make enough money to eat on. That is my DISCOMFORT level!

The dawn of a new era in the US that condemns and pushes aside the status-quo of GREED is making me feel just a little bit more comfortable about the future.

We literally ARE putting our money where our mouths are, because we're going to have to do without tomorrow's wages, paltry they as they may be.

But what you and I, and thousands of others, stand to learn from our experiences with OWS will likely be priceless.

I may be old, but I'm not going to sit in my rocking chair waiting to die, and pooh-poohing a citizens' revolution whose time has been long past due.

I don't fear it........... SM - Old Woman

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and I resent the fact that you imply I or any other "naysayer" feel that way.

I just don't think there will be much to come out of this for the medical transcription industry and am not willing to risk my job for something that won't amount to anything.

Perhaps there is some hope for other industries, like BoA, or maybe not. I will be watching and interested to see the results (fallout) of this "revolution."

I hope there's LOTS of "fallout". And if we do - nothing, we ARE risking our jobs. nm

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Worrying about losing one's job, especially when it's one as crummy as ours, IS fear.

Sorry, but the only way to - Cynical ex-hippie

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"fight Wall Street" is to quit buying junk at Wal-Mart, driving giant vehicles, demanding expensive medical care, drinking Coke and eating McDonald's, using an I-Phone and computer, living in huge houses and on and on. Oh, and almost forgot the 2 (the ones we hear the most about) insanely costly wars this country has been engaged in for over 10 years, yet where are the protesters in front of the Pentagon?

I have already learned to live with and be happy with less, and been committed to this philosophy for years. Call it Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street or whatever, the ultimate goal is to have more money which the majority will continue use to feed to their corporate masters, and nothing will really ever change.

Actually, the next move in that department is planned - for November 5th, regardless - sm

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where marches and occupations should happen to go, and even if they disappear.

Nov. 5th is Transfer Your Bank Account Day. Everyone fed up with business as usual at the mega-banks is encouraged to transfer their accounts to small community banks or credit unions.

Ideally it will be set so that the new accounts are already set in place, and then everyone transfers their money on the 5th. I do have some concern it might max out or shut down their financial software, though, so I'm taking mine out sooner, especially since I was planning on doing it anyway, before OWS even existed. The fact that this is happening at the exact same time I was going to take my money out anyway, just makes it all the more satisfying to do so.

omg, why not just hire a hacker to mark all bills PAID IN FULL? - small msg

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You can't fix a mess by making one. The gov't proved that already and LOOK where we are now.

nope! not even a movement, no focus, - sm

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and no similarity to our plight. No matter the age, youthful ignorance IMHO.

How is job loss, wage cuts, offshoring - CEOs getting rich

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Not similar to the plight of the medical transcriptionists? Those wage cuts are going directly to your "bosses" the CEOs. The money you contribute to your 401K may as well be sent directly to the hedge fund managers (and the politicians who are in their pockets) to eliminate the middleman.

If you really feel your plight isn't related to the - plight of everyone else protesting, -

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then I feel sorry for you. What's happening in MT is happening to others as well, just in slightly different ways. But it all boils down to the same thing - stuff the CEOs' pockets, and too darn bad for the workers who earned that money for them.

OWS will very soon have blood on its hands. - Dish

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Getting rid of our leftist leader and putting in a real-world problem solver will halt OWS who will just move on to the next riot, but left unchecked, they will fuel into a frenzy and tie into world unrest. In the meantime, our leader wants to Occupy Africa, not Wall Street, and is sending in troops without consulting Congress today. And isn't it ironic, he will announce his candidancy at Bank of America stadium this summer and raise record millions from Wall Street.

We've been sending in troops to Africa for - Hope

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for quite some time, with the approval of Congress.

There is so much to protest at the local level, yet very few do so. Nearby, there is a town that has spent millions of taxpayer's money building a stadium. It is bringing in no money, in fact, it has cost more to power, provide police for, etc, yet the council just voted to spend another $25 million on it. This is in a small town in New York State. Five members of the semi-pro team were found living in the locker room - IOW, they're homeless. Where was outcry?

The "Big Stadium" thing is about to happen in - Sacramento, too. The already - sm

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have a perfectly good arena. But their spoiled-brat basketball team, the Kings, wants a shiny-new stadium that'll cost millions upon millions to build, or they keep threatening to relocate to another city. I say let the poor little crybabies go!

That's another part of the super-rich I'm sick of hearing about - all these spoiled rich team sports athletes who seem to think the fact that they can pitch a baseball, catch a football, or dunk a basketball into a little hoop make their worth their obscene salaries and ridiculous demands when it comes to constantly tearing down perfectly good sports arenas and building new ones.

The Central Valley has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation, and what Sacramento county needs right now isn't a multimillion dollar sports arena, it needs a place for all their newly-homeless to live.

And the US corporate system doesn't? LOL! - nmsg

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